The Mercury News

Today’s Crossword

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ACROSS

1 Weight-training equipment

11 Cotton cleaner 15 Traditiona­l November

race

16 Social containers 17 Something a customer is happy to send back

18 One in Berlin

19 G8 member

20 What an enemy

exploits

22 Needle holder 27 Sharon of Israel 28 Rewards for a big

promotion?

30 Laker teammate of

Magic

33 “Aha!”

37 Flip

38 Zaragoza’s river 39 Fabulous fellow? 41 Map’s blue areas 42 Motel arrival?

44 Like some diamonds 46 Role for Heston or

Huston

48 Weasel relative 49 “Fuller House” actor 51 Chords are part of

them

55 Cannes Film Festival

award

58 Leave slack-jawed 59 Many a Syrian 60 Booted, in old

football

65 Give credit to 66 “Count me in!” 67 Visionary

68 1999 Pacino/ Crowe film about a whistleblo­wer

DOWN

1 Runway gait 2 Nacho cheese 3 Name of eight popes 4 Handle letters 5 Vietnamese holiday 6 Deli selection 7 DOJ division

8 Bird that’s hard to eat? 9 Peninsula partly defined by the Yalu River

10 Gospel writer 11 Subtitle of #48 in AFI’s “100 Years... 100 Songs” 12 Cosmopolit­an essential

13 __ way, shape or form 14 Covert call 21 Souls, e.g.

23 Place where it all comes back to you? 24 __ king

25 British vocalist __ Ora 26 Law recipient 29 “Thong Song” singer 31 Genesis brother 32 Classic PC adventure game 33 President Aleksandar Vucic, for one

34 It has a brief solo in the first movement of Beethoven’s Fifth 35 Interpret

36 Talks up

40 Crown

43 Very significan­t 45 Remote button 47 Social news website 50 Jewish authority 52 Blunt, as truth 53 Quaint contractio­n 54 Jewish meal 55 Campaign donation orgs. 56 Grammy winner India.__

57 “Quo Vadis” setting 61 Letter with a silent letter 62 “__-Tiki” 63 Cousin of hers 64 City with two MLB teams

 ?? Puzzle by Neville Fogarty and Andy Kravis 6/16/18 ??
Puzzle by Neville Fogarty and Andy Kravis 6/16/18

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