San Francisco Chronicle

CROSSWORD PUZZLE

- By Lila Cherry

ACROSS

1 Prefix with deed, feed and read 4 Fave texting buds 8 One looking for something 14 Gorilla, for one 15 To whom Rick said, “We’ll always have Paris” 16 Mode of dress 17 *Pay for your online purchases, say 19 Admirers, as a group 20 Actress O’Donnell 21 Caspian, e.g. 23 Nick and Nora’s dog 24 Ancients, for instance? 27 Big Band __ 29 White wine apéritif 30 Kitten cries 31 *Skip work because of illness 34 Double curve 35 One to say “G’day” to 36 Grandmas 37 *Cause a ruckus 40 Once more 43 Deal with it 44 “How cute!” cries 47 *Go out of business 50 Coin named for a continent 51 ER staffers 52 Frying __ 53 Movie double 55 Sport shirt brand 57 Male cat 59 Santa __ racetrack 60 Tenor Enrico 62 “Care to wager?” ... and a question answered, one way or the other, by the first words of the answers to starred clues 65 Tennis great Andre 66 Gung-ho 67 __ Fáil: Irish coronation stone 68 Port on the Loire 69 Dickens’ Uriah 70 Junior nav. officer

DOWN

1 Knot-tying art 2 Siri speaks on them 3 Up-and-down playground boards 4 Hog rider 5 Perky spokeswoma­n in Progressiv­e ads 6 Seminoles’ sch. 7 Pre-coll. exams 8 Jungle adventure 9 Approx. touchdown hour 10 Italian volcano 11 Glove leather 12 Racy literature 13 Comments 18 Smokes, briefly 22 Slippery as an __ 25 Berry rich in antioxidan­ts 26 Wrestling surfaces 28 Broadway orphan 32 Parasite 33 __ Andreas Fault 35 “Don’t be a wimp!” 37 Unburdened (of) 38 Lovey-dovey exchange 39 Date bk. entry 40 Like some violets 41 Spokane school with a strong basketball program 42 Beaten candidate 44 Loud enough to hear 45 Unlisted votegetter 46 Piano works 48 Regional dialect 49 __-Caps: candy 50 Sicilian resort city 54 Food retailer named for two oceans 56 Clean with Pledge 58 [Air kiss] 61 Opposite of NNW 63 Prop. often named for a state in Monopoly 64 Nietzsche’s “never”

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