Daily solution for the The New Yorker Crossword Clues Friday, 8 December 2023 by Anna Shechtman. The New Yorker Crosswords are very hard sometimes, with our help you will be able to finish the tricky definitions.
Below you will find all the answers for the The New Yorker Crossword Clues Friday, 8 December 2023 divided to 2 sections, Across clues and Down Clues.
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Across
Number |
Clues |
Answers |
1 |
Jon who won the Nobel Prize in Literature “for his innovative plays and prose which give voice to the unsayable” (October, 2023) |
FOSSE |
6 |
Netting |
MESH |
10 |
Character who says “Kiss me as if it were the last time” to Rick, in a 1942 film |
ILSA |
14 |
Hot-pot mushroom |
ENOKI |
15 |
Highlight at the Sydney Opera House |
ARIA |
16 |
Cultural inst. that is no longer open on Sundays, after its budget was cut by the Eric Adams administration (November, 2023) |
NYPL |
17 |
Author of “The Fraud,” whose plot involves the celebrated nineteenth-century Tichborne case (September, 2023) |
ZADIESMITH |
19 |
“What are you waiting for?!” |
DOIT |
20 |
Words from someone with too much on their plate already |
ICANT |
21 |
Hint of color |
TINGE |
22 |
Plain dealing |
CANDOR |
26 |
Catton who wrote “Birnam Wood,” about the entanglement between a billionaire and a guerrilla environmental-activism group (March, 2023) |
ELEANOR |
28 |
Herman Melville novel subtitled “A Narrative of Adventures in the South Seas” |
OMOO |
29 |
Play the ball ___ the man |
ANDNOT |
32 |
U.F.O. passengers |
ETS |
33 |
Hernan whose novel “Trust,” which tells the story of a Depression-era financier through four linked narratives, won the Pulitzer Prize for fiction (May, 2023) |
DIAZ |
34 |
Bankroll |
PAYFOR |
35 |
“Angela’s ___” (1996 best-seller) |
ASHES |
37 |
Spanish cheer that sounds like a French coffee order |
OLE |
38 |
By surprise |
ABACK |
43 |
Like the novelist Nadifa Mohamed, by birth |
SOMALI |
46 |
Cline whose novel “The Guest” follows a young woman kicked out of her rich boyfriend’s beach house in the Hamptons (May, 2023) |
EMMA |
47 |
“General Hospital” network |
ABC |
50 |
Gay dating app that had its I.P.O. in late 2022 |
GRINDR |
51 |
Before long |
SOON |
52 |
Social-media community that helped propel Rebecca Yarros’s “Fourth Wing” to No. 1 on the Times best-seller list (July, 2023) |
BOOKTOK |
54 |
Going (for) |
OPTING |
56 |
Fairy-tale villains |
OGRES |
57 |
Grassy plain of South America |
LLANO |
60 |
Geodesic ___ (energy-efficient home designed by Buckminster Fuller) |
DOME |
61 |
Author of “Let Us Descend,” about Annis, a enslaved girl who is separated from her mother and sold by her white father (October, 2023) |
JESMYNWARD |
66 |
“And others,” for short |
ETAL |
67 |
Most popular boys’ name of 2022, in the U.S. |
LIAM |
68 |
Li who won the PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction for “The Book of Goose,” about a literary hoax concocted by two French teen-agers in the nineteen-fifties (April, 2023) |
YIYUN |
69 |
Alveoli, e.g. |
SACS |
70 |
Not deceived by |
ONTO |
71 |
Last letter of the Greek alphabet |
OMEGA |
Down
Number |
Clues |
Answers |
1 |
Flat-topped hat |
FEZ |
22 |
Last few pages, sometimes |
CODA |
47 |
They’re frequently described as humble |
ABODES |
2 |
“Ode ___ Grecian Urn” |
ONA |
23 |
Martin whom Geoff Dyer elegized as “the most American English writer there has ever been” (May, 2023) |
AMIS |
48 |
Closest capital to Quito |
BOGOTA |
3 |
Layer of turf |
SOD |
24 |
Lexicographer Webster |
NOAH |
49 |
McCarthy whom Stephen King elegized as “maybe the greatest American novelist of my time” (June, 2023) |
CORMAC |
4 |
Go downhill fast? |
SKI |
25 |
Nod (off) |
DOZE |
53 |
Boat backbones |
KEELS |
5 |
Nursery-rhyme refrain sung to the tune “mi-mi-re-re-do” |
EIEIO |
36 |
Some U.S.M.C. officers |
SSGTS |
18 |
Tussle |
SCRAP |
44 |
Metal precioso |
ORO |
61 |
“If You Had My Love” singer, for short |
JLO |
6 |
2Pac’s “Dear ___” |
MAMA |
30 |
Author who described her book “Doppelganger” as being about “the horror of the society that flips fascist from within” (September, 2023) |
NAOMIKLEIN |
7 |
The Emerald Isle |
ERIN |
31 |
Bob who won the 2016 Nobel Prize in Literature |
DYLAN |
58 |
Hurdle for a future J.D. |
LSAT |
8 |
Curtis who said that her novel “Romantic Comedy” was inspired by “ ‘Saturday Night Live,’ my love of celebrity gossip, and my love of love” (April, 2023) |
SITTENFELD |
59 |
BBs, e.g. |
AMMO |
9 |
“Shows you!” |
HAH |
27 |
Canterbury can |
LOO |
45 |
“What doubt is to science, ___ is to personal life”: Søren Kierkegaard |
IRONY |
21 |
Half of octa- |
TETRA |
55 |
2018 Hayao Miyazaki film about a goldfish who longs to be human |
PONYO |
10 |
Setting of Abraham Verghese’s “The Covenant of Water” (May, 2023) |
INDIA |
39 |
E-mail sign-off |
BEST |
62 |
“Paris, Texas” director Wenders |
WIM |
11 |
Natasha of “But I’m a Cheerleader” |
LYONNE |
40 |
Mine, in Nîmes |
AMOI |
63 |
House vote |
AYE |
12 |
Faucet |
SPIGOT |
41 |
Slangy summons |
CMON |
64 |
Bit of home décor that may be hand-knotted |
RUG |
13 |
Takes in, say |
ALTERS |
42 |
Han whose “Greek Lessons” is about a woman with aphonia and her language teacher, who is going blind (trans. April, 2023) |
KANG |
65 |
___ testing |
DNA |