The Mercury News Weekend

Today’s crossword

- Puzzle by Jeffrey Wechsler

ACROSS 1 Shoot the moon 6 “Say from whence / You __ this strange intelligen­ce?”: Macbeth 9 Word of possibilit­y 14 MDX maker 15 __ Pacis: altar

of Peace 16 Tough test metaphor 17 Where shirts

may be lost? 19 Dish man? 20 Measuremen­t

for Sagan 21 One sending out bills 23 Field guard 24 Bolivian president

Morales 25 Denounce

unmerciful­ly 27 Natl. debt unit 28 Mountain __:

soft drinks 30 White 31 Galileo’s birthplace 32 California Marine

Corps base 35 Snowboardi­ng gold

medalist White 38 Begins 39 Realm of some

self-help books 45 Easy pace 46 Idle colleague 47 Conan Doyle, for one 51 “Love __ Rose”:

Neil Young song 52 At sea 54 LAX stat 55 Fade out 57 Film with six sequels 58 Muse for Sagan 60 Equals 62 Update 64 Kovacs of early

TV comedy 65 Tao follower? 66 “JFK” director 67 Late bloomer? 68 Skid row woe 69 Prepares for recycling DOWN 1 Suddenly inspired 2 Staff span 3 Undergroun­d shelter 4 Camera component 5 Is visibly thunderstr­uck 6 Sturdy tree 7 Encircle 8 Like 3-Downs 9 Place for an X, perhaps 10 “That’s dubious” 11 Go for lunch, say 12 President who signed the Sherman Antitrust Act 13 Travel agent’s suggestion­s 18 Razor man? 22 Patch 26 Venomous snake 29 Informal pardon? 31 1666 London fire chronicler 33 “__ luck?” 34 Two-by-four source 35 Soup variety, and a feature of five puzzle answers 36 Classic 1986 sports movie 37 Obvious 40 Makers of many skeds 41 Started one’s family, casually 42 Grey area? 43 Small, made smaller 44 Get ahead of 48 Fixture at Rosh Hashanah services 49 Put on course 50 Masonry and such 53 Metallic waste 56 City on its own lake 59 In the matter of 61 Sun. delivery 63 Acute care initials

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