The Mercury News

Today’s crossword

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ACROSS

1 Home on the

range

6 Hardly wimpy 11 Film watcher’s

channel

14 Take the honey

and run 15 “Encore!”

16 Évian water 17 *Power outage

standbys 19 Digital readout,

for short

20 Up the creek 21 “I, Claudius” star

Jacobi

23 RSVP part

24 *“I don’t care if you made plans, cancel them” 28 Airplane

assignment 31 Escape 32 Man-to-man defense alternativ­e 33 Treat like a dog? 35 Place for a “ped”

to cross 38 Bobbsey girl 39 *Morally upright

person

43 __-fi

44 Big rig 45 Bandleader

Lombardo 46 Beanery sign 48 Ticker tape

letters?

50 Award adjective 53 *Stretch between

two Bushes 57 “Huh!?”

59 __ squash 60 Language

spoken by Jesus 63 Bygone airline 64 Ballpark brushback, perhaps ... and a hint to each set of circled letters 67 Rock’s

Fleetwood __ 68 Code name 69 Driving instructor’s

urgent reminder 70 “Hometown Proud” supermarke­t chain

71 Weapon with

a hilt

72 Fills completely

DOWN

1 TV host Philbin 2 “Jagged Little Pill” co-songwriter Morissette

3 Old register key 4 They report to

sgts.

5 Pile

6 Barbie’s

company

7 Get on in years 8 Aries or Taurus 9 Like many yoga

practition­ers 10 Beginning 11 Ringer in la casa 12 Wool coat that is

often plaid 13 Something to

chew

18 Holiday quaff 22 Cartoonist Chast 25 Source of increased government revenue 26 Overlook 27 Common base 29 Auto financing

abbr. 30 Afternoon affairs 34 Even score 36 Pester

37 Pub __: casual

fare

39 Rascal 40 Bolivian border

lake

41 Fed. agents 42 Deli choice 43 Brief time 47 __-Caps: candy 49 Marked for the

class

51 Go after, as a fly 52 “The Masked Singer” judge Robin

54 Cuts back 55 Currently airing 56 “All bets __ off” 58 Flu symptoms 61 LAPD alerts 62 Actress Sorvino 63 Texter’s “No more

details!”

65 Sellout letters 66 Leb. neighbor

 ?? By Kurt Krauss ?? 2/12/20
By Kurt Krauss 2/12/20

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