The Mercury News

Today's crossword

- By Catherine Cetta

ACROSS

1 Remind repeatedly 4 Girl __ Cookies 9 Journalist Swisher 13 “My man!” 14 Alpha __ Alpha

sorority 15 Lubricated 16 Half-__: rhyming

coffee order 17 Closing line after presenting an argument

19 Elsie the Cow’s

dairy brand 21 “Questions

welcome” 22 Ireland, to the Irish 23 “The Dancing Class” painter Edgar

26 Cedar Rapids

state

28 Nebula Award

genre

30 One way to get

caught

32 Silky fabrics 34 Island home of the

Hana Highway 35 Magazine VIPs 36 Pinches pennies 38 “Now I get it!” 41 Holier-__-thou 42 Scheduled 47 North American

evergreen

50 Say “I do” without

the ado

51 Quaint “once” 52 Lets up

54 __ and proper 55 Fatherly nickname 57 Hide-and-seek

hideout

59 Fourth of July noisemaker ... and the function of the black squares in lines 3, 6, and 10 62 “That hurt!” 64 Future DAs’ exams 65 Member-owned

grocery stores 66 Actress Thurman 67 Eclectic online

digest 68 Arizona’s __

National Forest 69 __-Mex cuisine

DOWN

1 “This Is Us” TV network 2 Coffee bean

variety

3 “Pursue your

dream!”

4 Slide on an icy

road

5 Was concerned 6 First game of the

season 7 Emotional highs 8 Body ink, for short 9 Begin to take effect, as medicine 10 Dessert menu

phrase 11 Mended for a

second time 12 Citrus drink suffix 15 Yiddish laments 18 Songs made by

mixing two songs 20 Mortgage adjustment, for short

22 Twisty letter 24 Some spring

babies

25 Driver at the

Oscars 27 Commercial­s 29 Lead-in to “gram”

in social media 31 Ideologica­l gap in

Congress 33 Bagel spread 37 Nadal of tennis,

familiarly

38 Actor Vigoda 39 Plucky member

of an orchestra? 40 Losing candidate 43 European peaks 44 Left in a big hurry 45 Perfect example 46 Rep.’s opponent 48 Tampa Bay city,

familiarly

49 __ with: take into

considerat­ion 53 Was out

56 Some HP

products

58 “In that neighborho­od” phrase 59 Wintertime bug 60 Do something 61 Dove sound 63 Number on older

business cards

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