The New Yorker – May 11 2020 Crossword Solution
| Clues |
Answers |
| “Catch and Kill” writer Farrow |
RONAN |
| “Good heavens!” |
ISAY |
| “No Scrubs” trio |
TLC |
| “What’s the ___?” |
USE |
| 2015 climate-accord city |
PARIS |
| Archenemy of Green Lantern |
SINESTRO |
| Aristotle’s “Poetics” calls it the perfect tragedy |
OEDIPUSREX |
| Author of 29-Across |
POE |
| Bean in a pod? |
ALAN |
| Beatles song featuring Paul McCartney making barking sounds |
HEYBULLDOG |
| Big V, maybe |
GEESE |
| Blue-striped ball |
TEN |
| Border |
VERGE |
| Bowler’s feature |
BRIM |
| Broadband-connection inits |
DSL |
| Brought forth |
BEGOT |
| Capital known as the City of Trees |
BOISE |
| Catch |
ESPY |
| Collapse |
FALL |
| Conservative pundit who anchored “On the Record” after Greta Van Susteren |
BRITHUME |
| Cookies in some pie crusts |
OREOS |
| Current event? |
EDDY |
| Does a hit on |
OFFS |
| Early Android virtual assistant |
GOOGLENOW |
| Eighth-day rite |
BRIS |
| Equatorial Guinea joined it in 2017 |
OPEC |
| Eurasian bulbous herb |
CHIVE |
| Finnish rationalist Saarinen |
EERO |
| Floated, as a bad check |
KITED |
| Frankfurt School philosopher who said, “To those who no longer have a homeland, writing becomes home” |
THEODORADORNO |
| Frosted-tips shaper |
GEL |
| Get into shape? |
MOLD |
| Glam rock? |
GEM |
| Group of female seals |
HAREM |
| Clues |
Answers |
| HBO show that has defied the “Seinfeld curse” |
VEEP |
| Hip, with “in” |
CLUED |
| Hit the bottle |
TOPE |
| Homeroom response |
HERE |
| Hung out, maybe |
DRIED |
| In one piece |
UNCUT |
| Its trees were restored with magic soil from Lothlórien |
THESHIRE |
| James Brown book subtitled “A Memoir of a Life of Soul” |
IFEELGOOD |
| Like some points |
FINER |
| Mahershala of “Moonlight” |
ALI |
| Mary courted by Douglas before marrying Lincoln |
TODD |
| Meadow mamas |
EWES |
| Moxie |
GRIT |
| Musical work parodied in Looney Tunes’ “What’s Opera, Doc?” |
RINGCYCLE |
| Neapolitan-novels author Ferrante |
ELENA |
| Ni ___ |
HAO |
| Ones to hang with |
BUDS |
| Overworked |
RANRAGGED |
| Pathetic bunch |
SADLOT |
| Philosopher’s final cause |
TELOS |
| Pop of pop |
IGGY |
| Rapper born Carlton Ridenhour |
CHUCKD |
| Roast, e.g |
HONOR |
| Some intellectual forebears of 32-Across |
FREUDIANS |
| Some intellectual forebears of 32-Across |
MARXISTS |
| Sonny’s dad in “The Godfather” |
VITO |
| Source of false impressions online? |
BOT |
| Syllable of faux rebuke |
TUT |
| The King of Clay, familiarly |
RAFA |
| They might lead to castles |
CHESSOPENINGS |
| They’re found under layers |
EGGS |
| What pile fabric imitates |
FUR |
| With “The,” 1843 short story with a famously unreliable narrator |
TELLTALEHEART |
| Words after “Whoomp!” |
THEREITIS |