The Mercury News

Today’s crossword

- By Steve Mossberg

ACROSS

1 Wild way to go 8 Holds up 15 Suggestive comment to a nearby lover 16 Overseas play

area?

17 Bad mark 18 Enters gingerly 19 Wields

20 __ party 21 “There’s more,

right?”

22 Monk famed for his unorthodox piano playing 25 Samantha Bee’s

network

28 Go very slowly 29 Race on skis 32 Impressive sixpack

35 Reminder of a

bad scrape 36 “The Simpsons” waiter first voiced by George Takei 37 Small seal 38 Aptly named subsidiary of American Eagle Outfitters 39 Wrestler John 40 Common sense approach to determinin­g authentici­ty 42 Blank state 45 Walk with effort 46 Gossip, in

modern parlance 47 Adoption site 50 Work the aisles,

slangily

52 Swizzle

53 Least common hit 57 Orange liqueur

cocktail

59 Show the door 60 Qatar, for one 61 Fantasy beasts 62 No longer green,

perhaps 63 Working well with

others

DOWN

1 Wait for 2 Charging option 3 Reputation 4 Heads-up 5 View from The

Hague 6 Palate cleanser at Indian restaurant­s

7 A concert may feature one or more 8 Hofbräuhau­s

vessel

9 To wit 10 Finger-pointing

words 11 Whitman who voices Tinker Bell in the Disney Fairies franchise 12 “No telling” 13 Multiinstr­umentalist McKeown

14 Mail

20 Pinball component that keeps the ball moving

23 Vaults

24 Knock over 25 Developmen­t site 26 Hog lover 27 Iron-rich potluck

staple

30 Up

31 “Little Women” (2019) writer/ director Gerwig ©2021 Tribune Content Agency, LLC

33 Sanskrit for “life

force”

34 One often cast in

fantasy movies 38 Leia’s home

planet 41 Hard-to-win

game

43 ER procedure 44 Type of sale frequented by antiquers 48 Brought on board 11/27/21 11/27/21

49 Chip feature,

maybe

50 App buyer 51 California’s __

Valley

54 Shoddy 55 Breather 56 Modern artisan

marketplac­e 58 Poetic

prepositio­n 59 Church based in

SLC, Utah

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