The Mercury News Weekend

Today's crossword

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ACROSS

1 Slightest

6 Knocks 10 Delicacy

14 Sign of autumn 15 Arizona’s __ Fria

river 16 Fish-eating duck 17 Wet one? 19 “Veep” Emmy

winner Tony 20 Parisian

possessive 21 Streaming service acquired by Fox in 2020 22 Seating request 23 Day one?

27 Big name in

game shows 28 Lack of practice,

metaphoric­ally 29 Fashion’s Oscar

__ Renta

30 Last of the

Oldsmobile­s 32 CDs with three or

four songs

35 Air Force one? 39 Sun spot

40 Made a choice 41 “You’re so right!” 42 Two piece? 43 Tribute creator 45 Number one? 50 Leave red-faced 51 Senator Booker 52 Like steak tartare 55 Astronaut Christina who spent 328 days in space

56 Cellular one? 59 Art Deco master 60 Hebrides isle 61 More than most 62 Sgts. and cpls. 63 “Guardians of the Galaxy” filmmaker James 64 Sees

DOWN

1 Some bus. entities 2 Word with a harp on some euro coins

3 In a really bad way 4 “__ Lanka Matha”: South Asian national anthem 5 Mystical Hindu

text

6 Shabbat services

leader 7 Over

8 Crawl space? 9 For example 10 CafePress

purchase

11 Pile up 12 Instrument with

an end pin 13 Many a middle

schooler 18 Goopy buildup 22 Storytelle­r credited with the fable “The Wolf and the Crane” 24 California town with an annual music festival 25 Avarice 26 Contented rumble 27 Go for

29 MLB sluggers who don’t play the field

30 Is __: likely will 31 Wireless

standard initials 32 Nightmaris­h

movie location 33 Ada Limón, for

one

34 RR stop 36 Sectional, e.g. 37 Cartel HQ’d in

Vienna 38 Armitage of “Big

Little Lies” 42 Quick races 43 Una y __ vez: Spanish for “time after time” 44 Guest room

piece

45 Spoken for 46 Multiple-choice

choices

47 Blade for a

hobbyist 48 NCAA school with the most first-round WNBA draft picks 49 “Dunkirk” director Christophe­r 53 Land parcel 54 __ and wherefores 56 Generous 57 Marker 58 New Deal energy prog.

 ?? By Tom Locke ?? 1/13/23
By Tom Locke 1/13/23

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