The Mercury News

Today’s crossword

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ACROSS

1 Daytime snooze 4 Sprinkler liquid 9 Nursery rocker 15 Mine find 16 Classic Dior style 17 Eagerly

unwrapped 18 Pronoun for a filly 19 Frequent Fred

Astaire partner 21 Salad veggie 23 River delta deposit 24 Salary

25 Army doctor for whom a D.C. medical center is named

29 Close bud, in texts 31 More loyal 32 Wool clippers 35 ’60s “acid” 38 Lewd material 40 Photograph­ed

from a plane 42 Movies Superman

portrayer

46 Big rig fuel 47 Excursion 48 Lion’s lair 49 Attached with glue 51 Layered cookies 54 Kid’s bleat 55 “Glee” star who won “Dancing With the Stars” in 2017

60 Grounded fast flier 62 “I did it!”

64 What the nose

knows

65 Start of a Pope line about fallibilit­y ... as shown by 19-, 25-, 42- and 55-Across? 70 Coquettish 71 Palindrome

ending 72 Surrounded by 73 Quarterbac­k’s

asset

74 Zones for different

usage, say 75 Foamy coffee 76 Caustic solution

DOWN

1 “Ain’t gonna

happen” 2 Gladiator’s milieu 3 Problem for

Pauline

4 Ring Cycle

composer 5 Boxer who proclaimed, “I am the greatest!” 6 Sardine container 7 Required H.S.

class 8 Witherspoo­n of

“Big Little Lies” 9 PC corner key 10 Classic A&W

soda

11 Neighbor of Uru. 12 Like fish and chips 13 “Doctor Zhivago”

heroine

14 Online craft shop 20 Clears (of) 22 Baseball great Mel 26 Steal steers 27 San __: Riviera

resort

28 Blow, as a

volcano

30 Taxi charge 33 Creator of Atticus,

Scout and Jem 34 All but

35 TV screen type 36 Be sent via

FedEx or UPS 37 Group of star

athletes

39 Beat strongly 41 Spy novelist

Deighton 43 “Insecure” Emmy

nominee __ Rae 44 Attempt to ensnare, with “for”

45 Land of the

banshee

50 June honorees 52 Breakfast juice

flavor

53 Title for Paul

McCartney

56 Taj __ 57 Bus that makes

all the stops 58 Atlanta university 59 “I did it!”

60 Recipe instructio­n 61 Not all

63 Goals

66 Old food label

abbr.

67 Thurman of “Pulp

Fiction”

68 Witty remark 69 Pantry pest

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