San Francisco Chronicle

CROSSWORD PUZZLE

- By Ed Sessa

ACROSS

1 Aussie birds with drumbeat-like mating calls

5 Get in a row

10 Regarding

14 Lucy Lawless title role

15 “Take a look” 16 Hit the brakes 17 Once-common childhood ailment 19 Nomadic quarters 20 Giant whose #4

was retired

21 Rock’s Pop

22 Figures of speech 24 Saffron-flavored

Spanish dish

26 Embellish

27 Reporting live

30 The eastern half of a frozen food brand

33 Writers’

workplaces

36 Move, in realty

ads

37 Anjou, e.g.

38 24-Across

ingredient

39 Garson of “Mrs.

Miniver”

40 Summit

41 A lot of time, in

Spain

42 Wild party

43 Speculate

44 Corporate VIP

45 Hereditary informatio­n for a species

47 Having glass

sections

49 Incan wool

sources

53 Race with no real

losers

55 Cruising the Arctic,

say

57 Fish served in

poke

58 Butter substitute 59 Five-pointed stars ... or, in two words, what the sets of circles represent? 62 Family nicknames 63 Tribal leader

64 Maine, to Macron 65 The Dead Sea,

actually

66 Cordial dealings 67 “I did it!”

DOWN

1 Many a bodyguard 2 Maestro Zubin

3 Make one out of many

4 __ fly: RBI producer 5 What separates the men from the boys?

6 Like the mind’s “i” 7 Guessing game

8 Former Prizm maker 9 Living very close by

10 Big name in furs 11 Blended family relative 12 Vocal quality 13 Gets involved, with “in”

18 Potters’ needs

23 Oscar-winning

director Howard 25 YouTube clicks

26 Like Van Winkle,

for 20 years

28 Trip to the market,

say

29 “Still Me”

memoirist

31 Water containers? 32 Greek war god

33 Storied bloodsucke­r, for short

34 Mozart’s “__ Kleine

Nachtmusik” 35 Somewhat revealing T-shirt option

37 Journalist Zahn 39 Pot pie veggie 43 __ Heights:

Mideast region 45 Wildebeest

46 Cate with a falsely accused cow

48 Sprang up

50 Island near

Sicily

51 Winning

52 Slangy sibling 53 Ump’s call

54 Forearm bone 55 The Beatles’ “__

Love Her”

56 Editor’s “Let it

be”

60 Title tree in six

horror films

61 Understand

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