10 GROUNDCOVER NEWS PUZZLES CROSSWORD by Regina Durest JULY 25, 2025 ACROSS 1. Jeanne ___ 5. Critic, less formally 10. Something a toddler might throw 14. Battleship guess 15. Scrabble piece 16. Word before skirt or me 17. Moist 18. Lo-cal brews 19. “In that case…” 20. Washtenaw County’s street newspaper, colloquially 23. Pranks, as with a restroom necessity 24. Work, in Guadalajara 25. Online memo 27. Dadaist Max 30. Alternative to “free” on a roadside sign 33. Robin’s home 36. City circle 38. Blue hedgehog of video game fame 39. ___ Morales, former Bolivian president 40. “Get on that!” 42. With 50-down, sauce for fried fish 43. Like a character in “The Three Little Pigs” or “Little Red Riding Hood” 45. ____ lang syne 46. You, to Shakespeare (but not Will) 47. Went bad, as milk 49. Notoriously slow-moving animal 51. Fork prongs 53. Popular spot to buy or sell street papers in Ann Arbor 57. Nail polish brand 59. Once-per-year celebratory event 62. See 22-down 64. German identifiers 65. Bit of hair 66. Late-night host Jay 67. “And Still ___,” Maya Angelou poem 68. Singer Guthrie 69. Playground retort 70. Adjust, as a thermostat 71. Woohoos DOWN 1. Avoid 2. Cost ___ and a leg 3. Swab again 4. Juliet’s family name 5. Grasped tightly 6. Suffix with symptom 7. Jackson 5 member 8. Rise, to a ballerina 9. Begrudge 10. “Who ___ to judge?” 11. Amendment dealing with voting rights 12. Organization connecting more than 90 street papers in 25 countries 13. Uncles, in Cuba 21. Last half of Gilda, Tina or Jennifer’s last name 22. With 62-across, local coffee supplier and this paper’s first advertiser 26. Bout stopper, for short 28. Gazpacho or salmorejo 29. Tulle skirts 31. Set of Southeast Asian ethnic groups 32. Beige 33. With 35-down, “___ and ___ from the ground up” 34. Sautéing acronym 35. See 33-down 37. Unit of paper towel 40. One of Scar’s cronies in “The Lion King” 41. 1781 Mozart opera 44. TGIF wkdy 46. “Through here” 48. Menace of classic comics 50. See 42-across 52. Trap or drum 54. Nigerian currency 55. “R u 4 real?” 56. Keyboard mistakes 57. Irish name meaning “golden princess” 58. Potential creative submission to the paper 60. “Tag” response 61. With a badge, uniform for a street paper vendor 63. ___ Locks, Sault Ste. Marie, MI PUZZLE SOLUTIONS July 11, 2025 edition 15 YEARS! CELEBRATION
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