The Mercury News Weekend

Today’s Crossword

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ACROSS

1 Logician Turing 5 15-Across

protagonis­t 11 HMO group 14 Try out, briefly 15 1986 sci-fi sequel 16 Exist 17 Give it the old

college try 19 Spray __ 20 It’s no exit 21 Start of a cheer 22 Await judgment 23 Woman in the

Book of Ruth 24 Sailing pronoun 25 “Much appreciate­d,”

in Munich 26 Aligned 27 Benchmarks on the

way to mastery 29 Pigs out (on) 30 One may be rolled

out in a stadium 31 Plenty 32 Lip-thrusting look 33 NYC part 34 Make even smoother 37 N.W.A rapper __-E 38 Posed 41 “Please don’t expect

any more from me” 43 Comedian Daniel 44 Start of an old

late-night intro 45 Daybreak deity 46 “It’s __ than I

thought” 47 Nothing like

wetlands 48 Screech __ 49 Garden of Eden

protector 50 Carpet feature 51 See 40-Down 53 Phillies’ div. 54 Effective deal maker 55 Amazes 56 Eight minutes of the

average sitcom 57 Puts up 58 “Hey, you!”

DOWN

1 Expand, as a residence 2 Conductor Bernstein 3 Lovey-dovey 4 Generic 5 Filing aid 6 Down with something 7 Mrs. Lovett’s business in Broadway’s “Sweeney Todd” 8 Imposed 9 NBA center __ Kanter 10 Fashion initials 11 Purple shade 12 Like a bar free-for-all 13 Emailers 18 Old U.K. record label 22 Luxury watch brand __ Philippe 24 Database function 25 Rail against 27 Catalonian architect Antoni __ 28 See 12-Down 30 “Hamilton” got 11 32 Trimmed 33 Orange tubers 34 “Rude Boy” singer 35 May birthstone 36 1981 Bill Murray military comedy 37 Small-headed? 38 Sad subjects 39 Takes over the duties of 40 With 51-Across, Sinatra classic, and a hint to completing three puzzle answers 42 What diets and beautician­s may promise, with “a” 43 It covers the end of the foot 46 “__ cares!” 48 Nobel Peace Prize city 49 Hubs: abbr. 51 German I 52 Fore site?

 ??  ?? Puzzle by Brian Herrick 1/4/19
Puzzle by Brian Herrick 1/4/19

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