The Washington Post Sunday – Jul 25 2021 Crossword Solution
The Washington Post Sunday – Jul 25 2021
Clues | Answers |
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‘Can’t complain’ | IMOKAY |
‘Fantastic!’ | SWEET |
‘Goodness gracious!’ | EGAD |
‘Humble’ home | ABODE |
‘Mulan’ warrior | HUN |
‘Ooh, he just got owned!’ | SICKBURN |
‘Star ___: Discovery’ | TREK |
‘The Goldbergs’ actor George | SEGAL |
‘The Wire’ actor West | DOMINIC |
‘Thought you could get one past me, huh!’ | OHO |
‘___ would look silly trying to cover its fur with wool’ | AWOLFINSHEEPSCLOTHING |
‘___, and those mares will get hugs’ | HOLDYOURHORSES |
‘___, and you’ll probably be gored’ | TAKETHEBULLBYTHEHORNS |
‘___, boars will soar’ | WHENPIGSFLY |
‘___? That’s when you get wounded by a hen’s nail’ | CHICKENSCRATCH |
‘___? Then it may be difficult to get milk’ | DONTHAVEACOW |
‘___? They’re over there, relaxing with the other drakes’ | SITTINGDUCKS |
49 Across divided by 49 Across | UNO |
Accelerate, with ‘up’ | REV |
Acute and obtuse things in a trapezoid | ANGLES |
And others like that | ETCETERA |
Animal in a South American herd | ALPACA |
Application of wax | COAT |
Approaches | NEARS |
Atop | UPON |
Barry’s ___ (company selling herbal products) | TEA |
Baseball ___ (hat) | CAP |
Bed seen on a baby monitor | CRIB |
Bendable thing | RULE |
Bendable thing | KNEE |
Bird mentioned as one of the exotic pets that one might buy in the Barenaked Ladies song ‘If I Had $1,000,000’ | EMU |
Blacken on a grill | SEAR |
Blues Hall of Fame inductee James | ETTA |
Borghese Gallery’s city | ROME |
Candied Thanksgiving vegetable | YAM |
Capital of Tasmania | HOBART |
Catwoman, for Halle Berry | ROLE |
Cease-and-desist order? | STOP |
Cigarette container | PACK |
College football sideline reporter Holly | ROWE |
Confirmation letters? | RSVP |
Contact info no | TEL |
Converse informally | CHAT |
Cred | REP |
Crosses swords (with) | ARGUES |
Cry from a betrayed Julius Caesar | ETTU |
Cry from an aggrieved fan | BOO |
DCA or LGA posting | ETD |
Decided on, with ‘for’ | OPTED |
Discus’s trajectory | ARC |
Dish that may be topped with marinara | PASTA |
Enclosure on a farm | STY |
Environmental subgroup | ECOTYPE |
Far too finicky | ANAL |
Farm mechanization development of the 19th century | TRACTOR |
Farm team’s connector | YOKE |
Feeling that one’s dreams may come true | HOPE |
Flight number? | FARE |
Foreign policy grp. whose letters are hiding in ‘foreign relations committee’ | NSC |
Formally surrender | CEDE |
Frequently misbehaving child | BRAT |
Fruity dessert spread | LEMONCURD |
Fuel made from biomass | ETHANOL |
Gambling payment | ANTE |
Gasteyer who played Elphaba in ‘Wicked’ | ANA |
General feeling at a wedding reception | MIRTH |
Go for another tour | REUP |
Group led by Peter Pan | LOSTBOYS |
Hammer-wielding Marvel superhero | THOR |
Hang ___ (keep) | ONTO |
Helper for Santa Claus | ELF |
Historically significant period | ERA |
Clues | Answers |
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Home run hitter’s pace around the bases | TROT |
Horticultural tool | HOE |
If not | ELSE |
Indigenous people of New York | CAYUGA |
Is in a sloping position | TILTS |
Knight’s gloves | GAUNTLETS |
Lacrosse target | NET |
Leave no stone ___ | UNTURNED |
Low prime in Puebla | DOS |
Make a tax-deductible contribution, perhaps | DONATE |
Make coffee, say | BREW |
Metal source? | IPOD |
Metal sources | ORES |
Method of communication in ‘A Quiet Place,’ briefly | ASL |
NAACP Image Award winner Long | NIA |
Nailed, as a test | ACED |
Naturalist on the Beagle | DARWIN |
No longer fastened, as buttons | UNDONE |
Not disorderly | NEAT |
Notch Peak’s state | UTAH |
Ocular cleaning device | EYECUP |
Org. approving vaccines | FDA |
Originally called | NEE |
Part of MTWTF, briefly | THU |
Persistent worry | ANGST |
Photobucket upload, briefly | PIC |
Pick up auditory cues | HEAR |
Posted presentation | TEDTALK |
Prefix with liberal or conservative | NEO |
Pretends | FEIGNS |
Protectors of brains | CRANIA |
Prussian-born general honored with a Chicago parade seen in ‘Ferris Bueller’s Day Off’ | STEUBEN |
Punishment for a 32 Across that prohibits screen time | NOTV |
Quarterback succeeded by Prescott in Dallas | ROMO |
Radial notch’s bone | ULNA |
Rand on a book cover | AYN |
Reaction to a sting | YEOW |
Real gem, so to speak | BEAUT |
Reasonable | SANE |
Regret bitterly | RUE |
Result of being swamped | STRESS |
River setting of an Agatha Christie mystery | THENILE |
Running time? | ELECTION |
Sailors who measure the depth of water | LEADSMEN |
See 70 Down | SET |
Shaivism or Shaktism, e.g | SECT |
Short moment, for short | SEC |
Signals for mariners | BEACONS |
Signs of gratification | SMILES |
Signs that one knows about a secret | WINKS |
Sing forcefully | BELTOUT |
Small but strong lifters | ANTS |
Snowfall measurement | INCH |
Some jacket fabrics | SUEDES |
Sound from a pigeon | COO |
Sport for Sha’Carri Richardson | TRACK |
Spreads, as in a garden bed | SOWS |
Stereotypical shout when a murderer is revealed in a mystery | ITSYOU |
Summer hrs. in L.A | PDT |
Swords with three of the same vowel | EPEES |
Teaching aides | TUTORS |
Time spent stuck in heavy traffic, seemingly | EON |
Tributes with stanzas | ODES |
Tube conveying water | HOSE |
Upper regions of air beyond the clouds | ETHER |
Warehouse units | CRATES |
Watch programs | APPS |
Website run by New York magazine | THECUT |
What Jade Fox’s darts are tipped with in ‘Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon’ | POISON |
When a song fades out | END |
Where some docs work | ERS |
With 71 Down, words before ‘Go!’ | GET |