The Washington Post Sunday – Nov 15 2020 Crossword Solution
The Washington Post Sunday – Nov 15 2020 Crossword Solution
| Clues | Answers |
|---|---|
| ‘A long time ago in a galaxy ___, ___ away …’ | FAR |
| ‘Able was I ere I saw ___’ (palindrome) | ELBA |
| ‘Afternoon of an Elf’ composer Garner | ERROLL |
| ‘Any moment now’ | SOON |
| ‘Come on, move it!’ | FASTER |
| ‘Da 5 Bloods’ director Spike | LEE |
| ‘Deck the Halls’ contraction | TIS |
| ‘Doctor Zhivago’ actor Guinness | ALEC |
| ‘Fine and Mellow’ singer Jones | ETTA |
| ‘Gone’ actress Seyfried | AMANDA |
| ‘If ___ heart fails thee, climb not at all’: Elizabeth I | THY |
| ‘LOL’ | HAHA |
| ‘Same for me’ | SOAMI |
| ‘Tell us how you really feel!’ | SAYIT |
| ‘The Eye’ actress Jessica | ALBA |
| ‘The Wooden Prince’ composer Bartók | BELA |
| ‘Tricked you!’ | PSYCH |
| ‘You can stop saluting now, private’ | ATEASE |
| ‘___ way!’ | ATTA |
| ‘___ we all?’ | ARENT |
| 1960s-style suffix that means ‘in abundance’ | AGOGO |
| 2020 World Series runners-up | RAYS |
| Actor who provided the voice of the octopus Hank in ‘Finding Dory’ | EDONEILL |
| Adorn, as some jewelry | GILD |
| Animated daughter of King Agnarr and Queen Iduna | ELSA |
| Arriving when expected | ONTIME |
| Beginning on | ASOF |
| Big bird with tiny wings | EMU |
| Bit of skiing wear, maybe | MITTEN |
| British record co | EMI |
| Chain component | RETAILSTORE |
| Churchgoer’s affirmation | AMEN |
| Collapsible beds | COTS |
| Comedian Rhodes | ERICA |
| Constant care, to an infant | NEED |
| Cookie cutter? | BAKER |
| Cosmetics titan Lauder | ESTEE |
| Desert elevation | MESA |
| Device with a bulb | LAMP |
| Diatribe over a president’s record, e.g | POLEMIC |
| Disgusting shipwrecked ship on a TV sitcom? | GROSSSSMINNOW |
| Ecclesiastical official | PRELATE |
| Entering this answer at 106 Down, e.g | ERROR |
| Exercise with a form called Playing the Lute | TAICHI |
| Fireplace residue | ASH |
| Fireplace residue | SOOT |
| Flipped (through) | LEAFED |
| Frida Kahlo’s field | ART |
| Gives cards to | DEALSIN |
| Glass part of a skylight | PANE |
| Gomez’s texting sign-off to his hairy relative? | COUSINITTTTYL |
| Good badminton service | ACE |
| Got down during a knighting ceremony | KNEELED |
| Groups of four, and what’s spelled out by the groups of four in this puzzle’s theme answers | TETRADS |
| Hackathon projects | APPS |
| Hamm who was the first woman inducted into the World Football Hall of Fame | MIA |
| Home of the jets | AIRBASE |
| Host of the ‘Louder Than a Riot’ podcast | NPR |
| Hot bodies in space | SUNS |
| Human right? | EAST |
| In a nimble way | SPRYLY |
| Inactivity activity | SLEEPING |
| Includes, with ‘in’ | ADDS |
| Informal guess | STAB |
| Inventor of the flute, per Greek myth | ATHENA |
| Jazz saxophonist Brown | ARI |
| Labels for gory movies, as assigned by the Beatles’ Ringo? | STARRRRATINGS |
| Lacked | HADNT |
| Large amount | ATON |
| Large hammer | SLEDGE |
| Last-fighter-standing contest | BATTLEROYAL |
| Like the first digit of pi | ODD |
| Clues | Answers |
|---|---|
| Like the taste of milk chocolate | SWEET |
| Line that intersects a curve at two points | SECANT |
| Made surgical cuts in | INCISED |
| Maker of giant rubber bands (for tripping roadrunners) | ACME |
| Misbehaving kid | IMP |
| Mixed martial artist Diaz | NATE |
| Moundville Native American Festival’s state | ALABAMA |
| Moves, as product | SELLS |
| Newsletter tidbit | ITEM |
| Not distracted | FOCUSED |
| Odom Jr.’s role opposite Miranda’s Hamilton | BURR |
| Olive in cartoons | OYL |
| One in a family tree | SON |
| Ones exposed by fact-checkers | LIARS |
| Opera singer Fleming | RENEE |
| Opposite of cheerful | MOROSE |
| Papier-___ | MACHE |
| Passed-down tales | LORE |
| Pea family shrub | ACACIA |
| Petty vindictiveness | SPITE |
| Pick up | DETECT |
| Play to the crowd | PANDER |
| Poker player’s action | BET |
| Prepares for a book club meeting | READS |
| President of the Palestinian Authority Mahmoud | ABBAS |
| Promise to provide congers and morays? | GUARANTEEEELS |
| Pull in, like a magnet | ATTRACT |
| Puts down | LAYS |
| Quite cross | IRATE |
| Recipient of a land grant? | HEIR |
| Recipient of a neonatologist’s care, informally | PREEMIE |
| Rejection in the Senate | NAY |
| Rest ___ (driver’s stop) | AREA |
| Result of a math test? | SUM |
| Ring, as a bell | TOLL |
| Roman emperor who fiddled, as legend has it | NERO |
| Round before the finals | SEMIS |
| Ruin the appearance of | MAR |
| Savanna antelope | IMPALA |
| Sch. where the first Internet message was transmitted (in 1969) | UCLA |
| Scratch out, with ‘out’ | EKE |
| See 95 Down | KIT |
| Setting for many a high-speed chase | FREEWAY |
| Shade on the Chicago Bulls uniform | RED |
| Singer Reeves with the album ‘Beautiful Life’ | DIANNE |
| Skip, as school | DITCH |
| Sneaker pattern | TREAD |
| Social pressure source | PEER |
| Societal instability | ANOMIE |
| Soft summons | PSST |
| Steep-walled passages | GORGES |
| Striped hyena relative featured on ESPNU? | NCAAAARDWOLF |
| Strips for oboists | REEDS |
| Styx guitarist Tommy | SHAW |
| Subjects of many viral videos | PETS |
| Take part in a consumer protest over sporty car roofs? | BOYCOTTTTOPS |
| Tax-deferred plan, briefly | IRA |
| The only carbon-negative country in the world (since 2017) | BHUTAN |
| They may wear matching outfits during their youth | TWINS |
| Till now | ASYET |
| Toasted lunches, often | BLTS |
| Transcript listing | COURSE |
| Upper part of a torso | BUST |
| Vented rock | MAGMA |
| Ward of ‘The Fugitive’ | SELA |
| When a Looney Tunes hunter launches an invasion? | ELMERFUDDDDAY |
| With 124 Down, setup with a snare | DRUM |
| Wow, as in a drag show | SLAY |
| [I’m freaking out!] | GASP |
| ___ Aviv | TEL |
| ___ Majesty the Queen | HER |
| ___ Rasmussen, first openly transgender mayor in the United States | STU |