Subj : Yesterday's Crossword Solution
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From : Northern Realms
Date : Tue Jun 03 2025 08:05:12

Freestyle 834 - Tim Croce, club72.wordpress.com

ACROSS           +1---2---3---4---5---6---7---8---9-------10--11--12--13--14-+
                 | B | D | S | M | C | L | U | B | S |]#[| L | O | C | K | S |
1. They tend to  |15-+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+16-+---+---+---+---|
show a lot of    | A | U | T | O | R | E | P | L | Y |]#[| E | D | S | E | L |
restraint        |17-+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+18-+---+---+---+---|
10. Sews (up)    | G | O | O | N | A | N | D | O | N |]#[| G | O | U | G | E |
15. Vacation     |---+---+19-+---+---+---+---+---+---+20-+---+---+---+---+---|
message          |]#[|]#[| P | D | F | D | O | C |]#[| M | U | R | I | C | A |
16. Bomb         |---+21-+---+---+---+---+---+---+22-+---+---+---+23-+---+---|
referenced in    |]#[| S | P | O | T | S |]#[|]#[| O | O | P |]#[| T | A | Z |
Billy Joel's     |24-+---+---+---+---+---+25-+26-+---+---+---+27-+---+---+---|
"We Didn't       | A | H | A |]#[|]#[|]#[| B | O | H | R |]#[| D | E | N | Y |
Start the Fire"  |28-+---+---+29-+30-+31-+---+---+---+---+32-+---+---+---+---|
17. Don't shut   | B | I | G | B | R | A | I | N | M | O | V | E |]#[|]#[|]#[|
up               |33-+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+34-+35-+36-|
18. Take         | E | V | E | R | Y | B | O | D | Y | S | A | Y | S | H | I |
advantage of in  |---+---+---+37-+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---|
difficult times  |]#[|]#[|]#[| N | E | W | D | I | M | E | N | S | I | O | N |
19. E-signing    |38-+39-+40-+---+---+41-+---+---+---+---+---+---+42-+---+---|
candidate, for   | I | A | G | O |]#[| O | A | T | Y |]#[|]#[|]#[| D | O | N |
short            |43-+---+---+---+44-+---+---+---+---+45-+46-+47-+---+---+---|
20. The good     | M | B | A |]#[| O | R | D |]#[|]#[| A | C | H | E | D |]#[|
ol' US,          |48-+---+---+49-+---+---+---+50-+51-+---+---+---+---+---+---|
sarcastically    | F | U | N | Y | A | K |]#[| B | U | R | R | O | W |]#[|]#[|
21.              |52-+---+---+---+---+---+53-+---+---+---+---+---+---+54-+55-|
Unchangeable     | R | E | D | O | S |]#[| D | O | O | M | E | R | I | S | M |
things, it's     |56-+---+---+---+---+---+57-+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---|
said             | E | L | T | R | I |]#[| I | N | F | O | M | A | N | I | A |
22. "Sorry...    |58-+---+---+---+---+---+59-+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---|
I'll fix that"   | E | A | S | E | S |]#[| R | E | A | R | E | N | D | E | D |
23. Bugs'        +-----------------------------------------------------------+
antagonist,      
informally                obstacles from, say       27. Former line of      
24. Sound of coming       59. Gave way more than a  Tripoli rulers          
together                  pat on the back?          29. Czech city in which 
25. Unexciting-sounding                             Gregor Mendel conducted 
scientist who made some   DOWN                      his famed genetics      
very exciting                                       experiments             
discoveries               1. Certain things are     30. Melt, on both sides,
27. Don't let have        said to be in it          usually                 
28. Act of real           2. Word in two Grammy     31. It may involve lots 
genius... not!            Awards categories (one    of crunching            
33. "We all wish we       in pop, one in country)   32. Free spirit's home, 
could be there with you"  3. Time out               maybe                   
37. Fresh aspect          4. So very, in the 1990s  34. It doesn't blow at  
38. Literary villain      5. 777, for example       your face or your back  
whose name is a Spanish   6. Floats                 35. Head space          
version of "James"        7. Style that may cause   36. Rest area?          
41. Like a breakfast      traction alopecia if      38. Opening statement?  
meal?                     frequently worn           39. Mama de la mama     
42. Start to use, as a    8. One usually voting     40. Quinine-rich bar    
mask                      all the same way          offerings, informally   
43. Future officer's      9. Substitute to avoid    44. Green and blue      
achievement: Abbr.        repetition, maybe: Abbr.  amongst lots of beige   
44. Spot to see taxis     10. Help onto a horse     and brown               
(in multiple senses) in   11. A bad one may drive   45. Stopper for many old
Chicago, in shorthand     you back                  arrows                  
45. Had trouble moving,   12. All the bigwigs are   46. Word with caramel or
say                       in it, informally         filling                 
48. Portmanteau for an    13. Container introduced  47. Former boy-bander   
easy-to-control           by Heineken in 1999       with the 2017 hit "Slow 
watercraft for beginners  14. Full of raunch        Hands"                  
50. Go under, naturally   20. Looking like          49. Time when Chaucer   
52. Mess-up makeups       nothing's going your way  wrote                   
53. Belief that global    21. Something improvised  50. Tender lack         
problems will inevitably  in cells                  51. School with Nogales 
cause societal collapse   22. "Well, well, well,    and Chandler campuses,  
56. Nickname for          what do we have here..."  informally              
Mexico's national soccer  24. Hamilton half         53. What the numbers on 
team, based on their      25. Whom an adoptee       airport runways refer   
country's flag            might eventually seek,    to: Abbr.               
57. Tech-driven fixation  informally                54. Possible substitute 
that may be caused by     26. Piece of rumor,       for a Bundestag member? 
the fear of missing out   literally French for      55. Freaking, say       
58. Removes some          "they say"              

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