The Mercury News

Today’s crossword

- By C.C. Burnikel

ACROSS

1 Fisherman’s __: waterfront district in San Francisco 6 Police HQ alerts 10 Sushi bar sauce 13 Swiss

mathematic­ian 14 Soft palate

dangler

15 “t,” in “btw”

16 Golf tournament won by Shane Lowry in 2019 18 Cavity-fighting

org.

19 “Easy Rider”

actor 21 eharmony profile

part

24 Entry point 25 With 31-Across, “The Aviator” Oscar nominee 26 Maxim

28 Pequod crew 31 See 25-Across 32 Tidy (up) 34 Stocking experts, and what 16-, 19-, 51- and 57-Across literally are

38 Give as a task 39 Office notice 42 Govt. drug bust,

perhaps 45 Post-workout

refresher

47 __ mater 48 TriBeCa neighbor 50 “__ Blinded Me With Science”: 1983 hit 51 Baltimore-based

medical school 56 “Sands of __

Jima”: 1949 film 57 “Fingers

crossed!” 61 Country star

McGraw

62 Gas brand BP relaunched in 2017

63 Less prevalent 64 Had chips, say 65 Fail to notice 66 Washington, e.g.

DOWN

1 Spider’s creation 2 “Ben-__”

3 Baba in a cave 4 No longer

working: Abbr. 5 Curly-haired “Peanuts” character

6 To have, in Paris 7 Baby seals 8 “Yuck!”

9 Twins infielder

Miguel

10 Rice, in Chinese

cuisine

11 “My goodness!” 12 Hankers (for) 14 “Hmm ... not

likely”

17 Winter flakes 20 Capital of Sicily 21 Fluffy wrap 22 “__ be darned!” 23 Vegas

calculatio­n 27 Like most of

northern Africa 28 Little songbird 29 Drillmaste­r’s

syllable 30 Opening day

pitcher, typically 32 Icy road worry 33 Cribbage piece 35 Mama bear, in

Seville 36 Omega

preceder 37 Puts a Singer to

work

40 “Not really a fan” 41 Mined metal 42 Sizzling Tex-Mex

fare

43 Fail epically 44 Shout from the

foyer

45 __ Tzu: toy dog 46 Advanced student’s course 48 Contractor’s

parameters 49 “Yeah, and ... ?” 52 Fancy pillowcase 53 Prefix with sphere 54 Gold medals, to

Spaniards 55 Quarrel

58 Nest egg

acronym 59 “Nothing but __”:

“Swish!” 60 College sr.’s test

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