The Mercury News

Today's crossword

- By Jeffrey Wechsler

ACROSS

1 *Common delivery

8 *Bagel partner

15 Rank

16 West End attraction

17 Old racing vehicle

18 Tell a tale

19 Sight from the Eiffel Tower

20 Like the Tin Man, after meeting Dorothy

21 *Rolled Mexican dish

27 Tuba’s flared end

30 Reduced, with “down”

31 To whom the rhinoceros was “prepoceros”

35 Natural resource 36 Made with skill

38 Gp. in a 1955 labor merger

39 “Erin go __!”

41 Grissom of NASA

42 High landform

44 *Skeet, e.g.

47 Steinbeck’s Tom Joad, e.g.

48 Sturdy trees

49 Bring bad news to

52 Jumps back, say

56 Pace

57 *Object

61 Type of drive on the Enterprise

62 Modify, as sails

64 Singer DiFranco

65 Hawaii’s Pineapple Island

66 Put up or straight up

67 Org. overseeing broadband

68 Moving

69 *Opera, literally

70 With

71-Across and each answer to a starred clue, all of it

71 See 70-Across

DOWN

1 Bench press targets

2 Pine (for)

3 Trendy cupful

4 Bit of succotash

5 Not from around here

6 Viscous stuff

7 MD treating rhinitis

8 RR stop

9 When doubled, a dance

10 King from whom Mary and Joseph fled

11 Contralto Anderson

12 List abbr. used as a substitute

13 Prado contents

14 Clarinet, for one

22 WNBA position

23 Philly’s signature sandwich

24 Not at all serious

25 “Don’t dawdle, people!”

26 Drink ending

27 Short cut

28 Isn’t right

29 Jacob’s first wife

32 Band with an electrical symbol in their logo

33 [How unfortunat­e]

34 Long-handled tool

36 Lose with a triple bogey, maybe

37 Critter on a Ring Dings box

40 “You chose wisely”

43 “No winners, no losers”

45 Bit of color

46 Helgenberg­er of “CSI”

49 Phillips __

50 Old Olds

51 More grim

53 “The Divine Comedy” division

54 Follow

55 Cross site, often

58 Axe part

59 Foot part

60 “Well done!”

63 Classic muscle cars

65 “The __ allows it, and the court awards it”: “The Merchant of Venice”

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