The Mercury News

Today’s crossword

- By Evan Kalish

ACROSS

1 Dust __: teensy

arachnid

5 Sleep audibly 10 Female pop star 14 “Now!” letters 15 Bounce off a wall 16 Days of

anticipati­on 17 iPhone assistant 18 “Long story

short ... ” 19 Greek god story,

e.g.

20 Reused file film 23 Nintendo console with a similarly named remote 24 Increase, as the

stakes

28 “Climb aboard!” 31 Audiophile’s

multi-disc holder 35 “__ explain!” 36 Strand on a

desert island 37 Musician Yoko 38 Actress Aniston,

in tabloids 39 When repeated,

nothing new 40 Wee bit

41 Actor

Mahershala 42 “People say ... ” 43 Snack

44 Flicks with 007 46 Tethered fliers 47 Tour of duty 48 Tasseled hat 49 Adviser concerned with the starts of 20-, 31- and 44-Across 57 Tree part that

yields cinnamon 60 Knighted composer Edward 61 Wander 62 Haleakala National Park’s island 63 Two-wheeled transport with a battery

64 Agitate

65 Would like 66 In-the-wall

security features 67 Sale price comeon adverb

DOWN

1 Sunday service 2 “Ya think?”

3 Poi plant 4 Underdog’s

surprising feat 5 “Star Wars”

genre

6 Prefix between

micro- and pico7 Approximat­ely 8 10-1 victory, e.g. 9 Actress Watson 10 Humiliate 11 Climbing vine 12 Thoroughly

evaluate 13 Campfire residue 21 Family

22 Large piano 25 “This fly ball is

mine!”

26 Roman political

body

27 Wears away 28 Muslim head

coverings 29 Leopardlik­e feline 30 Pressed Italian

sandwich 31 Saharan beast 32 Imagine great

things 33 Colorado-based

brewery 34 Wait to speak to the next available agent, say

36 Half a fish 39 Searches

(through)

43 __ World, DC Comics planet of opposites 45 Ancestry.com

apparatus 46 “Jeopardy!” great

Jennings 48 Taxi fees 50 Goes out with 51 Idris of “Luther” 52 Relieved end-ofweek cry 53 Produce

54 Hired hood 55 Malevolent 56 Depend (on) 57 German luxury

car

58 Towing org. 59 Gallop

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 ?? ARIC CRABB — STAFF PHOTOGRAPH­ER ?? Raiders center Rodney Hudson voiced concern over the NFL’s safety protocols with training camps set to open this week.
ARIC CRABB — STAFF PHOTOGRAPH­ER Raiders center Rodney Hudson voiced concern over the NFL’s safety protocols with training camps set to open this week.

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