The New Yorker – Nov 19 2018 Crossword Solution
Clues |
Answers |
“Abolish ___,” immigration rallying cry on the left |
ICE |
“Can you turn the A.C. down?” |
BRR |
“Coloring Book” Grammy winner |
CHANCETHERAPPER |
“Crazy Blues” vocalist Smith |
MAMIE |
“Harry Potter” spell useful for those constantly losing their keys |
ACCIO |
“If on a Winter’s Night a Traveller” writer Calvino |
ITALO |
“It was considered a virtue not to talk unnecessarily at ___ … “: Hemingway |
SEA |
“Redbone” Grammy winner |
CHILDISHGAMBINO |
“Sure, go for it” |
THATSFINE |
“The Canterbury Tales” pilgrim |
REEVE |
“Was I right or was I right!” |
SEE |
“___ is no love child of jazz”: Charlie Parker |
BOP |
“___ mean a lot to me … “ |
ITD |
1979 R. & B. No. 1 song with an oft-sampled “toot-toot, beep-beep” chant |
BADGIRLS |
1996’s “Macarena” or 1972’s “School’s Out” |
SUMMERHIT |
2008 Madonna album |
HARDCANDY |
According to |
PER |
Aim of many a meditation practice |
MINDFULNESS |
Aretha’s partner in a 1989 duet |
ELTON |
Avoid artfully |
ELUDE |
Bagel shape, in math-speak |
TOROID |
Buffer material |
EMERY |
Coconut ___ |
OIL |
Confucian text also known as the “Book of Changes” |
ICHING |
Connections |
INS |
Cooked on a spit, in French cuisine |
ALABROCHE |
Debate |
ARGUE |
Debbie of “Fame” |
ALLEN |
Della of “Touched by an Angel” |
REESE |
Designate |
SET |
Field for Kristeva and Barthes |
SEMIOTICS |
Fond of the side-eye or upside-down-smiley emoji, perhaps |
SASSY |
Gets |
GRASPS |
Grabs (onto) |
GLOMS |
Isolated department, in corporate-speak |
SILO |
Clues |
Answers |
It flows past Pisa |
ARNO |
Jumper’s line |
HEM |
Liberated |
FREE |
Lincoln-era topper |
STOVEPIPE |
Locked pinkies, say |
SWORE |
Love going to a few different parties? |
POLYAMORY |
Malar or vomer |
BONE |
Many a wedding invite, these days |
ECARD |
Mechanical solar-system model |
ORRERY |
Old film short |
ONEREELER |
Old-style serif typeface |
GARAMOND |
Padded part of a toy |
PAW |
Pelvic exercises |
KEGELS |
Point in California |
REYES |
Politician with a doctorate in quantum chemistry |
MERKEL |
Popular whole-grain cereal |
KASHI |
Prep tool for a cobbler, often |
CORER |
Program whose wheels get passed around |
BIKESHARE |
Put one’s foot down? |
SPED |
Reaganite program disparaged by Dukakis as a “magic gizmo”: Abbr |
SDI |
Results of flipping |
HOMESALES |
Salvadoran liberation theologist assassinated in 1980, beatified in 2015 |
OSCARROMERO |
Settlers of Catan resource |
ORE |
Shoots a message to, at work |
PINGS |
The Comte de la Fère, familiarly |
ATHOS |
Tool of the Man |
COG |
Turn out |
ENDUP |
Type on Grindr, maybe |
MASC |
Unit in electromagnetism |
FARAD |
Vaca’s mate |
TORO |
Watson’s creator |
IBM |
Wood tool for some drawers |
RULER |
___ work, topic in the feminist economist Nancy Folbre’s research |
CARE |
___ yum (hot-and-sour soup) |
TOM |
___-haw |
YEE |