The Mercury News

Today’s crossword

10/14/21

- By Jim Holland

ACROSS

1 Geometry

numbers

6 Shows

displeasur­e (at) 11 Part of A&E? 14 Absorb

15 Ferrell’s “SNL” cheerleadi­ng partner 16 Card-beats-card

game

17 Fan on a farm? 19 Shakespear­ean

title noun

20 Bee attraction 21 Wrestling place 22 “Armageddon”

author

23 Chain founded by

Ingvar Kamprad 25 Movie trailers 27 Hors d’oeuvres for a horror movie? 31 “Gotcha!”

32 Head of Paris 33 Like some

escapes

37 Done in

39 AOL, e.g.

41 Aria, say

42 Watch all night,

maybe

45 Topers

48 High flier until

2001 49 Surveillan­ce

snacks?

52 Make like the

original

55 Hurry away 56 Place for a bid 57 Arabic “son of” 59 Syrup once used as a poison remedy

63 No-frills bed 64 Finishing touch

for a gastropod? 66 Aussie school 67 Cellist Casals 68 Capone henchman known as “The Enforcer” 69 Whiskey choice 70 Sales rep’s friendly personalit­y, e.g. 71 Early computer

DOWN

1 Part of NCAA: Abbr.

2 “Dirty Jobs” host

Mike 3 Large-scale tale 4 Pretzel chain __

Anne’s

5 Deliver an

address for

6 Soft cry

7 __ smasher

8 Tell

9 Many a junior

high student 10 Polite title 11 Clued in 12 Zenith’s opposite 13 Slag

18 Liqueur word 22 Password

creators 24 “Hamlet”

beginning 26 Solid-rock link 27 Emotional

outbursts 28 Guitarist Atkins 29 “I am woman, hear me __ ... ”: Helen Reddy lyric 30 “Steppenwol­f”

author

34 Former Dallas

QB Tony 35 Hodgepodge 36 “Agreed!”

38 Irritable 40 Sound accompanyi­ng a disappeara­nce 43 From __ Z 44 Places to tie up 46 Spring bloom 47 Start of a job 50 Skewered foods 51 “You’ve Lost That Lovin’ __”: 1964 hit

52 Arise anew

53 Dark wood 54 “Sonatine Bureaucrat­ique” composer 58 Africa’s Blue __ 60 __ Field: Mets’

home 61 Whodunit dog 62 Geek __ 64 Place for a peel 65 “’Salem’s __”: Stephen King novel

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