The New Yorker Apr 6 2020 Crossword Puzzle Solutions

The New Yorker Crossword - April 6 2020 - Puzzle Answers

Clues	Answers
"No Walls and the Recurring Dream" memoirist DiFranco	ANI
"She's ___ Mama Jama" (Grammy-nominated Carl Carlton song)	ABAD
"___ Am" (Alicia Keys album)	ASI
58-Down opposites	YESES
64-Across opposites	NOS
A modern one is "Tweet in haste, repent at leisure"	ADAGE
Abbr. after Brooklyn or Washington	HTS
Actor and director Poitier, the first black person to win an Oscar for best actor	SIDNEY
Airport eating areas	FOODCOURTS
Annoying words that precede an insult	NOOFFENSEBUT
Banana brand	DOLE
Barcelona "Bravo!"	OLE
Beautiful, in Berlin	SCHON
Brangelina, now, e.g	EXES
Burkina ___ (Mali neighbor)	FASO
Cartoonist Chast	ROZ
Coca-Cola variety	ZEROSUGAR
Country stores?	ATLASES
Dog-food category	SENIOR
e4 in a King's Gambit, say	OPENINGMOVE
Eighties glam-metal band	RATT
Élite athlete	ALLSTAR
Fairly	NOTTOO
Fatty	ADIPOSE
Felipe's female friend	AMIGA
Fig. in a summer weather report	UVINDEX
Gladys Knight & the ___	PIPS
Hefty cake layer	TIER
His portrait subjects included Marilyn Monroe and Toni Morrison	AVEDON
Ingredient in purple bubble tea	TARO
Jazz drummer Warren "Baby" ___	DODDS
Lament	DEPLORE
Leaves in the lurch	DESERTS
Less spurious	TRUER
Like a drained battery	DEAD
Like hawks and eagles	TALONED
Lively, to Liszt	ANIMATO
Lycée student	ELEVE
Mets pitcher Noah Syndergaard hates when fans do it	THEWAVE
Montados and croquetas	TAPAS
Most pretentious, in a way	ARTIEST
Moth-resistant suiting	LINEN
Move like lava	OOZE
NASA moon-landing vehicles	LEMS
Nautical leader?	AERO
NBC show hosted by Eddie Murphy in 2019	SNL
Obama's C.I.A. director	PANETTA
Paradise who narrates "On the Road"	SAL
Pickup line that Dracula can't use	IDONTBITE
Portrayer of Queen Anne in film and Elizabeth II on TV	OLIVIACOLMAN
Rap-sheet datum	ARREST
Rapper Rida	FLO
Representative	AGENT
School-uniform accessory	TIE
Scraps	TUSSLES
Sedimentary rock	SHALE
Silences, Mob-style	OFFS
Skinny-necked pear	BOSC
Stalls	HEMSANDHAWS
Staple of a dominatrix's wardrobe	BUSTIER
Telephonic request from a snuggle buddy	CUDDLECALL
They run through a grocery store	AISLES
To paraphrase Camus, they don't believe in what exists	NIHILISTS
Toddler's playpen, e.g	ENCLOSURE
Turn upside-down	CAPSIZE
TV sched. column	THU
Twangy	NASAL
Winter hrs. in N.Y.C	EST
___ Burns Cigarillos (vintage smokes)	ROBT
___ shui	FENG