Across
- 5. TV’s Paul Lynde, or an early location of Philadelphia’s water infrastructure
- 8. Word which precedes Railroad or Rainbow
- 10. 1988 Action Thriller movie that has become a hotly contested holiday classic
- 11. Original owner and operator of the Met Philadelphia, and father of a major twentieth-century librettist and lyricist who shares his name
- 12. Art museum created from the eclectic collection of a wealthy medical inventor
- 13. Wintry drink for which George Washington had a famous recipe
- 15. Litany of homes for aquatic athletes
- 18. Sinatra, Garland, and Holiday (among others) Jazz standard comparing the blues to a major precipitation event
- 21. Combination uphill and downhill sport debuting at the 2026 Winter Olympics
- 22. Former mascot of the department, replaced by Water Woman
- 23. State with the highest number of operational snow plows
- 25. Researcher who determined no two snowflakes are alike
- 28. Former department store magnate and organ donor?
- 31. A new monarch, or alias for one graduate of Overbrook High
- 32. Franklin’s almanac, or a pitying phrase for character actor Kind
- 33. Canopy area of a tree, about half the root zone
- 35. Name shared by the US’ second longest river and 35th most populated state
- 37. Someone new to town, or moving a tree from one place to another
- 38. Sports league whose recent announcement spurred talk of “Liberty Belles,” among other possible puns
- 41. Volcano in Washington State, and the country’s snowiest location
- 43. Three-sided classifier that might help distinguish the beach from the pottery studio
- 46. Union ________: Spring Garden/Callowhill music venue and former home to a tire shop, a trust company, and a Spaghetti Warehouse restaurant
- 47. SI Unit of work, or an executive homophone
- 49. Warm spice created from the inner bark of a flowering tree native to southeast Asia
- 50. Penn’s preferred breakfast brand, perhaps
- 53. James Baldwin novel which lends its name to a Gayborhood bookstore
- 54. Informational speech about one’s water locality?
- 56. Nick and Nora’s canine sidekick in The Thin Man film series
- 57. Aang’s primary teacher of water bending in The Last Airbender
- 58. Hub of Philly nightlife, and home to Jim’s Steaks
Down
- 1. Reason for a chicken to see a priest?
- 2. Joni Mitchell holiday song off the record “Blue” that would be at home in the Office of Watersheds
- 3. “Lady Day,” Philadelphian jazz icon
- 4. Fairmount ______ ______? I sure hope it does!
- 6. Frontman of Maroon Five, or PWD’s resident historian
- 7. Yannick of the Philadelphia Orchestra
- 9. Wet winding western border of Philly
- 14. Jonathan Larson musical chronicling the five-hundred-twenty-five-thousand-six-hundred minutes between two December 24ths
- 16. Upstate group of freshwater bodies you’ve got to hand it to
- 17. Niagara Environmental disaster, or an exclamation from an enthused water resources engineer in Manayunk, perhaps
- 19. R&B singer with the current record for best-selling Christmas single of all time
- 20. “Snow Song” artist and lead singer of Big Thief
- 24. Most popular tree fir decorating?
- 26. Somewhat redundant name for a local summer dessert
- 27. Agency in charge of PA’s highways and bridges
- 29. How one might describe being overworked in a marsh
- 30. Name shared by a famed snowman and a fast-food dessert
- 34. The nation’s largest municipal building, which turned 124 this year
- 36. Less common “twin” of the London Plane Tree
- 39. Large cloud variety, or a tool to tidy Harry Potter’s house
- 40. Former island and current site of FDR Park
- 42. “Captain Fantastic;” performer of “Philadelphia Freedom”
- 44. Aquatic Del Torro Best Picture
- 45. Popular Irving Berlin Holiday song and title of a 1954 Bing Crosby film
- 48. Philly neighborhood fit for Freddie Mercury?
- 51. The Office’s Wilson, with a precipitous moniker
- 52. Not so simple water transportation machine worthy of shouting “eureka!”
- 55. First commissioner who lends his name to a drinking water plant