CROSSWORD PUZZLE

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