LA 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.
By Robin Stears
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
5/11/22
©2022 Tribune Content Agency, LLC 5/11/22 40 “Certainement!” 49 Appliance that 41 Adobe file seems to eat
format socks
43 “Baby Did a 50 Lorna of
Bad Bad Thing” literature singer Chris 55 Ship leader: Abbr. 45 Grown-up 57 “For sure!”
46 Sting’s real last 58 See 51-Across
name 59 Pedometer unit 47 Zip, nada, zilch 61 Heavy weight 48 Group of 62 Shack traveling 63 Mineral suffix performers 64 Watering hole