The Washington Post Sunday - Oct 6 2019
| Clues | Answers |
| 'Allahu ___' ('God is the greatest') | AKBAR |
| 'Becoming' writer, 2018 | OBAMA |
| 'Casino' director | SCORSESE |
| 'Frozen' character | ELS |
| 'Gimme a ___' | SEC |
| 'Gotta run' | SEEYA |
| 'In the Beginning' band, aptly | GENESIS |
| 'It's only me' | IMALONE |
| 'Leaving Las Vegas' Oscar winner, informally | NICCAGE |
| 'Survivor' sites | ISLES |
| 'The Family' director Besson | LUC |
| 'The greatest enemy that faith has,' per Martin Luther | REASON |
| 'The Mummy' beetles | SCARABS |
| '___ cost you!' | ITLL |
| 1984 Teena Marie album | STARCHILD |
| Agency gent | ADMAN |
| An American in Paris | TEXAN |
| Animated bus driver | OTTO |
| Appears gradually | FADESIN |
| Assembly ___ | LINE |
| Atkins diet no-no | CAR |
| Author Jong | ERICA |
| Authorize, in a way | SIGN |
| Avatar of Vishnu ... or, with a possible contestant on 115 Across, crash into an Arctic mammal? | RAMA |
| Awakening | AROUSAL |
| Banishes, as a college roommate during a hookup, in a modern portmanteau | SEXILES |
| Barrett of Pink Floyd | SYD |
| Based on deduction | APRIORI |
| Be friendly, in a way | SAYHELLO |
| Beast of an epic poem | GRENDEL |
| Beech locations | GROVES |
| Begin ___ (start over) | NEW |
| Branch of Judaism, e.g | SECT |
| Bus map markings | TOPS |
| Carmela's portrayer | EDIE |
| Charger or Colt, e.g | AUTO |
| Civil War combatant | REB |
| Cold drink brand | ICE |
| Cold sore relief brand | ORAJEL |
| College applicant's fear | EJECTION |
| Copycat | MIMI |
| Desired, with 'for' | HOPED |
| Detroit River outlet | ERIE |
| Dream state letters | REM |
| Edges of fashion | HEM |
| Elevator innovator | TIS |
| Emulate Bunyan | HOP |
| Encourage | EGGO |
| Examined carefully | SCANNED |
| Fat-avoiding Jack | SPRAT |
| Fifth of fünf ... or, with a possible contestant on 115 Across, jockey straps held by a Marxist revolutionary? | EINS |
| Fluorescent tube filler | ARGON |
| Fool | TWIT |
| For fear that | EST |
| Freedom from labor | EASE |
| Gaping hole | MAW |
| Gas-X rival | BEAN |
| Gay ___ (rights movement, briefly) | LIB |
| Gray ___ | REA |
| Hazy image ... or, with a possible contestant on 115 Across, artist Yoko when she writes a publicity notice? | BLUR |
| Hedy of 'Boom Town' | LAMARR |
| High school test fig | APSCORE |
| Highland games cloth | TARTAN |
| Home of the devils? | TASMANIA |
| Hoops coach Auriemma | GENO |
| Insta posting | PIC |
| Isn't in the right? | ERRS |
| Isn't in the rite? | ELOPES |
| It comes after first | AID |
| It shows several sides | MENU |
| It's parked on a bench | REAR |
| JFK inspection org | TSA |
| Julia, in 'Ocean's Eleven' | TESS |
| Kingdom in a musical | SIAM |
| Lacking skill in | POORAT |
| Lancaster County folk | AMIS |
| Less than 100 percent | ILL |
| Like a comfy pillow | OFT |
| Like contortionists | AGILE |
| Like Garfield | FELINE |
| Like some passages | NASAL |
| Made of separate parts | MODULAR |
| Make petty remarks | SNIPE |
| Many moons | AGE |
| Meat seller | ELI |
| Metal fan? | MINER |
| Most healthy | HALEST |
| Musical trio? | DOREMI |
| Narrow, as a rural road | ONELANE |
| Natural fuel source | PEAT |
| Nintendo Wii insert | DISC |
| Not forgotten | INMIND |
| Not yet consumed | UNEATEN |
| Officially give up | CEDE |
| Old firehouse fixture | POLE |
| Operatic texts | LIBRETTI |
| Oscar-winning Anna | MAGNANI |
| Overhang | AVE |
| Parking lot barrier | GATE |
| Pass out in Vegas? | DEA |
| Politico Buttigieg | PETE |
| Polymeric molecule | RNA |
| Predicament | BIN |
| Privileged class | LITE |
| Pro-___ (golf tourneys) | AMS |
| Prom style, often | UPDO |
| Publisher of the Weekly Brainwave | MENSA |
| Rabbit relatives | ARES |
| Ranch dude | BUCKAROO |
| Raw, in a steakhouse | TARTARE |
| Reality music show that's illustrated literally four times in this puzzle | THEMASKEDSINGER |
| Remnant at a bonfire | ASH |
| Renée Fleming offering | ARI |
| Ridiculousness | INANITY |
| Roo's protector | KANGA |
| Routine practice | HABIT |
| Sample, as a red | SIP |
| Sass, briefly ... or, with a possible contestant on 115 Across, mournful piano piece? | TUDE |
| Schemer of tragedy | IAGO |
| Settle down? | SAG |
| Simone of jazz | NINA |
| Sitting next to | ORDERING |
| Some deer | DOES |
| Starts, datewise | OPENSON |
| Stew, so to speak | LOSESLEEP |
| Sticker on a stem | THORN |
| Stimpy's cohort | REN |
| Strasbourg summer | ETE |
| Study, but not primarily | MINORIN |
| Subject of many mid-2000s baseball articles | STEROIDS |
| The first naturalized citizen from Africa to serve in Congress | ILHANOMAR |
| Thrill | LATE |
| Tissue in the throat | TONSIL |
| Title chameleon of film | RANG |
| Title robot of film | WALL |
| Tom and Jerry, e.g | AMES |
| Track figure | MILER |
| Train in a ring | SPAR |
| Two-tone cookies | REOS |
| Type of truck that stretches farther than a short variety does | LONGBED |
| Villainous look | LEE |
| Water park fixture | SLIDE |
| Way off | AFAR |
| What people will | ESTATES |
| Your location now | HERE |
| Zapped, as with rays | LASED |
| ___ wave (curve in a calculus class) | SIN |
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