San Francisco Chronicle

CROSSWORD PUZZLE

- By David Steinberg

ACROSS 1 Really frighten 17 2010 Eminem/ Rihanna #1 hit with the lyric “Just gonna stand there and hear me cry” 18 “Despicable Me 2” company 19 Something to grab 20 Eponymous magazine founder Eric 21 Ruler’s domain? 22 Barred furniture 24 Finely contoured 27 God, in a midrash 30 Pickup spots? 34 City with a Pumpkin Run classic car show 36 Baguette surfaces 38 Angry Birds sequel setting 39 Valuable deposit 40 From square one, to Severus 41 Shock 42 One may be blonde 43 Hard 44 Fortune’s 2012 Businesspe­rson of the Year 45 Badly deteriorat­ed 47 Complete 49 Uber 51 Means 53 Grand Canyon ride 56 Quantum theory pioneer 59 GI chow 61 Elgar work with an as yet unsolved musical theme 65 Threat in Season 3 of “24” 66 Ways to get high DOWN 1 Musical connector 2 Like certain parlor containers 3 Real page-turner? 4 Wake-up call 5 Nice time for toasting 6 Robin’s family 7 “I have broke your __ to say so!”: “The Tempest” 8 Obi-Wan portrayer 9 Doesn’t measure up 10 Shakespear­ean cries 11 News initials since 1851 12 British classic cars 13 Typically 81-digit diversion 14 Omnium-gatherum 15 Verizon bundle 16 Film follower? 23 Zookeeper’s main squeeze? 25 Square, in ’50s slang, as shown by a four-fingered gesture 26 __-1: “Ghostbuste­rs” car 28 Should it happen that 29 Locks in a paddock 31 Hard-hit liner, in baseball lingo 32 Spanakopit­a dough 33 They’re often lit 34 Norwegian saint 35 Fountain output 37 Fruit remnant 40 Depressed area? 41 Prolonged lament 43 Builder of Jerusalem’s First Temple 44 Worth writing home about 46 Fountain output 48 1943 Pacific island battle site 50 The Bahamas’ __ Islands 52 Barbershop part 53 Actress Neuwirth 54 OS X basis 55 Shields may be used in one 57 Operation Torch target 58 Way up 60 Phishers’ fodder: Abbr. 62 DOJ pooh-bahs 63 180 degrees from I 64 2012 film bear

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