The Washington Post Sunday - April 7 2019
Clues | Answers |
'Blue' singer Rimes | LEANN |
'Creep' group, 1994 | TLC |
'Don't wanna' | NAH |
'Get the point?' | SEE |
'Lost Horizon' director Frank | CAPRA |
'Nature's most perfect food,' per Garfield | LASAGNA |
'Quit crying about it!' | HUSH |
'The Age of Innocence' co-star Winona | RYDER |
'Thor' villain | LOKI |
'What a Carve Up!' author Jonathan | COE |
'What a performance!' | OOH |
'___ bien' | ESTA |
'___ but a scratch' (line from the Black Knight after losing his arm, in 'Monty Python and the Holy Grail') | TIS |
2008 NBA champ | CELTIC |
Absence of tautness | SLACK |
Acrobat file | |
Act the vagabond | ROVE |
Aide: Abbr | ASST |
And so on, briefly | ETC |
Apt to collapse | RAMSHACKLE |
Augment | ADDTO |
Baba ___ (Gilda Radner character) | WAWA |
Become hot, so to speak | TREND |
Bloody mary garnish | LIME |
Blues singer James | ETTA |
Boomer employed since the 1860s? | DYNAMITE |
Bring about | INDUCE |
Bunker of 1970s TV | EDITH |
Camping snack | SMORE |
Carne ___ parrilla (meat dish) | ALA |
Carrier of the heavens | ATLAS |
Caused | LEDTO |
Chuck | TOSS |
Close, as 'the end' | NIGH |
Colombian couple? | DOS |
Component of some splits | NINEPIN |
Composition of some castles | ICE |
Cord of tissue | TENDON |
Courageous | STOUTHEARTED |
Declaration about free booze, and a hint to this puzzle's theme | DRINKSAREONTHEHOUSE |
Demonstrate fallibility | ERR |
Difficulty in achieving one's dreams? | INSOMNIA |
Disc involved in a jump | CHECKER |
Discovers | LEARNS |
Driveway-clearing tools | SNOWSHOVELS |
Duct for exhaust gases | FLUE |
Ease up, with 'up' | LET |
Edible root | PARSNIP |
Electronic piano maker | CASIO |
Energetic circle dance | HORA |
Ersatz | SHAM |
Fan | ADMIRER |
Feel remorse for | RUE |
Fertilizer stuff | POTASH |
Fields Medal, e.g | AWARD |
Food Network host Krieger | ELLIE |
Force out of position | DISLODGE |
Fully developed | RIPE |
God served by the Furies | HADES |
Gordie with 801 goals | HOWE |
Gyeongbokgung Palace city | SEOUL |
Had chips, say | ATE |
He allowed the O.J. trial to be televised | ITO |
Hurdles before the bar exam, briefly | LSATS |
Is idle | LAZES |
It means 'choose' with or without a starting S | ELECT |
Jacks beat them in war | TENS |
Keyboard shortcut for switching between applications | ALTTAB |
Krabappel of cartoons | EDNA |
Late-night meal spot | DINER |
LCD component | LEAST |
Less remote | NEARER |
Like human eagles | LEGAL |
Like museum relics | OLD |
Lotus positions? | DEALERSHIPS |
Made a vow | PROMISED |
Mark of a deep cut | SCAR |
Matilda's creator | DAHL |
Maximum | CAP |
McKinley from Ohio | IDA |
Mole's fur color, often | TAUPE |
Morsel on a vine | GRAPE |
Mutton fat | SUET |
Nunatsiavut people | INUIT |
On a destroyer, say | ASEA |
Operatic tenor Gedda | NICOLAI |
Opposite of 31 Across | ASHORE |
Otter space | ZOO |
Painkiller that interferes with the blood's clotting action | ASPIRIN |
Part of a martini glass | STEM |
Place where somebody might drop their pants | LAUNDRYCHUTE |
Plundering one | PILLAGER |
Political blogger Moulitsas | MARKOS |
Pollute | TAINT |
Prelude or étude, e.g | PIECE |
Recall problem | AMNESIA |
Renaissance setting in America | HARLEM |
Reverent one's state | AWE |
Rise up ... way, way up | SOAR |
Ruler exiled in 1979 | SHAH |
Sean of 'The Goonies' | ASTIN |
Security org. until 1991 | KGB |
See 52 Across | TAN |
Shaker stuff | SALT |
Showing good posture | ERECT |
Site of a low ring | TOE |
Slang term for beer | SUDS |
Soft-shell item, maybe | TACO |
Soft-shell item, maybe | CLAM |
Sorority letter | PHI |
Sorority letter | ETA |
Sound represented by three letters | TRIGRAPH |
Sources of textiles | MILLS |
Speak monotonously | DRONEON |
Speckled horse | ROAN |
Spy org. on 'Chuck' | CIA |
Square dance dancer | GAL |
Star of 'Venus' | OTOOLE |
States stances | OPINES |
Stieg Larsson, Zara Larsson and others | SWEDES |
Takes out the middle 'man' in 'odd man out,' say | ERASES |
Target of kettlebell fly exercises, briefly | PEC |
Texas ___ (petroleum) | TEA |
The Sith, to the Jedi | ENEMIES |
They get lit during the holiday season | MENORAHS |
They may be arranged in a spiral | STAIRS |
Topic of proselytization | SIN |
Transcription item | STENOPAD |
Treasure | ADORE |
Update, as a statute | AMEND |
Water down | WEAKEN |
What a criminal may assume | ALIAS |
What George W. Bush called himself in 2006 when opting to keep Donald Rumsfeld as his secretary of defense | THEDECIDER |
When SNL ends, in D.C | ONEAM |
With 126 Across, 'The Kitchen God's Wife' author | AMY |
Wrap that you can't buy at a food truck | TOGA |
Writer Calvino whose first name is one letter off from his home country | ITALO |
___ Alto | PALO |
___ d'Or (film prize) | PALME |
___ engineer | AUDIO |
___ Lovelace Day (day highlighting the accomplishments of women in science) | ADA |
___ syrup | CORN |
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