The Mercury News

Today’s crossword

- By Kurt Krauss

ACROSS

1 Bldg. units attended to by supers

5 “Queen of Soul”

Franklin

11 Flow back, as the

tide

14 Half a toy train? 15 “You cheated!” 16 Water tester 17 *Very limited

consolatio­n 19 Gasteyer of

“Mean Girls” 20 Approaches 21 “__ show time!” 22 Illuminate­d 23 Left-hand page 24 Sun.-to-Sat.

periods

26 Go for the hook 27 Greek vowel 28 *Tidy Lotto prize 32 Skin pics 34 Boston skyscraper, with “the”

35 Low grade 36 Parlor game encouragem­ent suggested by the starts of 17-, 28-, 45- and 60-Across 41 Novelist Rand 42 “The Simpsons”

bartender 43 Northern New Mexico art community 45 *Genuine

greetings 50 Monotonous

routine

51 Above

52 Number that’s its

own square root 53 Beav’s big

brother 55 Bumped into 56 Nashville awards

org.

58 Scout’s merit __ 59 Square of butter 60 *In-demand real

estate listing 64 Apply

65 Iron deficiency

concern

66 Riga resident 67 Guys

68 Fails to 69 Watched closely

DOWN

1 Duke’s conf. 2 Back-and-forth

missed calls 3 Put up with 4 Root beers, e.g. 5 Calendario units 6 Bucharest is its

cap.

7 Terrible grade 8 Lao-tzu’s

philosophy 9 Trumpeter Al 10 Performing __ 11 Bibliograp­hy

space-saver 12 Beautiful, in

Barcelona 13 Scrambled, as

eggs

18 Gator’s kin 23 Chow Chow

checker 24 __-out:

exhausted 25 Jack who played

Quincy 26 Sanctified 29 Express a view 30 Twiddled one’s

thumbs 31 “Seinfeld” uncle 33 “Forever” post

office purchase 37 Norse war god 38 Apple throwaway 39 Tea named for William IV’s prime minister 40 Casino wheel 44 Snorters’

quarters 45 Beads once used by Native Americans as currency 46 Opposite of

“Atten-hut!” 47 Way past ripe 48 Pointed beard 49 Cashless deal 54 One-named

“Hello” singer 56 Landlocked

African land 57 Like old

records 58 Dinghy or dory 61 Canadian VIPs 62 __ Tin Tin 63 Since Jan. 1

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3/23/20

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