San Francisco Chronicle

CROSSWORD PUZZLE

- By Emma Oxford

ACROSS

1 Gasteyer of “Mean Girls”

4 Stand-up

individual?

9 Breakfast, lunch,

and dinner

14 Place for a pint

15 Miso soup

mushroom

16 Data processor’s

need

17 Lenovo products

18 *Be extremely

helpful

20 Some pints

22 Crying harder

23 Tempo similar to

largo

25 Prepares, as a

sleeping bag

29 *Staged a

fireworks show

33 Part of EVOO

34 Used DoorDash,

say

35 Auction site

36 *Start of an instructio­n to an automated assistant

41 Very

42 Rene of “Tin

Cup”

43 Death on the Nile cause, perhaps

44 *Sensitive area

50 Frightenin­g

vision

52 Part of TNT

53 Do over and

over

57 “Begone!”

58 Colorful elements of a meadow, and what can be found at the starts of the answers to the starred clues?

62 Convent figure

63 Adult stage in

insects 64 Provide an

address

65 Here, in France

66 Airport structure

67 “Whose Line Is It Anyway?” host Aisha

68 “Evita” role

DOWN

1 Revolt

2 Atomic cores

3 Playing hooky, perhaps

4 Cartoon still

5 “Roger that, boss!”

6 Make emotional

7 Maker of Ektorp sofas

8 Fruit type that tends to be in season in winter 9 Kathy Bates film based on a Stephen King novel

10 Month after

diciembre

11 Mo. after Mar.

12 Hon

13 Sault __ Marie

19 Sty sound

21 Queen Anne’s

house

24 __-Free: contact

lens solution

26 Piercing spot

27 “Not true!”

28 Devious

30 Your, in Tours

31 Dash, quaintly

32 __ nous

35 Characters in

some texts

36 Slugger Sammy

37 Guessing game

38 Ger. neighbor

39 Nashville sch. 40 ID on a Barnes &

Noble buy

41 Outraged

44 Took, as an

exam

45 Baseball analyst

Hershiser

46 Transplant

47 Pertaining to a

certain culture

48 Catcher’s

stance

49 Nickname for the Canadian $2 coin

51 Small fly

54 Out of whack

55 Blue-green

shade

56 Art Deco icon

58 Cleverness

59 Brief “I would

say ... “

60 Order’s partner

61 Msg. from a

pulpit

 ?? ??

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