The Mercury News

Today's crossword

- By Adrian Johnson

ACROSS

1 Rapunzel’s abundance

5 “Finally!”

11 Fashion monogram

14 “What __ is new?”

15 Dazed state

16 Punk subgenre

17 Investment option when leaving an employer

19 Chem class

20 Link to another story?

21 __ Sutra

22 Botch

23 Station with an eye on the TV

25 Words of regret

27 __ and reel

30 London fashion street

33 Big Apple?

35 Audio jack abbr.

36 “It’s a Wonderful Life” director

39 Leaving the state without permission, perhaps

43 Low joint

44 Outer: Pref.

45 Tizzy

46 Goal at a film audition

50 Country quartet __ Young Band

51 Trattoria frozen dessert

53 Delay

55 “Darn!”

56 Physics entity

59 Goes it alone

63 Be in the picture?

64 Dickens orphan, and what is found in each set of circles in this puzzle?

66 Gym shirt

67 Wee

68 Mardi Gras locale, familiarly

69 Pour hamster food into the dog’s bowl, say

70 Guy who writes jokes

71 Elitist sort

DOWN

1 Like everything in a she shed

2 Boatloads

3 Land in the agua

4 Ancient artifact

5 Off-roader, for short

6 Long slog

7 Fictional archaeolog­ist Croft

8 Critter

9 Minor injury

10 Steeped beverage

11 Evergreen wood used for flooring

12 “The Hobbit” dragon

13 L, in a hotel elevator

18 Planets, to poets

22 Ice cream concoction­s

24 “Ditto”

26 Killer whale

27 TV host Kelly

28 Mideast sultanate

29 Hypothetic­al cosmic stuff

31 “Tom & __”: biopic about T.S. Eliot and his first wife

32 Less approachab­le

34 Analogy punctuatio­n

37 Make muddy

38 Against

40 “Shazam!” actor Zachary

41 Good Grips gadget brand

42 Lounge around

47 Napoli’s home

48 Out to lunch, say

49 Sunrise locale

51 Rub harshly

52 Indy entrant

54 Prom wear

57 Fertility clinic egg

58 Like a podcast about recording a podcast

60 Detroit pro

61 Capital city served by Gardermoen Airport

62 Wild guess

64 “!!!”

65 Rock and Roll Hall of Fame rapper MC __

 ?? ??

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