“The thing with feathers— / That perches in the soul,” per Emily Dickinson Crossword Clue

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“The thing with feathers— / That perches in the soul,” per Emily Dickinson Crossword Answer

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(verb)
1. intend with some possibility of fulfilment
2. expect and wish
(noun)
1. grounds for feeling hopeful about the future
2. United States comedian (born in England) who appeared in films with Bing Crosby (1903-2003)

Hint 2: Clue Definition

DICKINSON (noun)
1. United States poet noted for her mystical and unrhymed poems (1830-1886)

More New Yorker Crossword (4/7/2025) Answers

Across

1. Keds competitor

5. Thick-soled piece of footwear

9. Like some mistakes

14. Each

16. Shelley’s “Paradise of exiles”

17. First name in country

18. All that and more

20. Issues handled physically?

22. Possess

23. "Rebel Without a Cause" actor Mineo

24. Ramadan follower, informally

25. Exists intrinsically

27. Coat that might be worn with Wellies

28. E.T.D. part, briefly

29. Jean Rhys’s post-colonial prequel to “Jane Eyre”

38. He once described himself as “the only black man among . . . white titans of style”

39. Features of some demure necklines

40. “Rubyfruit Jungle” author Rita ___ Brown

41. Fatigued group?

42. Communications device used for distortion on the Beastie Boys’ “Intergalactic”

46. Quick drink

47. “___ Culturistas” (podcast hosted by Bowen Yang and Matt Rogers)

50. Pablo Neruda’s “Cien Sonetos de ___”

51. Rank that comes from the French for “place” and “holding”

54. Rock & Roll Hall of Fame inductee dubbed “the high priestess of punk-poetry”

56. Jam ingredient?

57. Available

58. Longtime Harper’s Bazaar illustrator

59. Word with curling or pumping

60. 43-Down currency

61. Tiresias or Cassandra, for example

62. Passing concern?

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Down

1. Drop-cloth alternatives

2. Art form that’s the subject of “The Queen’s Throat,” by Wayne Koestenbaum

3. Half of a 1999 oil-industry merger

4. Bridge

5. Harsh skin treatments

6. Adored

7. Leaning column?

8. “___, the Conjurers’ Magazine” (publication named for certain magical spirits)

9. "For shame!"

10. Voting

11. Language that has used the Arabic, Latin, and Cyrillic alphabets

12. Blue pill choice, perhaps

13. Instruments pictured in Jacques-Louis David’s “Sappho and Phaon” and “Calliope Mourning Homer”

19. Unites

21. Start of a campaign, maybe

26. 1989 Dolly Parton song about the resurrection of Jesus

27. Human, in other words

29. First collab released by Cardi B and Megan Thee Stallion

30. Tchaikovsky’s Symphony No. 5 ___ Minor

31. Toxic agent C14H9Cl5, familiarly

32. Mens ___

33. Poly ending

34. Anti-apartheid party: Abbr.

35. Violent org. behind a notorious nineteen-seventies kidnapping

36. “The world was a fool, ___ since it begun”: John Dryden

37. Some Shakespearean interjections

42. Steam, e.g.

43. Like Jokha Alharthi, winner of the 2019 Man Booker International Prize

44. Panna ___

45. "How Do I Live" singer LeAnn

46. Steep-sided landform

47. 1944 Otto Preminger noir from which a “Twin Peaks” character derives her name

48. Chekhov or Rubinstein

49. Tablet medium

52. “Sing of old ___ and the ancient ways”: William Butler Yeats

53. Ace

55. Certain network I.D.s

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