San Francisco Chronicle

CROSSWORD PUZZLE

- By Jeffrey Wechsler

ACROSS

1 Kind of rain or rock 5 Affect profoundly 8 Often-converted residence 12 Like the “funny bone” nerve 14 Poet Silverstei­n 15 Declare firmly 16 Early sustenance for Bruce Wayne? 18 Country where Quechua is spoken 19 Great Plains native 20 Pluto quintet 21 Gets on the wrong train, say 22 Handing a St. Louis team an embarrassi­ng loss? 26 Mother with a Nobel prize 27 Fight in the backwoods 28 Vacation fill-in: Abbr. 29 Message often included in its response 32 Central Dallas? 33 Tribal VIP’s family? 37 Elastic wood 40 Sister magazine of Jet 41 God with a quiver 45 Where the groom may walk down the aisle 47 Soi-__: self-styled 49 Easy out in rodent baseball? 53 Components of 56-Across 54 Quartet member 55 Org. with Jungians 56 Malt creations 57 Went all out on stage ... or a hint to the four other longest puzzle answers 59 Ticket booth sight 60 Protected, in a way 61 Sister of Thalia 62 Hardy heroine 63 Perception changing drug 64 Letter heading abbr.

DOWN

2 1 MastersFab­led emperor’scourse lack 3 Emotionall­y overwhelme­d 4 Morse “T” 5 “Can’t you take __?” 6 Like Roald Dahl, by birth 7 Yellowston­e grazer 8 Settings for small American flags 9 Do to death 10 Voice of President Business in “The Lego Movie” 11 Bridge supports 13 “Ghostbuste­rs” actor 14 Air quality issue 17 Lisa’s title 23 Team whose mascot’s head is a baseball 24 Viking history VIP 25 Island near Java 29 Confession­al music genre 30 Anthropolo­gist’s subject 31 Whichever 34 Give a hand 35 Assist badly? 36 Storied loch 37 It might be on the road for years 38 Cop’s info source 39 Stumbles (upon) 42 Snare drum sound 43 Feature of many a birdie 44 Secure, as a knapsack 46 Smooches 47 Glen relative 48 “__ these wars for Egypt”: Antony 50 Shapes formed by angled spotlights 51 Zeroed in 52 Telecommut­er’s workplace 57 Clarke computer 58 Nest egg acronym

 ??  ??

Newspapers in English

Newspapers from United States