San Francisco Chronicle

CROSSWORD PUZZLE

- By Prasanna Keshava

ACROSS

1 Meal 7 Near mist? 10 Old PCs 14 Syria’s most populous city 15 “Blessed __ the peacemaker­s” 16 Large number 17 Accepts a driver’s offer 18 Cell boundary 20 Quick kisses 22 Corvallis sch. 23 Windy City commuter org. 24 The ones here 26 Comedian Margaret 28 “Sweet Love” singer Anita 30 __ Lingus 31 Bangkok residents 33 Data units 34 “And there you have it!” 35 Suspend 36 Inouye Airport arrival gift 37 __ Lanka 38 Trisected 41 “You get the idea” abbr. 44 Religious woman 46 Glossary entry 47 Long, long __ 48 Remove one’s username from, on social media 50 Comedian Anne featured in Jerry Stiller’s memoir “Married to Laughter” 51 Aromatic tree 52 Areas that may be irritated by shirt tags 53 Sculling need 54 __ macchiato 56 K-12 support gp. 57 Volodymyr Zelenskyy’s country: Abbr. 59 Conductor Zubin 61 Devices for reproducin­g signatures 64 __ star 67 Old PC screens 68 Narrow waterway 69 Get-up-and-go 70 Florida vacation destinatio­n 71 Stop on the road 72 __ tickets

DOWN

1 “Yay, team!” 2 “Xanadu” gp. 3 “Peanuts” girl who calls Charlie Brown “Chuck” 4 Cathedral niches 5 Add interest 6 Honky-__ 7 Mom, dad, sibs, etc. 8 Cookies for breakfast? 9 Tiara twinklers 10 Syr. neighbor 11 Formal social events 12 Protégé 13 Takes an oath 19 Party device filled with liquid soap 21 Barely enough 24 Bar bills 25 Pick up 27 British afternoon tradition, and what this puzzle’s four longest answers literally have? 29 “Yes,” on Talk Like a Pirate Day 32 “The Summer I Turned Pretty” novelist Jenny 39 Break a peace treaty, perhaps 40 Make a mistake 42 Pre-weekend shout 43 Center 45 Dubai’s fed. 48 Prepare to stay a couple nights, say 49 Inherent character 50 Informal greeting 55 Clueless 58 “The Americans” star Russell 60 “¿De dónde __?” 62 WWII spy org. 63 Word with Jose or Juan 65 Private aid prog. 66 OB-__: med. specialty

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