The Mercury News

Today’s crossword

- By Bruce Haight 4/29/20

ACROSS DOWN

1 Soft shoe 2 Mil. time off 1 Top banana

6 Egg size

11 Wrap with feathers 14 Like some close

ball games 16 Ancient market 17 Objective

18 Hot cereal brand

since 1893 20 “Baby Cobra” stand-up comedian Wong 21 Fish that may attach itself to a 68-Across 22 Implant

24 Sit-up targets 26 Hard-won struggle

reminders

30 Got another

opinion from 33 Subway critter 34 Sail support 35 Scandinavi­an

coastal feature 36 Patio-brewed

drink

38 Page on a

novelist’s website 43 Took a curious

look

44 Birthstone after

opal 46 Most-traded Latin American currency

49 Part of a cage 50 Venezuelan

herder

52 Military sanction 55 Word between

surnames 56 Mean 57 Motor-assisted

rides

60 Women’s History

Mo.

61 Preview ... and what the ending letters of the four other longest answers comprise?

67 DOJ bureau 68 21-Across carrier 69 Dress like a judge 70 Rapper Lil __ X 71 Handy bags 72 Manage 3 Smug brew

“expert”

4 “Dies __”: hymn 5 Garland, at birth 6 Talk endlessly to 7 “I hate it”

8 One of the Pep

Boys

9 Half a bikini 10 Hall partner 11 “__, black

sheep ... ” 12 Mideast fleet 13 In the center of 15 Gaming rookies 19 __ party 23 Carson’s sidekick 24 Yelp alternativ­e 25 Westernmos­t Mexican state, familiarly

27 Made level, with

“up”

28 “Big Eyes” singer

Del Rey 29 Dramatic final

question 31 Request a hand? 32 For two, in music 36 Biblical

queendom 37 Bluesy James 39 Stretch in office 40 Salt Lake daily,

familiarly 41 Available

schedule hour 42 Burger order 45 Kravitz of “Big

Little Lies” 46 Video game with

a maze

47 List of slips 48 Gargamel foes 50 Rainbow flag

letters

51 Tours can be

found on it 53 Horror film loc. 54 Gives a strong

impression (of) 58 __ the Conqueror, Marvel supervilla­in 59 Celt’s land 62 “Now I get it!” 63 Chocolate factory

fixture

64 Anger

65 Recede

66 King of Spain

 ??  ??

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