The New Yorker - USA (2022-01-31)

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ACROSS


1 Book before Romans
5 Largest city in the Baltics
9 The six in a cockpit’s “six-pack”
14 Legend of R. & B.
15 How suspects who have fled may be
tried
17 Birthplace of Buddhism, Islam, and
Christianity
18 Enjoy great and sudden success
19 Talk like Rochester on “The Jack Benny
Program”
20 Dessert that’s traditionally made with
sweetened condensed milk
21 Metal found in the vast majority of
meteorites
23 Greek goddess of the rainbow
24 Bludgeoned, across the pond
25 Guy doing double duty?
29 City whose stone quarries were used to
supply material for ancient Egyptian
monuments
30 Wealth-flaunting accessories
31 Athlete depicted fighting Superman on a
1978 comic-book cover
32 Editorial reversal
33 Becomes solid, perhaps
34 Defensive end Alzado who won a Super
Bowl with the Raiders
35 Geologic time unit
36 Listing on a bill of lading
37 What the Standard Oil Company of
New York later became
38 Bar-mitzvah keepsake
40 Core principles
41 Detroit’s Belle ___ Park
42 Keep things up?
43 Politician who’s good at meet and greets
47 Preserves containers
49 Place that’ll rent you a set of wheels
50 Its state bird is the California gull,
ironically
51 Beset by enemies
52 Name in Big Tech since October, 2021
53 Brown University athletes
54 Time for celebratory texts, briefly
55 Not-fast-enough food?


DOWN


1 Cracked
2 Crime organization whose name means
“our thing”
3 Words spoken during a solemn oath
4 App with a My Eyes Only feature
5 Put on the line
6 Moles dig it up
7 Payton nicknamed the Glove
8 Superhero’s special skills
9 Regarding
10 Consume
11 Sitting on
12 Actress Taylor of “American Crime”
13 Singer who recorded “Flower of the
Universe” for the “A Wrinkle in Time”
soundtrack
16 Snow-covered trails
22 “Toy Story 3” character voiced by
Michael Keaton
24 Man described as “mighty” in an 1888
poem
25 Way to avoid getting tagged
26 Noncommittal response to a child’s
request
27 Choose words that start the same
28 Albert’s opponent in a long-standing
scientific debate
30 Possible injury from a body blow
33 Spoken name of a 1971 heist film whose
title is a single non-alphabetic character

34 Olympic event for Bob Beamon
36 Ones that spout profusely
37 File-size unit, familiarly
39 “From a Distance” singer
40 Broadway misfire
42 Game with a lengthy buildup?
43 Comestibles
44 Isolated
45 Actor who played a senator on “The
West Wing” and in “The Aviator”
46 Ran out of charge
48 Dan + ___ (country duo with the hits
“Tequila” and “10,000 Hours”)

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A challenging puzzle.

BY PATRICK BERRY


O S L O W E N T A S T R A Y


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