The Mercury News

Today’s Crossword

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ACROSS

1 Part of BYOB and MYOB 4 Band name with a lightning bolt slash

8 Unlike a couch potato 14 T’ai __

15 Afrikaans speaker 16 9Lives mascot

17 *What may put a fire in

the belly?

19 Makes room on, as a

schedule

20 Window part

21 Mother of Pollux

23 She plays Crawford in

FX’s “Feud” 24 *Commuter entertainm­ent source

27 Regards with surprise 30 Sped

31 Botch

32 Miracle-__

33 One teaspoon, e.g. 37 Sponsor’s array

38 *Slick trick

42 Pampering place

43 Lets hit them

45 Pi follower

46 Heroism

48 In-land link? 50 Leopardlik­e cats 52 *Pre-release programs 56 Not right

57 Commuter’s expense 58 Staff symbol 62 Metaphoric­al state of

agitation

64 What young people may sow ... and what’s literally hidden in the answers to starred clues

66 Like most Chaplin films 67 “Uh-huh”

68 By way of

69 Gives a heads-up 70 Drag racing gp. 71 Prompt a correction

DOWN

1 “Draft Dodger Rag” folk singer

2 Stop on the trail 3 Quibbles 4 “Defending Liberty, Pursuing Justice” org. 5 Might’ve

6 Con man’s forte

7 Set of beliefs

8 “The Walking Dead” channel

9 Nab 10 Pressure-__

11 Like two-time Oscarwinni­ng director Asghar Farhadi

12 Late summer sign 13 Steel city near Cologne 18 Bit

22 Orbit City pooch 25 Starting

26 One in a cel block 27 FBI guy 28 Assistant 29 “Wanna hear a secret?” 32 ’60s-’70s Pontiac 34 City that hosts an annual Norwegian Wood music festival

35 Blind __ 36 Elephant flappers 39 Singer Guthrie

40 Golf club part

41 Even once 44 Cutting-edge horror film?

47 Olds compact 49 Approval 50 Wide-eyed and wise-looking 51 Telemarket­er

52 Light wood

53 It’s often distribute­d in cc’s

54 Sir or sri 55 Haul to the shop 59 Nesting site

60 Ado

61 Nicholas II was the last one

63 Some NFL blockers 65 Raiders’ org.?

 ?? Puzzle by J. Michael McHugh ?? 10/12/17
Puzzle by J. Michael McHugh 10/12/17

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