New York Times - Crossword Answers | 2024 08 13

crossword answers
Clue Answer
TAKE IN OR TAKE ON ADOPT
Backdrop for a shooting star SKY
Cache for cash TILL
Modernizing prefix NEO
OVERTURN UNDO
“Chicken of the sea” TUNA
Collaborations like those on “Ella and Louis” DUETS
HEAT IN THE MICROWAVE ZAP
MIND-ALTERING DRUG LSD
FOLK WISDOM LORE
VERY LONG TIME EON
WALK HEAVILY PLOD
UNFORTUNATE INCIDENT MISHAP
IPOD MODEL NANO
PURSUE SEEK
TRAITOR RAT
ERGO THUS
YOUR AND MY OUR
TELLING TALL TALES LYING
SOUND HOARSE RASP
Scale units: Abbr. LBS
ONE WHO DIES FOR A CAUSE MARTYR
CLEAN UP, AS SOFTWARE DEBUG
Muscle misery ACHE
Concur with by repeating ECHO
“Burning” feeling DESIRE
Shooting stars, some believe OMENS
Heaps of windblown snow DRIFTS
One might begin “Hope this finds you well” EMAIL
Looping animation file GIF
GREEN GEMSTONE JADE
FURRY SWIMMER OTTER
BLACK, POETICALLY EBON
SENSITIVE TO THE TOUCH TENDER
SOUND OF A FALL THUD
Top billing LEADROLE
Covered veranda often equipped with a ceiling fan LANAI
EFFORTLESSNESS EASE
HALF OF CUATRO DOS
#bestfriends4___ EVA
DEEP-DISH PIZZA CHAIN, INFORMALLY UNOS
NO LATER THAN UNTIL
MOOCHES, AS A CIGARETTE BUMS
MAKE EXCITED AROUSE
1987 Pulitzer-winning novel about the haunting of a formerly enslaved family’s home BELOVED
1981 novel about the interplay of privilege and poverty in a Caribbean romance TARBABY
PAINED CRIES OYS
Author who received the Nobel Prize in Literature on the basis of her first six novels, all featured in this puzzle TONIMORRISON
1992 novel set in 1920s Harlem JAZZ
“The Fresh Prince of ___-Air” BEL
“That’s ___-brainer” ANO
Request in the weight room SPOTME
Something that can be racked up DEBT
Kauai goodbyes ALOHAS
1970 novel exploring racism’s effect on a young girl’s self-esteem THEBLUESTEYE
1977 novel whose title references a lyrical Old Testament book SONGOFSOLOMON
Earth-moving machines, informally DOZERS
Photo retoucher’s focus, perhaps ZIT
FOR EACH PER
HOME FOR A QUEEN HIVE
World capital on the same latitude as Tallinn and Stockholm OSLO
EXUDE, AS CONFIDENCE OOZE
Pick up again, as a book RETURNTO
Australia’s tallest bird EMU
“Pipe down!” SHUSH
BURKINA ___ FASO
1973 novel set in “the Bottom,” a neighborhood slated to be demolished for a golf course SULA
Confer, as credibility LEND
It might welcome you home MAT
Like Taylor Swift’s “Shake It Off,” key-wise ING
___ GIN FIZZ SLOE
ROAD CURVE ESS
COAT OF PAINT LAYER
JUST ONLY
CONSTRUCTION AREA SITE
PATHETIC SAD
Sticky note POSTIT
YouTube journals, essentially VLOGS