San Francisco Chronicle

CROSSWORD PUZZLE

- By Jeffrey Wechsler

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1 Best-sellinggen­erally best-seller not lists bookon 6 9 Benchmark:Early automaker Abbr. 13 Won’t go near 15 Back again 16 Heist haul 17 Magoo’s malady 18 Ended up off the mark 20 Agricultur­al college facility? 22 Polling abbr. 25 Arrive at hastily, as a conclusion 26 Sundial marking 27 Content of little substance 30 Madrid-to-Paris dir. 31 Rose in a field 32 One who got in before a crash? 36 Achilles __ 37 Take turns 40 Lancelot bragging about his exploits? 44 “The BFG” author 46 Intelligen­ce org. 47 Dutch genre painter 48 Juillet’s season 49 KFC option 52 Red __ 53 What theater districts offer? 57 Financial workers 58 Like merciless opponents 62 Gospel travelers 63 Get 64 Not nice at all 65 Urgent request 66 Decline, with “out” 67 They traditiona­lly appear in red ... and in another form in 20-, 32-, 40- and 53-Across

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2 3 1 Loud Columbia,“That’s sound lousy!”e.g. 4 Enlarged Revlon ad image 5 Reduce a sentence, say 6 MLBer at AT&T Park 7 Highway pursuer 8 Bakery item with some shortening? 9 “Frozen” snowman 10 What pitchersba­tters most have, as 11 “Little” Dickens title character 12 Obstruct 14 Author Bellow 19 What that is in Spain 21 Scout groups 22 [It just vanished!] 23 Answer guide? 24 Get on with one’s life 28 Revolution­ary first name 29 Child subject 31 It’s not big in France 33 Verse lead-in 34 Prize for Indy 35 Oxford figures 383941 Fare-wellItalia­nLike processthe peak simplestli­nk 42 Toyota’s Ky. plant, e.g. 43 Old-school diplomatic accessory 44 Pack up the tents and supplies 45 Like some Alban Berg works 49 Tiny Tim, for one 50 Rene of “Thor” 51 Vegan staple 54 Hipbones 55 Direct (one’s way) 56 Ginza quaff 59 Barbecue morsel 60 Sinus doc 61 Driller’s deg.

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