San Francisco Chronicle

CROSSWORD PUZZLE

- By Claire Muscat

ACROSS

1 Where thoughts can be organized

11 __ punk: No Doubt genre

14 Not go off-script

15 Zero-star fare

16 They’re hidden annually

17 Holds up

18 Got into a pickle?

19 Xi preceders

20 Kind of baseball league for preLittle Leaguers

22 Duplicates

24 Dogs follow them

26 Ruled by thieves

30 Like some restaurant boxes

33 Crispy triangle

34 One of two possible Passover mos.

35 Indignant reply

37 “It’s Raining __”: The Weather Girls hit

38 Sip 40 Charge

41 Lost control in a big way

44 Throw below deck, say

45 Bolo ties or bellbottom­s

48 “Camptown Races” refrain syllables

49 Brick partner

53 Graduates

55 One using bugs

56 Media co. based in D.C. and Fla.

57 Best Actress between Jennifer and Julianne

58 Targets

62 Building blocks for tots

63 They take forever

64 Kinda equivalent

65 “Quit it with the attitude!”

DOWN

1 Begin to fast? 2 Raccoon kin

3 Start over

4 Grisham hero, often: Abbr.

5 Carbolic acid

6 Read carefully

7 They may be blonde or red

8 Glutton

9 University dept.

10 Franklin spelled it out

11 What you might get on a day off

12 Laker great, familiarly

13 Arcing recess

15 Former Fox News anchor Van Susteren 21 2001 scandal subject

23 Ring stats

24 Extend

25 Expression maker

27 College in Claremont, California

28 __ jure: by the law itself

29 Word with neck or cut

30 Row

31 Ancient performanc­e halls

32 Shares expenses, in a way

36 Star-studded hunter 39 Interventi­on target

42 Like much table salt

43 Depresses

46 Developmen­t units

47 Lawn grass genus

50 Arab Spring city

51 “__ begins in delight and ends in wisdom”: Frost

52 Certain cycle

53 Antioxidan­t-rich berry

54 Chocolates, e.g.

55 Kind

59 WWII arena

60 Han and Leia’s son Kylo __

61 “__ a date!”

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