The Washington Post Sunday - Dec 16 2018
| Clues | Answers |
| 'A powerful current that carries a man to a haven,' per van Gogh | ART |
| 'Ambush' actress Dahl | ARLENE |
| 'Before moving on ...' | ALSO |
| 'Beyond' singer Bridges | LEON |
| 'Gonna pass on that' | NAH |
| 'House' party? | LAURIE |
| 'I ___ dead people' ('The Sixth Sense' line) | SEE |
| 'Oiche Chiuin' singer | ENYA |
| 'Pass the ball to me!' | IMOPEN |
| 'Scrubs' people: Abbr | DRS |
| 'Ships of the desert' | CAMELS |
| 'Shop ___ you drop' | TIL |
| 'Sister Carrie' novelist Theodore | DREISER |
| 'That's a good thought' | NEATIDEA |
| 'What fun you'll have!' | ITSABLAST |
| 'Wise Up' singer Mann | AIMEE |
| 1961 Patsy Cline song whose lyrics reference the Alamo and 'Lips so sweet and tender like petals falling apart' | SANANTONIOROSE |
| 1978 No. 1 hit for the Commodores, and an alternate title for this puzzle | THREETIMESALADY |
| 1986 memoir whose fifth chapter is titled 'A Fool in Love' | ITINA |
| 50 shades of gray, e.g.? | TINTS |
| Absorbs, as info | LEARNS |
| AC/DC member? | SLASH |
| Accumulate | AMASS |
| Actor Auberjonois of 'Benson' | RENE |
| Aggressively audacious | BRASH |
| Anti-apartheid playwright Fugard | ATHOL |
| AP Bio class letters | RNA |
| Arctic swimmer | SEAL |
| Assists illicitly | ABETS |
| Auto from Ingolstadt | AUDI |
| Balance sheet listing | ASSET |
| Berkeley university's athletic team | CALIFORNIAGOLDENBEARS |
| Best effort, informally | AGAME |
| Blockbuster format | IMAX |
| Bombing comic's feeling | SHAME |
| Businesses 'rescued' by Jon Taffer on Paramount Network | BARS |
| Carb-rich dish | PASTA |
| Ceiling installation | FAN |
| Charges | COSTS |
| Cheri of 'Scary Movie' | OTERI |
| Citation abbr | ETAL |
| Close, as a winter coat | ZIP |
| Closest to nothing | LEAST |
| Coffee ___ (brewing appliance) | MAKER |
| Console with a CX40 joystick | ATARI |
| Consumed voraciously | ATEUP |
| Contented utterance | AAH |
| Contest on horseback | JOUST |
| Cook-books filling? | THE |
| Cookie containers | TINS |
| Coors drink introduced in the 1990s | ZIMA |
| Curie who coined the word 'radioactivity' | MARIE |
| Decisive victory | ROUT |
| Device used to map the surface of other planets | RADAR |
| Discontinued iPod | NANO |
| Disorganized mound | HEAP |
| Dress nattily, with 'out' | TOG |
| Dunder Mifflin receptionist | PAM |
| Electric blue relative | CYAN |
| Ernie putting on a front nine | ELS |
| ESPN basketball analyst Brown | HUBIE |
| Exit | EGRESS |
| Famous stargazer | SAGAN |
| Fantastic beast | OGRE |
| Football star for Santos in the 1960s | PELE |
| Formally yield | CEDE |
| Former name of the carrier now known as Envoy | AMERICANEAGLEAIRLINES |
| Foul temper | IRE |
| From square one | AFRESH |
| G-strings, e.g | THONGS |
| Got gussied up | PREENED |
| Gulf Coast city that's home to Ca' d'Zan (winter home of John Ringling) | SARASOTAFLORIDA |
| Guys, in surfer-speak | DUDES |
| Having left port | ASEA |
| Hilty who played Glinda in 'Wicked' on Broadway | MEGAN |
| Hostile territory | ENEMYTURF |
| Illusionist's offering | TRICK |
| In a scanty way | SLIMLY |
| In the style of, on menus | ALA |
| Insensitive sort | BRUTE |
| Issa who plays Issa Dee on HBO's 'Insecure' | RAE |
| Jazz great Laine | CLEO |
| Jump on the ice | AXEL |
| Keeps all for oneself, in drug slang | BOGARTS |
| Kristoff's reindeer companion in 'Frozen' | SVEN |
| Like fugitives | ATLARGE |
| Like liquid nitrogen | COLD |
| Look after | TEND |
| Minor minder | NANNY |
| Mummies' homes | TOMBS |
| Musical groups? | CASTS |
| Narc's operation | RAID |
| Neckwear holder | TIERACK |
| Not proscribed | LEGAL |
| Note passed around in Amman | JORDANIANDINAR |
| Offenbach offering | OPERETTA |
| Orange sushi topper | ROE |
| Pertaining to hearing | AURAL |
| Plants or animals using secret passages | MOLES |
| Postwar ___ | ERA |
| Presently occupied | INUSE |
| Products with big Black Friday discounts | TVS |
| Psychologist who wrote 'Beyond Freedom & Dignity' | BFSKINNER |
| Public bathroom array | SINKS |
| Red-haired kid of kid lit | PIPPI |
| Remove, as a rind | PEEL |
| Require an erasure, say | ERR |
| Residue from a blaze | ASH |
| Result of a sac fly | RBI |
| Rhyme or reason, e.g | NOUN |
| Right of way? | EAST |
| Rock music player | STEREO |
| Scanned feet | IAMBS |
| See somebody? | POPE |
| Self-grooming creature | CAT |
| Size of a lot, maybe | ACRE |
| Special talent | FORTE |
| Successor to the Nissan Stanza | ALTIMA |
| Support | AID |
| Tested the weight of | HEFTED |
| Top spot? | STAIN |
| Trim blades with blades | MOW |
| Unreliable informant | LIAR |
| Using more subterfuge | SLYER |
| West in films | MAE |
| What a burglar may trip | ALARM |
| What a retinoid treats | ACNE |
| What's the deal? | POKERHAND |
| Without a ___ | TRACE |
| Woman's name that often starts with 'An' | DREA |
| Woolly mammal | LLAMA |
| Word reference that can list material in non-alphabetical order | REVERSEDICTIONARY |
| Worked on one's image? | DREW |
| Would-be stars' CDs | DEMOS |
| Ye ___ towne shoppe | OLDE |
| Yonder fellow | HIM |
| Youngster in a pouch | ROO |
| ___ diagram | VENN |
| ___ Expressway (part of Interstate 94 north of Chicago) | EDENS |
| ___ Killam, alum of both 'MADtv' and 'Saturday Night Live' | TARAN |
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