Introduction
Studies have found that doing crossword puzzles improves memory, knowledge, and verbal ability. Crossword puzzles often have clues testing idioms, puns, analogies, and wordplay, boosting language understanding and creativity. Solving crossword puzzles takes practice so don’t give up.
This "On Being Brought From Africa to America" writer, 1768" clue appeared in the NYT Crossword on March 15, 2024. If you are stumped, we have the answer for you below.
Answer
Clue: On Being Brought From Africa to America" writer, 1768
Answer: PHILLISWHEATLEY (15 letters)
Hints and Explanation
On Being Brought from Africa to America is a poem written in 1768 by Phillis Wheatley, who was brought to America as a slave in 1761 and was sold to the Wheatley family in Boston, Massachusetts.
Wheatly is considered to be the first African-American author of a published book of poetry. Scholars still study Wheatley's poems today. So in this crossword, paired with other solutions in the grid, the answer turns out to be PHILLISWHEATLEY.
Crossword Clues on March 15, 2024
Here are the other crossword clues that appeared on March 15, 2024 in the NYT Crossword.
- Name that's a homophone of 24-Across
- Swear
- Source of the words "plaid" and "trousers"
- *grimaces, sticks out tongue*
- My goodness!
- Preserver's purchase
- Profession
- Dom maker
- Threat to crops
- Fish named for a weapon
- Fuji, for one
- Bacteriologist Walter who conducted yellow fever research
- "Which one of Arthur's knights built the Round Table? ___ Cumference!" (groaner)
- Common additive to white rice
- Salon offering
- Pages on the left side
- "And She ___" (Talking Heads hit)
- Indie output
- Suffix that turns a verb into an adjective
- Real prat
- Opposite of rubicund
- Familiar with
- Put on blast?
- Catchy tunes
- Region of Italy that lends its name to a pepper
- Forgetting to finish this clue, for examp
- Unlikely gift
- Cocktail with caffeine
- Raise
- Words from a paper pusher?
- Components of some sports broadcasts
- Proportion of customers that make a purchase, in business-speak
- Your __
- My goodness!
- Decks and floors, informally?
- Vichyssoise ingredient
- "The Lord of the Rings" actress
- More trifling
- Baloney
- Ground rule?
- Vegetable whose name comes from Igbo
- Scream for a team
- Swing-era bandleader ___ Cates
- Kind of fixation
- It has its standards, for short
- Laphroaig flavorer
- Bill originating in Texas
- 17-Across, for one
- Roy Lichtenstein's "Drowning Girl," e.g.
- Foul smell
- Alters the narrative, in a way
- Campaign platforms, perhaps
- Occasion to ask the Four Questions
- Nobody else can take it
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- Give a hand?
- What Charlotte lives above in "Charlotte's Web"
- IPhone command
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- Bit of deductive reasoning?
- Got taken for a ride, in a way
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