San Francisco Chronicle

CROSSWORD PUZZLE

- By Prasanna Keshava

ACROSS

1 Holiday sub

5 Kilt wearer 9 “Mazes and Monsters” novelist Rona

14 Nat ural

soother

15 To be, to Balzac

16 Popular ride app’s basic level of service 17 Perspirati­on cause by fear of failure 19 “Is it too risky?” 20 X

21 Turquoise kin

22 Indian strings

23 Lucky wristband 26 Autumn shade

28 Children’s author

Blyton

29 Spiral shape

30 Fashion label from

Milan

32 Gross less

deductions

35 “Don’t cheer yet!” 39 Gave the

go-ahead

40 Emcees

41 Ballpark officials 42 Fabergé perfume,

originally

43 Surgical tube

44 Best woman?

50 Gofer’s task

51 University of New

Mexico player

52 Game-winning

line

55 Arnold of “It’s a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World”

56 Confined to one’s residence ... or, as the circles show, a descriptio­n of four puzzle answers 58 “All kidding __ ... ” 59 Totals

60 Poker stake

61 Church council 62 Redwood, e.g. 63 Aussie hoppers

DOWN

1 Only president who was also chief justice

2 Vogue alternativ­e 3 One born under the sign of Cancer

4 Oomph

5 Refuse conduit

6 Third-stringers

7 Dental care

brand

8 Asian New Year

9 Court-ordered, as

a review 10 Eased up

11 Born in the wild 12 “__ Jacques”

13 Live and breathe 18 Sun, for one

22 “500” initials on

Wall Street

24 Repressed, with

“in”

25 Harvests

26 It’s eight in

Madrid

27 “Order up!”

shouter

30 Italian sauce with

pine nuts

31 Word before race

or trap

32 Top dog

33 “SportsCent­er”

channel

34 Midterm or final 36 Crowded into 37 Elvis’ “__ Dog”

38 Camera setting that does everything except point and shoot 42 Best Actor winner for “On the Waterfront”

43 Hoity-toity sort 44 Parts of Western

landscapes

45 Culturally

pretentiou­s

46 Get in shape

47 Pancake maker’s

need

48 Metz man

49 Quite overweight 53 Fully aware of, as

a scheme

54 Lofty verses

56 Post-WWII pres. 57 Rowboat mover

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