The new york times crossword

ACROSS

1 U.S. holiday beginning in 2021

11 Jumps out 15 First NPR reporter promoted to correspondent before age 30 16 Cousin of the Spanish chirimía or Italian piffero 17 Bluish-gray

pet 18 Waterfall

phenomenon 19 “Ugh!”

20 Up for

a drive?

21 They form lines for their work

22 Source of Manchego cheese 24 Something that isn’t assumed 26 High degree 30 “Out!”

31 Jump on

board?

32 See 34-Down 35 Product that may be sold by the yard

36 Org. that has more members in Africa than in the Mideast 37 Weakish

hands

38 Whi es 39 Comedian

Michael 40 Self-driving car company that started as a Google project 41 “Heaven

forbid!” 42 Occur

44 What a laborer’s hands may do over time

46 Horror movie franchise known for both its action and slapstick humor 49 “What’s the

___?”

50 Has, with “on” 51 Black or green

grocery items 53 “I heard you the first five times!”

57 2018 Literature Nobelist

Tokarc uk 58 TV bar with frequent health code violations overlooked by the city’s mayor 60 Move swiftly 61 Torn

62 Peat sources 63 Slow-growing

ornamental

DOWN

1 One standing

by a door 2 Orenburg’s

river

3 See 5-Down 4 Concerned with

beauty

5 With 3-Down, title setting of a 1937 Agatha Christie mystery

6 A time to dye? 7 Sport in which masks are worn 8 Improved, as

the weather

9 Work 10 Super-popular 11 One of the Claremont Colleges 12 Props for some

plays

13 His 2016 debut album unseated “Thriller” for the most weeks spent in the top 10 on Billboard’s R&B/Hip-Hop chart (77) 14 Spots

21 Walk like an

elephant 23 ___ hours 25 Senesces 26 Used for

freeloading 27 “Forever Young” band, 1984

28 Still not up,

say

29 Knock dead 33 Hoped-for

result 34 Shoe that can’t

be 32-Across 37 Window ___ 38 More than

skim through 40 Puts one and

one together? 41 Blast

43 Folds 45 Disruptive

board move 47 Square things 48 Particulars,

slangily 52 Eponym of the world’s largest tennis stadium 54 Game introduced to the U.S. by Chinese immigrants in the 19th century 55 Warcraft

meanies 56 Take a ___ 58 Video game

customi ation 59 Fore’s counterpart

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