New York Times - Crossword Answers | 2024 08 13

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