San Francisco Chronicle

CROSSWORD PUZZLE

- By Ed Sessa

ACROSS 1 Sleight of hand? 5 Like pie? 11 Tennis stroke 14 Name on the 1949 “Death of a Salesman” playbill 15 Bug on the road? 16 Common cause of conflict 17 “The Karate Kid,” e.g. 20 Guide for surfers 21 Gray shades 22 Be of service to 23 Org. with traveling bans? 25 One hanging around a lifeguard tower 29 Studio once run by Howard Hughes 32 1958 Pulitzer author James 33 D.C. figures 34 Some museum art 36 16th-century council site 38 Unspecifie­d degree 39 Footnote abbr. 40 Nasal partitions 41 “... or so it may __” 43 Unadultera­ted 44 Slangy okay 45 Ice cream named after a Canadian river 48 Quite a lot 50 Address in a mess 51 Confront aggressive­ly 53 Swears 57 2013 Hudson’s Bay Company acquisitio­n 60 “... exclaim, __ he drove out of sight”: Moore 61 Sign with an arrow 62 Start to giver or taker 63 Befitting 64 Hazmat team members, often 65 Tae __ do DOWN 1 Atlas display 2 Et __ 3 Dust bunny component 4 Achieved some progress 5 Rubber eraser, for one 6 Go slowly 7 Sargasso Sea spawner 8 Pac. cousin 9 Christian in cinema 10 Ambiguous answer 11 Little big cat 12 Mythical monster 13 First and last word of a common fourword saw 18 Dr. Skoda on “Law & Order” 19 Bathing spot 23 Popular online lists 24 Discussed, with “over” 25 Mark 26 Come to terms 27 Daddy Warbucks, e.g. 28 Former Mormon leader Ezra Taft __ 30 Actress Knightley 31 Blender brand 35 “Nosebleed seats” section 37 Supposes to be 42 Loses temporaril­y 46 Bodega patron 47 European capital 49 Fortune 500 listings: Abbr. 51 Sailing 52 Complain 53 Really good, in ’90s slang 54 Rodents do it 55 Money in la banque 56 Treated by the doctor 58 Four-wk. period, usually 59 Minimum for many games

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