The Washington Post Sunday - Sep 2 2018
Clues | Answers |
'A Doll's House' role | NORA |
'Dividing the Estate' playwright Horton ___ | FOOTE |
'Giant' writer Ferber | EDNA |
'Interesting ...' | HMM |
'Mayday!,' on a ship | SOS |
'Mr. Robot' channel | USA |
'My IQ' singer DiFranco | ANI |
'Pinky' director Kazan | ELIA |
'Soul Provider' singer Michael | BOLTON |
'Take On Me' rockers | AHA |
'The Karate Kid' actor Ralph | MACCHIO |
'Well, well, well!' | OHO |
100 percent | ALL |
1719 novel about songbirds perched atop a castaway? | ROBINSONCRUSOE |
1883 novel about how riches and territory are the same thing? | TREASUREISLAND |
1902 novella about the essence belonging to Untouchable Eliot's evil counterpart? | HEARTOFDARKNESS |
1911 children's book about a hidden lair of needlefish? | THESECRETGARDEN |
1931 novel about a shortage of slime? | THEGOODEARTH |
1949 book about a duel assistant's former spouse? | THESECONDSEX |
1959 novel about the cool state police officers employed by a celebrity? | STARSHIPTROOPERS |
1982 sci-fi film inspired by Pong | TRON |
1997 novel about a U.S. history grad student's exam? | AMERICANPASTORAL |
95 percent, say | MOST |
A-lister's brief part | CAMEO |
Accumulation | PILE |
Android program | APP |
Annoyed continually | ATEAT |
Apt rhyme of 'courts' | TORTS |
Audacity | GALL |
Bill seen in Bangkok | BAHT |
Bit of Chihuahua cash | PESO |
Bit of drag show wear | BOA |
Bit of livestock feed | OAT |
Blemish on a rug | STAIN |
Bowl supporter | TRIVET |
Bridge seat | EAST |
Bruins surname, once | ORR |
Captain whose name is Latin for 'nobody' | NEMO |
Celebratory gesture | TOAST |
Cellist's cake | ROSIN |
Christmas concert tune | NOEL |
Clippers' arena? | SEA |
Comes to a close | ENDS |
Common crime for Carmen Sandiego | THEFT |
Composer Thomas | ARNE |
Cornfield measure | ACRE |
Cosmologist's time unit | EON |
Currently leading | AHEAD |
Day ___ (relaxing site) | SPA |
Devoted fan | ADMIRER |
Disreputable group | BADLOT |
Distinctive mark above Odysseus's knee | SCAR |
Distribute | ALLOT |
Disturbing signs, maybe | OMENS |
Don't bother | LETBE |
Early online forum | USENET |
Eggs that may be frozen | OVA |
Far from edgy | TAME |
Fashion scarves, say | KNIT |
FBI lab collection | DNA |
Feature of the side of a football helmet | EARHOLE |
Ferris wheel locales | FAIRS |
Fitting | APROPOS |
Fort ___ (site of ingots) | KNOX |
Frank ___ (Leslie Nielsen's role in 'The Naked Gun' films) | DREBIN |
Geology 101 topic | EROSION |
Globe of the Great Southwest city | ODESSA |
Guesstimating phrase | ORSO |
Gunslinging Wyatt | EARP |
Herbivore with hooves | MOOSE |
Hero of medieval Spain | ELCID |
Heroic narrative | SAGA |
Home of the Herald | MIAMI |
Homeric classic | ILIAD |
Honest ___ | ABE |
How a recluse prefers to live | ALONE |
In the matter of | ASTO |
Infuse with oxygen | AERATE |
Is compelled | HASTO |
It precedes Foxtrot in the NATO alphabet | ECHO |
Italian opera theme | AMORE |
Known earlier as | NEE |
Letters carrier | MAILTRUCK |
Like white lions | RARE |
Little Caesars rival | PAPAJOHNS |
Lively circle dance | HORA |
Looks forward to | AWAITS |
Low-___ diet | CARB |
Martial art with armor | KENDO |
Material found in Malaysian mines | TINORE |
McGregor of 'Big Fish' | EWAN |
Medical instruments with cameras, for short | SCOPES |
Mel whose epitaph says, 'Music, the greatest good that mortals know / And all of heaven we have below' | TORME |
Mexican folk song covered by Ritchie Valens in 1958 | LABAMBA |
Motion picture problem? | BLUR |
Move from a sensei | CHOP |
New York liberal arts college located in the city of the same name | ELMIRA |
Nobelist Pavlov | IVAN |
One entering through a small door, perhaps | PET |
Ones paying flat rates? | TENANTS |
Opening for a quarter | SLOT |
OR inserts | IVS |
Paintballs, e.g | AMMO |
Permanently damage | RUIN |
Pick up, as a vibe | SENSE |
Political position | STANCE |
Pre-game nerves | JITTERS |
Quip quality, hopefully | WIT |
Receptacles on mantels | URNS |
Remote fort | OUTPOST |
Representative's reply | AYE |
Resistance figure | OHM |
Road runners? | AUTOS |
Roof option for an old Buick Regal | TTOP |
See 11 Down | CODE |
See 41 Across | BREAD |
Site with handicrafts | ETSY |
Small financial amount | PITTANCE |
Space ___ | AGE |
Spelling of Hollywood | AARON |
Spider's octet | LEGS |
Spider's octet, often | EYES |
Spots for crowns | TEETH |
Subject of Nelson Lichtenstein's book 'The Retail Revolution' | WALMART |
Subtle auction signal | NOD |
Sunlit spaces | ATRIA |
Tavern fliers | DARTS |
Tennis great Agassi | ANDRE |
Time to kill on stage? | SOLO |
Trickle (through) | SEEP |
Try to make a basket | SHOOT |
Tyreese's sister on 'The Walking Dead' | SASHA |
Uncle ___ (pen name for poet Silverstein) | SHELBY |
Vehicle shared in a big city, at times | BIKE |
Where a spade may be laid | TOOLSHED |
Where Bolt would bolt | TRACK |
With 3 Down, sweet bakery product | BANANA |
With 48 Down, system of ethical standards at many a college | HONOR |
Woodroof who was the subject of 'Dallas Buyers Club' | RON |
Ye olde towne yeller | CRIER |
[You cut me off!] | HONK |
___ chocolate | HOT |
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