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)
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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