New York Times 2024 08 13 - Crossword Answers

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

ERGO

THUS

EFFORTLESSNESS

EASE

1992 novel set in 1920s Harlem

JAZZ

WALK HEAVILY

PLOD

1981 novel about the interplay of privilege and poverty in a Caribbean romance

TARBABY

Like Taylor Swift’s “Shake It Off,” key-wise

ING