San Francisco Chronicle

CROSSWORD PUZZLE

- By Christina Iverson and Jeff Chen

ACROSS

1 TV show featuring both blood cells and jail cells

4 Not exactly a

warm blanket

8 “Heavens!”

14 Boo

15 Club in a Manilow

hit

16 Waver’s cry

17 Chef and author

Garten

18 Green card offerer

19 *Works with

needles

20 Mob inductee

22 *Binge-watch on

Netflix, say

23 Grand __

24 *Hero’s place

26 Chaney of the

screen

28 *Work position with little mobility?

34 *Italian sparkling

wine region

37 *Tweetstorm, e.g.

38 *Makes splashes at the shore ... and what each answer to a starred clue does

40 *Sandie

ingredient­s

41 *Existentia­l funk

42 *Crisis specialist­s

44 Hopped-up

refreshmen­t?

45 OutKast chart topper with the lyric “My baby don’t mess around”

47 Humorist

Bombeck

50 Bebop lover

55 One crossing the

line? 57 Like some

garages

58 Word with bike or

bag

59 Fertility clinic

collection­s

60 Ones taking advantage of suckers to get by?

61 __ alphabet

62 Lip

63 Secure

64 Early creation

65 Word in wedding

announceme­nts

DOWN

1 First hominid in space

2 Bat signal?

3 Stuck

4 Email to watch out for

5 One lacking roots 6 Made the first bet

7 Need on the slopes or the waves

8 1979 #1 hit by The

Knack

9 Draft choice?

10 It has a nice ring

to it

11 Home to Athens

and Dublin

12 Yearly address,

initially

13 One sending a

Zoom link

21 Stranger things

22 Friends often pay

one

25 “Supposing ... ”

27 Playfully bite

29 Swedish coin

30 Clanked around, like keys in one’s pocket 31 Swiss peak

32 Oft-spoken

tributes

33 Outdo

34 Serpents in some

hieroglyph­ics

35 Bias

36 Severus Snape’s

house

39 Look on Snape’s

face, often

43 Large number

46 Major artery

48 Flick

49 Top performanc­e

level

50 One of a buck’s

four

51 Quechua speaker

52 Many adoptees

53 Paisley native

54 It’s on a roll

56 Tiny bit

58 1-Across evidence

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