NEW YORK TIMES DAILY 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 Superpopular

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