L.A. TIMES CROSSWORD

ACROSS

1 Works in a park, perhaps

8 Chooses

15 City of ancient Greece

16 Steelmaking raw material

17 First part of a quip about

climate change

19 “Cool beans!”

20 Cookware purchase

21 Streaming delay

22 Finale

24 Cornish game __

26 Abhor

27 Second part of the quip

32 “This Is Just My Face: __ Not to Stare”: memoir by Gabourey Sidibe

33 Green, in a way

34 Hearing organ

35 2020 N.L. MVP Freddie

38 Beverage similar to hard

seltzer

42 Short lunch?

43 Form 1099 agcy.

44 Future flower

45 Third part of the quip

49 Time for action

51 With 58-Down, 2018 Best New Artist Grammy winner

52 Land north of Den.

53 Decompose 54 __ and cheese

56 Works very hard

60 Last part of the quip

65 Neither here nor there

66 Flute played by Zamfir

67 Confirm, as a password

68 Syrup source

DOWN

1 PC virus check

2 Hefty book

3 Opera solo

4 Like some windows

5 Brought to ruin

6 “The rest is obvious”

abbr.

7 Factory

8 Minor minder

9 “To __ is human ... “

10 British lav

11 Picture that shows more

detail: Abbr.

12 Tall decorative addition

around some cakes

13 Spring for lunch

14 Swamp plant

18 “Ain't gonna happen”

23 Was philanthropic

25 Leslie of “The Naked

Gun” films

26 Long lunch?

27 DOJ branch 28 Sale rack abbr.

29 Pumpernickel grain

30 Animal house

31 Actor Efron who voices

Fred in “Scoob!”

36 Site to do one's

bidding

37 “Letter From Birmingham

Jail” initials

38 __ de Triomphe

39 TV network with pledge

drives

40 “Certainement!”

41 Adobe file format

43 “Baby Did a Bad Bad

Thing” singer Chris

45 Grown-up

46 Sting's real last name

47 Zip, nada, zilch

48 Group of traveling

performers

49 Appliance that seems to

eat socks

50 Lorna of literature

55 Ship leader: Abbr.

57 “For sure!”

58 See 51-Across

59 Pedometer unit

61 Heavy weight

62 Shack

63 Mineral suffix

64 Watering hole