The Mercury News

Today’s crossword

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ACROSS

1 Guys

6 Overplay on stage 11 Sting operation 14 Rent-a-car

company

15 State one’s views 16 Penn or Brown,

e.g.

17 *Bank form 19 Oz’s __ Woodman 20 “Smell Ready”

deodorant brand 21 Prepare to exit

one’s car 22 Actress/inventor

Lamarr

23 Like Hammett’s

falcon 25 Jamaican music 27 In the thick of 30 “Let me run that

errand”

34 Spoke like Daffy 37 *Surprise

inheritanc­e

39 At some prior time 40 Like A-listers

42 __ Piper: ratremoval fellow 43 *Venue for a license plate game

45 Political

candidate lists 47 Key above Shift 48 Some green

sauces

50 Org. in Clancy

novels

52 Support pieces

above doors 56 “Star __ III: The Search for Spock”

59 China’s __ Kaishek

62 __ v. Wade 63 “Justice League”

actress Gadot 64 With “on,” not strong, as an argument ... and what might cause the ends of answers to starred clues? 66 ER fluid hookups 67 Soprano Fleming 68 Allow to fluctuate,

as a currency 69 Service charge 70 Heroic Schindler 71 __ Dame

DOWN

1 “__ Secretary”:

2010s CBS drama 2 Echo Dot

assistant

3 Flap for a mic 4 Moody music

genre

5 Insincere “My

bad”

6 Breeding

environmen­t 7 Church niche 8 Paper factory 9 Troop groups 10 Get-up-and-go 11 Name, as sources 12 “Metamorpho­ses”

poet

13 Part of a Wall St.

address

18 One with

confidenti­al info 22 Thirty after the

hour

24 Dated stereo

component 26 Josh

28 Credit card motion 29 __ for tat

31 Milk, in Marseille 32 TV show about a

high school choir 33 Cutlass

automaker

34 Myths, legends,

etc.

35 Informed of 36 Ella’s improv style 38 Like stored

Russian dolls 41 Blistex target 44 Bi- plus one 46 Extended period

of time 49 Vampire

vanquisher 51 Partner of pains

53 Spew lava and ash 54 Introvert 55 Everglades plant 56 “The workweek’s

almost over!” 57 Glowing review 58 Above all __: more

than anything 60 Slugger Aaron 61 Swedish furniture

chain

64 Sign of a sellout 65 Musician Yoko

 ?? By Sheryl Bartol ?? 4/5/21
By Sheryl Bartol 4/5/21

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