The Mercury News

Today's crossword

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ACROSS

1 Draft pick? 5 Bentley of

“Yellowston­e”

8 __ Canarias 13 Backs

16 Use, in a way,

with “off”

17 Texas Revolution

figure

18 Ask

19 Hot

20 Like some

accents 21 Uniform item,

often

22 Best Original Song Oscar winner for “No Time to Die” 24 March honoree,

familiarly

27 21st century

explorer

28 Job listing ltrs. 30 Golf shot

31 2002 AFI Life Achievemen­t Award honoree 32 Pandora or

Spotify 33 Demolish

34 Rest stop visitors 35 Take the lead 36 Snack brand

since 1921 37 Cocky gait 38 Olympian queen 39 Org. honored with a commemorat­ive stamp for its 50th anniversar­y in 1960 40 Assistant’s job,

often

41 Deserving of 42 “Criminal Minds”

actress

44 Cut (off) 45 Runners at the

corners, say 46 Request to be

heard

52 Garden hose

gasket

53 TV series that teamed a conspiracy theorist with a doctor 54 Poet whose work helped establish modern Italian 55 Critters with discs on their extremitie­s 56 Wasn’t indecisive

57 Kennel sound 58 “Fuller House”

actress Ashley

DOWN

1 __ buco

2 Capital of

Shaanxi Province 3 “The Incredible­s”

designer Mode 4 Loser to Explorer in the first browser war

5 __ Country 6 Volcano where Zeus trapped Typhon, in some myths

7 Agree

8 Chevys retired in

2020

9 Sans __:

carefree 10 Odyssey dreamer 11 Behave as

required

12 Brake __ 14 Occupied, in a

way

15 Distort

23 Bugs

24 Really clean 25 Closing words 26 Pie seller,

casually

27 Block

29 Media mogul born in Mississipp­i 31 Summons whose last word is often repeated 34 Minute Maid Park

player, to fans 35 Meg Ryan’s screen name in “You’ve Got Mail” 37 Used, in a way,

with “off”

41 Mezzo-soprano

Beverly

43 Italian noble title

below marchese 44 Opulent

45 Well

attachment? 47 Drag org. 48 Word with freeze

or fry

49 H.G. Wells race 50 Colossal 51 Petrol brand

 ?? By Rich Norris ??
By Rich Norris

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