The New Yorker – Oct 15 2018 Crossword Solution
The New Yorker – Oct 15 2018 Crossword Solution
| Clues | Answers |
|---|---|
| “I took the ___ back out of town / Back to the Rolling Pin”: the Who | TUBE |
| “My Life and the Beautiful Game” autobiographer | PELE |
| “Peace” | LATER |
| “Scratch any ___ and you will find a disappointed idealist”: George Carlin | CYNIC |
| “To be honest …” | INTRUTH |
| Abates | EBBS |
| Besmirch | TAR |
| Biological subdivisions | GENERA |
| Book-jacket part | FLAP |
| Bowerbird bower, e.g | NEST |
| Bun whose name may be an anglicized “soleil et lune” | SALLYLUNN |
| Campaign sparked by Tarana Burke | METOOMOVEMENT |
| Cancelled | NOGO |
| Chrome extension, e.g | WEBAPP |
| Collective-bargaining topic, maybe | RAISES |
| Comey and Mueller, once | GMEN |
| Congregant led by councils of elders | PRESBYTERIAN |
| Cry over spilled milk? | MEOW |
| Cyndi Lauper hit about masturbation | SHEBOP |
| Decay, as old book pages | MOLDER |
| Do some pitching, perhaps | ENCAMP |
| Doubleday of baseball lore | ABNER |
| Drink that’s part of many zen rituals | MATCHATEA |
| Emergency aid | RELIEF |
| Flynn Boyle of “Wayne’s World” | LARA |
| For a limited time, they came in Swedish Fish flavor | OREOS |
| Forebear of Brazilian Tropicália | CARMENMIRANDA |
| Frolicsome | COLTISH |
| God birthed by Isis in the Nile Delta marshlands | HORUS |
| Grand master? | PIANIST |
| Her 2009 book opens, “Suppose I were to begin by saying I had fallen in love with a color” | MAGGIENELSON |
| Indigo Girls singer Ray | AMY |
| Clues | Answers |
|---|---|
| It has pages for “M” and “Z” | ROTTENTOMATOES |
| It might get checked | FACT |
| Its first item is sometimes jokingly meta | TODOLIST |
| Java is in it | ASIA |
| Jazz keyboardist who composed “Spain” | COREA |
| Journalist Farrow | RONAN |
| Leader who nationalized the Suez Canal in 1956 | NASSER |
| Like My Chemical Romance | EMO |
| Manuel ___, author of “El destino de un continente” | UGARTE |
| Martin Luther King, Jr., called her the “Queen of American Folk Music” | ODETTA |
| Meet with ruin | PERISH |
| Opening piece | KNOB |
| Part of the Australian coat of arms | EMU |
| Participate in “Black Mirror” ‘s “Nosedive” dystopia | RATE |
| Place to play stickball | LOT |
| Rebel Alliance droid, jocularly | ARTOO |
| Regular high achiever? | STONER |
| Shakers and others | SECTS |
| Singer Lovato | DEMI |
| Son of Jor-El, on Earth | CLARK |
| Stone-and-ink print, in brief | LITHO |
| Subject of some company leaderboards | SALES |
| The Bar-Kays’ “Shake Your ___ to the Funk” | RUMP |
| They might be marked by rulers | ERAS |
| Tool helpful for crisps and pies | PARER |
| Trainer of goshawks, likely | FALCONER |
| Troubled | ATEAT |
| Unruly | RESTIVE |
| Vehicle with caterpillar treads | SNOCAT |
| What a skydiver might aim for? | ADRENALINERUSH |
| What nudniks do | PESTER |
| ___ Chimpsky, subject of a seminal study on language acquisition | NIM |