San Francisco Chronicle

CROSSWORD PUZZLE

- By Val Melius and Jeff Chen

ACROSS

1 Bear’s home

5 Actress Winslet or

Hudson

9 Clever tactic

13 Pig Latin negative 15 Spoken

16 Levitate

17 Accompanyi­ng dishes, like 56-Across

19 “Kapow!”

20 Air pressure meas. 21 College head

22 Actress Lively of

“Green Lantern” 23 Athenian now a citizen in Athens, Georgia, say

27 Hillock

28 J, F or K, in “JFK”:

Abbr.

29 Fancy farewells 30 Spraying gently,

as plants

35 Crush consistent­ly

in competitio­n

36 Did a stable job 37 Long of “Boiler

Room”

38 Expecting a baby,

quaintly

41 Capture

43 Mayberry

youngster

44 Secret stash

45 “... nothing more” 50 Tablets with preloaded FaceTime

51 Skin care additive 52 Decisive boxing

victories

55 Bonkers

56 Circular fried food ... and what’s in the circled letters 59 Again

60 Tea and coffee

servers

61 Treat with disdain 62 Fronded office

greenery 63 Assign stars to 64 Sheepish

animals?

DOWN

1 Issue for a speech coach, perhaps

2 x,yorz,in

geometry

3 Like one saying

“Well, I never!”

4 Singer Carly __

Jepsen

5 George Eastman’s

camera

6 Bowl game venue 7 Gravel driveway

alternativ­e

8 Golf great Ernie

9 Massive awareness campaign, for short

10 Lavender cousin

11 Japanese financial hub 12 Country south of Saudi Arabia

14 Alpine songs

18 React to a shock 22 “Old chap”

speaker

24 Kanga’s kid

25 Stuck (in)

26 Oklahoma city that, when reversed, is a synonym for “eat” 27 New Zealander 29 Dairy farm animal 30 Recoiled

31 D.C. dealmaker 32 Having exclusive

informatio­n

33 “Cool!”

34 “Dilbert” cry

36 Leg part guarded

in soccer 39 Square dance

milieu

40 TurboTax

pros

41 Chicken piccata

toppers

42 Knee injury

initials

44 “Get moving!” 45 Savory rice

dish

46 Barely ahead

47 Indy competitor 48 New Orleans

NFLer

49 “Uncle!”

53 “Puss in Boots”

monster

54 Nine-digit IDs 56 “Give us this day __ daily bread”: Matthew 57 Gun lobby org. 58 Rocks in a bar

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