The Washington Post Sunday – Jan 9 2022 Crossword Solution
The Washington Post Sunday – Jan 9 2022
Clues | Answers |
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‘Can’t go on’ | IMDONE |
‘Cape Fear’ star Nick | NOLTE |
‘Don’t ___ me now!’ | FAIL |
‘Giant’ or ‘stormy’ seabird | PETREL |
‘Give me just one ___’ | SEC |
‘Happy’ plant painted by Bob Ross | TREE |
‘Having said that …’ | BUT |
‘i’m dead’ | LOL |
‘Is everything ready?’ | ALLSET |
‘Music for Civic Recovery Centre’ musician Brian | ENO |
‘O coward conscience, how ___ thou afflict me!’ (‘Richard III’ line) | DOST |
‘That was mean!’ | RUDE |
‘The Plains of Passage’ author Jean | AUEL |
‘The Rage of Dragons’ author Winter | EVAN |
‘The Sopranos’ network | HBO |
‘There Will Be Blood’ actor Paul | DANO |
‘___ Is How We Do It’ (Montell Jordan hit) | THIS |
2014 U.S. Open champion Michelle | WIE |
69 Down centers, for short | ERS |
Activity on a course | ROUNDOFGOLF |
Appear as such | SEEMSO |
Bare-knuckle boxing weapon | FIST |
Beastly haunt | LAIR |
Become wiser, maybe | MATURE |
Blasting ___ | CAP |
Borrower’s obligation | DEBT |
Cable boxes? | TVS |
Candied Thanksgiving side items | YAMS |
Capture | ENSNARE |
Chafe | RUB |
Charles IX, par exemple | ROI |
Child of Aphrodite | EROS |
Clarinetists’ purchases | REEDS |
Clark Kent’s original Kryptonian name | KALEL |
Compassionate fire-wielding superhero? | THEHUMANETORCH |
Consider acceptable | SEEFIT |
Curd or dip preceder | BEAN |
Cuts up in the kitchen | DICES |
Dark stain | BLOT |
Devices replaced by smartphones | PDAS |
Dietary restriction for one completely avoiding bread and pasta, say | NOCARBS |
Disney heroine who wore a jangling cat collar? | PRINCESSBELLED |
Diverts with jokes, say | AMUSES |
Dressed for work, but without neckwear | TIELESS |
Dull routine | RUT |
Ear-to-ear grin | BIGSMILE |
Endures | ABIDES |
Equivalent | SAME |
ESPY Award honoring an unexpected victory | BESTUPSET |
ET who co-hosted the Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade in 1989 | ALF |
Flex | BEND |
Floored with a punch | DECKED |
Food, informally | GRUB |
Future episode promos | TEASERS |
Genre for Max Roach | BEBOP |
Get out of bed? | UPROOT |
Go out with someone who you think is out of your league | DATEUP |
Gradual film transition | FADE |
Granny Moses portrayer ___ Ryan | IRENE |
Great Dane who leads people into destruction? | SCOOBYDOOM |
Green Avengers heroine who builds a storage structure? | SHEDHULK |
Hair treatment that may involve a neutralizer | PERM |
Hamburger’s ‘street’ | STRASSE |
Hayride block | BALE |
Hearing, sight, smell, taste or touch | SENSE |
Heroic pooch who provides financial support? | FUNDERDOG |
Holiday visitor en décembre | PERENOEL |
Homer Simpson’s dweeby neighbor? | NERDFLANDERS |
Horse color pattern | ROAN |
I and others, in old Rome | NUMERALS |
Ingredient in a Kentucky mule c*cktail | BOURBON |
Initials of a 1960s attorney general | RFK |
Instruction manual parts | STEPS |
Issue, as fumes | EMIT |
Clues | Answers |
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Journalist Feinberg | ASHLEY |
Just sat there | IDLED |
Key macromolecule | RNA |
Khrushchev’s nation | USSR |
Like it or ___ it | LUMP |
Like one playing down their accomplishments | MODEST |
Lion’s 116 Across | DEN |
Low even score | ONEONE |
Mandlikova of tennis | HANA |
Manga android who bobs up and down in a harbor? | ASTROBUOY |
Manning drafted by the Chargers | ELI |
Many a Middle-earth archer | ELF |
Massachusetts college that Calvin Coolidge graduated from | AMHERST |
MLB group with teams from Baltimore, Boston, New York, Tampa Bay and Toronto | ALEAST |
Model-building sets | KITS |
Money spent in Ankara | LIRAS |
New Mexico resort | TAOS |
No ___ in sight | END |
Obeyed a ‘+’ sign | ADDED |
Olaf’s makeup, in ‘Frozen’ | SNOW |
One getting the red carpet treatment | IDOL |
One working abroad | CONSUL |
Pancakes in Indian cuisine | DOSAS |
Parts of recliners | ARMRESTS |
Performs a certain Latin dance | SALSAS |
Person with a similar aesthetic as Lydia Deetz from ‘Beetlejuice,’ maybe | GOTH |
Piece that captures diagonally | PAWN |
Plaintiff against Wade in 1973 | ROE |
Play at lunchtime, say | MATINEE |
Playbill bits | BIOS |
Pontifical blue toon? | PAPALSMURF |
Pop-up annoyances | ADS |
Practitioner of sorcery | MAGE |
Psychedelic letters | LSD |
Put down, as floor tiles | LAID |
Rascally rapscallions | IMPS |
Real-life picture | DOCUMENTARY |
Region with skyscrapers | URBANAREA |
Remain at one’s job | STAYON |
Rowing exercise targets | ABS |
Scatters | STREWS |
See 111 Across | ORE |
Shakespearean tumult | ADO |
Shops where you might find many drawers | ARTSTORES |
Significant injury | TRAUMA |
Situated above | OVER |
Slip-___ (shoes) | ONS |
Small fry | TOT |
Soccer coach Berhalter | GREGG |
Source of a package | SENDER |
Spirited ditty | LILT |
Sri Lanka’s continent | ASIA |
Sweet jams? | LOVESONGS |
Tax pro, for short | CPA |
The R of REM | RAPID |
Three-ft. units | YDS |
Thurman of Hollywood | UMA |
Tick off | IRK |
Tokyo ___ (stadium that hosts the Yomiuri Giants) | DOME |
Towing letters | AAA |
Travel aimlessly | ROAM |
Tread carefully | TIPTOE |
Violinist Leopold | AUER |
Web-slinger with long and heavy hair? | SPIDERMANE |
What a ‘brick’ may hit | RIM |
When repeated, cutesy term for a belly | TUM |
Wife, in Barcelona | ESPOSA |
With 19 Across, stuff of mine? | IRON |
Without notice | ABRUPTLY |
Woman’s nickname that drops ‘alie’ | NAT |
You’re inhaling it | AIR |
___ de cologne | EAU |
___ II (razor brand) | TRAC |
___ power | NTH |