The Mercury News

Today's crossword

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ACROSS

1 Destroy

7 Editor of “The Hugo Winners” anthology series 13 Bee sting treatment, perhaps 14 Ricotta-stuffed

pastry

15 Big game places 16 Decor style associated with hobo bags

17 Soft drink size 18 Cousin of org 19 Tropical fruit tree 20 Home of Warhol’s “Campbell’s Soup Cans,” briefly 21 “Hot House” Grammy-winning pianist

23 Driver of a converted bus, maybe

24 Eastern honorific 25 Mercury’s had

wings 27 Flounderin­g

sounds

28 Code of concern

to users

31 Gothic fiction

outgrowth 33 Beverage rebranded to include “Zero Sugar” in its name in 2020 35 President whose nickname originated in childhood 38 Open-bodied

truck

39 Barbecue

flavoring

41 Beer flavoring 43 Whitewater

principal 44 Catnap

45 En este momento 47 “Who am __

judge?”

48 Pie not served for

dessert

49 Java serving 51 Winter airs 52 Obsolescen­t club usually replaced by a fairway wood 53 Member of a

noted octet 54 Serviceman? 55 Break

DOWN

1 Kingdoms

2 Valid independen­t

of experience 3 Former Asian communist coalition

4 Sleep woe 5 Parapherna­lia 6 Northern

frontiers? 7 “Finally I can

relax!”

8 Neck, in

Newcastle 9 Provoke 10 Northweste­rn

Arizona county 11 “Last Week Tonight” host John

12 Parish priests 14 “Bring it on,

dude!”

16 Locale with special regard for customs? 18 Implicit meaning 21 Library array 22 Done 25 Characterb­uilding aid?

26 Bookmarked, in

effect 29 “Dracula” (1931) director Browning 30 Carry the day 32 Multicount­ry union using the same currency 34 Daily newspaper

entertainm­ent 35 Friday

revelation?

36 Islands bigwig 37 Romeo or Juliet,

marriage-wise 40 Rhinos and

hippos

42 Nice crowd 44 1933 physics

Nobelist Paul 46 Curly hairdo 48 Lose color 50 Hamm of “Mad

Men”

51 EMT proficienc­y

 ?? By John Hawksley ?? 4/9/22
By John Hawksley 4/9/22

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