“The Bonfire of the Vanities” writer Crossword Clue

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“The Bonfire of the Vanities” writer Crossword Answer

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(noun)
1. United States writer best known for his autobiographical novels (1900-1938)
2. United States writer who has written extensively on American culture (born in 1931)

Hint 2: Clue Definitions

WRITER (noun)
1. writes (books or stories or articles or the like) professionally (for pay)
2. a person who is able to write and has written something
BONFIRE (noun)
1. a large outdoor fire that is lighted as a signal or in celebration

More WSJ Crossword (6/11/2026) Answers

Across

1. Material for the Kon-Tiki raft

6. Microwave emission

10. Titular deserted island in a 1993 computer game

14. Grow like ivy

15. Ship made of wood from Mount Pelion

16. Pricing adverb

17. French equivalent of the Academy Award

18. 1980s surgeon general

19. Frigga's son

20. Flashers at a club

22. Pakistan’s second-largest city

24. Book reviewers, briefly

25. Chuck Yeager exceeded it in 1947

26. It really sucks

29. Make baby food, maybe

30. Bath bathroom

31. MVP QB in 1967’s “Ice Bowl”

33. Five-time role for Stallone

37. Platte River tribe

39. WWII vessel that hints at each group of circled letters in this puzzle

41. Fashionable Christian

42. Loft sites

44. Pretty good grade

46. Cedar Rapids college

47. Music makers with big bells

49. Presidential middle name

51. Metal rings

54. Dust bit

55. Operating robotically

56. Lemon or raspberry desserts

59. We should!

60. Capital paper, familiarly

62. Eagerly anticipate

64. Warren’s “Bonnie and Clyde” co-star

65. Disparaging comment

66. Monte ___

67. Says the wrong thing

68. Article in Der Spiegel

69. Nintendo’s home city

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Down

1. Stealthy email letters

2. “Wonder Woman” foe

3. For fear that

4. App feature marked by a magnifying glass, often

5. Fitting

6. Forgets the sunblock, maybe

7. Oscar Wilde poem “The Garden of ___”

8. Sense of self

9. Aspen, e.g.

10. Tweaker

11. Rowdy brute

12. Reject with derision

13. Low prime

21. Language family of Africa

23. Maker of TravelMate laptops

25. Work on a wall

26. Litterbug, e.g.

27. Tiny amount

28. Substandard

29. Respect, slangily

32. Palestine’s Mahmoud

34. Shiny mineral

35. Godsend

36. Twisted cookie

38. Rhapsodizes, say

40. Elizabethan house

43. Mincemeat ingredient

45. Unfortunate snag

48. Do some window-shopping

50. Wiggle room?

52. Lend ___ (listen)

53. Lustful creature of myth

54. Bond player between Connery and Dalton

56. Took turns

57. Hawaiian staple

58. Bank deposit

61. Ring great

63. Overly

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