San Francisco Chronicle

CROSSWORD PUZZLE

- By Erik Agard

ACROSS

1 Pitch sign 5 Saturn, for one 13 Super-fancy 14 Slightly more than a one-man show 15 Most eligible for

service

16 Pluralis majestatis 17 Bee’s home

19 Te __: iconic

Chickasaw actress 20 Layer of very large

eggs

21 Grilled, in Mexican

fare

22 Jefferson, for one 24 Slangy

“Absolutely!”

26 Add

28 Pixy __: candy

29 Modern navigation

aid

30 Some Spitzes, for

short

32 Rhetorical question to one who’s too good to be true

36 Scandinavi­an name akin to Nicholas

37 “Code Switch”

airer

38 “No more!”

40 Fired at the table? 42 Member of a

Hindu trinity

43 Ones with wide

spines

46 Young partner

48 Image quality

word

49 Long Reach Dusting System brand

50 Rainforest visitor 52 Act naturally

55 Chaps competitor 56 Powerful slitherer 57 Red Lobster has

one for kids

58 Wolverines rivals 59 Meeting of two

sides

DOWN

1 Secrecy metaphors

2 Green flitter

3 How it’s done

4 “The mind-killer,” in Frank Herbert’s “Dune”

5 1950 Pulitzer winner for the poetry collection “Annie Allen”

6 Heart lines

7 Order to go

8 LGBTQ part

9 “Barefoot Contessa” host Garten

10 Dwight’s

opponent 11 Older efts

12 Minister to

14 __ arts

16 Symbols after many brand names

18 Remote fillers

22 Christian on a

runway

23 Interlace

25 Liz, to Richard,

twice

27 Incite

29 Minor in

astronomy?

31 Sent up

33 Shakespear­e title

starter

34 Like some summer

shoes 35 Many a Top-40

hit

39 Outstandin­g and

then some

41 Certain Saudi 42 Stand-up comic

Gilliam

43 Company that developed Bazooka Joe

44 Yellow perennial 45 Chief Tui’s daughter, in a Disney film

47 One day, in “The

Martian”

50 Peak in Catania 51 Winter coat

53 Ending with law 54 “Was __ das?”

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