The Mercury News

The Daily Commuter

- Created by Jacqueline E. Mathews

ACROSS

1 Sad-faced 5 Friends 9 Probabilit­y

13 Like a pricey coat 15 Plant part 16 Gather crops 17 Walk leisurely 18 OK to do

20 Actor Daniel __

Kim

21 __ as a fiddle 23 Breathed heavily 24 Linda Lavin TV

role

26 Squealer

27 __ getting by;

eking out a living 29 Show

32 Make happy 33 Sunlight-onthe-windshield problem 35 Charge

37 Teases

38 __ like; appears

to be

39 Fail to leave 40 Four qts.

41 Pile up

42 Pet __; personal

irritant

43 __ citizens;

retirees 45 Zoomed skyward 46 TV’s “__ Rise” 47 Removes from

power

48 Leased

51 Word attached to

work or flix 52 Actor Holbrook 55 Car crashes 58 Old saying 60 Prison knife 61 Lawn tool 62 Water

embankment 63 Rubber tube 64 Catch sight of 65 Nickname for

Elizabeth

DOWN

1 Pleased

2 __ beans 3 Too much to

endure

4 Ott or Gibson 5 Yakety-yak 6 Gmail alternativ­e 7 Reply to a

texter’s joke 8 Sink plugs 9 Citrus fruit

10 In __; owing 11 Valley

12 Ignored highway

limits

14 Corrupt the purity

of

19 Give up

voluntaril­y

22 Like slick winter

roads

25 “Why don’t we!” 27 Floating mass

of ice 28 Assumed name 29 NFL team

30 Item in a man’s

toilet kit 31 Sailor’s time off 33 First, neutral or

reverse

34 French article 36 Black-__ peas 38 Burns without

flame 39 Tush

41 Felt miserable 42 Part of USPS 44 __ Americans; Sioux, Apache, etc.

45 Haul into court 47 Beginning 48 Impulsive 49 Reverberat­e 50 TV series for

Mark Harmon 53 Grows gray 54 Cobb & Majors 56 Siesta

57 Ring ruling 59 Actress Messing,

to friends

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