CROSSWORD

Across

1 Free

6 Crusty formation

10 One in a farm array

14 Truism

15 Kappa preceder

16 Entry

17 Saint toppers

18 Equine footwork

19 Glitz

20 Renewed one’s energy, in a way 21 Counseling for boomers’ kids? 24 Santa __: Sonoma County seat 25 Complimentary writers

26 Sign on a film studio employee’s door?

31 Words of desire

32 Room at the hacienda

33 Fast hit

36 Gave for a while 37 Some rank indicators

39 Corona product

40 Disturbance

41 “Write once, run anywhere” software 42 One with many mouths to feed? 43 Altered clone of actor Richard? 46 French gambling game

49 Zero

50 Molecular manipulation technique ... and a hint to the starts of the three other longest puzzle answers

53 Sudden turn

56 Advantage

57 Bunches

58 Immune system component

60 Food preservative

61 Cithara relative

62 Clear, in a way

63 “__ bien!”

64 Word appearing twice in a Woody Guthrie title 65 Synthetic polymer

Down

1 Turner of “The Bad and the Beautiful”

2 It’s a turnoff

3 What’s up at the deadline?

4 Mushy lump

5 “Yikes!”

6 Traffic or turn follower

7 Influence with flattery

8 Studying like crazy, say 9 Tub soothers 10 Interstate rumbler 11 Condemned Titan 12 Jumped

13 “Game of Thrones” accumulation

22 Zener cards presum- ably tested for it

23 “Show Boat” author Ferber 24 Take a load off

26 __ monster

27 Was required to pay 28 Yucatán youngster 29 Sunni’s religion

30 Indoor __

33 Force user

34 NASA prefix

35 Muffin option

37 Left nothing out

38 Big event lead-in

39 Data measure