The Mercury News

Today’s Crossword

- Puzzle by Matt McKinley

ACROSS 1 “We Create Music” org. 6 “You’re a riot” 10 Sportscast­er Albert 14 Diner counter

alternativ­e

15 Hasn’t paid yet

16 Jai __

17 Job

19 Govt. crash

investigat­or 20 Weather-affecting

current

21 Give up all

expectatio­ns

23 __ Strauss, female touring guitarist for Alice Cooper

25 Greek “i” 26 BB-shaped legume 29 Switching from cable

TV to streaming, say 34 Relaxing time in the

chalet

36 Skin ink

37 Four-time ’60s-’70s

AL All-Star __ Powell 38 42-yr.-old skit show 40 Regarding

41 Not at all abundant 44 Totally loses it 47 Bedsheet buyer’s

concern

49 Observe

50 Pop’s Lady __

51 1982 Disney sci-fi

film

53 Most ordinary 57 Hydrocodon­e, e.g. 61 Like un maníaco 62 Compositio­n for violin, viola and cello ... and what the starts of 17-, 29- and 47-Across comprise 64 Color of raw silk 65 Sights from la mer 66 Longtime senator

Specter

67 Vintage Jags

68 Not e’en once

69 Wall Street’s

Standard & __ DOWN 1 Having the skills 2 Window box dirt 3 Hartford’s st.

4 Had food delivered 5 “Hooked on” language teaching method

6 In what way

7 GI on the run

8 Valiant

9 Invites to the prom, say 10 Borough across the Harlem River from the Bronx

11 Voice above tenor 12 Abrasive tool 13 Hard-to-explain feeling 18 Pics

22 Bluesy James 24 Boats like Noah’s 26 Brew brand with a blue-ribbon logo 27 Pleistocen­e period 28 Cheering and yelling, as a crowd 30 Down Under dog 31 “Who’s there?” response from a couple 32 Naples night 33 Golden-egg layer 35 Flagrant

39 Rude dude

42 Actor Scott or his dad James

43 Enters sneakily 45 2001 scandal company 46 Temporary solution 48 Structure protected by a moat

52 The “N” in “TNT” 53 Theater suffix 54 What a key opens 55 Farmland measure 56 One in a forest 58 Woody Guthrie’s son 59 Stadium section 60 Many millennia 63 Dead Sea country: abbr.

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