The New Yorker – May 6 2019
Published in The New Yorker. Tags: COT, GECKOS, HITS, TWIT.
| Clues | Answers |
| “Avatar” language | NAVI |
| “Ça m’est ___” | EGAL |
| “Central Park Reel” composer Lukas | FOSS |
| “Orinoco Flow” genre | NEWAGE |
| “Say Yeah” rapper whose surname means “successor” in Arabic | WIZKHALIFA |
| “To Live and Die ___” | INLA |
| “___ crying out loud!” | OHFOR |
| “___ Theme” (“Doctor Zhivago” melody) | LARAS |
| Ad-agency creations | SLOGANS |
| Airhead | TWIT |
| Alsatian creation with a caramelized filling | ONIONTART |
| Arctic digs | IGLOO |
| Aristotle’s “waking dream” | HOPE |
| Automaker headquartered in Hiroshima | MAZDA |
| Bankbook abbr | INT |
| Be relaxed | STAYLOOSE |
| Biblical kingdom | ELAM |
| Bivouac bed | COT |
| Bumbler’s cry | OOPS |
| Cadenzas, e.g | SOLI |
| Chirping reptiles | GECKOS |
| Colleague of Clarence and Sonia | ELENA |
| Coral-reef dweller | EEL |
| Daily ___ (political blog) | KOS |
| Devoured the Neapolitan novels, say | BINGEREAD |
| Do a slow burn | SEETHE |
| Earth, to Mahler | ERDE |
| Easy job for a projectionist | ONEREELER |
| Eggs, to an oologist | OVA |
| Emily Dickinson’s “For every Bird ___” | ANEST |
| Exposed pranksters | STREAKERS |
| Grassy expanses | LEAS |
| Hair dryer | TOWEL |
| Hank Aaron’s 3,771 | HITS |
| Icing on the cake, often | VANILLAFROSTING |
| Imitative or silly | APISH |
| Implore | URGE |
| Jennifer’s co-star in “The Hunger Games” | LIAM |
| Least refined | RAWEST |
| Like Bo Peep’s flock | OVINE |
| MacArthur-grant-winning cartoonist Bechdel | ALISON |
| Major League V.I.P.s | MGRS |
| Massenet opera that premiéred in 1884 | MANON |
| Mooring spot | PIER |
| Mops up | CLEANS |
| Morsels in a shepherd’s pie | PEAS |
| Olympic swimmer Janet known for her unconventional “windmill” stroke | EVANS |
| Ordained group | CLERGY |
| Poet Juana ___ de la Cruz | INES |
| Potala Palace city | LHASA |
| Prefix with scope or morph | ENDO |
| Pushes to the limit | TESTS |
| Rickety ship | TUB |
| Saint Teresa’s birthplace | AVILA |
| Sketched | DREW |
| Some auto-repair-shop applications | PAINTJOBS |
| Sonny Rollins song débuted by Miles Davis and performed by John Coltrane | OLEO |
| Sorts (through) | SIFTS |
| Submarine-shaped lunch | HERO |
| Taking care of business | ONIT |
| Total | WRECK |
| Trowel-wielding artisan | PLASTERER |
| U.S.N.A. rank | ENS |
| Veep between Hubert and Gerald | SPIRO |
| Vintage stickers? | WINELABELS |
| Wee warbler | TOMTIT |
| Well-populated areas? | OILFIELDS |
| Wheedle | CAJOLE |
| Winter Olympics squad | SKITEAM |
| Without end, in poetry | ETERNE |
| Yale grad Whitney | ELI |
| ___ Club | SAMS |