The Mercury News

Today’s crossword

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ACROSS

1 TV’s “Ozark,” e.g. 6 Comedy club

regulars

9 Dodge

14 Pool service? 16 Bright, loyal

breed

17 1998 Academy Honorary Award-winning director

18 Dried chili

pepper 19 Reason to shake 20 Brilliant

22 Sky cat? 23 “Madam

Secretary” star 25 Make calls at

home, maybe 26 More shrewd 29 Curling spots 31 Bike chain

alternativ­e 32 Word from the German for “spirit of the age” 36 Corner piece 37 Guinness orders 38 Woman’s name that sounds like two letters 39 Ride in the sand 41 Drop, as dough 42 Lionsgate premium cable subsidiary 43 Prince Harry’s

dukedom

44 NBA on __

46 Dry deliveries 49 Game of luck 50 Generated again 51 Little elephant 55 “Hotel du Lac”

author Brookner 57 Chaotic situation,

in slang

59 Finish, as a tat 60 Posse

61 Putin’s denials 62 “The Partridge

Family” actress 63 Nonmusical

notes

DOWN

1 Scott in a landmark Supreme Court case

2 Upset 3 1998 hit from the Sarah McLachlan album “Surfacing” 4 Singer’s voice,

e.g.

5 Part of AMA, on

Reddit

6 Yiddish fortune 7 Bird at a constructi­on site?

8 Asset on the

corporate ladder 9 Taking down a

peg

10 Word in many

German names 11 Some scoops 12 Take up again, in

a way

13 Brownie bunch 15 Horrible comic? 21 Hands and feet 24 Cry of dismay 26 Morsel for Miss

Muffet

27 Baseball brother 28 Walk out

30 Tallies

32 Didn’t go straight 33 Lang. of Belize 34 Geometry

calculatio­n

35 Acronymic term for some local talks

37 Baby food,

usually 40 Undeserved

charges 41 Bask

43 Took care of 44 “When a man loves cats, I am his friend and comrade” writer

45 Household

helper

47 Modern delivery

vehicle

48 Boglike

52 Scott of “Big Little

Lies”

53 Danish toy

maker

54 Ones at odds 56 Mild rebuke 58 Hurricane

component

 ??  ?? By Debbie Ellerin 5/8/21
By Debbie Ellerin 5/8/21

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