The Washington Post Sunday – Sep 5 2021 Crossword Solution
The Washington Post Sunday – Sep 5 2021
| Clues | Answers |
|---|---|
| ‘At First Sight’ actress Sorvino | MIRA |
| ‘Check, please’? | IPASS |
| ‘Enter if you ___!’ | DARE |
| ‘Gotcha’ | ISEE |
| ‘I get to go now’ | MYTURN |
| ‘Please finish quickly,’ in an office email | NEEDASAP |
| ‘The function of freedom is to free someone else’ speaker Morrison | TONI |
| ‘The Queen’s Gambit’ actress Taylor-Joy | ANYA |
| ‘Tiny Dancer’ rocker John | ELTON |
| ‘Up Late’ singer Lennox | ARI |
| ‘Weird’ author Khazan | OLGA |
| ‘Woe is me!’ | ALAS |
| ‘___ deal!’ | BIG |
| ‘___ the long face?’ | WHY |
| 23rd Greek letter | PSI |
| 50 percent of diez | CINCO |
| A, in a deck of cards | ACE |
| Aardvark’s facial feature | SNOUT |
| Actor Tom providing cuts of holiday bird? | HANKSGIVINGTURKEY |
| Advantages | PROS |
| All alternative | ERA |
| Ambulance apparatus | STRETCHER |
| Amiss | AWRY |
| Animal with pants? | DOG |
| Appreciative works | ODES |
| Approach zero percent battery power, say | RUNLOW |
| Bambi, for one | DEER |
| Bert’s buddy on TV | ERNIE |
| Best for apple-picking | RIPEST |
| Bestla’s son in Norse myth | ODIN |
| Biz abbr | INC |
| Capital of Ghana? | HARDG |
| Carb-rich side that may be cut, and what’s spelled out by the letters cut from the starts of this puzzle’s foods | POTATOES |
| Catherine who played Moira on ‘Schitt’s Creek’ | OHARA |
| Cathy who wrote ‘Weapons of Math Destruction’ | ONEIL |
| Chef’s toque, e.g | HAT |
| Chestnut-colored horse | ROAN |
| Chloe Fineman’s sketch show, briefly | SNL |
| Combines in math class | ADDS |
| Confuse | ADDLE |
| Consistent with | TRUETO |
| CPR-certified worker | EMT |
| Crafted | MADE |
| Cut of meat from Mork’s home planet? | ORKROAST |
| Dairy product from a hydroelectric facility? | DAMCHEESE |
| DC reporter Clark | KENT |
| Delivery in a hospital? | DOSE |
| Descriptivists’ topics | USAGES |
| Desert vegetation areas | OASES |
| Detroit-born DJ Casey | KASEM |
| Develops survival methods, say | ADAPTS |
| Elevated crest | RIDGE |
| Emulates interrogators | ASKS |
| Enjoyed a snack | ATE |
| Essentials of learning | ABCS |
| European capital where part of ‘Tenet’ was filmed | OSLO |
| Events at swim meets | RELAYS |
| Expanse above | SKY |
| Fast-food sandwiches grilled by actress Grier? | PAMBURGERS |
| Five-armed invertebrate | SEASTAR |
| Formal promise | PLEDGE |
| Former Italian money | LIRA |
| Gas brand owned by Marathon | ARCO |
| Gilpin who played Roz Doyle on ‘Frasier’ | PERI |
| Gobble up, with ‘down’ | SNARF |
| Grammy winner Hayes | ISAAC |
| Greeting to a group of seared fish dishes? | HITUNASTEAKS |
| Group’s core beliefs | ETHOS |
| Guys on boards | CHAIRMEN |
| Have some down time during the day? | TAKEANAP |
| He called competitive eating ‘the only sport where marijuana is considered a performance-enhancing drug’ | LENO |
| Highly scrutinized TV episode, often | FINALE |
| Clues | Answers |
|---|---|
| Hope for the best, say | PRAY |
| Hostel bed, perhaps | BUNK |
| Jagged part of a cliff | CRAG |
| Joint seen while wearing flip-flops | ANKLE |
| Latin footnote word abbreviated by deleting its last two letters | IBIDEM |
| Like lemonade | ACIDIC |
| Lost deliberately | TANKED |
| Maidenform product | BRA |
| Making a comeback, say | RETRO |
| Midwestern home of the World-Herald | OMAHA |
| Military band, maybe? | RIBBON |
| Model-building box | KIT |
| Non-biological parent | STEPDAD |
| Novelist Charles | READE |
| Numbers on census forms | AGES |
| Obnoxious jerk, in British slang | TOSSER |
| Oct. 31 exclamation | BOO |
| Olympic team for Simone Biles and Suni Lee | USA |
| Opposite of clumsy | ADEPT |
| Ordered, with ‘around’ | BOSSED |
| Organize, as a playlist | CURATE |
| Organizes into a row | ALIGNS |
| Ortiz of ‘Love, Victor’ | ANA |
| Out of control | AMOK |
| Overfastidious | ANAL |
| Oxygen producer | TREE |
| Phenomenon similar to a fog | MIST |
| Piano string adjuster | TUNER |
| Piece of a certain floral crown | ROSEPETAL |
| Polynesian Disney character voiced by Auli’i Cravalho | MOANA |
| Pool-testing digit | TOE |
| Poultry served in the mountains? | RANGECHICKEN |
| Pre-U.S.S.R. leader | TSAR |
| Problem for a comb | TANGLE |
| Problem treated by a urologist | HERNIA |
| Realm ruled by Xerxes | PERSIA |
| Reason to get well wishes from Facebook friends, briefly | BDAY |
| Red fruit that’s painted or sculpted? | ARTCHERRY |
| Remain, as at a job | STAYON |
| Scotty’s portrayer James on ‘Star Trek’ | DOOHAN |
| See 43 Down | SINS |
| See 9 Down | IQUOTE |
| Sends on a detour | REROUTES |
| Shade of a Tibetan Buddhist monk’s robe | MAROON |
| Shots posted on Insta | PICS |
| Singaraja’s island home | BALI |
| Sit alongside | ABUT |
| Something you may forget in the morning | DREAM |
| Source of danger | PERIL |
| Spanish word for ‘mother’ | MADRE |
| Spirits from Smirnoff | VODKAS |
| Sports org. shown in ‘The Last Dance’ | NBA |
| State Farm alternative | GEICO |
| To the ___ degree (as much as possible) | NTH |
| Treat as exactly alike | EQUATE |
| Treats baked by a classic auto company? | REOCOOKIES |
| Ultimatum word | ELSE |
| Ultrasound or X-ray, e.g | SCAN |
| Vehicle in a chop shop | HOTCAR |
| Vehicle in the president’s motorcade | LIMO |
| Verbal ___ | TIC |
| What Reuters provides | NEWS |
| Whitlock Jr. who played Clay Davis on ‘The Wire’ | ISIAH |
| Whiz ___ (prodigy) | KID |
| With 111 Down, septet of vices | DEADLY |
| With 14 Down, ‘Their exact words were …’ | AND |
| Xerox machine bundle | REAM |
| ___ Aviv, Israel | TEL |
| ___ Bora (rhyming region of Afghanistan) | TORA |
| ___ Hannon, Ellie Kemper’s role on ‘The Office’ | ERIN |
| ___ Mesa, Calif | COSTA |
| ___-Missouria (people of Red Rock, Okla.) | OTOE |