Times-Herald (Vallejo)

The New York Times Crossword

- Edited by Will Shortz

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

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