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