The Mercury News

Today’s crossword

- By Jesse Goldberg

ACROSS

1 __ Springs 5 Word with base

or boot

9 National Poetry

Month 14 Six-time MLB

All-Star Moisés 15 Curved molding 16 Water under the Pont de Normandie 17 Give 110% effort 20 Publicity photos

from movies 21 Swedish pop

quartet

22 Day care charge 23 Illegal freeway maneuvers, for short

25 Meat cut

27 Be excessivel­y

verbose

33 Santa __ winds 34 Brood

35 Wild child 37 Syndrome after a life-threatenin­g experience, briefly

39 Title for tennis great Andy Murray

41 Selfish shout 42 __ Club: conservati­on group

45 Carpet type 48 QB stats 49 Mourn at length 52 Unlikely, as a

chance 53 Carrie-__ Moss of “Jessica Jones” 54 Dedicated poem 57 “Livin’ la

Vida __” 59 Herbal cough

drop brand 63 Worry to an

extreme degree 66 Falcon’s claw 67 Boris Johnson’s

alma mater 68 “The Snowy Day” Caldecott winner __ Jack Keats

69 Tons

70 Ran out of juice 71 Ready to drive

DOWN

1 Cats play with

them

2 Loads

3 Greiner of “Shark

Tank”

4 Arctic footwear 5 Agree

6 It’s just a number, so they say

7 Elevated

landform

8 Little rock 9 Rogers’ partner 10 Favorite 11 Hilarious one 12 The 411

13 Took off 18 Hodgepodge­s 19 WWII sea threat 24 Views

26 Typical behavior 27 Brewpub array 28 Bit of foolishnes­s 29 Surgical tool 30 Havarti

alternativ­e 31 Corn chip 32 Ballet bend that sounds like a cheese dish 36 Enjoy an easy

chair 38 Prohibitio­nists 40 Ostrich relative 43 Deodorant

choices 44 Negative particle 46 “Atlas Shrugged”

novelist 47 Bottled spirits 50 Hosted

51 Like passwords,

ideally 54 Declines, with

“out” 55 Twofold 56 Fashion magazine since 1945

58 Italian wine

region

60 Move like a blob 61 Bait 62 Somewhat 64 Close to the

ground 65 Manual weed

whacker

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