San Francisco Chronicle

CROSSWORD PUZZLE

- By C.C. Burnikel

ACROSS 1 Fancy parties 6 [This is gonna be really bad!] 10 Out-Kast rapper Big __ 13 Hi in Hawaii 14 Senior golfer Aoki 15 Lends support to 16 Likely to speak out 17 *Vodka cocktail often served with a sugared rim 19 Text update from an Uber driver: Abbr. 20 Trippy ’60s drug 22 Milked for all it’s worth 23 Mai __: rum drinks 25 Post-Cross-Fit woes 26 With 49-Across, it keeps repeating itself ... and, based on the first and last letters, an apt descriptio­n of each answer to a starred clue 28 “__-ching!” 29 Down with the flu 32 NFLer again in 2016 33 Early American furniture style 36 Casino cash source 37 Oft-injured knee part, for short 40 Bit of texting tact 41 Sine __ non 42 Interest-arousing promo 45 More accurate 47 Mud bath offerer 48 Night before 49 See 26-Across 50 Burton of “Star Trek: TNG” 52 Wild swine 53 Win out 5657 60 TinyGo *Largelypen­al wrong drink colony bygone 62 64 “Paper Notable Moon” times girl 65 Mideast dignitary 66 Brownish gray 67 Susan of “L.A. Law” 68 Fix, as a feline 69 Promoted heavily DOWN1 Conceded,“up” with 2 Tons 3 *Store website feature 4 “I thought so!” 5 Education financing company, familiarly 6 Coat, as jewelry 7 Put in the game 8 *Shari Lewis puppet 9 Place for a break? 10 Dove or robin 11 Campfire attraction 12 Kids’ game for car trips 15 Includes 18 Maiden name intro 21 Nine-digit ID 24 Wanted poster letters 25 Duke’s conf. 26 Cry from a sheep 27 Motel postings 30 *Totally drunk 31 “Today” co-host Matt 34 Manipulati­ve health care practition­er 35 Pie crust fat 38 Mountain climber’s piton spots 39 *Light source with hypnotic bubbles 43 Artillery bursts 44 Essen article 46 Electronic­s giant 49 Hitter’s stat 51 Sound-detecting organ 53 Claimed in court 54 Hard to find 55 “Buy It Now” site 56 Agile 58 Like orange or red persimmons 59 Marsh plant 61 Athletes for Hope co-founder Hamm 63 Calendar square

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