The Mercury News Weekend

Today's crossword

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ACROSS

1 Trailhead posting 4 Courtroom drama on NBC from 1986 to 1994 9 Lariat

13 Spring mo. 14 Vague afternoon

time 16 Multicolor­ed gem 17 “Gotta __!” 18 Shirts for a coders vs. physicists softball game?

20 Miner concern 22 Water coolers 23 Water movers 24 Break-even transactio­ns involving vintage TVs and turntables? 27 Dead set on 29 Tangy red spice 30 “Jingle Bells”

contractio­n 32 CSNY’s

“__ House” 33 Making one’s hair

stand on end? 37 Doesn’t take

well?

38 One issuing tickets to the over-50 crowd? 40 Mark left by a

bumper 42 Afternoon rests 43 Sprint

44 Dudes 45 Romance novelist

Dare

49 Make space on

the whiteboard 51 Animated image of an apple falling on Sir Isaac? 55 “__ you a barrel

of laughs” 57 Nintendo

character option 58 Artemis org. 59 Lab work focused on data storage devices?

62 Gov. or sen. 63 Barrel of laughs 64 Big-box shop 65 68-Across

restroom 66 Drummer Ulrich 67 “Anything Goes”

star Merman 68 U.K. part

DOWN

1 Focuses in

college

2 Brief sketch 3 Comms experts 4 Rock’s __ Lonely

Boys

5 Opposition parties 6 Hanger-on 7 Teegarden of “Friday Night Lights”

8 Financial paper,

for short

9 “The Jetsons”

maid

10 What love is, per

a “Frozen” song 11 Earnings report 12 Lapel edges? 15 Take up, in a way 19 Playful “grr”

alternativ­e

21 Try to hit 25 Lenovo rival 26 Wireless speaker

brand

28 RN workplaces 31 Elton John accomplish­ment, briefly

34 Basilica alcove 35 Result of angering a wasp, probably 36 Fury

37 Taken up, in a way 38 University of

Michigan city 39 Spread out at a

cocktail party 40 Rap’s Dr. __ 41 “1984” superstate 44 Maitre d’ offering 46 Paper clip

alternativ­e 47 “Time to go

already?” 48 Like a watch with

hands 50 Factions

52 “You can’t stop

me”

53 Colin of “1917” 54 Extended family

member

56 “No Scrubs”

group 59 Clickable link 60 Little piggy 61 Mexican lager

 ?? ?? By Katie Hale 3/22/24
By Katie Hale 3/22/24

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