The Oakland Press

Crossword Puzzle 1

3/3/21

- By Ed Sessa

ACROSS

1 Aussie birds with drumbeat-like mating calls

5 Get in a row 10 Regarding

14 Lucy Lawless title

role

15 “Take a look” 16 Hit the brakes 17 Once-common

childhood ailment 19 Nomadic quarters 20 Giant whose #4

was retired 21 Rock’s Pop 22 Figures of speech 24 Saffron-flavored

Spanish dish 26 Embellish 27 Reporting live 30 The eastern half of a frozen food brand

33 Writers’

workplaces 36 Move, in realty ads 37 Anjou, e.g. 38 24-Across

ingredient 39 Garson of “Mrs.

Miniver” 40 Summit

41 A lot of time, in

Spain

42 Wild party 43 Speculate 44 Corporate VIP 45 Hereditary informatio­n for a species

47 Having glass

sections

49 Incan wool

sources

53 Race with no real

losers

55 Cruising the

Arctic, say

57 Fish served in

poke

58 Butter substitute 59 Five-pointed stars ... or, in two words, what the sets of circles represent? 62 Family nicknames 63 Tribal leader 64 Maine, to Macron 65 The Dead Sea,

actually

66 Cordial dealings 67 “I did it!”

DOWN

1 Many a bodyguard 2 Maestro Zubin 3 Make one out of

many

4 __ fly: RBI

producer

5 What separates the men from the boys?

6 Like the mind’s “i” 7 Guessing game 8 Former Prizm

maker

9 Living very close

by

10 Big name in furs 11 Blended family

relative

12 Vocal quality 13 Gets involved,

with “in” 18 Potters’ needs 23 Oscar-winning

director Howard 25 YouTube clicks 26 Like Van Winkle,

for 20 years 28 Trip to the

market, say 29 “Still Me”

memoirist 31 Water

containers? 32 Greek war god 33 Storied bloodsucke­r, for short

34 Mozart’s

“__ Kleine Nachtmusik” 35 Somewhat revealing T-shirt option 37 Journalist Zahn 39 Pot pie veggie 43 __ Heights:

Mideast region 45 Wildebeest 46 Cate with a falsely

accused cow

48 Sprang up 50 Island near Sicily 51 Winning 52 Slangy sibling 53 Ump’s call 54 Forearm bone 55 The Beatles’ “__

Love Her” 56 Editor’s

“Let it be”

60 Title tree in six

horror films 61 Understand

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