The Mercury News

Today’s crossword

- By Peter Koetters

ACROSS

1 Insult

5 Golden fruit that, legend has it, started the Trojan War

10 Heat in “The

Heat”

14 First-rate 15 Stands at lectures 16 Like some

hygiene

17 Midas stock item 20 Slept noisily 21 Period in office 22 Leered at

23 Left surreptiti­ously 28 Beatty and Kelly 29 “Walking in Memphis” Grammy winner Marc

30 Bill for svc.

rendered

31 Berry who played

Storm in “X-Men” 33 Israeli or Arab 36 Simple New

England houses 40 From dawn to

dusk

41 ’90s candidate __

Perot

42 Buzzer in a

swarm 43 Half-moon tide 44 Office fill-in 48 Gobble up 52 “Wherefore art

thou” guy 53 Weighty Kuwaiti? 54 Girl-asksguy dances, informally 55 Director’s “We’re done for today, people” ... and hint to the start of 17-, 23-, 36- and 48-Across 60 Bequest

beneficiar­y 61 Linney of “Ozark” 62 “Blue” or “White”

African river 63 “This is __ a test” 64 Matches audio to

video, e.g. 65 Verbalizes

DOWN

1 Lover of Delilah 2 Airport waiting

area

3 Prepare to use,

as a lawn chair 4 Updated, as a

Web page 5 Mimicked

6 For, to Fernando 7 “Get a room!”

evoker, initially 8 Sonny who lost

to Clay in 1964 9 Portraitis­t’s prop 10 City-state

separator 11 Globe

12 Pay or pen

follower

13 Foxy 18 Captained 19 “She desires to speak with you ... __ you go to bed”: “Hamlet” 23 Realtor’s favorite

sign

24 2010s cookingthe­med talk show 25 Kristen of

“Bridesmaid­s” 26 Required wager 27 The “Y” of YSL 29 Be saccharine 32 Here, in Havana 33 Octagonal sign 34 Short aliens? 35 Extinct elephants

36 Uber

competitor­s 37 “Match Game”

host Baldwin 38 Earnest request 39 Algerian port 43 Land with fjords 45 Clarke who played Daenerys on “Game of Thrones” 46 Sheepishly 47 Deputized bands

49 Second attempt 50 Radio settings 51 Circular dashboard devices

52 U.K. fliers 54 Restorativ­e

resorts

55 Albeit, briefly 56 Barnyard layer 57 Disturb 58 Operate 59 Pendulum path

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