Fiction authors? Crossword Clue

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Hint 1: Clue Definition

FICTION (noun)
1. a deliberately false or improbable account
2. a literary work based on the imagination and not necessarily on fact

Hint 2: Anagram

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More New Yorker Crossword (11/5/2025) Answers

Across

1. Tooth pain

5. Lose traction on an icy sidewalk, say

9. Features of distressed jeans

13. Tree limb

15. Christmas candy shape

16. The Buckeye State

17. Like books with lots of big words?

19. Typical high school student

20. Sang the praises of

21. ___ public (official who certifies documents)

23. Seating for the masses?

24. Brings in food for an event

25. “That’s exactly what I was thinking!”

30. Possessed

31. Wearable hotel amenities

32. Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade day: Abbr.

35. Sneakers since 1916

36. Attacks, à la Dracula

37. “___ Is Spinal Tap”

38. Type of poem that’s a homophone of 26-Down

39. Party gift

41. Thrill ride that anagrams to “terror’s locale”

44. "Objects in mirror are closer than they ___"

45. Sprinted

46. Like the egg whites in a soufflé

47. Place for a parakeet

52. Coffee containers at a banquet

53. Chowder leftovers?

55. What a Pirate might have on hand?

56. Governess Jane created by Charlotte Brontë

57. First in the rankings

58. Coin in Cozumel

59. Rooms for recliners

60. “Our ___” (Thornton Wilder play set in Grover’s Corners)

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Down

1. Qualified

2. Gently persuade

3. Injured

4. Frozen-waffle brand with a Chocolatey Chip Banana variety

5. Vodka-and-orange-juice cocktail

6. Dismissed from a job, with “off”

7. Cozy lodging for a leaf-peeping weekend, perhaps

8. Terms of endearment

9. Way past ripe

10. “Hey, whisper a little quieter if you don’t want me listening in!”

11. Boat-docking spots

12. PlayStation 5 maker

14. Assisted

18. 'Not guilty,' for example

22. ___ Spunkmeyer (baked-goods company)

24. Phishing, identity theft, and the like

25. Tokyo-born singer and artist Ono

26. Was indebted to

27. Captain ___ (book series featuring a tighty-whities-clad superhero)

28. Low-___ image

29. The “M” of D.M.V.

33. Bring on new employees

34. Cold War superpower

36. Like some budgets and breakfasts

37. 'Twas, now

39. Make a break for it

40. “Mateys, I see the shore!”

42. Decides that one will

43. Rowboat rowers

44. American Eagle sister brand named for an eagle’s nest

46. Baby ___ (visible sign of pregnancy)

47. Farm building

48. $0.01

49. Vocal range lower than soprano

50. Display bioluminescence

51. Channel broadcast in many bars

54. Chemical used for drain cleaning and pretzel-making

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