San Francisco Chronicle

CROSSWORD PUZZLE

- By Bill Pipal

ACROSS

1 Berry from Brazilian palms

5 Hides from

animals

10 Sanctuary area

14 Game time?

15 “Dances With Wolves” distributi­on company

16 Haunted house

sound

17 Raccoon,

facetiousl­y

19 Romance novelist Kennedy

20 Improvises

21 Minimalcom­pliance hiring practice

23 Google __

25 Gel

26 Low island

27 Tanzanite and

black opal

31 Out

33 “Go me!”

35 Turkish coins

37 Country rock band co-founded by Jim Messina

38 Fictional

Gantry

40 Sheet of glass

41 Breadth

43 Singular source

of dissent

45 Geometry

numbers

47 “That explains

everything”

48 “How unexpected”

49 Includes, briefly

51 Memorizati­on technique

52 Snarky remarks

55 Polymer products

59 Legendary

60 Footwear for a private eye?

62 Home to theoldest university in theAmerica­s

63 Proportion­al gift

64 Soon, quaintly

65 Education acronym

66 Base stealer’s asset

67 Sits in the sun

DOWN

1 Flour that’s stone ground in a chakki

2 Poutine morsel

3 Kazakh/Uzbek border name

4 Skinny, so to speak

5 Milieu of Ariana Grande and Billie Eilish

6 Detergent brand

7 Fuzz

8 Chore list items

9 Unclogged, as a pipe

10 “Indeed”

11 Bust 12 Cuban movement?

13 Adversary

18 Phased-out streaming service

22 “There are others” abbr.

24 Get a whiff of

27 Tears (up)

28 Seed germinated on toothpicks in some science projects

29 Goal for some Olympians 30 “Lost in Yonkers” playwright

32 Be respectful,

in a way

34 General sense

36 One who looks to the future?

39 Edited

42 Per

44 Primary

concern

46 Turf Builder

brand

48 German

wheels 50 Lose one’s shirt?

53 Trick

54 Fill and then some

56 New Rochelle school designated a university in 2022

57 Adjective associated with some 1980s fashion

58 ID ssince 1936

61 Sara Ramirez’s “And Just Like That ... “role

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