San Francisco Chronicle

CROSSWORD PUZZLE

- By Doug Peterson

ACROSS

1 Symbol in the center of Cameroon’s flag

5 Sentence server

11 Retro-hip beers,

for short

15 Quaint sigh

16 “Mad About You”

co-star

17 Baseball analyst

Hershiser

18 Nana who deciphers coded messages?

20 Finger food, in

Zaragoza

21 Colleague of Amy

and Elena

22 Novelist Jaffe

23 Showbiz grand

slam

24 Skirmish between

rival hives?

28 Used a rocker

29 Black Sea resort

30 Functions

34 ESPNU topic

37 Boot camp barker

40 Serious business, and a hint to four answers in this puzzle

44 “The Masked Dancer” panelist Paula

45 Serious locks

46 Name in a

Salinger title

47 The planets, e.g.

50 Masked caller

52 Horses now tame

enough to ride?

58 Smack

59 Evian et Perrier

60 Like some

Windows errors

62 Best Picture Oscar winner directed by Siân Heder 63 Speck of dust atop the Matterhorn?

66 Big name in skin

care

67 Coffee cup

insulator

68 Consequent­ly

69 Snafu

70 Shadow canvas

71 Org. scheme

DOWN

1 Gives a little 2 Pulsate strongly 3 Maker of the first refrigerat­or with a dry-erase door

4 Mail payment

5 Like some vbs.

6 PBS benefactor

7 Smaller than small

8 Request from 9 Smaller than

small

10 Collected goofs

11 Sovereign

12 Self-promoters

13 Bank actions,

briefly

14 Crate piece

19 Pets who may squeeze into shoeboxes

25 Lana of

Smallville

26 Mark for good

27 “Casablanca” role

30 Telemundo article

31 Blubber

32 Cadillacs manufactur­ed for 50 years

33 They often hang

around kitchens

35 Point

36 Santa __ winds 38 Bit of finery

39 Palindrome in

stanzas

41 Sephora rival

42 Veld grazers

43 __ pad

48 Relaxed

49 Pickup truck with

four rear wheels

51 “Hah, right!”

52 Mulled wine

spice

53 Karachi currency

54 Run out

55 Heckles

56 Like wool, for

many

57 Lore

58 Grifter’s game

61 Temporaril­y

provided

64 Prefix for the

birds?

65 Rare color?

 ?? ??

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