San Francisco Chronicle

CROSSWORD PUZZLE

- By John Michael Currie

ACROSS

1 Way in the woods

5 Japanese cattle breed yielding Kobe beef

10 Fleecy footwear

brand

14 Currency named

for a continent

15 Used for dinner,

as dishes

16 Fit

17 Burnett on CNN

18 Author Dahl

19 Crib sheet user

20 Available workers,

statistica­lly

23 “Oedipus __”

24 Set of TV

programs

25 First name in civil

rights history

27 Meteorolog­y, e.g.

32 Gets ready for a

selfie

35 Tried to be like

36 Before, in poems

37 Explosion

39 Rock in a vein

40 Merchant

43 Cling wrap brand

45 Game in which grabbing a piece of cloth replaces tackling

48 Spanish kiss

49 Meteorolog­ist’s

pressure line

52 Do stuff?

54 Period when everything is backwards ... and where the starts of 20-, 27- and 45-Across might be found?

58 Out of the office

60 Made a boo-boo

61 NFL analyst Tony 62 Google-owned

navigation app

63 Volleyball great

Gabrielle

64 Deuce defeater

65 Had down pat

66 Dalmatian

features

67 __ Domini

DOWN

1 Banana leftover

2 Subtle vibes

3 Wichita or Omaha

4 Distinguis­hed guest, perhaps

5 Not so cold

6 “Raise your glass!”

7 Camping equipment

8 The “sun” in “sunny side up” 9 Go even lower

than, pricewise

10 Thumb drive port

11 Co-signer, e.g.

12 Taunt

13 River in which Achilles was dipped

21 Narrow inlets

22 Work really hard

26 Caribbean, for

one

28 Essence

29 Texting format,

for short

30 Michael of “Arrested Developmen­t”

31 Genesis garden

32 Flawless, in slang

33 Baseball’s

Hershiser

34 Light on fire 37 Humorous

outtakes

38 Cancer follower

41 Golden __

42 “In that case ... ”

43 Vending machine

opening

44 Calgary’s province

46 Split equally

47 Comments only

for the audience

50 Decorate

51 Asian noodle

dish

52 Stare stupidly

53 Obi-Wan portrayer McGregor

55 Help the chef

56 Black-and-white

cookie

57 Toy on a string

59 Bow wood

 ?? ??

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