Enclosures for glowing, shape-shifting forms Crossword Clue

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SHIFTING (adjective)
1. (of soil) unstable
2. changing position or direction
SHIFTING (noun)
1. the act of moving from one place to another

More New Yorker Crossword (2/9/2026) Answers

Across

1. Winners of some end-of-season votes, briefly

5. Tailless creatures

9. Fronts

13. Bagel relative

14. Reason for having cold feet, perhaps

16. Like some elephants and black bears

18. Onions, celery, and green bell peppers, in Cajun cuisine

20. Bud

21. Larger of Mars’s two moons

22. “Whoa, what a story”

24. Manipulate precisely

27. Wax target

28. Let's do it!

29. Answers, in a way

34. Taunt, with “on”

35. Go back from the front?

36. Avril Lavigne’s “Sk8er ___”

37. Tag location, sometimes

39. Narrow piece

40. Nonstick cookware brand

41. Court dances in triple time

43. Doesn't wear out

45. Supply, as background music

47. "That's so annoying..."

48. What Luke Skywalker vows never to turn to

53. Spend money gratuitously?

55. Genre centered around illusions

56. Bold alternative

57. Deduction’s basis

58. Instruction from a proofreader

59. Dwarf, e.g.

60. On

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Down

1. Fermented paste

2. Largest ski resort in Colorado by acreage

3. Recreational space with a low barrier to entry?

4. Sounding boards?

5. Free

6. Softly, to an orchestra

7. Singer featured thrice in a 1963 Andy Warhol painting

8. __ of government

9. Like

10. Like

11. Stone such as the National Museum of Natural History’s ten-pound American Golden

12. "Ur so right"

13. Exclamation of contempt

15. Use a long fishing rod

19. Southwestern town whose baseball team is aptly called the Invaders

23. Part of a leaf

24. Noble ___ (trees found in the Pacific Northwest)

25. Desktop option

26. Eggplant, for one

27. More intoxicating

30. Glass heard on the radio

31. Kind of final

32. Layer of film, e.g.

33. Beginners’ purchases, perhaps

35. Pan frequently used with a rack

38. “The evil that men do lives after them; The good is ___ interred with their bones”: Shakespeare

39. Relatively cool patch that’s still extremely hot

42. First name of the Nuggets superstar nicknamed the Joker

43. California-based fast-fashion brand

44. Entertainment-industry figure

45. ___ four (bite-size treat)

46. Kristen’s “Frozen” co-star

49. Dutch Golden Age painter Frans

50. “Aladdin” character voiced by Gilbert Gottfried

51. Basic coffee option

52. “I don’t need to keep going”: Abbr.

54. Certain animal-shelter employee

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