Thomas Pynchon’s “Against the ___” Crossword Clue

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(noun)
1. the time after sunrise and before sunset while it is light outside
2. time for Earth to make a complete rotation on its axis

Hint 2: Clue Definitions

PYNCHON (noun)
1. United States writer of pessimistic novels about life in a technologically advanced society (born in 1937)
THOMAS (noun)
1. United States clockmaker who introduced mass production (1785-1859)
2. Welsh poet (1914-1953)

More New Yorker Crossword (8/11/2025) Answers

Across

1. Beurré ___ (pear with a buttery-soft texture)

5. Modern play-drawing tool for a coach

9. Attack with gusto, as a wrapped gift

15. One for the road

16. Number of Beethoven symphonies

17. Cal Ripken, Jr., for twenty-one seasons

18. High-fantasy author who finished writing Robert Jordan’s “Wheel of Time” series

21. “That much was clear”

22. Dispatched

23. Sound like a jackass?

24. “Gentleman’s Agreement” director Kazan

25. Workbench clamps

26. (Boom!)

27. Strategy, so to speak

29. Modern "art"

30. Hubbubs

31. Locke who’s often called the dean of the Harlem Renaissance

34. Some internet felines

36. Apostle known as the Zealot

38. Word with bunny or slippery

39. Chew the scenery

41. New Orleans’s Esplanade or New York’s Eighth: Abbr.

42. Tea type whose name comes from the Greek for “earth apple”

44. “Diet Mountain ___” (Lana del Rey song that begins, “You’re no good for me”)

45. ___ about (wastes time, in British slang)

48. Transplant’s undertaking, briefly

49. Eugene Field’s “The ___” (poem about a cat and a dog)

51. Instrument often made using granadilla wood

52. With “The,” magazine with a long-running interview series about the craft of writing

55. Author of “Rejection” (2024)

57. Of the underworld

58. What the Swahili word simba means

59. “Young Woman with a ___” (Vermeer painting)

60. Fuddy-duddy

61. A Tribe Called Quest’s Phife ___

62. Mimicked

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Down

1. Streisand, affectionately

2. Symbol of cyclicality

3. Place for a flight

4. Drum also called a tumbadora

5. Beyond regulation, briefly

6. Epitomes of tininess

7. Longtime Donald Duck voice actor Tony

8. Sweeties

9. “Bang the Drum All Day” musician Rundgren

10. “Love ___ he bleeds, an eagle in high skies, / Has earth beneath his wings”: George Meredith

11. Carrier whose logo features its eponymous peninsula

12. Wines popular in summertime

13. Without accompaniment

14. Simple shelters

20. Spring’s tidal counterpart

25. Dance in 3/4 time, in French

26. Bud

27. Exclamation after a prank on one’s siblings, perhaps

28. Certain hot beverage

30. Dishes akin to pintxos

32. “All of that was a lie”

33. Small book such as “Small Boat”

35. Askew

36. Milestone event for an up-and-coming artist

37. Banner above a list of app updates, maybe

39. Variety of beryl

40. Fighting force

43. ___ stage (Freudian concept)

45. Insects that fly out of empty wallets, in an animation trope

46. Naval craft whose first letter stands for untersee

47. Complex unit

49. D.N.C. part, for short

50. Body part used in the formation of certain sounds

52. Dinky

53. Stud alternative

54. Crabgrass, e.g.

56. Activity with a freeze variant

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