The Mercury News

Today’s crossword

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ACROSS

1 More ironic, as a

smile

6 Bunyan’s blue ox 10 Questlove hairdo 14 “... said __ ever” 15 “Jeopardy!” host

Trebek

16 Dull 17 “Horsefeath­ers!” 19 “Piece of cake!” 20 One-celled

creature

21 Artist’s paint holder 23 Having prolonged

success

26 Air traffic branch

of the DOT 27 Imbibes to

excess

32 Actress Chaplin 33 Instrument from the French for “high wood” 34 Cal. column 35 Sea debris 37 Eateries’ outdoor

seating areas 40 Boater or bowler 41 Sleeper agent 44 Org. that collects workplace injury data 45 Wee-hours program with James Corden 49 “Ouch!”

50 Take up again 51 Treatise on verse 53 Confession about the last piece of cake

58 Fencing sword 59 Lots of freedom, as illustrate­d in each set of circles

62 Alan of

“M*A*S*H” 63 Head of France 64 App with pics,

familiarly

65 Get fresh with 66 Canadian gas 67 Early fur trader

DOWN

1 Org. with the Sun, Storm and Sky

2 Go here and

there

3 “Life is short”

initialism 4 “The Neverendin­g Story” author 5 Adidas subsidiary 6 Word that oddly can mean “good” in slang

7 Chicken __ king 8 Custom-made 9 Sigh, say

10 Have __ in one’s

bonnet 11 Common paint choice for ceilings

12 Bob Marley and

Bunny Wailer 13 “I remember now” 18 Kidnapper’s

demand 22 Peruvian pack

animal 24 Neighbor of

Greece: Abbr. 25 2016 Olympics

city

27 Attorney

General’s org. 28 __ v. Wade 29 Overwhelme­d with diner orders, as a server 30 Like Fran

Drescher’s voice 31 Pics 36 Pong game maker 37 Domesticat­ed

farm squealer 38 “What have we

here?!” 39 Carpenter’s tool 41 The first “M” in

the MMR vaccine 42 Same __ story 43 Philosophe­r

__-tzu 45 Ambitious,

outgoing sorts 46 Hubbub

47 Beer named for a

Baja city

48 Latin “and others” 52 High times? 54 Change for a

twenty, maybe 55 Toward sunrise 56 Analogy words 57 “__ she blows!” 60 Tie-breakers:

Abbr.

61 Classical prefix

 ?? By Margit Christenso­n ?? 7/8/20
By Margit Christenso­n 7/8/20

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