San Francisco Chronicle

CROSSWORD PUZZLE

- By Jeffrey Wechsler

ACROSS

1 Tbsp., for

example

4 Touchy monarch?

9 “United States of

Al” network

12 “Very droll”

14 Representa­tion

15 Edible seed

16 Port near the Red

Sea

17 To date

18 Wild party

19 Near-EGOT winner Midler (she’s missing the O)

21 Org. with admirals

22 Reviews briefly

23 Gets gasps from

24 Bit of rebar

25 Philippine

currency

26 Word often

contracted

27 Text lead-in

30 “Oversharin­g!”

32 Home of the

Green Wave

34 Shrewdness

36 Inventing middle

name

37 Short two-pointer

41 “Critique of

Judgment” author

42 Animals drawn in

the Lascaux caves

43 Opposite of après

44 Madrid pronoun

45 Like email

notificati­ons

48 33-Down

members: Abbr.

51 Update follower,

perhaps

52 “’And when I __ my lips let no dog bark!’”: “The Merchant of Venice”

55 Old TWA

competitor 57 Coastal raptor

58 Shady place

60 Signs

61 __ al-Fitr: end-ofRamadan feast

62 Greek letter

63 Apple product

64 “Therefore ... ”

66 Natural resources

67 “Star Wars” role

68 Star in Orion

69 “That’s that!”

70 1974 CIA spoof

71 Word with home

or bed

72 Tiny crawlers

DOWN

1 Obsessed mariner 2 Added to the official playbook 3 Start of a seasonal title 4 Fla. NBA team, on

scoreboard­s

5 “Not a doubt in

my mind”

6 Title, part 2

7 Chair’s prep job

8 Wimbledon

division

9 End of the title

10 Drumroll

follower

11 Comments

13 Part of a pot

15 Smelting fuel

20 “Around the Horn”

airer

22 It’s risky to work

on it

26 Slightly

28 Fix a messy

package, say

29 Certain rider’s

pace

31 Grooving on 33 Organizati­on for

48-Across

35 Short strings?

38 Comment about a

familiar film

39 With the contents of this grid’s circles, part of the refrain in 3-/6-/9Down

40 Salton, for one

46 __ control

47 RBI, e.g.

48 Booty

49 Increase

50 Not at all up-front

52 Puck handler?

53 Strong

54 Gets rid of

56 Long range

59 Mary’s upstairs

neighbor

64 MGM motto word

65 Stale

 ?? ??

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