The Mercury News Weekend

Today’s crossword

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ACROSS

1 Draft sources 5 Arabic for

“commander” 9 Parts of a code 13 Pelvic parts

14 __ tag 15 Candied, as

apples

17 Annual assembly of breakfast lovers?

19 Wee Scot 20 Visibly upset 21 Exhaust, as a

welcome

23 Sci. course 24 Words with

waves

25 __ Sutra

26 Draft pick

29 “No problem!” 31 Playing a fifth qtr.,

say

32 Langston Hughes Library designer Maya

33 Melted cheese

concoction

36 G, in the key of C 37 Bathroom fixture

trial version?

39 9 to 5, say: Abbr. 40 Like the Inca 42 Electric __ 43 Marshy spots 44 Former flier with a NY/Newark/DC/ Boston shuttle 46 Prairie home 47 Tirade

49 Plural French

pronoun

50 Get

51 Real asset ... or

no asset at all? 53 Repeat

57 Keys 58 Educators’ concerns ... or, a phonetic hint to how four long puzzle answers were derived 60 Gruff

61 Together, so to

speak

62 Smell __ 63 Napping,

perhaps 64 Natural gas

additive

65 Sit

DOWN

1 Only bird whose beak has nostrils at the end

2 Verve

3 Talent 4 Conservati­ve

choice

5 Start of el año 6 Computers with

Apple cores 7 Twitter shorthand 8 “Le déjeuner des

canotiers” painter 9 Pride Month letters 10 One with a home

in Nome 11 Strategy for holding it while in the bathroom line? 12 Skedaddle 16 “Dark Sky Island”

singer

18 Den 22 Worthwhile 24 Camouflage

wearers, at times 26 Edelstein of “The Kominsky Method”

27 Quote book abbr. 28 Mess made while melting down old jewelry?

29 Part of the fam 30 Male swan 32 Soup legume 34 Desire

35 Latin infinitive 37 Univ. aides

38 Pin in the back 41 Blinking diner sign 43 Draft source 45 Sun Bowl city 46 __ Vogue 47 Cleanup hitter’s

stats

48 “Whose Line Is It Anyway?” host Tyler

50 Guide

52 City limits sign

abbr. 53 Money-object link 54 Leader of space? 55 Tazo products 56 Santiago-toBuenos Aires dirección 59 Unenviable

 ?? By Jonathan Potter ?? 12/11/20
By Jonathan Potter 12/11/20

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