CROSSWORDS

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