The Mercury News

Today's crossword

- By Jamey Smith

ACROSS

1 Loads

5 Fully get

10 Lab order? 14 “Black Dog”

singer Parks 15 Motley crew 17 Ground corn 18 Attraction in Singapore’s Marine Life Park 19 One-named Oscar winner for “Precious” 21 Insalata whose key ingredient­s happen to be the colors of the Italian flag 22 Invites from a

balcony, say 23 JapaneseAm­erican

24 Lake that feeds

the Mississipp­i 26 Things to work

on, maybe 30 Choreograp­her

de Mille 32 Mountain near

Olympus 34 Barclays Center

hoopster 35 Stretch from the Loop to the Gold Coast

39 __ ideal

40 Donor type,

briefly

41 Feather bed? 42 Courted with love

notes?

45 Whim

47 Signal silently to 49 Dwindled 52 Fraidy-cats 55 Italian luxury brand founded by a Greek silversmit­h 56 Soft-drink choice 58 Cor anglais kin 59 Sticky roll that originated in Britain

60 Burrows

61 Spots in a casino 62 Wear

63 __ canyon

DOWN

1 __ ray 2 Snacks that turned 110 last year 3 Unable to come

up with

4 “Now, here’s the

thing”

5 Classifies 6 Ijeoma Oluo’s “So You Want to Talk About __” 7 Period

8 Keanan of 1990s

TV

9 Like some fusion

menus

10 49th vice

president 11 Northern

terminus of I-79 12 Outback runners 13 Old __,

Connecticu­t 16 Goggles 20 Seemingly 23 Fledgling 25 Element of

change?

27 Local informatio­n

source?

28 Unagi roll fish 29 Editor’s “As you

were”

30 College town north of Des Moines 31 Infatuated

33 Lily variety ©2023 Tribune Content Agency, LLC

36 Byproduct of some

plant pigments 37 Experiment 38 Chandra and

Thoth

43 “Crazy” duo __

Barkley 44 Pressure units named for the inventor of the barometer 46 Skipper?

48 Music rights gp. 1/28/23

50 Home of Maine’s

Black Bears 51 “Hannah and Her Sisters” Oscar winner

52 Soviet letters 53 “Didn’t see you

there”

54 Fail to hold it

together 55 Obfuscate 57 “Price negotiable”

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