San Francisco Chronicle

CROSSWORD PUZZLE

- By Jeffrey Wechsler

ACROSS

1 Stock holder? 6 South Dakota region

14 __ All: car care

brand

15 Collection of Buddhist sculpture, Chinese jades, etc.

16 Specialize­d work at a confection­ary?

18 Applicatio­n

19 Investigat­ive journalist __ B. Wells

20 Tiff

22 Connecticu­t home of ESPN studios

26 Nail polish brand with an Always Bare for You collection

27 Prefix with

gender

28 Body care brand

32 Tone down

33 Caribbean

gastropod

36 Instructor for a

monarch?

38 Nickname for Luciano Pavarotti?

40 Estate that went all-out with turquoise paint?

42 Grind together

45 Baking

measures

46 Fantasy brutes

48 Loose __

49 Subdivisio­n unit

50 Plead

53 Deep-dish chain,

familiarly

55 “And what have

we here?”

58 Investment

option, briefly

59 Vicar who puts the pedal to the metal?

65 Telemarket­er’s

accessory

66 Hard section of a textbook, perhaps

67 Compact cars? 68 Made a big deal

of

DOWN

1 Cul-de-__ 2 Letters for Kate Middleton

3 Punk subgenre

4 Place

5 Orchardist’s concern

6 “Hey, ewe!”

7 Italian wine region

8 Ran out of juice

9 “Deck the Halls” chorus fragment

10 Political commentato­r Navarro

11 Catches

12 Worrisome educationa­l statistic

13 Attach, in a way

17 Boxer Spinks

21 Level

22 Email on the q.t.

23 2016 Olympics

city

24 Disappoint­s

25 Preference

29 Energy

30 Item on a menu

31 Medical chart

datum

32 Subatomic

particle

34 Cartoonist Addams, familiarly

35 Adjustable

border

37 “Star Trek” spinoff before “DS9”

39 Steamed bun

40 Org. concerned with privacy laws

41 __ hut

43 “My bounty is as boundless as the __”: Juliet

44 Panama, for one

47 Cut a bit

51 Wreck

52 Hoarse

54 Spanish : noche

:: Italian : __

55 God who gave up an eye to gain wisdom

56 Shakes a leg,

quaintly

57 Second word of

many limericks

60 Prefix with gram

or graph

61 Comprehend

62 Bit of advice

63 Early afternoon

hour

64 Rare color?

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