San Francisco Chronicle

CROSSWORD PUZZLE

- By Katie Hale

ACROSS

1 Trailhead posting

4 Courtroom drama on NBC from 1986 to 1994

9 Lariat

13 Spring mo.

14 Vague afternoon

time

16 Multicolor­ed

gem

17 “Gotta __!”

18 Shirts for a coders vs. physicists softball game?

20 Miner concern

22 Water coolers

23 Water movers

24 Break-even transactio­ns involving vintage TVs and turntables?

27 Dead set on

29 Tangy red

spice

30 “Jingle Bells”

contractio­n

32 CSNY’s “__

House”

33 Making one’s hair stand on end?

37 Doesn’t take

well?

38 One issuing tickets to the over-50 crowd?

40 Mark left by a

bumper

42 Afternoon rests

43 Sprint

44 Dudes

45 Romance

novelist Dare

49 Make space on

the whiteboard

51 Animated image of an apple falling on Sir Isaac?

55 “__ you a barrel

of laughs”

57 Nintendo

character option

58 Artemis org. 59 Lab work focused on data storage devices?

62 Gov. or sen.

63 Barrel of laughs

64 Big-box shop

65 68-Across

restroom

66 Drummer Ulrich

67 “Anything Goes”

star Merman

68 U.K. part

DOWN

1 Focuses in

college

2 Brief sketch

3 Comms experts

4 Rock’s __ Lonely

Boys

5 Opposition

parties

6 Hanger-on

7 Teegarden of “Friday Night Lights” 8 Financial paper,

for short

9 “The Jetsons”

maid

10 What love is, per

a “Frozen” song

11 Earnings report

12 Lapel edges?

15 Take up, in a

way

19 Playful “grr”

alternativ­e

21 Try to hit

25 Lenovo rival

26 Wireless speaker

brand

28 RN workplaces

31 Elton John accomplish­ment, briefly

34 Basilica alcove

35 Result of angering a wasp, probably

36 Fury

37 Taken up, in a

way 38 University of

Michigan city

39 Spread out at a

cocktail party

40 Rap’s Dr. __

41 “1984”

superstate

44 Maitre d’

offering

46 Paper clip

alternativ­e

47 “Time to go

already?”

48 Like a watch

with hands

50 Factions

52 “You can’t stop

me”

53 Colin of

“1917”

54 Extended family

member

56 “No Scrubs”

group

59 Clickable link

60 Little piggy

61 Mexican lager

 ?? ??

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