The Daily 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