San Francisco Chronicle

CROSSWORD PUZZLE

- By Jeffrey Wechsler

ACROSS

1 Marshy spots 5 Diego Rivera creation

10 Escalator part

14 “See here, old

chap!”

15 Something in the

air

16 Topiary piece

17 Start of a tennis player’s argument with a line judge?

20 Recipient of

many lists

21 Poise

22 Life-saving pro

24 Rage

25 Start of an artist’s argument with a gallery owner?

32 Place to put down stakes?: Abbr.

34 City in western

Yemen

35 Get the word

out?

36 Kid-lit writer Margaret __ Brown

38 Clean with

elbow grease

40 __ novel

41 Ties (up)

43 OB test

45 British jazz

element?

46 Start of a dress model’s argument with a tailor?

49 Good guess in

Battleship

50 RR stop

51 Donations to a museum in a will, e.g.

56 Take in

60 Start of a geometry teacher’s argument with a student?

63 “Songversat­ion”

singer India.__ 64 NFLer since 2016

65 Medicine Hat’s

prov.

66 Brewer’s flowers

67 Dessert choice,

for short

68 Secure, in a way

DOWN

1 Odds and ends

2 Org. that makes workplace safety posters

3 Forward progress on the football field

4 Word with

metric or merit

5 __ o menos: “more or less,” in Spanish

6 Garden fixture

7 Uniformed

college gp.

8 Firing range

purchase 9 “Stop teasing

me!”

10 Ordinary

11 “Indubitabl­y”

12 Fish that may be

hard to fillet

13 Loved ones who are blessed at the Feast of St. Francis

18 “My mistress’ eyes are nothing like the sun” quintet

19 Solar __

23 Socials with cucumber sandwiches

25 “Hedda Gabler”

dramatist

26 Like Inti Punku

27 “The Scholomanc­e” trilogy writer Novik

28 Scrawny

29 Yellow shade 30 “A Series of Unfortunat­e Events” villain __ Squalor

31 Safe document

32 Was short

33 DVR pioneer

37 Raves (about)

39 Kia sedans

42 Some plants

44 Ready

47 The “se” of per

se

48 Colorful fabric

51 Ho-hum

52 Designer

Saarinen

53 Swab brand

54 Spree

55 Texas MLBer

57 Tunneling

rodent

58 Tiny amount

59 Nonstick brand

61 Stable staple

62 Angsty genre

 ?? ??

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