The Washington Post Sunday – Aug 22 2021 Crossword Solution
The Washington Post Sunday – Aug 22 2021
| Clues | Answers |
|---|---|
| ‘… ___ or buts!’ | ANDS |
| ‘Babe’ director Chris | NOONAN |
| ‘Better Call Saul’ network | AMC |
| ‘Hail, Caesar!’ actor Ehrenreich | ALDEN |
| ‘Hope’ singer Parks | ARLO |
| ‘How rude of you to say such things!’ | INEVER |
| ‘I could ___ a break’ | USE |
| ‘I’ve got to ___ …’ | ASK |
| ‘No problem for me’ | ICAN |
| ‘Oh, hell!’ | DAMNIT |
| ‘Psst! Hey you!’ | OVERHERE |
| ‘Ready Player ___’ (2020 sequel novel) | TWO |
| ‘The Good Doctor’ channel | ABC |
| ‘The Princess Bride’ actor ___ Shawn | WALLACE |
| ‘The Wizard of Oz’ actor Bert | LAHR |
| ‘There must be another ___!’ | WAY |
| ‘Top ___’ (car show) | GEAR |
| ‘You get the ___’ | IDEA |
| ‘___ Eye’ | QUEER |
| 12 months before now | AYEARAGO |
| Accessories on racks | TIES |
| Ancient Athens’s region | ATTICA |
| Apt rhyme of ‘space’ | PLACE |
| Army bases? | ANTHILLS |
| Boat propulsion tool | OAR |
| Cause to be annoyed | MIFF |
| Causes of suffering | ILLS |
| Certain exfoliating skin treatment | FACEPEEL |
| Chain that acquired Office World in 2004 | STAPLES |
| Collide with others at a concert | MOSH |
| Colorful cosmetic applied to some wrinkly dog? | LIPSTICKONAPUG |
| Combine numerically | ADD |
| Congressional districts’ VIPs | REPS |
| Crispy snacks for a long-eared dog? | BEAGLECHIPS |
| Cruciferous veggie | KALE |
| Cry heard in a meadow | MOO |
| Dangerous part of a cliff | EDGE |
| Deal with change | ADAPT |
| Decides that one will | OPTSTO |
| Decorative vase | URN |
| Decreased | LOWERED |
| Detects with radar, say | LOCATES |
| Devilish tykes | IMPS |
| Dinner perception | TASTE |
| Director Ephron or actress Dunn | NORA |
| Dopey colleague | SLEEPY |
| Drag queen Smalls | NAOMI |
| Drawing implement used by a wrinkly dog? | SHARPEIMARKER |
| Drink that can be spilled literally or figuratively | TEA |
| Duke’s leader? | ARCH |
| Dynamite inventor Nobel | ALFRED |
| Eins + eins + eins | DREI |
| Employ delaying tactics | STALL |
| Emulated the athletes Katie Ledecky and Caeleb Dressel | SWAM |
| Enjoy a salad, say | EAT |
| European capital that’s home to Sobrino de Botín (the world’s oldest restaurant) | MADRID |
| Exhausting work | TOIL |
| Feel the effects of a dance marathon | ACHE |
| Feel unwell | AIL |
| Film companion of the droid BB-8 | REY |
| Flower in many a Song dynasty painting | ORCHID |
| Futzes (with) | MESSES |
| Get ready, as in the OR | PREP |
| Get rid of, with ‘off’ | SLOUGH |
| Great Lash from Maybelline, e.g | MASCARA |
| Hackathon creation | APP |
| Hair-in-a-pipe problem | CLOG |
| Have serious qualms about | RUE |
| He composed ‘Carmina Burana’ | CARLORFF |
| HP or IBM products | PCS |
| Hunting dog atop a banner-bearing staff? | FLAGPOLESETTER |
| Insufficient supply | DEARTH |
| Clues | Answers |
|---|---|
| Kid’s insolence | SASS |
| Kojima who directed and produced the video game ‘Death Stranding’ | HIDEO |
| Lady with a repeated syllable in her name | GAGA |
| Lent support to | HELPED |
| Like i and j | DOTTED |
| Like passes that go out of bounds | ERRANT |
| Like switchback roads | TWISTY |
| Losing one’s key, like a music student? | ATONAL |
| Lost all juice, as a battery | DIED |
| Lottery-like game | KENO |
| Luminous celestial body | STAR |
| Magic show feature | TRICK |
| Magmatic deposit, at times | ORE |
| Make a lasting impression | ETCH |
| Make eggs, like a hen | LAY |
| Male horse usually under the age of 4 | COLT |
| Mannheim man’s title | HERR |
| Maritime law drama from 1995 to 2005 | JAG |
| Model X carmaker | TESLA |
| Muse of music, in Greek myth | EUTERPE |
| Namesake for many an avenue in D.C | STATE |
| Obligation to a creditor | DEBT |
| One cuing a chorale | MAESTRO |
| One known for a magic number of three | GENIE |
| Pamir Mountains area | ASIA |
| Pen used by horses | CORRAL |
| Pest-spotter’s shriek | EEK |
| Political grp. hidden in ‘diplomacy’ | PLO |
| Praising poem | ODE |
| Program with mil. sci. courses | ROTC |
| Pursue with romantic gestures | WOO |
| Railroad vehicle for a commuting Chinese dog? | CHOWCHOWTRAIN |
| Real soon | ANYDAY |
| Record or cookie container | SLEEVE |
| Response to Captain Kirk or Captain Picard | AYESIR |
| Romance novel emotion | DESIRE |
| Round-bottomed cooking pan | WOK |
| Roz portrayer Gilpin | PERI |
| Sea creature with three hearts | OCTOPUS |
| Second word of RPM | PER |
| See 21 Across | ELSE |
| See 34 Down | ALDA |
| Series of martial arts exercises | KATA |
| Served, as at a wedding | CATERED |
| Skyscraper owned by a hunting dog? | TOWEROFTERRIER |
| Snapdragon start | SEED |
| Song after a recitative, often | ARIA |
| Sounded like a tiger | ROARED |
| Spark creativity | INSPIRE |
| Spike not allowed in indoor volleyball | CLEAT |
| Strong body part for a ballerina | LEG |
| Super long unit of time | EON |
| Suppress | QUASH |
| Term for an obnoxious dude who frequently responds to Twitter posts by mansplaining | REPLYGUY |
| Test Track’s theme park | EPCOT |
| Tomb raider Croft | LARA |
| Turn 90 degrees, say | ROTATE |
| Unaccompanied | LONE |
| Varanasi-born Shankar | RAVI |
| Vinyl record problem | SKIP |
| Water dog that plays table tennis? | PINGPONGPOODLE |
| Waxing and relaxing sites | SPAS |
| Went (for), pricewise | SOLD |
| Whatchamacallits | DOODADS |
| Where you may see an actual dumpster fire | ALLEY |
| With 114 Across, Hawkeye Pierce’s portrayer on ‘M.A.S.H.’ | ALAN |
| With 27 Across, ‘Not me!’ | SOMEONE |
| Woeful cry on stage | ALAS |
| Write (down) quickly | JOT |
| WWII battle city that’s an anagram of LOST | STLO |
| Yo La Tengo musician Kaplan | IRA |
| ___ design | WEB |