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 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