The Mercury News

The Daily Commuter

- Created by Jacqueline E. Mathews 3/10/20

ACROSS

1 __ rally; pregame

event

4 Place of relief 9 Sneaker or loafer 13 Semi-hard cheese 15 Two-try

knockdown 16 Yankee Doodle’s

mount

17 “__ life!”; cry to a

busybody 18 Christmas song 19 Mantilla fabric 20 Juicy fruit

22 Log splitters 23 Cause pain to 24 “Big Brother”

network 26 Speaks without

preparatio­n 29 Keeping an eye

on

34 Detroit team 35 Summoned with

a beeper 36 Certain vote 37 Path

38 __ over; studied

intently

39 Turn over

40 __ another; each

other

41 Quizzes

42 Barn newborns 43 Written guarantee 45 Sleepy 46 Connecting word 47 Fencing match 48 Alphabet

foursome 51 Silliness

56 As crazy as a __ 57 Lasso loop

58 Try to find 60 Suffix for honor or

change 61 Massachuse­tts

university

62 Actor Alan __ Jr. 63 “The __ Piper of

Hamelin” 64 Remains 65 Devious

DOWN

1 Woman’s nickname 2 Genesis garden 3 Liver spread 4 Movie awards 5 __ from; besides 6 Mumbai dress 7 Cast-__ skillet 8 Chose

9 Pool sound 10 Trick

11 __ more; again 12 Observes 14 Word with

washing or slot 21 Margarine

holders, often 25 A’s followers 26 Permit

27 Rigg or Ross 28 Companyshu­nner

29 Like a toad’s skin 30 Generation­s 31 Relative by

marriage 32 Manicurist’s focus 33 Entertaine­r __

Rose Lee

35 Pillar

38 Necklace

ornaments 39 Harebraine­d 41 Brown shade 42 Astaire or

Savage 44 Poured 45 Under __; being

forced

47 Singer

Springfiel­d 48 Envelope part 49 Asian desert 50 Gopher’s home 52 Boxing match 53 Piece of

furniture 54 Oolong & pekoe 55 Holler 59 Essential

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