The Mercury News

Today’s crossword

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ACROSS

1 Tale about

Tantalus, say 5 Gear tooth

8 Sets upon 13 Angelou or

Dickinson 14 Celebrity chef

Garten

15 Cause to blush 16 *Southeast Asian

monarch

19 Stat

20 Fancy dresser 21 Common TV settop box

22 Tokyo okay 25 Home of the

Oregon Ducks 27 Place with

pillows 28 *Pentateuch

peak: Abbr. 30 Award named for

Poe

32 Catcher’s need 33 They, in Tours 35 PBS URL

ending 36 *Warning on a street prophet’s sandwich board ... or a hint to the answers to starred clues 40 Adams of “American Hustle” 41 Concert

equipment 42 What 34-Down

means in Swahili 44 Befuddled 46 *Guy who “Saves the World” on Netflix

48 __ constricto­r 49 Smooth musical

passage

51 Roam (about) 52 Dogspeak

syllable

53 Roth __

54 Dr. Mom’s skill 56 *Certain PAC-12

graduates 62 Implied

63 __ choy

64 FBI operation 65 Colorado’s __

Park

66 Be in the red 67 Big show

DOWN

1 AWOL trackers 2 Second person 3 __ Aviv

4 Start of many

Web addresses 5 American literary form inspired in part by haiku 6 Tokyo-born artist 7 Diplomatic

blunder 8 Wouldn’t stop

talking about

9 __ Dhabi 10 Holding back to

gain an edge 11 Letter sign-off 12 Almost-home

base

17 Port on its own

gulf

18 Skeleton part 22 “Let me think ... ” 23 “They’re __

again!”

24 “Oh, really?” 26 Radner of “SNL” 29 List components 31 Cookout feature 34 He hung out with Pumbaa and Timon

37 Ocular surgical

procedures 38 Comedic reaction involving a sprayed beverage 39 Georgetown

athlete

43 Outlaw Kelly 44 Large arteries 45 Prefix with

dynamic

47 Hang loosely

48 Moisten while

cooking

50 Movie legend

Greta

55 Medical research

goal 57 Nuremberg

“never”

58 Part of DJIA 59 Highest output 60 Something in

the air

61 Altar promise

 ?? By John Guzzetta ?? 12/2/20
By John Guzzetta 12/2/20

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