The Washington Post Sunday – Oct 3 2021 Crossword Solution
The Washington Post Sunday – Oct 3 2021
| Clues | Answers |
|---|---|
| ‘Always Be My Maybe’ star Ali | WONG |
| ‘And be the white whale agent, or be the white whale principal, I will wreak that hate upon him’ speaker of fiction | AHAB |
| ‘As far as I’m concerned,’ briefly | IMHO |
| ‘Bad Guy’ singer Eilish | BILLIE |
| ‘Brokeback Mountain’ director | ANGLEE |
| ‘Danny and the Dinosaur’ author Hoff | SYD |
| ‘It ___ the question …’ | BEGS |
| ‘JAG’ org | USNAVY |
| ‘Jukebox’ singer DiFranco | ANI |
| ‘Nonsense!’ to Scrooge | BAH |
| ‘Not to ___ too fine a point on it …’ | PUT |
| ‘Silver’ ringers of song | BELLS |
| ‘Sisters’ actress Ward | SELA |
| ‘Superhero Movie’ actress Paxton | SARA |
| ‘Très ___’ (‘Very good’) | BIEN |
| ‘You betrayed me too?!’ in Latin | ETTU |
| ‘___ of a gun!’ | SON |
| ‘___ that thought’ | HOLD |
| 15-minute snooze, say | CATNAP |
| 2020 Olympics host country | JAPAN |
| 87 Down, in French | NOTRE |
| Actress Theobold who played Ivy on ‘Downton Abbey’ | CARA |
| Annoyed for fun | TEASED |
| Apt rhyme of ‘grab’ | NAB |
| Authorize | ENABLE |
| Beat with ingenuity | OUTWIT |
| Bit of duct fluid | TEAR |
| Brain or heart, e.g | ORGAN |
| Burnett who anchors ‘OutFront’ on CNN | ERIN |
| Business or pleasure journey | TRIP |
| City seen in the answer to 121 Across | AGRA |
| Coastal breeze | OCEANAIR |
| Company listings | JOBS |
| Compare (to) | LIKEN |
| Conducive to slipping | ICY |
| Costumed mall workers | SANTAS |
| D.C. Metro route with a U-shaped path | REDLINE |
| Dawn crower | ROOSTER |
| Debtor’s documents | IOUS |
| Decrepit, as a bar | SEEDY |
| Disencumbers | RIDS |
| Dispensed, as wine | POURED |
| Electrolysis atom | ION |
| Epcot thrills | RIDES |
| Event with rounds and rounds of applause | KARAOKENIGHT |
| Explored, with ‘into’ | DELVED |
| Fan’s feeling during a tie game in the bottom of the ninth | STRESS |
| Fashion editor Chen | EVA |
| Feature of Birkenstocks | OPENTOE |
| Fine and dandy | AOK |
| Flip, in the marketplace | RESELL |
| Flour or baking soda or cocoa powder, e.g | CAKEINGREDIENT |
| Focaccia, e.g | BREAD |
| Galleria d’___ Moderna (museum in Milan) | ARTE |
| Geological periods | EPOCHS |
| Geological periods | EONS |
| Get out of bed | ARISE |
| Golden retriever, e.g | CANINE |
| H, for a fraternity | ETA |
| Highest points | PEAKS |
| Hobbit companion of Thorin | BILBO |
| Horse coat color pattern | ROAN |
| Horse farm figure | BREEDER |
| Hospital drama persona | PATIENT |
| Imperial subjects in the Andes, once | INCAS |
| Increasingly obsolescent public transit coin | BUSTOKEN |
| Indigenous group that runs the Weenuche Smoke Signals media department | UTE |
| Inflammation treatment | ASPIRIN |
| Is available at the moment | HASTIME |
| Journalist Klippenstein | KEN |
| Kellty played by Jodie Foster in a 1994 film | NELL |
| Kobayashi Issa poem | HAIKU |
| Lad | BOY |
| Lake ___ Vista, Fla. (Disney World locale) | BUENA |
| Clues | Answers |
|---|---|
| Language in which ‘hello’ is ‘përshëndetje’ | ALBANIAN |
| Legal system VIPs | DAS |
| Letters between a real name and a nickname | AKA |
| Like a human crab | ORNERY |
| Like photographs taken in flight | AERIAL |
| Make ragged | TATTER |
| Mann with the album ‘Lost in Space’ | AIMEE |
| Manning with 57,023 career passing yards | ELI |
| Mike and ___ (rhyming candy) | IKE |
| Mosul’s nation | IRAQ |
| Music festival box | AMP |
| Nabisco treats made at plants whose workers went on strike in 2021 | OREOS |
| Naming convention? | ROLLCALL |
| Not moving | INERT |
| Numbers of people? | AGES |
| One enlisting in the Royal Marines | BRIT |
| One, in Frankfurt | EINS |
| Opera company solo | ARIA |
| Oscar-winning title role for Streep | KRAMER |
| Parts, or parts of a chess set … or what’s spelled out by the letters parting this puzzle’s circled words | PIECES |
| Person who wants you to show your hand | PALMREADER |
| Pics on some body? | TATS |
| Place in which to sign a guest book | INN |
| Pledge taken in court | OATH |
| Pot stocker | CANNABISSHOP |
| Predecessor of the euro, in Florence | LIRA |
| Prefix meaning ‘three’ | TRI |
| Prepares macaroni, say | BOILS |
| President of Mexico from 2012 to 2018 | ENRIQUEPENANIETO |
| Prior to, in a poem | ERE |
| Product promise | GUARANTEE |
| Purple Brazilian berry | ACAI |
| Racehorse’s restraint | REIN |
| Related to the mouth | ORAL |
| Remind incessantly | NAG |
| Responded like a brat | SASSED |
| Rock in ___ (music festival in Brazil) | RIO |
| Rome and more, e.g | ANAGRAMS |
| Roof edge | EAVE |
| Rotating tooth | COG |
| Round dish in a bakery | PIE |
| Said yes | CONSENTED |
| School shuttle, maybe | VAN |
| Seats for viewing fireworks, often | LAWNCHAIRS |
| See 116 Down | URKEL |
| Sharply critical remarks | BARBS |
| Shelter supporting vines | ARBOR |
| Sign that one is spent | YAWN |
| Sizable swarm | HORDE |
| Small one in a litter | RUNT |
| Snowboarding venue | SKIAREA |
| Spot for a catch and tackle | PIER |
| Submarine canyon site | SEA |
| Sweet treats | SUGARCOOKIES |
| Tiki bar band | LEI |
| Toni Morrison (in 1993) or Alice Munro (in 2013), e.g | NOBELIST |
| Toss and turn | CANTSLEEPAWINK |
| Tricksy | SLY |
| Tube on a firetruck | HOSE |
| Ultimate degree | NTH |
| Unit of hope | RAY |
| Upper-left corner key | ESC |
| Vehicle seen in a ‘Fast & Furious’ film | STUNTCAR |
| Vowel-rich goodbye | ADIEU |
| Walking sticks | CANES |
| Was in charge | LED |
| Washington Football Team coach Rivera | RON |
| What the nations in the Chiang Mai Initiative are part of | ASIA |
| Wiped out | ATEIT |
| With 22 Across, clone machine inventor on ‘Family Matters’ | STEVE |
| Word before ‘bars’ or ‘drinks’ | ENERGY |
| ___ Adams (Boston Beer Co. beer, informally) | SAM |
| ___ Lady of Peace (Catholic parish name) | OUR |
| ___ Zealand | NEW |