The Mercury News Weekend

Today's crossword

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ACROSS

1 Scarecrow

innards

6 Italian port

11 Get better,

maybe

14 Gear bit

15 Cheri of “Scary

Movie”

16 Musical about Henry VIII’s many wives

17 *Bilingual Ed Sheeran song featuring Camila Cabello and Cardi B

19 Fury

20 “Oh, come on!” 21 Aims

23 “Love Stuff”

singer King

24 Tub gunk

26 Vane point 29 *R.E.M. hit single

on “Out of Time” 34 Poetic rhythm 36 Plenty

37 Jazz org.

38 “¡Ay, Dios __!” 39 Anthem that ends, “We stand on guard for thee”

42 “Dear old” one 43 Over thataway 44 “Shane” star Alan 45 “Spider-Man”

trilogy director 47 *Carl Perkins rockabilly classic popularize­d by Elvis Presley 51 Jet set jet 52 Wrote to online,

briefly

53 Feels bad 55 TikTok upload 58 Very nearly 62 Rita Dove’s “__ to

My Right Knee” 63 “You’re blocking the view!,” and what is needed to complete the answers to the starred clues? 66 Decathlon

number 67 Top-flight 68 Under control 69 Put away

70 “I’m out”

71 Puts one over on

By Jess Shulman & Max Woghiren

DOWN

1 “Cut it out!” 2 Food sold in

blocks 3 “American Pastoral” Pulitzer winner

4 Word in several ESPY Award categories 5 Cheese shape 6 Loosey-__

7 Basic French verb 8 Composer

Rorem

9 Nickel source 10 Wind instrument? 11 Much of an atlas 12 Mary Cassatt’s “Little __ in a Blue Armchair” 13 Former couples 18 Lip __

22 “Srsly?!” 24 Actress Ward 25 Dolt

26 Awards for

“Schitt’s Creek” 27 Vowel set

28 “The Favourite”

actress Emma 30 Total stranger 31 __ folk 32 “Becoming”

memoirist 3/17/23 ©2023 Tribune Content Agency, LLC 3/17/23 33 Low point 54 Many apartments 35 One to emulate in former 40 Docket item industrial areas 41 Ritalin target: 55 Rock the __

Abbr. 56 Concept 46 Unsuccessf­ul 57 Minor progress

candidate 58 Chip in?

48 Conk out 59 “__ arigato” 49 Less taxing 60 Over again

50 Say “cheese” by 61 Norms: Abbr. rubbing one’s 64 São Paulo palms together, greeting e.g. 65 Card

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