The Mercury News

Today’s crossword

- By Joe Deeney

ACROSS

1 Bits of trash often swept up with popcorn

6 Outdoor party

rental

10 Creek croaker 14 Like much beer 15 “Dude!” 16 Nashville highlight 17 University

offerings

20 Open patio 21 Original angel on

“Charlie’s Angels” 22 Driver’s role in “Star Wars” sequels 23 Easiness exemplar 25 Johns in Scotland 26 Bob Dylan title lyrics that follow “in my heart you’ll always stay” 31 Hopeless, as a

situation

34 Tears to shreds 35 Cause of some

royal insomnia 36 Leave out

37 Ties together 38 Go no further 39 Hill worker 40 Works in Silverstei­n’s “Where the Sidewalk Ends” 41 Provided light 42 “The Wrestler”

Oscar nominee 45 Gets moving 46 Luau finger food 47 Lead-in to a texter’s afterthoug­ht 50 Words said in

disbelief 53 Canadian

metropolis 55 Judge’s words ... and a hint to this puzzle’s circles 57 MM and MMXX,

for two

58 Tire (out)

59 Beat, with “out” 60 Enzo’s eight 61 Where Southwest

Airlines is LUV 62 Puts in like piles

DOWN

1 Words often suggesting unmet goals 2 Fed. security 3 One-eighty

4 Port on Italy’s

“heel”

5 Watch

surreptiti­ously 6 Sched. uncertaint­y 7 Shows one’s

humanity?

8 Zip

9 Hitchcock thriller set in Bodega Bay

10 Piemonte city 11 Confides in 12 Region

13 Start to function? 18 Bahrain bigwig 19 Charcoal pencil

shades

24 Like “Halloween,”

and then some 26 In good shape 27 Mobile payments app owned by PayPal

28 Finally arrives (at) 29 Second-lightest

noble gas 30 Stare slackjawed

31 Linguist

Chomsky 32 Luxury hotel

name 33 Prejudiced investigat­ion and harassment 37 Father Flanagan’s

orphanage

38 “__ sells

seashells ... ” 40 Actress/author

Holly Robinson __ 41 Mountain resort

aids

43 South Korean

subcompact 44 Solar panel spot 47 Reason for spin,

briefly

48 Limited message 49 Hospital sections 50 Refuses to 51 Newsman Lewis? 52 LAX postings 54 Rock’s Ben Folds

Five, surprising­ly 55 NBA great Ming 56 Minecraft

material

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