The New Yorker – Feb 3 2020 Crossword Solution
The New Yorker – Feb 3 2020 Crossword Solution
| Clues | Answers |
|---|---|
| “Angelus Novus” artist | KLEE |
| “Curb Your Enthusiasm” and “Black-ish” actor | WANDASYKES |
| “Downton Abbey” title | EARL |
| “Lord, teach ___ pray” (Luke 11:1) | USTO |
| “Tell all the ___ but tell it slant”: Emily Dickinson | TRUTH |
| “That’s wrong!” | ITISNT |
| “The Story of ___” (1975 Truffaut film) | ADELEH |
| “What’s your sign,” e.g | PICKUPLINE |
| “You’ve been ___ and generous”: Natalie Merchant | SOKIND |
| “___ Blindness” (Milton) | ONHIS |
| 1961 “space chimp” | ENOS |
| 5-Down, e.g | COMIC |
| Aghast | SHOCKED |
| Author of the “Outline” trilogy | RACHELCUSK |
| B or C of pop | MEL |
| Beatles song covered by Aretha Franklin, Ike and Tina Turner, and Nick Cave | LETITBE |
| Blissful places | EDENS |
| Bowling reservation | LANE |
| Breath-spray brand | BINACA |
| Business-speak for isolated departments | SILOS |
| Central Perk and Monk’s of TV | CAFES |
| Cloud-computing corporation | ORACLE |
| CRISPR unit | DNA |
| Début album by SZA that went platinum | CTRL |
| Deceptive move | FEINT |
| Deep fissure | CHASM |
| Director of “The Princess Bride” | REINER |
| Drives, as a bolt | DRILLSIN |
| Eins + zwei | DREI |
| Fails to catch? | MISHEARS |
| Finish | CAPOFF |
| Gave a hard time | HASSLED |
| Grier of “Foxy Brown” and “Jackie Brown” | PAM |
| Handel opera based on Greek myth | ATALANTA |
| Clues | Answers |
|---|---|
| Harold or Kumar | STONER |
| It has raised more than five billion dollars since its 2010 launch | GOFUNDME |
| Juice cleanse, e.g | CRASHDIET |
| Kind of fund or friend | MUTUAL |
| Launch an L.G.B.T.Q. Pride marketing campaign as damage control, say | PINKWASH |
| Léopold Sédar Senghor, theorist of “Négritude,” was its first President | SENEGAL |
| Like the inner matryoshka doll, compared to the outer | TINIER |
| Manhattan chaser? | ITE |
| Nineteen-sixties war zone, to G.I.s | NAM |
| Nineties music purchases | CDS |
| Old-timey exclamation | NERTS |
| One of the Corleones | FREDO |
| Performs way worse than is expected, say | CHOKES |
| Phrase on some soy sauces | LESSSALT |
| Plane-related | AERO |
| Police man? | STING |
| Prize | ESTEEM |
| Put in the pot | ANTED |
| Rapper Post ___ | MALONE |
| Region that includes India’s capital | DELHI |
| Relieves | ALLAYS |
| Rough fig | EST |
| Sea creatures resembling flowers of the same name | ANEMONES |
| Sine or cosine | RATIO |
| Skyscraper support | IBEAM |
| Some nasty fight-enders | ULTIMATUMS |
| Sports team V.I.P.s | GMS |
| Study, with “on” | READUP |
| They might be kept in lockets | MEMENTOS |
| They’re legally required for adults in every state except New Hampshire | SEATBELTS |
| Thrill | ELATE |
| Trust-fund kids | HEIRS |
| Very special delivery of 2019? | ARCHIE |
| ___ Work (band from down under that sang “Down Under”) | MENAT |