The Washington Post Sunday - February 24 2019
| Clues | Answers |
| 'America' contraction | TIS |
| 'Ella Enchanted' beast | OGRE |
| 'Follow these steps' | DOASIDO |
| 'Hyperion' author Simmons | DAN |
| 'I want to hear more!' | ENCORE |
| 'Including ...?' | SUCHAS |
| 'Inglourious Basterds' antagonist Hans | LANDA |
| 'My Best Friend's Wedding' actor Rupert | EVERETT |
| 'New phone, who ___?' (insult used on social media when pretending not to know someone) | DIS |
| 'Rumors' playwright | SIMON |
| 'Seduction of the Minotaur' author Nin | ANAIS |
| 'Sugar' singer Jones | ETTA |
| 'The Great British Baking Show' judge Prue ___ | LEITH |
| 'Winter' singer Amos | TORI |
| - | CON |
| - | WAGER |
| - | EVER |
| - | ZING |
| - | TOLL |
| - | TONE |
| - | RANGE |
| - | NOT |
| 1950s song refrain featured in a dinner scene in 'Beetlejuice' | DAYO |
| 1996 De Niro-Snipes film about a homicidal Giants supporter | THEFAN |
| Affirmative declaration | IAM |
| Allegorical fall setting | EDEN |
| Approach | GONEAR |
| Aquarium gastropod | SNAIL |
| At all | WHAT |
| Back, as in a race | ENDORSE |
| Barley wine, e.g | ALE |
| Bedevil | VEX |
| Ben and Jerry, e.g | NAMES |
| Besides that | ELSE |
| Buenavista buds | AMIGOS |
| Burj Khalifa topper | SPIRE |
| Business card abbr | EXT |
| Bye, in Birmingham | TATA |
| Cajole | COAX |
| Camp accessories | BOAS |
| Cates of 'Gremlins' | PHOEBE |
| Comedian Minhaj who hosts the Netflix show 'Patriot Act' | HASAN |
| Consider | DEEM |
| Cuttlefish's organ | INKSAC |
| Declares confidently | AVERS |
| Deity referenced in a Veda, and an anagram of a word in this clue | DEVA |
| Dinner tubes | NOODLES |
| Dr. treating pharyngitis | ENT |
| Dramatic expression of reluctance | IDA |
| Drawing game? | LOTTO |
| Edible sprout source | ALFALFA |
| Electrical connections | LEADS |
| EP A | SIDEONE |
| Exhibited joy, maybe | CRIED |
| Famke Janssen's 'Nip/Tuck' character | AVA |
| Father's exhortation | REPENT |
| Fixed, as a seam | RESEWED |
| Fogell's amorous-sounding alias in 'Superbad' | MCLOVIN |
| Form of chrysoberyl that may remind you of a feline body part | CATSEYE |
| Former boy band singer who hosted 'The Singing Bee' | JOEY |
| Formerly | NEE |
| Fortas who resigned from the Supreme Court in 1969 | ABE |
| Future funds, briefly | IRAS |
| Game designer Meier | SID |
| Game tester's work experience, ideally | FUN |
| Georg with 31 Grammys | SOLTI |
| Giant in a major league clubhouse, maybe? | EGO |
| Grp. authorised to fly | RAF |
| Had interest | CARED |
| Hair holder | SNOOD |
| Hardest to get | RAREST |
| Harsh avian noise | CAW |
| He eschewed the fat | SPRAT |
| In the heart of | AMID |
| Inclinations | BENTS |
| Initials before Tolkien | JRR |
| It may begin with a semicolon | EMO |
| It's on the syllabus | EXAM |
| Jane who taught Adèle | EYRE |
| Kansai University locale | OSAKA |
| Lao Tzu's 'way,' or a cereal grass backward | TAO |
| Large container of water designed for observing swells on the water's surface | WAVETANK |
| Liable | APT |
| Like a 65 Down | HINDU |
| Like many Berg or Schoenberg pieces | ATONAL |
| Like some organs | INTERNAL |
| Like stale jokes | OVERDONE |
| Like the Hijri calendar | ISLAMIC |
| Line blocking passage | CORDON |
| Lock's place | DOOR |
| Lock's place | SCALP |
| Lode-bearing places | MINES |
| Long line, of a sort | DYNASTY |
| Lynx gripper | CLAW |
| Magic star until 1996, familiarly | SHAQ |
| Make Money, say | |
| Making the most of | MAXI |
| Miriam of 'Hedwig and the Angry Inch' | SHOR |
| Most secure, as seals | TIGHTEST |
| Nasty types | MEANIES |
| Nestlé chocolate bar | AERO |
| Nudge | PROD |
| Old weapon loader | RAMROD |
| One in a 'pocket rockets' pair | ACE |
| One making big bucks playing big Bucks, say | NBACOACH |
| One of seven vowels | ETA |
| Originates (from) | ARISES |
| Pen fare | SLOP |
| Pertaining to the Kabbalah | JUDAIC |
| Phenomenal | STELLAR |
| Place not far from Tennessee Avenue | STJAMES |
| Plutocracy supporters | ELITISTS |
| Potato skin shape, often | OVAL |
| Princess of Monaco | CHARLENE |
| Private support grp.? | USO |
| Program listing | CAST |
| Promotes to the majors | CALLSUP |
| Retail calculation | NETSALES |
| Ring-shaped structure formed over millions of years | CORA |
| Royal widow | QUEEN |
| Safe spaces? | BANKS |
| Scale unit raised eight times in this puzzle | NOTE |
| Shmi Skywalker's son, familiarly | ANI |
| Sketch comedy group's intro? | MONTY |
| SNL alum Horatio | SANZ |
| Sonnet sections | SESTETS |
| Squelch | STIFLE |
| Stead | LIEU |
| Storage units | SHEDS |
| Tegan's twin sister and band partner | SARA |
| Term for oil in a 1960s sitcom's theme song | TEXASTEA |
| They've got the goods | MARKETS |
| Tollbooth feature | GATE |
| Tricksy one | IMP |
| Tuned in, daddy-o | HEP |
| Unimaginative film revivals, in slang | RETREADS |
| Village ___ | ELDER |
| Voided service | LET |
| Went line by line? | TRACED |
| What often goes up in a big city | RENT |
| What you would expect | NORM |
| What you wouldn't expect | ANOMALY |
| Wheel of Fortune's deck | TAROT |
| Whiskey sour garnish | SLICE |
| Words of thanks | ODE |
| ___ crackers | SODA |
| ___ out a win | EKES |
| ___ point | HIGH |
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