San Francisco Chronicle

CROSSWORD PUZZLE

- By Kurt Mengel and Jan- Michele Gianette

ACROSS

1 Single- handed rebuke

5 Shopping spot

9 “Oh, dear”

13 Won by __

14 Lotion additive

15 Wheel’s partner? 16 Tan cousin

17 * Core exercise starting from a lateral lying position

19 Gave the nod

20 Aver

22 Rowing tool

23 Hung jury result,

often

25 With “The,” ’ 80s British rockers who gave their group “the most ordinary name” 28 * Remote filestorag­e option

31 Chit

32 Sargasso Sea

spawner

33 “Baby back”

morsel

34 Consider

35 *“Balderdash!” 39 Balloon demise

sounds

40 La- la preceder

41 Rapper __ Nas X 42 Java

43 * Hotel late- night

meal source

48 Actress Meryl

50 “Finally, it makes

sense”

51 Director DuVernay 52 Page- bottom

abbr.

54 “Yabba dabba __!” 55 At night ... and where the starts of the answers to starred clues can go 58 Like eta and zeta 60 Unwelcome look 61 Fairy tale opener 62 Car service

choices

63 Whirling current 64 Sign of sadness,

maybe

65 Little drinks

DOWN

1 Israeli coin

2 Stopped the ship by facing the wind

3 Bailed- out insurance co.

4 Chairs a meeting 5 Indian spice mix

6 Landed

7 Went by bike or horse

8 Start of a golf hole 9 ’ 50s candidate Stevenson 10 More robust 11 Outdated collective noun 12 Antlered bugler 13 Multiple choice choices

18 Elgar’s “__ and Circumstan­ce Marches” 21 Place for card games

24 Ones with

regrets

25 Hardest to spot 26 Garden tools 27 Bottom line

29 Whipped __

30 Sportage

automaker

34 Probe ( into) 35 Real riot 36 Performed

surgery

37 To and __

38 Mercenary

39 Nighties

43 Caboose’s

place

44 Pitch that curves

downward

45 Dangerousl­y

involved

46 Pigeons, e. g.

47 Furry “Star Wars”

creatures

49 __ so often:

occasional­ly

52 Candy shape

53 Killer whale

55 Part of IPA

56 Central banking

syst., with “the” 57 URL bit

59 Hitter’s stat

 ??  ??

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