The Mercury News

Today's crossword

- By Julie Bérubé

ACROSS

1 Reduction in

hostility

5 Kind of palm 9 Like some fall

days

14 Act cautiously

(beginning) 15 Sandwich order 16 Asteroids

producer

17 (End)

19 Ruhr Valley city 20 Kia model 21 “Good __!”

22 Pry

23 Fine restaurant­s

cater to them 25 Require formality

(beginning) 26 Live mixers 27 (End)

30 Web company

with a bang 33 Lisbon greeting 34 Color of Death’s dart, in “Venus and Adonis” 35 Thurman on

screen 36 Fragrant Asian

rice

40 Name of 13 popes 41 First name in raga 43 Vacillate

(beginning) 44 Explosive trial 46 (End)

48 Jenny’s offspring 49 Ski equipment 50 Hot-melt

adhesive applier 54 Result of

rounding, perhaps 55 Have financial difficulti­es (beginning)

56 Zoo draw

57 The John B, e.g. 58 (End)

60 “Day after day, __ on a hill ... ”: Beatles

61 Classic Callas

role

62 One left in a

cashier’s dish 63 Sidewalk lunch

spots

64 Meredith in a longtime medical drama 65 Archaeolog­ical

finds

DOWN

1 Pipsqueak

2 __ Sophia:

Turkish mosque 3 Computer

language family 4 Cal. units 5 Uppsala natives 6 Van Gogh setting 7 Charity event 8 Photo __

9 Dance done to the 2015 hit “Watch Me”

10 “I’ll get this” 11 Traditiona­l Spanish dance derived from a military march 12 __ school 13 Feminine side 18 Mob assignment 22 Fender guitar

model, familiarly 24 Big fuss

25 Ward of “The

Fugitive”

27 Title in a Dumas

title

28 Rejections 29 2010 Ringo Starr

album

30 Home on the

Asian steppes 31 Eastern nanny 32 Stand ready to

accuse

37 Moore co-star 38 Incites to attack 39 Put down

42 “If you ask me ... ” 45 “Cats” poet’s

monogram 47 Skips the

ceremony 48 When some diners serve breakfast 50 Musketeer’s word 51 League of Legends fanatic, e.g.

52 Sch. founded by

Franklin

53 Loons’ lodgings 54 Purnell of

“Churchill”

55 __ trade

57 Pouch

58 Witch

59 Post-op stop

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3/17/22

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