The Washington Post Sunday - February 16 2020
Clues | Answers |
'25 or 6 to 4,' e.g.? | CHICAGOTUNE |
'Born ___ Way' (Lady Gaga hit) | THIS |
'Do you understand?' | CAPISCE |
'Don't delay!' | NOW |
'Gimme a few ___' | SECS |
'I'm out' | SEEYA |
'In what way?' | HOW |
'Livin' la Vida ___' (Ricky Martin hit) | LOCA |
'Sherlock' star Cumberbatch | BENEDICT |
'That's true' | YEAH |
'The Hate U Give' author Thomas | ANGIE |
'The United States has explosive material'? | AMERICASGOTTNT |
'Turandot' piece | ARIA |
'What a long week!' | TGIF |
'What nonsense!' | ITSALIE |
'___ been better' | IVE |
'___ of discussion!' | END |
Aim for | ASPIRETO |
Alarm, as in a haunted house | SCARE |
Alkaline cleaning agent | SALSODA |
Ancient region ruled by Alexander the Great | IONIA |
And others, in Lat | ETAL |
Apt to be deemed untrue | DENIABLE |
Arthur of 'Mame' | BEA |
Attic powder | DUST |
Back in time | AGO |
Bed board | SLAT |
Bed size | TWIN |
Below 90 degrees | ACUTE |
Black mamba, e.g | SNAKE |
Bookie's numbers | ODDS |
Boston or UCLA athlete | BRUIN |
Canine container | DOGCRATE |
Christmas jingler | SLEIGHBELL |
Cinematic patron of Rick's Cafe Americain | ILSA |
Circulatory passage | AORTA |
Cluttered condition | MESS |
Coat rack pieces | PEGS |
Command to parents to identify their newborn boy? | NAMEYOURSON |
Cosmetic for cheeks | ROUGE |
Crossed a shallow pool | WADED |
CrossFit woes | ACHES |
Dark pendant stone | ONYX |
Days before holidays | EVES |
Decision-makers | ARBITERS |
Delaware State University setting | DOVER |
Diminish gradually | TAPER |
Diminutive D&D being | GNOME |
Drink taken out of 45 Across | TEA |
Drink taken out of 98 Across | ALE |
Empty space | GAP |
ESPN host Nolan | KATIE |
Evanescence singer Amy | LEE |
Fastens with a click | SNAPSON |
Fictional elephant | BABAR |
Food taken out of 117 Across | RIB |
Food taken out of 122 Across | EGG |
Food taken out of 23 Across | COD |
Food taken out of 25 Across | POI |
Food taken out of 68 Across | HAM |
Gothenburg denizen | SWEDE |
Granite State sch | UNH |
Had been | WAS |
Had no doubt about | KNEW |
He appointed Trotsky to lead the Red Army | LENIN |
Home of royal broncos? | BUCKINGPALACE |
Home of the National Museum of Qatar | DOHA |
HOMES lake | ERIE |
III, in modern Rome | TRE |
In a state of nervous excitement | ATWITTER |
Issue, as beams | EMIT |
Kings and queens, e.g | DYNASTS |
Labor activist Chavez | CESAR |
Laces' place | SHOE |
Last Oldsmobile model | ALERO |
Lift with might | HEAVE |
Like bills | SIGNED |
Manner of speaking for many a character on 'Nashville' | DRAWL |
Masters standard | PAR |
Metal vein | LODE |
Mimicking | APING |
Mob honcho | CAPO |
Mob honchos | DONS |
Moved worriedly | PACED |
Nation that adopted a new constitution in 2015 | NEPAL |
Nickelodeon show set in Bluffington | DOUG |
Nooks | RECESSES |
Nordli bed frame seller | IKEA |
Of a certain column | SPINAL |
Part of the way up | STEP |
Path between pews | AISLE |
Patterned after | ALA |
Person painting portraits of actress Charlotte or Issa? | RAEARTIST |
Pieces of band merch | CDS |
Pigmented eye layer | UVEA |
Place in a crypt | ENTOMB |
Prudishly proper sort | PRIG |
Putt next to the hole | TAPIN |
Reverse card game | UNO |
Rimes with lyrics | LEANN |
Rudimentary material | BASICS |
Scratch up | MAR |
See 19 Across | ALONE |
See 56 Down | CRATCHIT |
Seoul food consumer | KOREAN |
Show time, informally | TONITE |
Singer Barter or actress Larter | ALI |
Singer who played Catwoman | EARTHAKITT |
Sleep state | REM |
Snitch on, with 'out' | RAT |
Someone may run for it | SEAT |
Sounds heard in the 1992 film 'Beethoven' | BARKS |
Speaker's address, perhaps | MADAM |
Spot for a tourniquet | ARM |
Springfield skateboarder | BART |
Squanders, as a lead | BLOWS |
Stags' wedding bands? | DEERRINGS |
Starter course, briefly? | INTRO |
Stimpy's buddy | REN |
Subject of a TMZ report | CELEB |
Support, as a nonprofit | DONATETO |
Surgeons' blades | LANCETS |
Sushi roll topper | ROE |
Swear in church, maybe? | SAYIDO |
Take home first prize | WINIT |
Tanzania neighbor | RWANDA |
Tiny recipe quantity | PINCH |
Trick for completing a task more efficiently | LIFEHACK |
TV, in slang | IDIOTBOX |
Understudy's role in 'Clueless: The Musical'? | SUBSTITUTECHER |
United Nations figure | DELEGATE |
Vassar students beginning in 1969 | MEN |
Vehicle going downhill | SLED |
Vehicle showing ads | BUS |
Washington Mystics star ___ Delle Donne | ELENA |
Wayne ___ (Gotham City locale) | MANOR |
When some do lunch | ATNOON |
With 20 Across, by oneself | ALL |
With 79 Down, clerk in 'A Christmas Carol' | BOB |
Word before 'suite' or 'party' | BRIDAL |
Zealous | AVID |
___ by ___ | ONE |
___ chi | TAI |
___ torch | TIKI |
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