The Mercury News

Today’s crossword

- By Gary Larson

ACROSS

1 Unresponsi­ve

state

5 Loosen up, to a

pitcher

10 Light bulb unit 14 Welcoming 15 African howler 16 “Sin City” actress

Jessica

17 *New Jersey city

on Raritan Bay 19 Thick slice 20 Semicircle, say 21 Green Gables girl 22 Kick back 23 Comic Smirnoff 25 *Leader of the

pack

28 Wiener schnitzel

meat

30 Red Sea country 31 Trembling trees 34 Terrier’s sound 35 Disney frame 38 *It prohibits unreasonab­le searches and seizures

42 Boy king

43 Mr. Rogers 44 Cleared from the

board

45 Family car 48 Elvis’ middle

name 49 *Light-bulb-overthe-head instance 52 Sherpa’s land 56 Large pears 57 Actress Skye 59 The “E” in BCE 60 Boo-boo

61 Spam relatives ... and a hint to the answers to starred clues 64 Tease mercilessl­y 65 Curved moldings 66 Frozen drink

brand

67 Souvenir shop

apparel

68 Lyrics

69 Rx items

DOWN

1 Insured’s

contributi­on 2 Wagner work 3 Pharmaceut­ical

giant 4 Industriou­s

crawler

5 Word in a

comparison

6 Pew book

7 Buck the system 8 Beatle bride

9 “No __!”: “Uh-uh!” 10 Message on a

dusty car 11 NATO and others 12 Pre-Little League

game 13 Card-playing

surface

18 Lack, briefly 22 Cell pic taker 24 Walkie-talkie

word 26 Combustibl­e pile 27 Playboy founder

Hugh

29 Hindu retreat 31 Away from the

bow

32 Trifling amount 33 Saves for later 34 __ Ray, one of folk rock’s Indigo Girls 36 Chicago-toLansing dir. 37 Inc., in England 39 Top of the line 40 Went on and on 41 Pride of lions? 46 Show hosts 47 One side of a two-column list of rules

48 Made up (for) 49 Scrub the launch 50 Mandel of “America’s Got Talent” 51 San Fran

gridder 53 Tranquilit­y 54 Packing heat 55 Does high-tech

eye surgery on 58 Legendary loch 61 Milk source 62 Previously 63 Pronoun that’s a homonym of a religious song

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4/7/20

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