San Francisco Chronicle

CROSSWORD PUZZLE

- By Aidan Deshong & Nate Cardin

ACROSS

1 Nothing more than

5 Software-driven FX

8 K-pop band with a community of fans known as ARMY

11 Colombian street snack

13 Laptop slot

14 Sass

15 TV series that may have high costume budgets

17 Alias indicator

18 Lag

19 Uses one’s

noggin

21 Bun in a bamboo

steamer

22 Recording device in a vehicle

24 Radish kin

26 Digging

27 “There you __!”

28 Energy bar

brand

30 Crypto-linked collectibl­es: Abbr.

34 Fan-written story that romantical­ly links same-sex characters

38 Mediocre

39 “Hey, you!”

40 Regret

41 Like Robin Hood’s beneficiar­ies

44 Military

directives

46 Office competitio­n during March Madness

50 Printing measures longer than ens

51 Gibson of the “Fast & Furious” films

52 Parkinson’s drug

54 Do one’s part?

55 Corporate symbols, or how to make the answers to 15-/22-Across and 34-/46-Across match their clues

59 Tax org.

60 Regatta

equipment

61 “Good __!”

62 Bit of sunshine

63 Trident-shaped letter

64 Like DoorDash meals

DOWN

1 Hot under the collar

2 Reliever’s stat

3 Stops on the

interstate

4 Writer/director

Nora

5 URL ender

6 Potatoes au __

7 “I am melting!”

8 White vin

9 Marinated

tandoor dish

10 Jerk

12 Limón who is the first Latina to be Poet Laureate of the United States

13 Not very bright

16 __ effect

20 Terse denial

21 Pack animal

23 Musical phrases

24 Can openers

25 “How nasty”

29 Genius Bar

employee, e.g.

31 Video game hero who defeats Goombas with flaming projectile­s

32 Around-theworld jaunts

33 Classic game console, for short

35 Thicket

36 Tristan’s beloved

37 Pos. for Lisa

Leslie

42 “You’re embarrassi­ng me!”

43 Met

expectatio­ns?

45 Leave

46 Flight unit

47 Wetsuit

material

48 Quirkily

creative

49 Auto pioneer

53 “!!!”

56 “Consider This” co-host Shapiro

57 Brewpub cask

58 OAK alternativ­e

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