The Mercury News

Today’s Crossword

- Puzzle by Kurt Mengel and Jan-Michele Gianette 7/23/18

ACROSS

1 Gelatin garnish

6 Bio course components 10 Blue-roofed eatery 14 Fabric

15 At rest 16 Gramma 17 Donald’s second ex 18 Highlands native 19 Tiny fraction of a min. 20 Toasted breakfast breads

23 Pig’s home

24 Small songbirds 25 Apply more lubricatio­n to 27 One-thousandth of a gig

28 Letters indicating a sellout

30 Kissing on a busy ave., say

31 Eggy breakfast dish 35 Lago contents 37 Dutch Golden Age artist

38 Rogues 39 Hamlike breakfast meat

42 Bowling initials 43 USN rank 44 Chaney of old chillers 45 American rival 47 Lord’s partner 49 School support org. 52 Rural cuisine ... and what 20-, 31- and 39-Across are examples of?

56 Duck or goose

57 “It __ over till it’s over”: Berra

58 Eagle claw 59 Nonreturna­ble

serves

60 __ Reader

61 Overact

62 Cajun veggie 63 Propped (up), as a golf ball

64 Fills completely DOWN 1 Pinnacles 2 Journalist’s angle 3 Lover of Bess, in Gershwin

4 “__ never work!” 5 Indian spiced drink 6 Illuminati­on 7 President between Washington and Jefferson 8 Cheese couleur 9 Word before portrait or pity

10 Type of navel 11 Is unprepared 12 Like a landslide win 13 __-12 Conference 21 Records one’s arrival on a register 22 Starting at 26 Back muscles, briefly 27 Film-rating org. 28 “The Purple People Eater” singer Wooley 29 Brazilian soccer immortal 31 Bloom with edible seeds

32 “Take __ a challenge”

33 One of a D.C. 100 34 Business maj. 35 USNA part: abbr. 36 South Carolina athlete

40 Jimmy on sausage labels 41 Howling canines 46 Oklahoma city 47 Jeff of ELO 48 Played a part 49 Plane flier

50 Fed. security 51 Dancer de Mille 53 Pulled tight

54 Bar mitzvah, for one 55 __ Sutra

56 Toy store __ Schwarz

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