New Yorker Crossword December 8 2023 Answers

The complete list of answers to the New Yorker Crossword published on December 8 2023.

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Total Clues: 37
Total Across: 41
Total Down

Clues Across (37 total)

Jon who won the Nobel Prize in Literature “for his innovative plays and prose which give voice to the unsayable” (October, 2023)

Character who says “Kiss me as if it were the last time” to Rick, in a 1942 film

Hot-pot mushroom

Highlight at the Sydney Opera House

Cultural inst. that is no longer open on Sundays, after its budget was cut by the Eric Adams administration (November, 2023)

Author of “The Fraud,” whose plot involves the celebrated nineteenth-century Tichborne case (September, 2023)

“What are you waiting for?!”

Words from someone with too much on their plate already

Catton who wrote “Birnam Wood,” about the entanglement between a billionaire and a guerrilla environmental-activism group (March, 2023)

Herman Melville novel subtitled “A Narrative of Adventures in the South Seas”

Play the ball ___ the man

U.F.O. passengers

Hernan whose novel “Trust,” which tells the story of a Depression-era financier through four linked narratives, won the Pulitzer Prize for fiction (May, 2023)

“Angela’s ___” (1996 best-seller)

Spanish cheer that sounds like a French coffee order

Like the novelist Nadifa Mohamed, by birth

Cline whose novel “The Guest” follows a young woman kicked out of her rich boyfriend’s beach house in the Hamptons (May, 2023)

“General Hospital” network

Gay dating app that had its I.P.O. in late 2022

Social-media community that helped propel Rebecca Yarros’s “Fourth Wing” to No. 1 on the Times best-seller list (July, 2023)

Fairy-tale villains

Grassy plain of South America

Geodesic ___ (energy-efficient home designed by Buckminster Fuller)

Author of “Let Us Descend,” about Annis, a enslaved girl who is separated from her mother and sold by her white father (October, 2023)

“And others,” for short

Most popular boys’ name of 2022, in the U.S.

Li who won the PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction for “The Book of Goose,” about a literary hoax concocted by two French teen-agers in the nineteen-fifties (April, 2023)

Not deceived by

Last letter of the Greek alphabet

Clues Down (41 total)

Flat-topped hat

“Ode ___ Grecian Urn”

Go downhill fast?

Nursery-rhyme refrain sung to the tune “mi-mi-re-re-do”

2Pac’s “Dear ___”

The Emerald Isle

Curtis who said that her novel “Romantic Comedy” was inspired by “ ‘Saturday Night Live,’ my love of celebrity gossip, and my love of love” (April, 2023)

“Shows you!”

Setting of Abraham Verghese’s “The Covenant of Water” (May, 2023)

Natasha of “But I’m a Cheerleader”

Last few pages, sometimes

Martin whom Geoff Dyer elegized as “the most American English writer there has ever been” (May, 2023)

Lexicographer Webster

Author who described her book “Doppelganger” as being about “the horror of the society that flips fascist from within” (September, 2023)

Bob who won the 2016 Nobel Prize in Literature

Some U.S.M.C. officers

E-mail sign-off

Mine, in Nîmes

Han whose “Greek Lessons” is about a woman with aphonia and her language teacher, who is going blind (trans. April, 2023)

“What doubt is to science, ___ is to personal life”: Søren Kierkegaard

They’re frequently described as humble

Closest capital to Quito

McCarthy whom Stephen King elegized as “maybe the greatest American novelist of my time” (June, 2023)

2018 Hayao Miyazaki film about a goldfish who longs to be human

Hurdle for a future J.D.

“If You Had My Love” singer, for short

“Paris, Texas” director Wenders

Bit of home décor that may be hand-knotted

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