diff --git a/pandas/tests/extension/base/groupby.py b/pandas/tests/extension/base/groupby.py
index 30b115b9dba6f..d93afef60561a 100644
--- a/pandas/tests/extension/base/groupby.py
+++ b/pandas/tests/extension/base/groupby.py
@@ -1,5 +1,7 @@
 import pytest
 
+from pandas.compat.numpy import is_numpy_dev
+
 import pandas as pd
 import pandas._testing as tm
 from pandas.tests.extension.base.base import BaseExtensionTests
@@ -73,6 +75,10 @@ def test_groupby_extension_apply(self, data_for_grouping, groupby_apply_op):
         df.groupby("A").apply(groupby_apply_op)
         df.groupby("A").B.apply(groupby_apply_op)
 
+    # Non-strict bc these xpass on dt64tz, Period, Interval, JSON, PandasArray
+    @pytest.mark.xfail(
+        is_numpy_dev, reason="2021-03-02 #40144 expecting fix in numpy", strict=False
+    )
     def test_groupby_apply_identity(self, data_for_grouping):
         df = pd.DataFrame({"A": [1, 1, 2, 2, 3, 3, 1, 4], "B": data_for_grouping})
         result = df.groupby("A").B.apply(lambda x: x.array)
diff --git a/pandas/tests/extension/test_boolean.py b/pandas/tests/extension/test_boolean.py
index 3ef3beaa9c1b1..89991a459795e 100644
--- a/pandas/tests/extension/test_boolean.py
+++ b/pandas/tests/extension/test_boolean.py
@@ -16,6 +16,8 @@
 import numpy as np
 import pytest
 
+from pandas.compat.numpy import is_numpy_dev
+
 import pandas as pd
 import pandas._testing as tm
 from pandas.core.arrays.boolean import BooleanDtype
@@ -320,6 +322,7 @@ def test_groupby_extension_apply(self, data_for_grouping, groupby_apply_op):
         df.groupby("A").apply(groupby_apply_op)
         df.groupby("A").B.apply(groupby_apply_op)
 
+    @pytest.mark.xfail(is_numpy_dev, reason="2021-03-02 #40144 expecting fix in numpy")
     def test_groupby_apply_identity(self, data_for_grouping):
         df = pd.DataFrame({"A": [1, 1, 2, 2, 3, 3, 1], "B": data_for_grouping})
         result = df.groupby("A").B.apply(lambda x: x.array)