The New Yorker – Nov 19 2018
Published in The New Yorker. Tags: CHANCETHERAPPER, Redbone Grammy, SWORE, TOROID.
| Clues | Answers |
| “Abolish ___,” immigration rallying cry on the left | ICE |
| “Can you turn the A.C. down?” | BRR |
| “Coloring Book” Grammy winner | CHANCETHERAPPER |
| “Crazy Blues” vocalist Smith | MAMIE |
| “Harry Potter” spell useful for those constantly losing their keys | ACCIO |
| “If on a Winter’s Night a Traveller” writer Calvino | ITALO |
| “It was considered a virtue not to talk unnecessarily at ___ … “: Hemingway | SEA |
| “Redbone” Grammy winner | CHILDISHGAMBINO |
| “Sure, go for it” | THATSFINE |
| “The Canterbury Tales” pilgrim | REEVE |
| “Was I right or was I right!” | SEE |
| “___ is no love child of jazz”: Charlie Parker | BOP |
| “___ mean a lot to me … “ | ITD |
| 1979 R. & B. No. 1 song with an oft-sampled “toot-toot, beep-beep” chant | BADGIRLS |
| 1996’s “Macarena” or 1972’s “School’s Out” | SUMMERHIT |
| 2008 Madonna album | HARDCANDY |
| According to | PER |
| Aim of many a meditation practice | MINDFULNESS |
| Aretha’s partner in a 1989 duet | ELTON |
| Avoid artfully | ELUDE |
| Bagel shape, in math-speak | TOROID |
| Buffer material | EMERY |
| Coconut ___ | OIL |
| Confucian text also known as the “Book of Changes” | ICHING |
| Connections | INS |
| Cooked on a spit, in French cuisine | ALABROCHE |
| Debate | ARGUE |
| Debbie of “Fame” | ALLEN |
| Della of “Touched by an Angel” | REESE |
| Designate | SET |
| Field for Kristeva and Barthes | SEMIOTICS |
| Fond of the side-eye or upside-down-smiley emoji, perhaps | SASSY |
| Gets | GRASPS |
| Grabs (onto) | GLOMS |
| Isolated department, in corporate-speak | SILO |
| It flows past Pisa | ARNO |
| Jumper’s line | HEM |
| Liberated | FREE |
| Lincoln-era topper | STOVEPIPE |
| Locked pinkies, say | SWORE |
| Love going to a few different parties? | POLYAMORY |
| Malar or vomer | BONE |
| Many a wedding invite, these days | ECARD |
| Mechanical solar-system model | ORRERY |
| Old film short | ONEREELER |
| Old-style serif typeface | GARAMOND |
| Padded part of a toy | PAW |
| Pelvic exercises | KEGELS |
| Point in California | REYES |
| Politician with a doctorate in quantum chemistry | MERKEL |
| Popular whole-grain cereal | KASHI |
| Prep tool for a cobbler, often | CORER |
| Program whose wheels get passed around | BIKESHARE |
| Put one’s foot down? | SPED |
| Reaganite program disparaged by Dukakis as a “magic gizmo”: Abbr | SDI |
| Results of flipping | HOMESALES |
| Salvadoran liberation theologist assassinated in 1980, beatified in 2015 | OSCARROMERO |
| Settlers of Catan resource | ORE |
| Shoots a message to, at work | PINGS |
| The Comte de la Fère, familiarly | ATHOS |
| Tool of the Man | COG |
| Turn out | ENDUP |
| Type on Grindr, maybe | MASC |
| Unit in electromagnetism | FARAD |
| Vaca’s mate | TORO |
| Watson’s creator | IBM |
| Wood tool for some drawers | RULER |
| ___ work, topic in the feminist economist Nancy Folbre’s research | CARE |
| ___ yum (hot-and-sour soup) | TOM |
| ___-haw | YEE |