The Washington Post Sunday – Aug 15 2021 Crossword Solution
The Washington Post Sunday – Aug 15 2021
Clues | Answers |
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‘Fun Home’ has one | ACT |
‘Hacksaw Ridge’ actress Palmer | TERESA |
‘How could you ___?’ | TELL |
‘Nature’ channel | PBS |
‘Per my last email …’ | ASISAID |
‘Platoon’ war zone, briefly | NAM |
‘The African Queen’ co-screenwriter James | AGEE |
‘The French Dispatch’ director Anderson | WES |
‘Why, yes!’ | INDEEDIDO |
‘Yes ___, Bob!’ | SIREE |
‘___ got your back’ | IVE |
‘___ I knew that!’ | EVEN |
A cappella group voice | TENOR |
Abbr. on a street sign | AVE |
Abound (with) | TEEM |
Actor who co-created the Adult Swim show ‘Robot Chicken’ | SETHGREEN |
Adjusted to, as the temperature level on a thermostat | SETAT |
Aerodynamic force opposite the thrust | DRAG |
Airport queue vehicle | TAXI |
All of the survivors on the island in ‘Lord of the Flies’ | BOYS |
Anvil brand in cartoons | ACME |
Aria performers | DIVAS |
Aware of, as a secret | INON |
Band whose song ‘Revolution 9,’ when played backward, supposedly contained the message spelled out by the first letters of this puzzle’s songs | BEATLES |
Beginning of history? | PRE |
Biden’s secretary of the interior Haaland | DEB |
Bones’ connection site | JOINT |
Brian who composed music for the video game ‘Spore’ | ENO |
By ___ of (due to) | DINT |
Castilian conqueror | ELCID |
Certain campus partner | SUITEMATE |
Channel showing MVPs | ESPN |
Chemical that may attract others of the same species (Usher) | PHEROMONE |
Co. founders, often | CEOS |
Covering with a plastic layer (Def Leppard) | LAMINATING |
Crazy Horse and Red Cloud’s people | OGLALA |
Create on-screen characters? | TYPE |
Cry at the start of the last lap | ONETOGO |
Crystalline collectible | GEODE |
Cultural sites? (Florida Georgia Line) | PETRIDISHES |
Digits on an IRS form | SSN |
Diplomat Kofi | ANNAN |
Double-reed woodwind | OBOE |
Energy, or a drink | JUICE |
Enthusiastic | KEEN |
Ex-MLB commish Bud | SELIG |
Existed (Interpol) | LIVED |
Female 94 Down | DOE |
Fields Medal field | MATH |
Fight the power | REVOLT |
Film director DuVernay | AVA |
Filthy buildup | GRIME |
Fragrant shrubs (Pink) | MYRTLES |
Gala at 8 p.m., say (Duran Duran) | SOIREE |
Genre for Ma Rainey and Papa Charlie McCoy | BLUES |
Grossed out | NAUSEATED |
Hair treatment | PERM |
Hair treatment | TINT |
Hair treatment | RINSE |
Handle one may not want to be attached to | EPITHET |
Hinder | DETER |
Hollywood spectacles | EPICS |
Home of the Statue of Unity (tallest statue in the world) | INDIA |
Idol forbidden by the Ten Commandments (Taylor Swift) | GRAVENIMAGE |
Illustrious | NOTED |
In need of nourishment | UNFED |
Injured things in slings | ARMS |
Insect on a box of Honey Nut Cheerios | BEE |
Insurance giant’s spokeslizard (Beyoncé) | GEICOGECKO |
Intriguing piece of info | TIDBIT |
Italian salami variety (U2) | GENOA |
Kazan of film | ELIA |
Language spoken in Chiang Mai | THAI |
LearnedLeague content | TRIVIA |
Clues | Answers |
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Legal case’s substance | MERITS |
Like some engineers | NAVAL |
Like TV shows watched by night owls | ONLATE |
Make a decision | SELECT |
Makes busy (the New Pornographers) | TIESUP |
Male 94 Down | STAGS |
Many awards for Audra McDonald | TONYS |
Mixed martial artist Anderson ___ | SILVA |
Move like a crane | SOAR |
Musical intervals also known as half steps (the Guess Who) | SEMITONES |
Musician once in the Irish band Clannad | ENYA |
Never, in German | NIE |
New ___ (music genre) | AGE |
Noise from a pigeon | COO |
Nutritionists’ concerns | DIETS |
Obvious (Ed Sheeran) | EVIDENT |
Occasion to geek out | NERDFEST |
Oceanography subject | SEA |
Ore something? | LODE |
Oregon neighbor, briefly | CALI |
Org. that represented Muhammad Ali after his draft-evasion conviction | ACLU |
Otherwise | ELSE |
Outside the norm (the Kooks) | DEVIANT |
Penn station? | DORM |
Peter Gabriel’s band, once | GENESIS |
Plane’s landing hr | ETA |
Plants bearing grapes | VINES |
Precipice | EDGE |
Primary fight | MAINEVENT |
Pro vote | YEA |
Pulitzer-winning author Forbes | ESTHER |
Recurring action film role on ‘The Simpsons’ (the Jackson 5) | MCBAIN |
Relieves (of) | RIDS |
Remains undecided | PENDS |
Ride or die, e.g | NOUN |
Ring-tailed creature | COATI |
Rocker King | ELLE |
Rower’s propeller | OAR |
Scan in which a patient may wear headphones | MRI |
Schwartz who created the podcast ‘Noble Blood’ | DANA |
Send back, as a case (the Goo Goo Dolls) | REMAND |
Service period, often? | SUNDAY |
She’s often associated with the 127 Across | ONO |
Singer Sands | EVIE |
Skater Midori who, in 1992, became the first woman to land a triple axel at the Olympics | ITO |
Sleight-of-hand scam | MONTE |
Soccer fan’s chant | OLE |
Some deciduous trees | ELMS |
Some sorority letters | XIS |
Spotted lanternfly, e.g | PEST |
Spread, as seeds | SOW |
Stuff on a Q-tip’s tip | COTTON |
Swimmers’ competition | MEET |
Tale in a tome, perhaps | SAGA |
The band Phantogram, e.g | DUO |
The night before | EVE |
Tool placed in a bucket | MOP |
Transaction of borrowed stock made in anticipation of that stock’s price falling | SHORTSALE |
U.K. band formed in 1970 by members of the Move | ELO |
U.S. citizen-to-be’s subj | ESL |
Untangle, with ‘out’ | SORT |
Vaccine research org | NIH |
Vexed greatly | ATEAT |
Viciously sarcastic | SNIDE |
Victory lap pace | TROT |
Warty pond swimmer | TOAD |
Way too drawn-out | OVERLONG |
What Pilates may strengthen | ABS |
What TSA agents check | IDS |
Wide receiver’s org | NFL |
Wool coat | FLEECE |
___ District (area outside the Milwaukee Bucks’ home arena) | DEER |
___ nodes | LYMPH |
___-in-law | SON |