The Washington Post Sunday – Oct 10 2021 Crossword Solution
The Washington Post Sunday – Oct 10 2021
Clues | Answers |
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‘A Poem for Women in Rage’ writer Lorde | AUDRE |
‘Beauty’ among fruits | ROMEAPPLE |
‘Body’ rapper ___ Thee Stallion | MEGAN |
‘Caught you!’ | AHA |
‘Cheap Thrills’ singer, 2016 | SIA |
‘Confessions of a Teenage Drama Queen’ actress Lindsay | LOHAN |
‘Help yourself’ | PLEASEDO |
‘I’ll have another,’ at a bar | BEERME |
‘It will be long ___ the marshes resume’: Robert Frost | ERE |
‘My Brilliant Friend’ novelist Ferrante | ELENA |
‘Oh no!’ | IAMSODEAD |
‘Play It by Trust’ designer Yoko | ONO |
‘Ted Lasso’ Emmy winner Goldstein | BRETT |
‘The magic mirror you make to reflect your invisible dreams in visible pictures,’ per George Bernard Shaw | ART |
‘You Bring Me Joy’ singer Baker | ANITA |
‘___ about now?’ | HOW |
‘___ killin’ me here!’ | YER |
20 percent of XV | III |
Aloo matar vegetable | PEA |
And others: Abbr | ETC |
Apt surname for a librarian | READE |
Auntie, to one’s mom | SIS |
Basic service offered by a ride-hailing company | UBERX |
Basketball court site, for short | YMCA |
Be insufferably sweet | CLOY |
Belly | GUT |
Bit of blowgun ammo | DART |
Black bird that’s spreading everywhere? | PERMEATINGCROW |
Blacken, as a brisket | CHAR |
Blade with a fuller | EPEE |
Canadian coin bird | LOON |
Carry out, as a plan | EXECUTE |
Charges for hiring Scooby-Doo’s buddy? | SHAGGYRATES |
Chicago-___ pizza | STYLE |
Classics scholar Hamilton | EDITH |
Collect | AMASS |
Comedic entertainer Martha | RAYE |
Commerce site with bidding snipers | EBAY |
Company product? | OPERA |
Condition affecting sebaceous glands | ACNE |
Convenience store that ‘Mare of Easttown’ star Kate Winslet said ‘almost felt like a mythical place’ | WAWA |
Conversational link | SEGUE |
Count ___ (Lemony Snicket antagonist) | OLAF |
Daily essay | OPED |
Development on one’s head, and a hint to this puzzle’s theme | HAIRGROWTH |
Devices that may have erasable ink | PENS |
Divide into parts | SEPARATE |
Dream ticket activity? | LOTTO |
Drink similar to sparkling water | SELTZER |
Duels, in a way | FENCES |
E-flat major work | EROICA |
Employing | USING |
Exhibits gumption | DARES |
Expert at thrill-seeking jumps? | BUNGEEWHIZ |
Expose to oxygen, as wine | AERATE |
Ferrari founder Ferrari | ENZO |
Fire company? | DRAGONS |
First word of a.k.a | ALSO |
Fish-catching items | NETS |
Goal of 87 Across | INTEL |
Hall of Fame induction, e.g | HONOR |
Hangar craft | JET |
Happy hour selection | ALE |
Headline about an awesome youngster? | MOPPETROCKS |
Hollow, cylindrical item | TUBE |
Home screen array | APPS |
Hot and sweet drink | COCOA |
Hubble who received the Gold Medal of the Royal Astronomical Society in 1940 | EDWIN |
Icy aces? | FROZENMASTERS |
Illuminated holiday symbol | MENORAH |
Illuminated once more | RELIT |
Investment plan initials | IRA |
Clues | Answers |
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Jack Sprat’s dietary rule | NOFAT |
Jay who was joined on stage by Kevin Eubanks | LENO |
Jennifer Paull’s instrument | OBOE |
Kyrgyzstan’s continent | ASIA |
Let out a loud cry | WAIL |
Like an equilateral triangle’s angles | ACUTE |
Like baaing creatures | OVINE |
Like bodybuilders | BEEFY |
Like formal dresses | FANCY |
Like members of the establishment | ELITE |
Made into a minister | ORDAINED |
Many a student at the University of Novi Sad | SERB |
Martin Luther’s ‘Ninety-Five Theses,’ e.g | LIST |
Military exploration, for short | RECON |
Move a little, in bed | STIR |
Muzzleloading need | RAMROD |
Newborn mountain feline’s bed? | BOBCATSCRADLE |
Nicolas Cage film set on a plane | CONAIR |
Not missing a beat | ONCUE |
Not that many | ONEORTWO |
Olympian Midori | ITO |
One ordering an MRI | DOC |
One who may take part in speedrunning | GAMER |
Opposite of content | UPSET |
Pale in color | ASHY |
PCB watchdog | EPA |
Peer group member? | EYE |
Philosophers’ offerings | IDEAS |
Portmanteau for a famous woman who has come out of the closet | CELESBIAN |
Prefix with centric or logic | GEO |
Psyche’s mythical lover | EROS |
Rascally sort | ROGUE |
Relative of an anemone | CORAL |
Reply to a compliment in Calais | MERCI |
Rolls-___ (luxury auto) | ROYCE |
Secret agent hired by a samurai warrior, maybe | NINJA |
Shooting star setting | SKY |
SI unit of length | METER |
Similar (to) | AKIN |
Sits alongside | ABUTS |
Skin opening | PORE |
Smoky atmosphere | HAZE |
Snow day gliders | SLEDS |
Some spiritual teachers | LAMAS |
Songs that don’t conclude suddenly? | FADEOUTNUMBERS |
Sound in a meadow | MOO |
Speaker’s aid, for short | MIC |
Spike in the woods | TENTSTAKE |
Stoned | ONPOT |
String not often found on a slipper | LACE |
Terra cotta material | CLAY |
Therefore | HENCE |
Thunderbird Lodge’s lake | TAHOE |
To boot | ASWELL |
Try to prevent | DETER |
Unit that’s equal to about 4.9 ml | TSP |
Uno, ___, tres .. | DOS |
Wedding gown designer Vera | WANG |
Welcome benefits | BOONS |
What justices interpret | LAWS |
What the Israelites crossed, in the Bible | REDSEA |
When the clock hits zero | END |
When the workday, or nightly news, may start | ATNINE |
Where some kings and queens are crowned | PROMS |
wikipedia.___ | ORG |
Word with ground or water | LEVEL |
World capital that’s home to Hassan Tower | RABAT |
Ye ___ shoppe | OLDE |
Zoom call annoyance | ECHO |
___ and cheese (pasta dish) | MAC |
___ skating | FIGURE |
___ Wolf, butcher toasted in the song ‘To Life’ from ‘Fiddler on the Roof’ | LAZAR |