The Mercury News Weekend

Today's crossword

- By Jeffrey Wechsler

ACROSS

1 Mumbai melody

5 Group playing mind games

10 Criticizes

14 Mocks

15 Poem of 15,000+ lines

16 And more of the same, in brief

17 Field worker having a pastrami on rye?

20 Like the Godhead

21 Fantasized

22 Diplomacy

23 “Isle of Dogs” director Anderson

26 Tom or jack

27 Prominent part of a Tex-Mex chain’s logo?

30 Bygone Mideast gp.

32 Capital of colonial Burma

33 Bill

36 “No objection here”

38 Try to deal (with)

40 Sharply outline

41 Israeli-born designer Tahari

42 Kane’s boyhood sled

46 Taps

49 Indonesian dive bar?

51 Memory of the 1996 Olympic flame lighting?

55 Lucretius’ love

56 Spry

57 Rowers

59 Pastoral group

60 Sly tactics

61 Simone of song

62 Revolution constant

63 Since Jan. 1 64 Impede

DOWN

1 Passel

2 Besides, with “from”

3 Job field that embraces seniority

4 To an equal extent

5 Bog

6 Ivy attendee

7 “Collages”

novelist

8 Couldn’t stand anymore?

9 Condition treated by Ritalin, briefly

10 Overturned card consequenc­e, perhaps

11 Nibbled

12 ___ d’Or: Cannes award

13 Cut

18 Records

19 Fur that’s a symbol of royalty

23 Its nose says a lot about its quality

24 __ roll

25 Refuse craft

28 Cartoon ruckus sound

29 Old TV knob

30 One often paying a fee

31 Soul, for one

34 Came down

35 They work in cells

37 1963 film that was a 1991 Horror Hall of Fame inductee

39 Strings, woodwinds, etc.

43 Keurig Dr Pepper brand

44 Like the “funny bone” nerve

45 Mr. Fixit, casually 46 Made illegal contact with, in some sports 47 Buenos __

48 Albuquerqu­e sch.

50 Floor support

51 Visa competitor

52 Actress Petty

53 File target

54 Bond baddie

55 “Eureka!”

58 Bromide

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