The Mercury News

Today’s crossword

- By Ed Sessa

ACROSS

1 Braying beast 4 “Diamonds & Rust” folk singer Joan

8 Hop, skip and

jump

14 Where lowers lie 15 Ready and willing

partner 16 “Booksmart”

director Wilde 17 Psychedeli­c

decorative light 19 Beaus

20 Savory taste 21 Board game

gadget 23 University of

Nevada city 24 Not even a little

high

27 Set up

29 Chinese “way” 30 Aqua in Aquitaine 31 Whoopi’s Oscar

role in “Ghost” 34 Palm fruit

35 New York

waterway 38 Leaning

40 OTC antacid

brand

41 Possess 42 Notable time span 44 EPA mandates,

taken together 48 Structure renamed for a president in 1947 52 Arp contempora­ry 53 Behind

54 Type, as data 55 Develop a liking

for

57 Simon & Garfunkel hit, and hint to the starts of 17-, 24-, 48- ... and 35-Across, too! 59 Gobsmacked 60 Story of life after

death?

61 Quaint “Tsk!” 62 Zealous crusades 63 Letters on Broadway-bound letters

64 Craze

DOWN

1 Magnetism

2 Ship captains, e.g. 3 Eminent scholar 4 Lingerie brand 5 Justice league?:

Abbr.

6 Nightmare loc.

of film

7 Youngest Marx

brother

8 Eye part

9 Mets slugger Pete who won the 2019 Home Run Derby 10 Video-sharing

site

11 Dominate 12 Brazilian vacay

destinatio­n 13 Prof’s helpers 18 Kissy-kissy 22 Doctor in training 24 Places for scrubs

and wraps 25 “Mangia!” 26 Poe’s “The Murders in the __ Morgue”

28 Do the math 32 “Amadeus”

subject

33 Actress Gasteyer 34 Unscrambli­ng

device

35 Jewish Festival

of Lights 36 Checkout

counter unit 37 Shark or Dyson,

briefly

38 Short cut

39 __ Jima 42 Worked on text 43 Repairs, as

infield grass 45 Fire

46 Pianist de

Larrocha 47 Signaled slyly 49 Gibbons of TV talk 50 __ Sanders, only athlete to play in both the Super Bowl and World Series 51 Sheikdom of song 54 “Roar” singer

Perry

55 __ Mahal

56 Mate, across the

Channel

58 60 secs.

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9/11/19

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