"Atlas Shrugged" author Ayn Crossword Clue

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"Atlas Shrugged" author Ayn Crossword Answer

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(noun)
1. a rocky region in the southern Transvaal in northeastern South Africa; contains rich gold deposits and coal and manganese
2. United States writer (born in Russia) noted for her polemical novels and political conservativism (1905-1982)

Hint 2: Clue Definitions

AUTHOR (noun)
1. someone who originates or causes or initiates something
2. writes (books or stories or articles or the like) professionally (for pay)
AUTHOR (verb)
1. be the author of
ATLAS (noun)
1. the 1st cervical vertebra
2. a figure of a man used as a supporting column

Hint 3: Anagram

Unscramble the letters below to solve for today's answer.
DARN

More New Yorker Crossword (1/28/2026) Answers

Across

1. Raw fish dish

6. Part in need of a patch or a pump, perhaps

14. Church setting for some public displays of affection

15. Surface used when kneeling in the direction of Mecca

16. Prevent, with “off”

17. Vibrantly colored vegetables that turn pink when pickled

18. Rabbit's relative

19. Brewery tanks

20. Fine and ___ (hunky-dory)

21. Eleven- or twelve-year-old

23. Writer-director Guillermo ___ Toro

24. Racer on an ice rink

28. Notorious ___ (moniker for a longtime Supreme Court Justice)

31. Crustacean that scavenges empty shells for protection

32. Swanky charity event

33. Liability's opposite on a balance sheet

34. Boom box

35. Mount where Moses accidentally breaks a tablet containing some of God’s commandments, in Mel Brooks’s “History of the World: Part 1”

36. Limerick writer, e.g.

37. Ignoring the morning alarm, say

39. Superlative suffix

40. Money-hungry types who seek out affluent partners

41. Solemn promise

42. Bygone anesthetic

43. ___ of Levitation (capelike garment worn by Doctor Strange)

46. Lose structural integrity, as ice cream

48. Something to skip in an exercise routine?

51. Carrier with hubs in Toronto and Vancouver

53. Stored on a computer’s hard drive

54. Sir Paul who has twice been inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame

55. Beg

56. “Huh—well, moving on . . .”

57. Free transit option between Manhattan and Staten Island

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Down

1. Badge-adorned band on a Girl Scout’s uniform

2. Beauty superstore

3. Helpful gift for a newbie collector

4. “You look really familiar”

5. Feeling toward a sibling who has, yet again, ruined everything

6. Worry

7. Young chaps

8. “After the Hunt” star Edebiri

9. Like filet mignon, ideally

10. Proceeding that might be documented by a sketch artist

11. “And while ___ the subject . . .”

13. Online marketplace for artisans

15. Bart Simpson telephoning Moe’s Tavern to ask for Seymour Butz, e.g.

19. One of the three pieces of a three-piece suit

22. Do some wordsmithing

23. Nickname that drops "-orah"

24. Heart or diamond

25. Mexican money

26. One-___ bandit (slot machine)

27. Practice of not broadcasting in real time

28. British luxury S.U.V.

29. Former British prime minister Tony

30. Stock profits

32. Soda in some Shirley Temples

35. Sound that might accompany “Alas”

37. Piglet’s mom, for one

38. The ___ (medical drama starring Noah Wyle)

40. Small, four-wheeled racing vehicle

41. Brief getaway?

43. Fabric pattern often in shades of green and brown

44. Happy puppy’s “kiss”

45. Keiko, the titular whale of the podcast “The Good Whale,” for example

46. Horse's hair

47. Idyllic locale

49. Type of tree home to a perched partridge, in a Christmas song

50. Swirl in a stream

52. To the ___ degree

53. Letters on a Supergoop bottle

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