The New Yorker Apr 13 2020 Crossword Puzzle Solutions

The New Yorker Crossword - April 13 2020 - Puzzle Answers

Clues	Answers
"Halt!" to a salt	AVAST
"Haven't made up my mind yet"	ILLSEE
"Oh, cool!"	NEAT
"Silent Spring" killer	DDT
Act as a go-between	LIAISE
Arranges, as food	PLATES
Arrest	HAULIN
Baby berths?	UTERI
Back	HIND
Benson who voiced Disney's Ariel	JODI
Big-bang cause?	TNT
Brown competitor	YALE
Butcher's best	PRIMECUT
Class-conscious grp	PTA
Concert highlight	SOLO
Deflate	GOFLAT
Demigod half of the Dioscuri	POLLUX
Emulates	APES
Ensemble mistaken for a community of depressed males, on "Arrested Development"	BLUEMANGROUP
Ersatz gold leaf	ORMOLU
Fifteen-time N.B.A. All-Star Duncan	TIM
Genre for Megan Thee Stallion	RAP
Geographic region home to Milan and Bergamo	POVALLEY
Gets the keg rolling	TAPS
Greenness	NAIVETE
Hard core	PIT
Harden	INURE
Harry Potter thoroughfare whose name is a play on an adverb	DIAGONALLEY
Hoity-toity	SNOOTY, HIFALUTIN
Hopped around on a stick	POGOED
Hot spot?	SPA
Its Chinese name translates literally to "flavor essence": Abbr	MSG
Language from which "berserk" comes	NORSE
Language with six tones	LAO
Clues	Answers
Like raked leaves, often	PILED
Liv Tyler's "Lord of the Rings" role	ARWEN
Loops in, maybe	CCS
Man-to-man?	SAMESEX
Match	SYNC
Merriam-Webster's 2019 "Word of the Year"	SINGULARTHEY
Middle-earth inhabitant	ENT
Minimalist composer Steve ___	REICH
N.Y.C.'s Stonewall Inn and Cubbyhole, for two	GAYBARS
Netflix's "The Two ___"	POPES
No-nonsense route	BEELINE
Not mainstream, informally	ALT
Plot in Genesis	EDEN
Pulling off the ultimate diamond theft?	STEALINGHOME
Put down turf	SOD
Relax	LETUP
Roasting locale	OVEN
Sch. whose Silent Sam Confederate monument was toppled in 2018	UNC
See 32-Down	PIN
Setting	MILIEU
Slight	SNUB
Slight coloration	TINT
Snow ___	PEA
Spent	DEPLETED
Stat for a pitch	MPH
Teller of a tale "full of sound and fury," per Macbeth	IDIOT
The Scarlot ___, nickname for the sex-work activist Carol Leigh	HARLOT
Their stylist envisioned them as "the male equivalent to the Spice Girls"	ONEDIRECTION
Tierney of "ER"	MAURA
Unthinking state	AUTOPILOT
Vegas hotel that hosts the World Series of Poker	THERIO
Vicious in the punk scene	SID
Viral-content site that popularized the two-clause headline	UPWORTHY
With 52-Down, spare part?	TEN
___ cleanse	JUICE