New York Times - Crossword Answers | 2024 08 13

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