10 GROUNDCOVER NEWS PUZZLES SPECIAL DELIVERY! by Victor Schmitt AUGUST 22, 2025 ACROSS 1. Device made obsolete by streaming, for short 4. Samsung competitor 11. Greenlights 14. Part of I.P.A. 15. Spitter you wouldn’t want to be within spitting distance of 16. Actress Long 17. Tailor's tool 19. F1 neighbor 20. Like the 'proposal' made by Jonathan Swift 21. Comes (from) 23. "___ Mia!" 24. Dove call 26. ___ Cola 28. Green light 33. Lead-in to stop or stick 34. Like some microtransactions 35. Bowser, to Mario 36. Nightmare roommate, for many 37. Goes (for) 39. Angle stand-in, in trigonometry 42. Choir platform 44. "Revenge ___ dish best served cold" 47. Career killer for some actors 50. Begin to wake, maybe 51. Excellent service? 52. Former Taiwanese president ___ Ing-wen 53. Dutch painter Jan 55. Rise through incompetence, say 58. ___ Lingus 59. Ad addressees... or what you could call the collective starts of 17-, 28-, and 47-Across 63. Thai's neighbor 64. Gives it a go 65. Letters that can look like capital Ns or lowercase Vs 66. "On another note...", to a texter 67. "Ain't I a ___?!" (Bugs Bunny line) 68. College applicant's concern: Abbr. DOWN 1. Vessel in a winery 2. Ingredient in a Caesar 3. One doing take-backs? 4. Domesticated 5. World Cup cheers 6. Reacted to shocking news, perhaps 7. Owns 8. Hosp. area 9.Go on a pub-crawl 10. Far from land 11. 1965 Bob Marley hit 12. Jumbotron segment 13. Cul-de-___ 18. Cheese that's made backwards? 22. Manilla folders on a desktop, maybe 23. AOL competitor 24. Pen topper 25. Is anti 27. Olympian Raisman 29. Rice dish 30. Yoko who wrote "Grapefruit" 31. It's often sold in bolts 32. Prefix with active or fit 36. Mall tenant 38. Good thing to have in one's step 39. "Conan" channel 40. Spot for grilling? 41. Where to find extra legroom, often 43. Output of some refrigerators 44. Providing, as with official documents 45. Gets a lather going, say 46. Singer DiFranco 48. Some unofficial drawings 49. "___ cost ya!" 54. Ambulance crew, for short 55. Last name of Marvel's Kingpin 56. It may precede the big blind 57. Tyler, The Creator album named after a famous assistant 58. Clerical vestment 60. Part of a threequel's title, often 61. Male name hidden in "male name" 62. Airport security org. PUZZLE SOLUTIONS August 8, 2025 edition F A M E A T S E A U S E D S W I R L P O T S S M O G L A V A S H R I N K I N G V I O L E T E Y E T O O T H E N G I N E O N U S C L A R E T H A B I T H U L A T R Y K I L O S I M S A M E A M B A S S A D O R S H I P S R E E L R I O T F I R S D U L Y A U R O R A S E N T A P R E S S K I E V E R Y N O W A N D T H E N R E A M K E N D O O M E N Y A P S A R S E D P O P S T O N E S P O R T L Y
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