The Mercury News

Today’s Crossword

- Puzzle by Jeffrey Wechsler

ACROSS

1 With 1-Down, “Gadzooks!”

8 The Pleiades of myth, e.g. Football’s “Boomer” 16 15 Oregon city named for a fur merchant 17 Couldn’t offer any justificat­ion

19 Old Monterey Bay fort

20 Lipstick marketing word

21 Sizing letters

22 Lot

24 “Music for Airports” producer 25 “Understood” 39-Across 26 Sacha Baron Cohen persona

27 Type of lizard found indoors?

31 Law enforcemen­t support org. 32 “Livin’ La Vida __” 33 Like grapefruit 34 Seeks a better deal 36 Usain Bolt, vis-à-vis virtually everyone 39 Where to hear 25-Across

40 One might be convincing

41 Back again 42 Eco-friendly wheels 45 __ Major 46 Hockey legend 47 Blood test letters 48 Subtle “Listen up” 49 Stylish jeans feature 50 Data restrictio­n on Twitter usage 54 Camera initials 55 Mamet play featuring a rare nickel 59 Piranhas, in Venezuela

60 Part of the family group

61 As a group 62 Bishop’s purview DOWN

1 See 1-Across 2 Fort Benning, e.g. 3 Knight time 4 Item wielded on “Chopped” 5 Equal start? 6 Rich beverage 7 Ancient spiritual groups 8 “Soldier of Love” Grammy winner 9 Mediterran­ean land 10 Fuel in tins 11 Burns poem whose subject is “ugly, creepin” 12 Gaelic tongue 13 Lago feeders 14 Lacking

18 TAG Heuer competitor 22 Critical subject in Roman history 23 Natural emollient 28 Like much museum art

29 Small raiding bands 30 Unreliable, in a way 35 Shopping mecca 36 Auction action starter 37 Bonny one 38 Logician’s “E” 40 Flowering plant in the legume family 43 Improv staples 44 Examples of bad driving 50 Hurdles, for one

51 “I am __ / More sinn’d against than sinning”: King Lear 52 School division 53 Rapper with the albums “Harlem World” and “Welcome Back”

56 Aussie college 57 __ Schwarz 58 TV monitor

 ??  ?? 12/23/17
12/23/17

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