The New Yorker - USA (2022-04-18)

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Solution to the previous puzzle:

ACROSS
1 It may pick up remarks intended
to be private
7 Backups
13 “Jeanne Dielman, 23, Quai du Commerce,
1080 Bruxelles” director Chantal
15 Preppy bit of outerwear
16 Movie with a climax but no plot?
17 Duellist’s warning
17 Favorite, as a project
19 Parts of some receipts
21 Degree held by George W. Bush (and no
other U.S. President)
22 La Dame de (nickname for the
Eiffel Tower)
24 “Goosebumps” creator
25 Author who inspired the Gregory
Maguire book “Wicked”
26 Change one’s story?
27 Some essential workers: Abbr.
29 asada
30 Rivulet
32 Setting of Isaac Bashevis Singer’s
“The Magician of Lublin”
33 Phenomenon that is “probably a
form of instinct that protects us from
proximal... sources of danger,” per
the roboticist Masahiro Mori
36 Golf’s Sam and J. C.
37 Cosine or secant, e.g.
37 Able to vote, say
39 Fodder for the ’gram
40 Rock, paper, or scissors
43 Seconds
44 Cheesecake
46 Grp. opposed by Everytown for Gun Safety
47 L.A. Galaxy’s org.
47 Listlessness
50 Seven-member group with six Billboard
No. 1s
52 Passing over, in a way
54 Evil genius’s laugh
56 Templeton and Despereaux, for two
57 Something a grad student might get
credit for
57 Some athleisure
59 Turns red, perhaps

DOWN

1 Padlock’s place

2 Michael of “Caddyshack” and “The

Great Santini”

3 Reached out with one’s fingertips?

4 Celebrity with a namesake cereal

launched in the eighties

5 Tech début of 1998

6 Family heads

7 Bow-tie alternative

7 Trails

9 Legislation at issue in N.F.I.B. v. Sebelius

10 Film for which Sally Field won her

first Oscar

11 Spotify’s most streamed artist of 2020

and 2021

12 Irate

14 Subatomic particle discovered by James

Chadwick

15 They’re far from fat cats

20 It’s wrapped around your little finger

23 Where the heart is

25 Grow rapidly

27 Métier

29 “___ in Black & White” (2021 Netflix

drama about the teen-age years of an

athlete/activist)

31 Turn-___

32 Perfunctory, as an answer

33 Spurn on social media

34 One face of the moon

35 Sucks up, in a way

36 “The Mummy” director Stephen

39 Slacks, say

41 Refined

42 “___ for You” (Comedy Central series)

44 Slacks, say

45 Juice

47 Pocket buildup

49 “No Time to Die” actor Malek

51 Early-two-thousands pandemic

53 D.O.J. division

55 Cheer leader?

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CROSSWORD

A moderately challenging puzzle.

BY ANNA SHECHTMAN

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