The Mercury News

Today’s crossword

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ACROSS

1 Invents, as a word 6 Laugh-a-minute

sort

10 Lucas of “Raising

Hope” 14 Bandleader’s

exhortatio­n 15 Egyptian life

symbol

16 Pest on a pooch 17 Red-tide contents 18 Academy attended by James T. Kirk 20 Shape, as clay 22 Mayberry lad 23 Org. in much

recent news 24 Artist with a record 32 American Music Awards 26 “We’ll let you

know,” on skeds 27 18-Across jr.

officer 28 Threaded

fastener

29 Claw into

31 Fire truck alert 33 Tourette syndrome symptoms 34 Deeply hurt 39 Brooklyn Coll. is

part of it

40 Double duty? 41 Convent leader 44 Shoelace, e.g. 45 NBA’s Heat, on

scoreboard­s 48 Inouye Airport

arrival gift 49 Inviolable, as a

rule

53 Investment inits. 54 Common ointment ingredient

55 Hall of Fame

knucklebal­ler Phil 56 With immediacy, or a hint to the four other longest puzzle answers 59 Step

60 Worked in a

garden 61 “Because You

Loved Me” singer 62 Battle zone

journalist 63 Criteria: Abbr. 64 Racy message 65 Rotary phone features

DOWN

1 Unsullied

2 Prop for the Tin

Man

3 Men working on a network, informally

4 One Direction’s “cute one” __ Horan

5 “C’mon, we’re in

a hurry!” 6 Late-summer orientatio­n mtg. holders

7 Like many trailers 8 Giraffe relative 9 Frugality 10 Patriots’ org. 11 Exciting, as an

atmosphere 12 Survey info

13 Big shots with big

balances 19 Honor in a big

way

21 Town near

Provinceto­wn 25 Editorial “let it

stand”

30 Feuding

31 Eyelid ailment

32 Smart students’

org.

34 Two, to eight, e.g. 35 Impartial 36 Sundance’s

sweetie

37 “Glee”

cheerleade­r 38 Not yet corrected

for publicatio­n 39 Islamic leaders 42 1979 exile 43 Soup followers

45 Folk singer Miriam known as “Mama Africa” 46 Gal Gadot’s

birthplace 47 Disagreein­g 50 Riveting icon 51 Rehab program 52 1938 Physics

Nobelist 57 Six-pt. scores 58 Tolkien’s

Treebeard, e.g.

 ??  ?? By Hoang-Kim Vu 12/30/20
By Hoang-Kim Vu 12/30/20

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