The Mercury News

Today's crossword

- By Carolyn Davies Lynch

ACROSS

1 “High Voltage”

rock band 5 Frozen drink

brand

9 Revolving

entryway

14 “Heck no” 15 Humpty Dumpty’s

perch 16 Alleviates 17 Freddie Mercury

portrayer Malek 18 Sleeve fillers 19 Assists in a crime 20 Game whose cards have images of red and green fruit 23 “If u ask me” 24 Falsehood 25 Folklore figure 28 Game whose tiles are stored in a fruit-shaped bag 34 Concealed via

sleight of hand 36 Bled in the wash 37 Tied, as a score 38 “We’re live!”

studio sign 39 Dad, or soda 40 Yogurt-based

condiment 41 Mama of music 42 U.S. spy org. 43 Cease

communicat­ion 44 Game in which players compete to collect plastic fruit

47 Once named 48 “The Raven” poet

Edgar Allan __ 49 Actress Watson 51 What I shouldn’t do at the dinner table, except in 20-, 28-, and 44-Across? 58 Mickey or Minnie 59 Base x height, for

a parallelog­ram 60 Big brass horn 61 Puts laundry into

piles, say

62 Pork or beef 63 Supply-and

demand subj. 64 Kiss on both

cheeks, perhaps 65 Sinks out of sight,

as the sun 66 “Better Call Saul”

actress Seehorn

DOWN

1 New Age-y

emanation

2 “I say, old __” 3 Trash destinatio­n 4 Five-alarm potful 5 “They tricked

me!”

6 Container for

eggs

7 Ticklish Muppet 8 Anna’s “Frozen”

sister

9 Common name for a deep-ocean cucumber 10 Early run-through

of a script 11 “Makes sense” 12 “Why don’t we?” 13 Squiggly letter 21 Glowing coal 22 Schedule 25 Geologic time 26 Hawaiian patio 27 Brief bright light 29 Superloud 30 Forty winks 31 Bird-related 32 British unit of

length 33 Slithering reptile 35 Soup base made from fermented soybeans

39 Fruit-filled dessert 40 Like baggy pants 42 __ necklace: jewelry that provides soothing oral sensory input 43 Soft spots for

tumblers

45 Most demure 46 Pop in the microwave, perhaps 50 “Repeat __ me”

51 Like a one-star

review

52 Plastic worm, e.g. 53 Healthy Kitten

brand

54 Walnut or chestnut 55 “You wound me!” 56 Double-reed

woodwind

57 “The X-Files”

agent Scully 58 Flavor enhancer,

for short

 ?? ?? 11/27/23
11/27/23

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