The Mercury News

The Daily Commuter

- Created by Jacqueline E. Mathews

ACROSS

1 Notices 5 Chocolate toffee

bar

9 Stiffly proper 13 Cabbies’ cars 15 Broad

16 Of sound mind 17 Raging

18 Poverty

20 Part of a hosp.

staff

21 Short swim

23 All for __; fruitless 24 “Shalom!”

26 Total flop

27 Pact

29 “Scram!”

32 Hay muncher 33 Check recipient 35 “The __ Gray

Mare”

37 Take __; subtract 38 Linear measure 39 Stick around 40 Tennis court

divider

41 Window pieces 42 Malice

43 Leave

45 “__ in the Heart”;

Sally Field film 46 __ whim;

impulsivel­y

47 Not fresh or

original

48 Like a solarium 51 __ and reel;

fishing gear 52 So. state 55 Disloyalty 58 Flowed back 60 As wise __ owl 61 Has debts 62 Dinner course 63 Minstrel poet 64 Teller’s call 65 Cincinnati

athletes

DOWN

1 __ up; incite

2 Be a breadwinne­r 3 Try the patience

of

4 Command to Fido 5 Walk off with 6 Relatives 7 Strange 8 Antlered animal 9 Artificial

10 __ out; chimed 11 __ along; move

slowly

12 TV’s “__ the

Press”

14 Give a

tranquiliz­er to 19 Measuring

device

22 Like slick winter

roads 25 Effortless 27 Other __;

besides 28 Oared 29 Farewells 30 Apparent

31 Fill with glee 33 Feeling __-up; tired of confinemen­t 34 Gobbled up 36 Coloring

solutions 38 Race

39 Run-in 41 Overpoweri­ng

fright

42 Playground

attraction­s 44 European nation 45 Paid athlete 47 Lovers’ meeting 48 Wound with a

dagger

49 Word before

Major or Minor

50 Not far from 53 Starring role 54 Uses a plus

sign

56 Woolly mama 57 Harrison of “My

Fair Lady” 59 Keep out;

exclude

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