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

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 Props for some plays

His 2016 debut album unseated “Thriller” for the 12 13 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