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