The Mercury News

Today’s crossword

- By Craig Stowe

ACROSS

1 Old Hollywood

sex symbol West

4 Hooded winter coat

9 Flinch or gasp, say

14 Computer giant whose motto is “THINK”

15 Go-to crew

16 One-named “Hello” singer

17 *Smartphone download

19 Bricklayer

20 Chris of “The Avengers” (2012)

21 “... to __ it mildly”

23 Prefix meaning “one”

24 Feudal worker

25 *Sheet for plotting

28 Variety show

30 “Delish!”

31 Barbecued pork snack

34 Rain more gently

38 Platform for Siri

39 *Mr. Lube service jobs

42 “If you ask me,” to a texter

43 Basil-and-pinenuts sauce

45 Ideal wheels

47 Observe

49 Rid of vermin

50 *Sample set of buyers used in market research

55 Deep cut

58 Persian Gulf sultanate

59 Statehouse VIP

60 Roast host

61 Part of USNA

63 Streamline­s, as a factory ... or, when read as two words, what the beginnings of the answers to starred clues are

66 Recurring motif

67 Soccer shoe gripper

68 Has too much, briefly

69 __ Hawkins Day 70 Learns (of)

71 Eagle or evil organ

DOWN

1 Performers often “trapped” in imaginary boxes

2 Overhead

3 Humiliate

4 Close friends

5 Dug in, at dinner

6 Irish actor Stephen

7 Phi Beta __

8 Increase the intensity of

9 Ewe’s beau

10 Sushi soybean side dish

11 “The Frog and the Fox” fabulist

12 Replicate geneticall­y

13 Barbershop quartet voice

18 Deduce

22 Biblical “your”

25 Expert

26 Harness strap

27 Star that’s also a source of radio waves

29 Presidenti­al rejections

31 Nurse, as a drink

32 “The Raven” poet

33 B and B’s first B

35 Game with x’s and o’s

36 Thurman of “The Avengers” (1998)

37 __ favor

40 Pakistani language

41 “Not a __ out of you!”

44 Tidal wave cousin

46 Igneous rock, once

48 Omelet ingredient

50 Roman and Comic Sans

51 Nebraska city near Boys Town

52 Gave in

53 Exterminat­or’s target

54 Reproducti­ve cell

56 Like dive bars

57 “Siddhartha” author

60 CPR pros

62 Jeans label

64 Leaves in hot water?

65 Rowboat rower

 ??  ?? 9/14/20
9/14/20

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