The Mercury News

Today’s crossword

- By Freddie Cheng

ACROSS

1 153-year-old group that became unisex nationally in 1995 5 Core muscles 8 Get some air 14 Assuring word on a cleaning product label 16 Fuel-carrying ship 17 “The Sound of Music” song opener 18 Stronger-thansteel material 19 Like protozoans 21 Prefix with motor 22 “Casablanca”

café

23 Sushi bar fare 25 Cruise stop 26 Salt sources 27 Quirks

30 Second sight,

say, briefly 31 Perfectly

executed

32 “All peachy!” 33 Targets of some

blocking software 35 Adobe file format 38 Dangerous things to be behind 39 Jazzman

Saunders 40 Instructio­n unit 41 “Sure!”

42 Salt’s

companion 43 Drink with a 2021

Peeps variety 45 2019 pop biopic 48 Cowering

50 As it happens 51 Cause to lose it 52 Like a clean

shave

53 Seat of Ohio’s Montgomery County

54 Growth chart nos. 55 Sales crew

members

DOWN

1 Score some political points for 2 Canadian

coins

3 Shinbone

neighbor

4 IHOP servings 5 Jump on the ice 6 “The Sinner” Golden Globe winner Jessica 7 Insect-resistant

home feature 8 “Gross!”

9 Vetoes

10 Feel sorry for,

with “on”

11 Apt slogan on merchandis­e featuring MLB slugger Aaron Judge

12 “I need solitude” 13 Slips

15 Works with

rhyming props? 20 Having teeth 24 African currency whose singular form is part of its country’s name 27 Pretty much 28 Less likely to

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29 Roentgen

cousins

31 Noted starter? 32 Foldable auto

convenienc­e 33 Aerial

34 Cook with batter,

usually

35 Loved cheese

lovers? 36 Visualize

37 Bug stoppers 5/29/21 5/29/21

38 Glimpsed

39 Have some

impact

42 Two of the Spice

Girls 44 Shakespear­ean

standard-bearer 46 Gael, for one 47 Foe of CONTROL

on “Get Smart” 49 “The Last Jedi”

villain

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