The Mercury News

Today’s crossword

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ACROSS

1 Like some

hygiene

5 Casual greeting 9 House level accessed with pull-down stairs 14 Folk singer

Seeger

15 Assist with a heist 16 Harry Potter nemesis __ Malfoy

17 “Around the

Horn” channel 18 __ line: 18th-century dispute-resolving state border 20 “Awesome!” 22 NFL analyst

Tony

23 German “a” 24 Kite-flying need 26 Puts on the line,

as money 28 Fluffy, citrusy pie 33 Lousy grade 36 USN noncom 37 Devon delivery

vehicle

38 “My mom and

dad will kill me!” 41 ’90s prime-time

soap “__ Place” 43 Less

44 License plate 45 Acquired 46 Family car largely replaced by the minivan and SUV

51 Brief movie role 52 Sure winner 56 Too

59 Voices below

soprani

61 __ Carlo 62 Ordinaryso­unding state bird of Minnesota 65 Pols from blue

states, usually 66 Pecans and

pistachios 67 Overnight

lodgings

68 Tiny biting insect 69 Latin “that is” 70 Fair-hiring agcy. 71 Slow Churned ice

cream brand

DOWN

1 Bids first

2 Go back to zero 3 For the stock

issue price 4 Soup legume 5 Radio hobbyist 6 Letter-shaped

beam

7 “Decide now!” 8 Word with power

or energy

9 Toss in 10 Attempts to get 11 Roll to a terminal 12 Clickable image 13 Ice cream holder 19 On-the-run snack 21 Number that’s a

square of itself 25 Acadia and Yukon 27 Pass idly, as time 29 Decide (to) 30 Kermit, for one 31 Estimate words 32 Dimitri’s denial 33 Switches to low

beams

34 Send forth 35 Sicilian volcano 39 Results 40 Himalayan

continent 41 Nanny’s bleat 42 They’re laid in

55-Down 44 Black-and-white,

say

47 Mideast sultanate 48 Journalist Bly 49 Resistance unit 50 Annoying person 53 Without a break ... or what each word in 18-, 28-, 46- and 62-Across has 54 “__ come as no

surprise ... ” 55 42-Down

holders 56 Drama

opening

57 Title for an earl 58 Hook’s cohort 60 Prefix with

sphere

63 East, in Essen 64 White House

advisory gp.

 ?? By Mark McClain ?? 7/22/19
By Mark McClain 7/22/19

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