The Mercury News

Today's crossword

- By Debbie Ellerin

ACROSS

1 Hardly a routine

favor

7 Rubs out 15 Project that led to the first moonwalk 16 “And how!” 17 Rounds of shots 18 Meditation goal 19 Money in music 20 “__: a Dog”: 1962 film based on a 1919 novel 21 Fruit with a

Medjool variety 22 Fathers and sons 23 Portable Asian

dwellings

25 “Live at Red Rocks” musician John

26 Fathers and

sons, say

27 Tiny resistance

unit

29 Petrol measure 31 Start of a Seuss

classic

36 Galleria degli

Uffizi city 37 Range in which 7

is neutral 38 “Swords into plowshares” prophet

39 Had difficulty 40 Maker of many

jets

42 Fields of cookies 43 __ entry

47 Plant that has become invasive in much of the Eastern U.S. 48 One acting badly 49 “Swan Lake”

maiden 51 Vitamin bottle

abbr. 52 Marathoner­s’ sources of energy 54 Telemarket­ing

tactic

56 “Scream” scream 57 Rule that keeps you from spelling weirdly?

58 With great

intensity 59 Colonists

60 Dr. Scholl’s

product

DOWN

1 Stalwart political

group

2 Apples since

2012

3 The best of

times 4 Harmonicap­laying chipmunk

5 Gin flavoring 6 Ring decisions 7 Off-the-wall

8 No longer fazed

by

9 Time meas.

10 VA concern 11 Mount an attack

on

12 Kiwi-shaped 13 Bashes

14 Just baked, say 20 Riches

23 1994 co-Nobelist with Yasser and Shimon

24 Fluffy toy 26 Ex-U.N. chief

Annan 27 “Anaconda”

rapper Nicki 28 Kenyan tribe 30 Worn welcome

symbol

32 Game show VIPs 33 Enclave in Italy 34 Warning signal 35 High-tech

capacity units 37 Pie sometimes topped with pineapple 39 Gatherings

before snaps 41 Salon device 43 Day of films 44 Brick of the

Southwest 45 High land

46 Up in the air 48 Long-eared

critters

50 Biol. branch 52 “Big Brother” host Julie __ Moonves 53 Terrier breed from

Scotland

55 “What __ the

odds?!”

56 Go downhill fast

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