The Mercury News

Today’s crossword

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ACROSS

1 “__ Secretary” 6 First Negro League electee to Cooperstow­n 11 Radical ’70s org. 14 Durance who plays Lois on “Smallville”

15 Per __ 16 Comparativ­e

suffix

17 Grim

18 Removes with a

putty knife

20 Out

22 Where hauls may

be divided 23 Pouchlike

shoulder bag 25 Nearly straightho­rned antelope 26 Going up 29 Tender 32 Warning to a

meddler

34 Cote sounds 35 Pilot’s place 36 442 or 88, e.g. 37 Guideline when something is dropped from one’s diet? 40 Eclair filling 41 Stylish

filmmakers 42 Shepherd’s pie

bits

44 Poet’s rhyme for

“home” 45 Important artery 48 Constructi­on

equipment 53 Coldly devious 55 Vaudeville

production 56 Preceding,

poetically 57 Name in 1976

Olympic news 58 Totally remove 59 Palindromi­c song from a palindromi­c band 60 Funding source 61 Prohibitio­n details

DOWN

1 Most populous U.S. city that isn’t a county seat

2 Fine things? 3 Tuner,

sometimes

4 One of Yellowston­e’s two million-plus 5 Be opportunis­tic,

metaphoric­ally 6 Dance step

7 “A Cook’s Tour”

host

8 Cross letters 9 Forklift truck friend of Luigi in “Cars” films 10 Largest penguin 11 Seat of South Dakota’s Minnehaha County

12 Bailed 13 Warnings,

perhaps 19 Alternativ­e

baking staple 21 Regulate 24 Breath spray

brand

26 Lincoln wore

them

27 Window with a

crank, often 28 Pursue

30 Köln closing 31 Lo-__

32 Yvette’s

evening

33 Foes of Buffy 34 Phased-out

propellant 38 Intense, as pain 39 Spread by

moving dirt? 43 __ energy 45 Field food, briefly

46 Dynamic start? 47 John/Rice

musical 49 Celsius freezing

point 50 __-Picone:

fashion house 51 Sign of age,

maybe

52 Dates

54 N.L. East

player

 ??  ?? By Peter A. Collins 1/16/21
By Peter A. Collins 1/16/21

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