The New Yorker - USA (2021-12-06)

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Solution to the previous puzzle:

ACROSS


1 One of seven in a Kurosawa film
8 Trilogy of graphic memoirs co-written
by John Lewis

13 In general


14 Christmas cheer?


15 Ingredient in some acne creams


16 Quadriceps exercise that can be done
almost anywhere


17 “Here Come the Warm Jets” musician
Brian


18 Motivate


20 Sit out in the sun


21 Tiniest puppy


23 Country rocker Steve


24 Descartes who wrote “Meditations on
First Philosophy”


25 “Jane ___” (book originally published as
an autobiography edited by Currer Bell)


27 Tenth Hebrew letter


28 Bar game


29 Coming-of-age drama?


32 Huff


33 Kick out of the group chat, say


34 Swear words?


39 Suits, briefly


40 Wander (about)


41 ___ Gang (political fan base)


43 Expectorated


44 Tierney of “ER”


46 March Madness org.


48 “Waterfalls” trio


49 Illustrious


51 Cleaning compound


52 Underlings in a castle


54 Green ingredient in a rainbow roll


56 Planet that orbits the sun on its side


57 Odyssey, e.g.


58 Pulitzer-winning playwright Tracy with
roles in “The Post” and “Lady Bird”


59 Small pieces


DOWN


1 More likely to groan, perhaps
2 Monopoly buy
3 Hollywood, for the U.S. film industry
4 Ocean State sch.
5 Hindu queen
6 ___ time (opportunity to recharge one’s
batteries)
7 “For the umpteenth time.. .”
8 Unit written out as 6.022 × 10^23
9 Org. whose champion is awarded the
Calder Cup
10 Team lists
11 Wine famously paired with liver in a line
from a 1991 film
12 What chili peppers might indicate on a
menu
14 Rabbit relative
16 Taylor Swift power ballad with the lyrics
“He’s so tall and handsome as hell / He’s
so bad, but he does it so well”
19 Lecture giver, casually
22 Split with two cuts, maybe
24 Best Picture Oscar winner inspired by
the life of Kim Peek
26 Best and Ferber
28 ___ Lane (where the Muffin Man lives)
30 Exciting, slangily
31 Michael of “S.N.L.”
34 Like good sleep
35 Research
36 Double-breasted outerwear

37 Mr. Tumnus, in “The Lion, the Witch
and the Wardrobe,” for one
38 Vatican City or San Marino, e.g.
42 Sense of orientation?
44 Mlles. after marriage
45 Weapon for Wile E. Coyote
47 Millennia on end
49 Avian sprinters
50 Morrison who was born Chloe Ardelia
Wofford
53 Weapon for Wile E. Coyote
55 Video-game series created by Sid Meier,
for short

PUZZLES & GAMES DEPT.


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CROSSWORD


A moderately challenging puzzle.

BY AIMEE LUCIDO


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