The Mercury News

Today’s Crossword

- Puzzle by Ed Sessa 1/3/18

ACROSS

1 Lighthouse emission 5 Routine material 10 Mystery novelist

Paretsky

14 “Sesame Street”

giggler

15 How cut-up raw veggies are often served 17 “Bridge of Spies” spy

Rudolf __ 18 “Casablanca” actor 19 Deliberate­ly damage 21 Some running shoes 22 Made oneself scarce 23 Bingo-like game 24 Smoke from Cuba 30 Euro pop?

31 Go from pillar to post 32 Gaza Strip gp.

35 Milk

40 Classified postings 41 Word with hall or

house

42 __ pricing

43 Some Downton

Abbey staff 47 38th-parallel land 50 Many millennia 51 Just enough to taste, with “of” 52 Starting at 19-Across and ending here, vehicle making its way through five long answers 58 Expressed with only gestures

60 Greasy

61 Walk-in emergency

center

62 Mess setting

63 Zap with a weapon 64 Like giraffes and horses

65 Token receiver

DOWN 1 Young Cleaver, for short

2 Idris of “Luther” 3 Service call? 4 Penicillin source 5 She sang about McGee 6 Iroquois tribe 7 Willy or Lenny of Manhattan deli fame 8 Pentathlon sword 9 35mm camera type 10 Russell __ Candies 11 Heart chambers 12 Played over 13 “You __ cool!” 16 Selma’s state

20 “So that’s the puzzle theme!”

24 Torso topper 25 Torah chests 26 One of a vivacious pair? 27 Origami bird 28 Discontinu­ed Saturn model 29 Noir weapon 30 School support org. 32 Cooped (up) 33 Co-worker of Clark 34 “The good is __ interred with their bones”: Antony 36 Stuffed one’s face 37 Throw on 38 Jettas, e.g.

39 Rev

43 Protégé 44 Midnight rider 45 Like a ripped-up check

46 Taylor of fashion 47 On the blink 48 Maureen of “The Quiet Man” 49 Wedding bands 52 Layered mineral 53 Arabian Sea sultanate 54 Loads

55 Vaccine holder 56 “Not only that ...” 57 Politburo no 59 “Newhart” production co.

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