San Francisco Chronicle

CROSSWORD PUZZLE

- By Daniel Nierenberg

ACROSS

1 Free 6 Crusty formation 10 One in a farm array 14 Truism 15 Kappa preceder 16 Entry 17 Saint toppers 18 Equine footwork 19 Glitz 20 Renewed one’s energy, in a way 21 Counseling for boomers’ kids? 24 Santa __: Sonoma County seat 25 Compliment­ary writers 26 Sign on a film studio employee’s door? 31 Words of desire 32 Room at the hacienda 33 Fast hit 36 Gave for a while 37 Some rank indicators 39 Corona product 40 Disturbanc­e 41 “Write once, run anywhere” software 42 One with many mouths to feed? 43 Altered clone of actor Richard? 46 French gambling game 49 Zero 50 Molecular manipulati­on technique ... and a hint to the starts of the three other longest puzzle answers 53 Sudden turn 56 Advantage 57 Bunches 58 Immune system component 60 Food preservati­ve 61 Cithara relative 62 Clear, in a way 63 “__ bien!” 64 Word appearing twice in a Woody Guthrie title 65 Synthetic polymer

DOWN

1 Turner of “The Bad and the Beautiful” 2 It’s a turnoff 3 What’s up at the deadline? 4 Mushy lump 5 “Yikes!” 6 Traffic or turn follower 7 Influence with flattery 8 Studying crazy, say like 9 Tub soothers 10 Interstate rumbler 11 Condemned Titan 12 Jumped 13 “Game of Thrones” accumulati­on 22 Zener cards presumably tested for it 23 “Show Boat” author Ferber 24 Take a load off 26 __ monster 27 Was required to pay 28 Yucatán youngster 29 Sunni’s religion 30 Indoor __ 33 Force user 34 NASA prefix 35 Muffin option 37 Left nothing out 38 Big event lead- in 39 Data measure 41 Ballet jump 42 Do a surfing maneuver 43 Shakes hands with, say 44 Bonded 45 Weigh station unit 46 Get rid of 47 Wood for grilling planks 48 What “x” may be 51 in Former trigonomet­ry NHL winger Kovalchuk 52 Uncertain 53 Gusto 54 “Just one more thing ... ” 55 Narrow valley 59 Sound of woe

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