The Washington Post Sunday - Oct 7 2018
Clues | Answers |
'Assassin's ___' (video game franchise) | CREED |
'Body of Evidence' actress Archer | ANNE |
'E.T.' singer Perry | KATY |
'Fawlty Towers' waiter | MANUEL |
'I'll pass, but thanks' | NOTFORME |
'Nope, sorry 'bout that' | FRAIDNOT |
'Operator' singer Croce | JIM |
'Scrubs' actress Chalke | SARAH |
'That makes sense' | IGOTCHA |
'The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe' author | LEWIS |
Advanced beyond childish concerns | GREWUP |
Afternoon refresher | NAP |
Aykroyd of 'Dragnet' | DAN |
Band from Europe, despite its name | ASIA |
Beverage brewed in Morocco | MINTTEA |
Big U.S. labor union | NEA |
Birds that lay eggs resembling avocados | EMUS |
Bit of subterfuge | RUSE |
Black and ___ | TAN |
Blowing a fuse | GOINGAPE |
Brand of baking tools | OXO |
Brand of candy sold in rolls | MENTOS |
Bryn Mawr reunion attendee, e.g | ALUMNA |
Busts some acrobatic moves ... and a hint to finding six moves busted across black squares in this puzzle | BREAKDANCES |
Canyonlands formations | MESAS |
Chronometric quantity | TIME |
Classic by the Kinks | LOLA |
Clear the board | ERASE |
Climate change, e.g | ISSUE |
Complete spectrum | GAMUT |
Condition for a person who's deeply absorbed | TRANCE |
Corrosive solution | LYE |
Couldn't say no | HADTO |
Cultural sphere | ARTSCENE |
Cut, as in a wood shop | SAWN |
Dendriform Tolkien creatures | ENTS |
Dermatological abnormality | CYST |
Detonated substance | TNT |
Detonation area | TESTSITE |
District | LOCALE |
Divination practitioners | SEERS |
Dog whose voice is a 'bad imitation of Peter Lorre,' as quoted in the New York Times | REN |
Domicile's overhang | EAVE |
Egg on | PROD, URGE |
Emulate Marvel's Falcon | SOAR |
Enclosure at Petco | CAGE |
Endeared | INGRATIATED |
Enthusiastic supporter of Chicago sports teams, in a series of SNL sketches | SUPERFAN |
Exhibit one's humanity | ERR |
Extreme antipathy | HATRED |
Faked out, on the gridiron | JUKED |
Feats for Olympian Adam Rippon | AXELS |
Fictional college in 'Animal House' | FABER |
Figure that wrestled with Jacob in Genesis | ANGEL |
Fix Jet defects, say | EDIT |
Flummox | ADDLE |
Foreigner's specialty | ARENAROCK |
French cocktail | KIR |
Frothy mass | FOAM |
German band that pioneered electronic music | KRAFTWERK |
Gland in the neck | THYROID |
Go door to door for political purposes | CANVASS |
Gossip magazine topic | ITEM |
Grape holder | VINE |
Harmoniously | ASONE |
Heroin-seizing org | DEA |
High no. for a salutatorian | GPA |
Hush-hush event | TRYST |
Indenting, as in Microsoft Word | TABBING |
It may take you for a spin | EDDY |
John Denver's 'I Guess ___ Rather Be in Colorado' | HED |
Legendary craft | ARGO |
Letter receiver | SLOT |
Lineup at an Apple store | IMACS |
Lofty return | LOB |
Loki, to Thor | ENEMY |
Maude's TV widower | NED |
Messages from a boss | MEMOS |
Messed up, in slang | WACK |
Michelle of 'Fear the Walking Dead' | ANG |
Mixology measurements | JIGGERS |
Most antiquated | MOSSIEST |
Natalia who plays Nancy in 'Stranger Things' | DYER |
Neck tattoo spots | NAPES |
Norton Sound port | NOME |
Nothing, in football | NIL |
Novelist Shute | NEVIL |
Opened, as a bottle of cabernet sauvignon | UNCORKED |
Originally known as | NEE |
Overly meticulous | ANAL |
Paramilitary force | SWATTEAM |
Part of a case history? | TRIAL |
Part of a high-scoring meld in pinochle | ACE |
Person on errands | GOFER |
Picasso masterwork | GUERNICA |
Poké Ball, e.g | ORB |
Predator's refuge | LAIR |
Priestess's practice, perhaps | WICCA |
Provost's URL ender | EDU |
Rapscallions | IMPS |
Ready-to-___ | WEAR |
Rebelled | UPROSE |
Relaxation command | ATEASE |
Resident of a Mediterranean island | CORSICAN |
Rhames of 'Con Air' | VING |
Rice field? | MAJOR |
Schmidt played by Ellie Kemper | KIMMY |
Sculling implements | OARS |
Shape of some mirrors | OVAL |
Showstopper from a mezzo, say | ARIA |
Silent method of communication, briefly | ASL |
Sound from a ragdoll | MEOW |
Space surrounded by woods | GLADE |
Start of a religious appeal | IPRAY |
State of being new | RECENCY |
Street sign shortening | THRU |
Swarm (with) | TEEM |
Take down a notch | ABASE |
Taqueria dish | TAMALE |
Temple openings | PORES |
Tenor Enrico | CARUSO |
Tessellated design | MOSAIC |
The A of the ABC islands | ARUBA |
They're often fleeced | EWES |
Tilton who played Lucy Ewing on 'Dallas' | CHARLENE |
Tiny amounts | IOTAS |
Tiny arachnid | TICK |
Tom's co-star in 'The Post' | MERYL |
Toxic plant | POISONSUMAC |
Trickle (out) | SEEP |
Uncovered? | NAKED |
Variety of ice cream or pizza | NEAPOLITAN |
Velodrome event | RACE |
Vessel's passageway | CANAL |
VIP in Catholicism | SAINT |
Volatile sort | HOTHEAD |
Weapon wielded in 'The Revenant' | RIFLE |
What may be dug up by some robbers | GRAVE |
Without needing any effort | ONAPLATTER |
Wrap you may see at an Indian restaurant | SARI |
Zap with a beam | LASE |
___ oil | OLIVE |
___ up (intensify) | AMP |
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