New Yorker Crossword December 8 2023 Answers (12/8/23)

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The New Yorker Crossword December 8, 2023 Answers

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« December 7 2023 Answers

Clue
Jon who won the Nobel Prize in Literature “for his innovative plays and prose which give voice to the unsayable” (October, 2023)
Netting
Character who says “Kiss me as if it were the last time” to Rick, in a 1942 film
Hot-pot mushroom
Highlight at the Sydney Opera House
Cultural inst. that is no longer open on Sundays, after its budget was cut by the Eric Adams administration (November, 2023)
Author of “The Fraud,” whose plot involves the celebrated nineteenth-century Tichborne case (September, 2023)
“What are you waiting for?!”
Words from someone with too much on their plate already
Hint of color
Plain dealing
Catton who wrote “Birnam Wood,” about the entanglement between a billionaire and a guerrilla environmental-activism group (March, 2023)
Herman Melville novel subtitled “A Narrative of Adventures in the South Seas”
Play the ball ___ the man
U.F.O. passengers
Hernan whose novel “Trust,” which tells the story of a Depression-era financier through four linked narratives, won the Pulitzer Prize for fiction (May, 2023)
Bankroll
“Angela’s ___” (1996 best-seller)
Spanish cheer that sounds like a French coffee order
By surprise
Like the novelist Nadifa Mohamed, by birth
Cline whose novel “The Guest” follows a young woman kicked out of her rich boyfriend’s beach house in the Hamptons (May, 2023)
“General Hospital” network
Gay dating app that had its I.P.O. in late 2022
Before long
Social-media community that helped propel Rebecca Yarros’s “Fourth Wing” to No. 1 on the Times best-seller list (July, 2023)
Going (for)
Fairy-tale villains
Grassy plain of South America
Geodesic ___ (energy-efficient home designed by Buckminster Fuller)
Author of “Let Us Descend,” about Annis, a enslaved girl who is separated from her mother and sold by her white father (October, 2023)
“And others,” for short
Most popular boys’ name of 2022, in the U.S.
Li who won the PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction for “The Book of Goose,” about a literary hoax concocted by two French teen-agers in the nineteen-fifties (April, 2023)
Alveoli, e.g.
Not deceived by
Last letter of the Greek alphabet
Flat-topped hat
“Ode ___ Grecian Urn”
Layer of turf
Go downhill fast?
Nursery-rhyme refrain sung to the tune “mi-mi-re-re-do”
2Pac’s “Dear ___”
The Emerald Isle
Curtis who said that her novel “Romantic Comedy” was inspired by “ ‘Saturday Night Live,’ my love of celebrity gossip, and my love of love” (April, 2023)
“Shows you!”
Setting of Abraham Verghese’s “The Covenant of Water” (May, 2023)
Natasha of “But I’m a Cheerleader”
Faucet
Takes in, say
Tussle
Half of octa-
Last few pages, sometimes
Martin whom Geoff Dyer elegized as “the most American English writer there has ever been” (May, 2023)
Lexicographer Webster
Nod (off)
Canterbury can
Author who described her book “Doppelganger” as being about “the horror of the society that flips fascist from within” (September, 2023)
Bob who won the 2016 Nobel Prize in Literature
Some U.S.M.C. officers
E-mail sign-off
Mine, in Nîmes
Slangy summons
Han whose “Greek Lessons” is about a woman with aphonia and her language teacher, who is going blind (trans. April, 2023)
Metal precioso
“What doubt is to science, ___ is to personal life”: Søren Kierkegaard
They’re frequently described as humble
Closest capital to Quito
McCarthy whom Stephen King elegized as “maybe the greatest American novelist of my time” (June, 2023)
Boat backbones
2018 Hayao Miyazaki film about a goldfish who longs to be human
Hurdle for a future J.D.
BBs, e.g.
“If You Had My Love” singer, for short
“Paris, Texas” director Wenders
House vote
Bit of home décor that may be hand-knotted
___ testing

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