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 Whizzes 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 Tokarczuk
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
customization 59 Fore’s
counterpart