The Mercury News Weekend

Today's crossword

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ACROSS

1 Prayer wheel

spinner

5 “You know you

want to!”

9 Half a pop quartet 14 Like some

defenses 15 Outsized

promotion

16 San Antonio

mission

17 Fixes beforehand 18 Border on 19 Jurassic giants,

for short 20 Phrase on a card in Desert Monopoly? 23 Pelican State

sch.

24 Passé

25 “The Red Tent”

novelist Diamant 27 Sanaa citizen 29 Stable

environmen­t? 31 Clearasil

shelfmate

33 Doll with many advanced degrees? 36 Nevada city on

I-80

39 Calendar col. 40 Hinged fastener 41 Part of the year that’s filled with possibilit­y? 46 Pirouette point 47 Actress TaylorJoy

48 Dismays 52 Bamboo fencing? 54 Capote nickname 55 Time capsule

time

56 Sport whose players wear furry hides?

60 Bundle of wheat 62 Apple variety 63 Sweeties

64 Soeur de la mère 65 “No time to wade through this” initialism 66 Sparkle 67 Provide backing

for

68 Word with box

or car

69 Nevada city on

I-80

DOWN

1 Haughty

2 Having a melody 3 With 7-Down,

masterpiec­e 4 “And don’t

forget ... ”

5 Star of the 1925 film “The Gold Rush”

6 “That’s on me” 7 See 3-Down 8 Team that shares an arena with the Liberty

9 Pietà figure 10 Defense

mechanism? 11 Nunavut

neighbor 12 Chilean’s “I love” 13 Brillo alternativ­e 21 Mood

22 Threads

26 x or y, on graphs 28 John Legend accomplish­ment, briefly 29 Myanmar, once 30 Java setting 32 “No prob” 34 Highly

questionab­le 35 Seehorn of

“Better Call Saul” 36 Life-saving pro 37 Glance 38 Element of a

warrior pose 42 Got tipsy

43 __ close to

schedule 44 Craftivist’s creation, at times 45 Fuzzy memory 49 Entertain

sumptuousl­y 50 Childlike Rowan Atkinson character 51 Sends regrets 53 Cool kin 54 Oscar winner Swinton 57 Some military figs. 58 Collard greens kin 59 Superlativ­e prefix 60 Fr. holy title 61 Frenemy of Lando

 ?? By Doug Peterson ?? 10/27/23
By Doug Peterson 10/27/23

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