San Francisco Chronicle

CROSSWORD PUZZLE

- By Bruce Venzke and Gail Grabowski

ACROSS

1 Swampy spots

5 Hopeless case

10 Zoo structure

14 Pinza of “South Pacific”

15 Verdi aria translatin­g to “It was you”

16 Gem from

Australia

17 “I Was Country When Country Wasn’t Cool” singer

20 Flying nocturnal

predator

21 Good, in Grenoble 22 “Makes sense to

me”

23 Decide not to use 25 David Bowie

genre

29 Israeli port

31 Sneezer’s need 32 Bourbon-making

process

35 Charlemagn­e’s

realm: Abbr.

36 Pampered

37 Part of EDT

41 Juillet’s season 42 Electromag­netic

radiation unit

44 Online financial

site

48 Cuba __: rum drink 49 Cost per night, in hotels

51 “The party’s been canceled”

55 Cocktail party

spread

56 Seagoing pronoun 57 Extinct emu-like

bird

58 Using coercion, as shown in this puzzle’s circles 63 Northern neighbor

of Chile

64 “This I Promise

You” band

65 First chip in

66 Escalator part

67 Storied granter of

wishes

68 Neither winning

nor losing

DOWN

1 Charlie Parker jazz genre

2 Longtime Boston Symphony conductor

3 Brownies, e.g.

4 Weep loudly

5 Apache chief

6 Algerian port

7 Match stick removing game 8 Internet sales,

collective­ly

9 Rushes toward

10 Apple pie-making

gadgets

11 Wild way to go

12 Four qts.

13 Building add-on 18 On the ferry

19 Moore of “Ghost” 24 Actress Elisabeth 25 Grill fuel

26 Irish actor Milo

27 Spicy Indian

dish

28 Excited about,

with “on”

30 Vampire tooth

32 __ voce: softly

33 Southern New

Mexico county

34 Prefix with sphere 36 Woodland grazer 38 Atmosphere, as of

a restaurant

39 French existentia­l

dramatist

40 “__ chic!”

43 Many a

microbrew

45 Excites

46 “Doggone it!”

47 Enjoying the

bistro, say

50 Needing a chill pill 52 Muscat native

53 Strong point

54 Widely known

56 Hägar’s daughter 58 Adorns with Angel

Soft, briefly

59 Freshly painted 60 Hothead’s

emotion

61 MD for women

62 Took it easy

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