The Mercury News

Today’s crossword

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ACROSS

1 Hanks who plays

Mr. Rogers 4 Spanish houses 9 Watched secretly 14 Dr.’s group 15 Scarlett of fiction 16 African river 17 Server of shots 18 Manicurist’s tool 20 Word with sprawl

or renewal 22 Norse trickster 23 Walrus feature 24 Made stuff up 26 Like Mattel’s

Cathy doll 28 Eponymous ’60s-’80s “Airways” entreprene­ur 33 Like desperate

straits

34 Send with a stamp 35 Old Detroit

brewer

39 Like frozen roads 40 Resolves out of

court

42 Paris summer 43 Spot for a friendly

kiss

45 Bit of cat talk 46 Mennen lotion 47 Attacker or defender of online informatio­n systems

50 Water heater 53 Nuremberg no 54 German auto 55 Movie lab

assistant 59 President #2 62 “It” novelist 65 Org. for the ends of 18-, 28-, 47and 62-Across 66 Remove the

chalk

67 Muslim holy city 68 Home state for the ends of 18-, 28-, 47- and 62-Acr.

69 Monica of tennis 70 Beautify

71 Suffix with Japan

or Milan

DOWN 1 “Forbidden” fragrance 2 Actor Epps 3 Bakery item Jerry stole from an old woman in a classic “Seinfeld” episode

4 Fooled in a

swindle

5 “Figured it out!” 6 Windsurfin­g need 7 Guthrie of folk 8 Quarterbac­ktackling stat

9 Biol. or ecol. 10 Toaster snack 11 Data to enter 12 Spew out

13 Not at all cool 19 Kiss from a pooch 21 Teacher’s helper 25 Ten-cent piece 27 Gas brand with

toy trucks

28 Bank acct.protecting org. 29 Wealthy

30 Cake directive

Alice obeyed 31 Soda bottle buy 32 Permit

36 Arrange new terms for, as a loan

37 Bart’s bus driver 38 Perceive aurally 40 Terrier type 41 McGregor of

“Doctor Sleep” 44 “Total” 2017 event visible in a coast-tocoast path from Oregon to South Carolina

46 Very dry

48 Soft French

cheese 49 President #40 50 Diamond quartet 51 Off-the-wall 52 Perfect 56 Govt.-owned home financing gp.

57 Gave the nod to 58 Wealthy, to Juan 60 Corp. execs’

degrees 61 January “white”

event

63 “For __ a jolly ... ” 64 ATM giant

 ?? By Matt McKinley ?? 1/13/20
By Matt McKinley 1/13/20

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