The Mercury News

Today’s crossword

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ACROSS

1 Analyze

grammatica­lly 6 Comic Silverman 11 Atlanta-to-Miami

dir.

14 At full speed 15 Actress De La

Garza

16 “Buffy” airer after

The WB 17 Breakfast dish that

sounds spoiled? 19 Part of LGBTQ 20 Ashtabula’s lake 21 Fruity drinks 22 Master, in Swahili 24 Earthquake­s 26 Cold one at a bar 27 Snack cake brand named for a four-year-old 33 Split up

36 Aired again 37 Immigrants’ subj. 38 Gunk

39 Helen who sang

“I Am Woman” 40 In good health 41 Post-apartheid

ruling party: Abbr. 42 With “en,” hot, in

sports slang 43 Spoils, with “on” 44 Two-level bus 47 __ center: exact

middle 48 Unaffiliat­ed film

studios

52 Artist’s flat hat 54 Poker Flat

chronicler Harte 57 __-dieu: kneeler 58 Antipollut­ion org. 59 Postpone an article’s essential points ... and a hint to 17-, 27and 44-Across 62 Ready-fire link 63 Correct, as text 64 Like Olympic

pools

65 __ Victor: record

label

66 Broad valleys 67 Mike who voiced

Shrek

DOWN

1 Treasure map

word

2 Love, in Rome 3 Pie cuts,

geometrica­lly 4 Lateral skid

5 Big picture?:

Abbr.

6 Anti-DWI gp.

7 On the safer

side, at sea 8 Cleaning cloths 9 Oscar winner

Lee 10 Washed-up star 11 Sucrose-rich root

veggie

12 Bridge

13 Irish New Ager 18 Steinbeck’s “__

of Eden”

23 World Wide __ 25 Sch. near

Harvard

26 Time for cake with candles, informally 28 Cornered on a

limb

29 Flowerpot spot 30 MD meeting an

ambulance 31 “Cast Away”

setting

32 Building additions 33 “Good grief!” 34 It’s forbidden 35 Semifictio­nal film

genre

39 Felt bad about

40 2006 film about

crosswords 42 Open-bodied

truck

43 Animal house 45 Buzzing flier 46 Friends and

neighbors 49 “Flashdance... What a Feeling” singer Cara 50 Down-yielding

duck

51 Plants-to-be 52 Den denizen 53 “Beowulf,” e.g. 54 Belgian composer Jacques

55 Hall of Famer

Sandberg 56 Approx. takeoff

hours 60 Actress

Thurman 61 “Slippery” tree

 ?? By Paul Coulter ?? 10/27/20
By Paul Coulter 10/27/20

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