The Washington Post – Oct 8 2019 Crossword Solution
The Washington Post – Oct 8 2019 Crossword Solution
| Clues | Answers |
|---|---|
| ‘A Confederacy of Dunces’ author John Kennedy __ | TOOLE |
| ‘Back forty’ unit | ACRE |
| ‘Enchanted’ film title girl | ELLA |
| ‘I’m on it!’ | CANDO |
| ‘The cow is of the bovine __; / One end is moo, the other, milk’: Ogden Nash | ILK |
| ‘The lowest form of humor—when you don’t think of it first’: Oscar Levant | PUN |
| ‘We __ Farmers’: insurance slogan | ARE |
| ‘Yeah, right!’ | HAH |
| 1/60 of an hr | MIN |
| 10 C-notes | ONEG |
| 2018 Best Actor Rami __ | MALEK |
| Affirmative vote | YEA |
| Argo and Titanic | SHIPS |
| Article in Die Zeit | DER |
| Attic function | STORING |
| Awaken | COMETO |
| Backyard cooker | CHARCOALGRILL |
| Beer initialism | IPA |
| BLT condiment | MAYO |
| Boats like Noah’s | ARKS |
| Certain queen’s bailiwick | DRAMA |
| Corn Belt state | IOWA |
| Distort, as rules | BEND |
| Do something human? | ERR |
| Dog pack leader | ALPHA |
| Email asking for money, perhaps | SCAM |
| Feeling poorly | ILL |
| Forbidden regions | NOGOAREAS |
| Get by | MANAGE |
| Golf teacher | PRO |
| Gps. of drinks | RNDS |
| Greek column type | IONIC |
| Gyro bread | PITA |
| Hard to find, to Caesar | RARA |
| High school stat | GPA |
| How headless chickens may run | AMOK |
| In the least | ATALL |
| Kindle technology | EINK |
| King of Siam’s Broadway dance partner | ANNA |
| Clues | Answers |
|---|---|
| Last word before digging in? | AMEN |
| Like Felix Unger, e.g | ANAL |
| Like some expectations | UNMET |
| Loewe’s lyricist | LERNER |
| Miss. neighbor | ALA |
| Mom’s brother | UNCLE |
| N, E, S or W | DIR |
| Naval officer on a cereal box | CAPNCRUNCH |
| Not one to pass up a porterhouse | MEATLOVER |
| Ocular arch-shaping cosmetic | EYEBROWWAX |
| One or more | ANY |
| One-eighty | UTURN |
| Outmoded TV type | PLASMA |
| Palindromic address | MAAM |
| Pedi partner | MANI |
| Pianist Gilels | EMIL |
| Portuguese saint | SAO |
| Pro bono promise | NOFEE |
| Put the __ on: squelch | KIBOSH |
| Robby the Robot, e.g | MECHANICALMAN |
| Self-moving vacuum | ROOMBA |
| Sewing machine inventor Elias | HOWE |
| Sometimes it’s unmitigated | GALL |
| Spanish ‘I love you’ | TEAMO |
| Stephen King’s kid lit counterpart | RLSTINE |
| Sufficient, in texts | ENUF |
| Swerve | VEER |
| Tentative ‘It’s a date’ … or a hint to the starts of 17-, 26-, and 48-Across | PENCILMEIN |
| The Stones’ Jagger | MICK |
| Throbbing pain | ACHE |
| Up to, briefly | TIL |
| UPS driver’s assignment | ROUTE |
| Where Reds play | CINCINNATI |
| Wing measurement | SPAN |
| Winning streak | ROLL |
| With jaw dropped | AGAPE |
| Word before part or heart | TAKE |
| __ Lanka | SRI |
| __ symbol | SEX |