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ACROSS
1 Thing with pads
and claws
4 Wanders
9 Rod, reel, tackle
box, etc., for a
fisher
13 Olympic Dream
Team inits.
14 Place in a
mausoleum
16 ___ Tokarczuk,
2018 Literature
Nobelist
17 Raiser of the
dead?
19 Musk who
founded SpaceX
20 Brainstorms
21 Go by, as time
23 Young Scottish
lady
24 Financial aid
for college that
doesn’t need to
be repaid
27 Country whose
name becomes
another country
if you change the
last letter to a Q
29 Person with a
basket or cart
31 Mixed-breed
dog that’s part
spaniel
35 “Keen!”
36 “That’s ___ from
me” (refusal)
37 Arthropod that
can roll into a ball40 Melted
chocolate, e.g.
41 Word before mall
or poker
43 Right to cross
someone else’s
land
45 Unlucky
48 Start of a
newspaper
article, in
journalese
49 Busy person
just before an
election
51 Pledge drive
giveaway
55 Fix, as a shoe
56 Insects that love
wool
57 Appropriate
initials of “stuff
we all get”
59 Lures for
magazine readers
62 Tiny bit
63 Minneapolis’s
twin city
64 Defining period
65 Banana leftover
66 Cosmetician
Lauder
67 Singer Lana Del
___DOWN
1 Necessity for a
teacher
2 Carne ___
(grilled beef dish)3 Home of Cardiff
and Swansea
4 Yanks’ foes
5 Number said just
before “Liftoff!”
6 ___ snail’s pace
7 Edible
mushroom with a
honeycomb cap
8 Gets a whiff of
9 Flips out
10 Best Actress
nominee for
“Juno”
11 “A long time
___ in a galaxy
far, far away ...”
(“Star Wars” intro)
12 Tried to get
elected
15 “Erin go ___!”
18 Elective eye
surgery
22 Having tines24 Big ___,
nickname of
baseball’s David
Ortiz
25 Unstable
chemical
compound
26 Grand ___
National Park
28 Comes down a
mountain, in a
way
30 Rummage
(around)
31 Alternative to
Venmo
32 Like some beer
at a bar
33 Related to big
business
34 Cry to a toreador
38 Hay unit
39 For whom a
product designer
designs
42 Against the law44 Trending hashtag
beginning in 2017
46 Dots on a transit
map
47 What lieutenants
do to captains
50 “Trees” in
underwater
forests
52 It’s said to have
the thickest fur
of any mammal
53 When repeated,
comforting words
54 Op-ed piece, e.g.
56 Farm animal that
kicks
57 Sample a soda,
say
58 Tribulation
60 Back muscle, for
short
61 “What?,” in
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HERE I GO ERASURE
ARTROSS SNOT TYPop critics for The New York
Times weigh in on notable new
songs and videos.Burna Boy
20 10 20. ...................................................................
The title of Burna Boy’s mournful
but impassioned new song “20 10
20” refers to the date of the
deadly events last month in the
suburb of Lekki in Nigeria, when
security forces opened fire on a
crowd peacefully protesting state
police brutality by the Special
Anti-Robbery Squad, known as
SARS. Like much in the excellent
recent album “Twice as Tall,” “20
10 20” filters political rumination
through a prism of deeply felt
personal emotions: “Suffer, suffer,
water runaway my eyes,” he
croons. But Burna Boy also draws
strength from the revolutionary
spirit of his lodestar, Fela Kuti, to
whom he nods when he sings,
“Everything done scatter, scatter.”
LINDSAY ZOLADZ
Maluma and the Weeknd
HAWÁI REMIX. ...................................................................
The Weeknd doesn’t just add
English lyrics — and his own first
vocals in Spanish — to the remix
of Maluma’s international hit
“Hawái.” In his crisp reggaeton
ballad, Maluma sang about an ex
who was showing off her new
romance and tropical vacation on
Instagram as a way to make him
jealous; he was sure she was
lying to herself. The Weeknd adds
a back story — sweetly crooned
with a resentful undercurrent —
that brackets Maluma’s song with
verses about how he wanted a
baby but not a marriage, making
the situation even more twisted.
JON PARELES
Jade Bird
HEADSTART. ...................................................................
Jade Bird’s music is a trans-
Atlantic hybrid: Though the
23-year-old singer and songwriter
is British, she grew up enamored
with the folk and country music of
the American South. With its
punchy guitars and bright melo-
dy, “Headstart,” the first single
from her forthcoming second
album, represents the poppier
side of Bird’s sound, but an explo-
sive chorus shows off the distinct,
raspy twang of her vocals —
which somehow find common
ground between Lucinda Williams
and Alanis Morissette. “I know us
girls aren’t easy, but come on,”
she hollers, exasperated, at the
oblivious object of her affection.
“I’ve given you a head start.”
LINDSAY ZOLADZDodie
COOL GIRL. ...................................................................
Syncopated plucked strings ac-
company Dodie’s breathy, drowsy
voice as she wrestles with how
much she’d subdue herself to
please someone else: “I swore I
wouldn’t play the age-old game,”
she sings, but then she vows, “I’ll
be quiet/I’ll be easy.” A beat
arrives, along with backing voices
and swelling strings, only to
abandon her before the song
ends. In the video clip, she dances
with a group of women, some-
times in sync and sometimes not;
at the end, she’s alone.
JON PARELES
Fred Hersch
WOULDN’T IT BE LOVERLY. ...................................................................
Sitting at home, hiding out from
the pandemic and unable to jam
with his usual bandmates, Fred
Hersch had the company of his
50-year-old Steinway grand pi-
ano. You can feel what a comfort
it’s been on “Songs From Home,”
an unpretentious, quietly mirthful
album covering tunes from across
the spectrum of 20th-century
American music. A masterful
musician who turned 65 last
month, Hersch establishes the
album’s generous spirit on its
opening track, “Wouldn’t It Be
Loverly,” from “My Fair Lady.” He
instills the tune with a tenderness
and a distant longing, leaving
space, putting a special focus on
the harmonies that get along
most easily with each other, chan-
neling Hank Jones’s quietly glow-
ing treatment of American spiri-
tuals.
GIOVANNI RUSSONELLOÓlafur Arnalds
WOVEN SONG. ...................................................................
The Icelandic keyboardist and
composer Ólafur Arnalds draws
mystery from seeming simplicity
in “Woven Song” from his new
album, “Some Kind of Peace.” He
devised a Minimalist piano waltz
to accompany an icaro, a healing
song from an Amazonian shaman
who has a whispery high voice. A
string section quietly wafts in yet
ends up being all that’s left, sus-
taining chords like the waltz’s
ghostly memories.
JON PARELES
Nothing
APRIL HA HA. ...................................................................
“April Ha Ha,” from the Philadel-
phia band Nothing’s immersive
new record “The Great Dismal,”
is as pummeling and purifying as
a sudden downpour. Combining
elements of shoegaze, metal and
anthemic rock, Nothing’s sound
buries the bleak, poetic musings
of the frontman Domenic Palermo
beneath crushing waves of guitar,
though they occasionally recede
and bring his voice into striking
clarity. On such a moment in the
middle of “April Ha Ha,” the Philly
scene fixture Alex G makes a
vocal cameo, musing, “Isn’t it
strange, watching people try to
outrun rain?” As the guitars kick
back in at full volume, he repeats
that refrain until its vivid imagery
starts to feel genuinely surreal.
LINDSAY ZOLADZKaren O
and Willie Nelson
UNDER PRESSURE. ...................................................................
Hit the pop-rock-country random-
izer and... voilà. Willie Nelson
and Karen O (from the Yeah Yeah
Yeahs) have remade the David
Bowie-Queen collaboration “Un-
der Pressure” as a more or less
acoustic ballad. The piano hook —
the one Vanilla Ice would redis-
cover — appears at beginning and
end, but most of the song is an
acoustic guitar and pedal-steel
reverie that focuses on exposed
voices and words: “This is our
last dance, this is ourselves/
under pressure,” they sing, more
or less together.
JON PARELES
Michael Penn
A REVIVAL. ...................................................................
Michael Penn’s first song in 15
years, “A Revival,” swells from
modest parlor-piano hymn to
robust chorus as it reflects on
privilege, hubris, narcissism and
the long-awaited restoration of a
“commonweal.” It promises,
“Soon you’ll be gone.” The video
makes its target clearer.
JON PARELES
Bree Runway featuring
Missy Elliott
ATM. ...................................................................
The British rapper Bree Runway
enlisted none other than Missy
Elliott to join her on “ATM,” a
cheerfully mercantile electro-rap
boast that conflates sexiness and
monetary value: “Put some cash
all in my deposit,” she urges.
JON PARELES
PLAYLIST
A Cry for Nigeria, and Nine More New Songs
Burna Boy’s new song “20 10 20” refers to a notable date.STEFANIE KEENAN/GETTY IMAGESThe emerging Chicago rapper King Von
was one of three people shot and killed in
Atlanta early Friday morning during an al-
tercation that involved both on- and off-duty
police officers attempting to break up a
fight, the Atlanta Police Department said.
King Von, born Dayvon Bennett, 26, was
among two groups of men who began argu-
ing outside the Monaco Hookah Lounge,
near downtown, around 3:20 a.m., leading
to gunfire, the authorities said in a state-
ment on Friday. Two off-duty Atlanta police
officers were working security at the lounge
and an on-duty officer was patrolling
nearby, they said. Two officers confronted
the shooters, leading to additional shots.
The police said that three people were
discovered at the scene with gunshot
wounds and transported to the hospital,
while three others, including King Von, left
the scene and were taken to the hospital by
private vehicles. No officers were injured in
the shooting, the police said.
The police said on Saturday afternoon
that one of those hospitalized, Timothy
Leeks, 22, was already considered in police
custody, facing a charge of felony murder.
“At this time, our investigators believe
Mr. Bennett was shot during the initial
shootout between the two groups of males,
prior to police responding and attempting
to stop the shooting,” the Atlanta police
said, adding that the Georgia Bureau of In-
vestigation was called in to investigate the
officers’ conduct. “Part of the investigations
will include determining which individuals
were struck by gunfire from the suspects
and whether any were struck by gunfire
from the officers.”
King Von was a Chicago native, hailing
from Parkway Gardens, the low-income
apartments located in the area known as
O’Block on the city’s South
Side. He recently released his
third album, “Welcome to
O’Block,” to success on stream-
ing services. He was enmeshed
in Chicago’s drill scene, along-
side artists like Chief Keef and
Lil Durk, who signed King Von
to his record label, Only the
Family Entertainment, where
he developed a reputation for
vivid, street-level storytelling.
After spending his teenage
years in and out of prison in
Chicago, King Von had moved
to Atlanta to focus on his music
career. “I like the people more
in Chicago, but it’s just smarter
to live at where I am now,” he
said in an interview this summer.
A year earlier, King Von had been ar-
rested in Atlanta, along with Lil Durk, and
charged with attempted murder, among
other felonies, for what prosecutors said
was their role in a robbery outside a local
fast-food restaurant, the Varsity. Both men
were later released on bond, and the case
remained open.
The rapper was mourned on social media
by artists including Chance the Rapper, Lil
Yachty and YG.Rising Rapper
Is Killed in Atlanta
By JOE COSCARELLIKing Von was
shot days after
releasing his
third album.