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 |