"Russian Doll" protagonist Crossword Clue

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"Russian Doll" protagonist Crossword Answer

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RUSSIAN (noun)
1. a native or inhabitant of Russia
2. the Slavic language that is the official language of Russia
PROTAGONIST (noun)
1. a person who backs a politician or a team etc.
2. the principal character in a work of fiction

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More New Yorker Crossword (9/28/2026) Answers

Across

1. Places to hang one’s hat

5. Water under the bridge, maybe?

8. “It logically follows that . . .”

12. Original reality in a DC Comics multiverse

14. Sound at a monastery or a stadium

15. Tame Impala album with cover art inspired by fluid dynamics

16. From that place

17. Batteries in some toys

18. Rubbish

19. Couldn’t decide

22. Sea air?

23. Japanese drum

24. Light source in the “Peppa Pig” episode “The Powercut”

25. Breaking point?

29. At all

30. Proofreaders’ squiggles

31. Checklist heading

32. Facebook accounts that might repost tweets

34. Prop for some burlesque dances

35. Locals near the first Legoland

36. Word before pen or pill

37. Saidiya Hartman essay about a female figure encountered within historical records of Atlantic slavery

41. Held in high regard

42. Lancaster’s rival in the Wars of the Roses

43. Try again after a wrong number

44. Dish made with wide rice noodles

48. Bath occupants

49. Loquaciously

50. Stick around

51. Sault ___ Marie, Mich.

52. Worthy of two and a half stars on Letterboxd, maybe

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Down

1. Muscle that some people can pop

2. Word on a perfume bottle

3. [I'm SO mad!]

4. Go beyond belief

5. Figure skater Surya who landed a backflip at the 1998 Winter Olympics, when the move was still banned

6. Having trouble waiting

7. You're so right!

8. “Now this is an interesting development!”

9. Capital home to the Turtle Tower

10. Affectionate term of address for a male elder

11. Word that can be used in lieu of "lieu"

13. Literal translation of gesundheit

14. Prepares, as a pool cue

16. Character set

18. Tries to tag

19. Get physical with, in a way

20. Space depicted in many Orientalist paintings

21. Most rock hard, maybe

22. Morel support?

25. Absolute icon

26. Event with barbs or barbecue

27. Literally, “to God”

28. Needing a patch

30. Webster who declared “Liberty and Union, now and forever, one and inseparable!”

33. Mafaldine and paccheri, for example

34. Not fine

36. Rhapsody in White from “Best in Show,” for one

37. Wake and bake, e.g.

38. Bring to bear

40. Brother of Virgil Earp

44. Faux finish?

45. “I say that with no ___” (lyric from the Lonely Island’s “I’m So Humble”)

46. Saucer users, for short

47. “That name means nothing to me”

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