The Mercury News

Today’s crossword

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ACROSS

1 Freebies

6 Charity sale

goods 13 Undefeated Ali 14 Cradle-rocking

site of rhyme 15 Good ideas that don’t always pan out

17 Eduardo’s east 18 Only

19 Gives the

go-ahead 20 Championsh­ip ice dancer __ Virtue 23 Depressed areas 26 “Carpe diem!” 28 Fountain output 31 Fuel for a fire 32 Vatican’s higher

authority

33 Puts on TV 34 Children’s song refrain featured in the four longest answers 36 Monsieur across

the border 37 Land in la mer 38 Give a heads-up 39 Rams QB Goff 40 GPS suggestion

to avoid a tie-up 44 Characteri­stic 45 Looks

46 Nor. neighbor 49 ’90s Polish

president Walesa 51 Group of groupies 53 “Both options are

practical”

56 Show contempt

for

57 Objects of

fondness

58 Ones of interest,

perhaps

59 Thing of worth

DOWN

1 Register user 2 Spring for a

drink? 3 Somewhat, with

“a”

4 Architectu­ral

column bases 5 South Carolina

river to the Atlantic 6 GPS datum 7 Decorative

container

8 Team whose mascot’s head is a ball

9 Cell division that produces gametes 10 Common Pacific

groupings 11 Failed, as a

business 12 Four-song discs,

briefly 15 Frightenin­g word 16 Trial

21 Library ambience 22 Madame’s mine 24 Optically active

pattern 25 Excalibur, for one 26 Prof’s helpers 27 A star may have

a big one 28 Venerated figure 29 Gulf of Oman

vessel

30 Set boundaries 34 Protuberan­t

organ

35 Elicits a “Grrr!”

from

36 Solo in space 38 First group seen

in “Macbeth” 39 Fights (through),

as a crowd 41 One with something to lose

42 Polo usually not

on horseback 43 Former Filipino

first lady Marcos 46 Sleep soundly? 47 Hot dog, to a

Hamburger 48 “That scared me!” 50 Often-shared

sandwich 52 “Methought __ enamour’d of an ass”: Titania 53 Debatable ability 54 Headed for the

hills

55 Lb. and oz.

 ?? By Jeffrey Wechsler ?? 8/13/20
By Jeffrey Wechsler 8/13/20

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