The Mercury News

Today's crossword

- By Lin Josephson

ACROSS

1 Day __

4 Door support 8 Keep busy 14 China shop threat 15 Native Nebraskan 16 Newcomer

17 Red crawler,

perhaps

18 Patient shopper’s

reward

19 Bays, e.g.

20 Only way to tackle a 57-Across 23 Paper bit

24 __ only: sale

caveat 28 Question muttered while tackling a 57-Across 32 Modern cash

source

35 Barely flow 36 Back nine opener 37 Gunk

38 Jackson Hole’s

county

41 Salem’s lot?:

Abbr.

42 Frottage artist Max 45 13-Downs heard

in pairs 47 Contacts list no. 48 Popular theme for

57-Acrosses 52 Aptly named “Music From Big Pink” group 53 Enlighten 57 Challenge commercial­ized by mapmaker John Spilsbury circa 1760 61 Novelist Graham 64 Sky-high stunt 65 Shade on a

beach

66 Amazon delivery 67 About

68 PC rescue key 69 Outpouring­s 70 First-time biology

student, usually 71 Friend of Fidel

DOWN

1 Cakes not for eating 2 Kind of button or

room 3 Time-telling word 4 Margaret of “The Real Housewives of New Jersey” 5 Run __

6 “Holy __!”

7 Car talk? 8 Familiariz­e 9 Downfall for

Narcissus 10 “Gigi” novelist 11 Usually fourstring­ed instrument 12 Peach center 13 “Without a doubt” 21 Crow’s cry 22 Charged particle 25 “__ for You”: Dylan song to his first wife

26 British bishop’s

headdress

27 “I Love Lucy” role 29 Up to now

30 Apt adjective for

Stuart Little 31 Eye-related 32 CIA worker 33 Synagogue scroll 34 Three-card con

39 Literary homage 40 Prefix with binary 43 Sentence focus,

grammatica­lly 44 Newcomer 46 Attack

49 Marx co-author 50 ‘60s protest gp. 51 “Word” with who

or me 54 Montezuma

follower

55 Fail to match 56 Therefore 58 Dozens and

dozens

59 Eroded

60 “The Thinker”

has an iconic one 61 Traveler’s aid,

briefly

62 Knock hard 63 Time capsule

time

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