The Washington Post Sunday – Feb 6 2022 Crossword Solution
The Washington Post Sunday – Feb 6 2022
Clues | Answers |
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‘Absofrigginlutely!’ | HELLSYEAH |
‘Catch my drift?’ | GETME |
‘Curse of the Mutants’ mutants | XMEN |
‘For the ___ time …’ | LAST |
‘Shutter Island’ actor Kingsley | BEN |
‘Sorta’ | ISH |
‘The Love Guru’ actress Jessica | ALBA |
‘The Punisher’ on the tennis court | AGASSI |
‘___ and ___’ (‘No problem’) | DONE |
‘___ to meet you’ | NICE |
1950s French president Coty | RENE |
6, in dates | JUNE |
65 Across’s atomic número | OCHO |
Aerobic step exercise | TOETAP |
Albertville Olympics skater Midori | ITO |
Auto repair chain | MEINEKE |
Baby powder material | TALC |
Basketball star Elena ___ Donne | DELLE |
Bear who says ‘Oh, bother’ | POOH |
Becomes aware | WISESUP |
Behind in an English class? | ARSE |
Big river barrier | DAM |
Biological pouch | SAC |
Brought back to life | REBORN |
Bryan’s opponent in the 1908 election | TAFT |
Cartoon characters wearing Phrygian caps | SMURFS |
Characters in Naguib Mahfouz’s ‘Cairo Trilogy’ | ARABS |
Cleated item in soccer | SHOE |
Colorado slopes locale | ASPEN |
Component of an assist, in basketball | PASS |
Computer running Mojave or Monterey | MAC |
Consoling touches | PATS |
Contradiction opener | BUT |
Contribution to a pot | ANTE |
Contribution to a pot | SEED |
Creature causing water to ripple in a famous ‘Jurassic Park’ scene | TREX |
Creeps like a crab | SIDLES |
Daly of ‘Rabbit Hole’ | TYNE |
Defensive tactic that serves as an alternate title for this puzzle | DOUBLETEAM |
Finals preceders, for short | SEMIS |
Foments | INCITES |
French ___ (hairstyle) | TWIST |
Get ready, briefly | PREP |
God who dueled with Percy in ‘Percy Jackson & the Olympians: The Lightning Thief’ | ARES |
Grind one’s molars | GNASH |
Groom, as feathers | PREEN |
Hairstyles for Earth, Wind & Fire members in the 1970s | AFROS |
He has exercise equipment, a pool table and a TV inside his doghouse | SNOOPY |
Hefty amount | TON |
Holiday party servings | NOGS |
Home of D.C. and NYC | USA |
Hook’s assistant | SMEE |
House rejections | NAYS |
Hurt, like a headache | THROB |
Ignoramus | MEATHEAD |
In a ___ (sort of) | SENSE |
Inspirational group of Greek myth | MUSES |
It takes courage to face them | FEARS |
It’s often locked in an escape room | DOOR |
Journalist’s approach | SLANT |
Large tank | VAT |
Like a dagger | SHARP |
Like daredevilry | RISKY |
Long or short follower | TERM |
Lyft competitor | UBER |
M, on forms | MALE |
Manage, with ‘out’ … and a word seen at the end of 12 Down | EKE |
March Hare’s companion | MADHATTER |
Massage technique popularized by Tokujiro Namikoshi | SHIATSU |
Mexican state bordering Chihuahua | SONORA |
Clues | Answers |
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Middle child on ‘The Simpsons’ | LISA |
Midwesterner living by Creighton University | OMAHAN |
Mind reader’s purported ability, for short | ESP |
MLB franchise that won a World Series during the 2010s | KANSASCITYROYALS |
Model Campbell or singer Judd | NAOMI |
Money made of metal | SPECIE |
Moseys along | AMBLES |
Mythical hybrid with hoofs | FAUN |
NBA franchise that Paul Pierce, Kevin Garnett and Kyrie Irving have all played for | BOSTONCELTICS |
Nerf blaster darts, e.g | AMMO |
New York Times critic-at-large Amanda | HESS |
NFL franchise that plays in its conference’s South division | CAROLINAPANTHERS |
NHL franchise that hasn’t yet won a Stanley Cup | COLUMBUSBLUEJACKETS |
Night light gas | NEON |
Not at all chaotic | SERENE |
On the mark | EXACT |
One taking cat X-rays | VET |
Opposed from the left of the ‘establishment’? | ANTI |
Opposite of hard times | EASE |
Overalls worn while going downhill | SKIBIB |
Pain-in-the-neck site | NAPE |
Palindromic French pronoun | ELLE |
Past word | AGO |
People doing flips in the business world? | RESELLERS |
Performs like Ella | SCATS |
Photosynthesis element | OXYGEN |
Playing card that serves as an alternate title for this puzzle | TWOOFCLUBS |
Pledge drive bag | TOTE |
Programs that can win Webby Awards | APPS |
Pugsley’s cousin once removed | ITT |
Purée ___ Crécy (French carrot soup) | ALA |
Records with a few tracks, briefly | EPS |
Revitalizing drink | PICKMEUP |
Road trip lodgings | INNS |
Scottish folk tune figures | LASSES |
Select, with ‘for’ | OPT |
Shape of this answer’s third letter | ARC |
Shield wielded by Athena | AEGIS |
Singsong syllables | TRALALA |
Site of foliage | TREE |
Site-seer? | USER |
Small colony worker | ANT |
Softball scoring stat | RBI |
Some in vitro fertilization participants | EGGDONORS |
Southwestern brick houses | ADOBES |
Spire’s position on a tower | TOP |
Staff sgt., e.g | NCO |
Strip on a Christmas present | TAPE |
Surreptitious summons | PSST |
Survey collection | DATA |
Takes hold of | GRABS |
The A of LAN | AREA |
Thoracic cage bones | RIBS |
Tract of land | ACRE |
Treat similar to a rock cake | SCONE |
Unkempt condition | MESS |
Unsafe results? | OUTS |
Vain one’s big thing | EGO |
Very deep hole | ABYSS |
Warm-weather counterpart to the sled in ‘Calvin and Hobbes’ | WAGON |
Warning from a canine | SNARL |
Wastewater-monitoring org | EPA |
Water, in Tijuana | AGUA |
When repeated, ‘What a pity!’ | TSK |
Where some save seats for those who want to be saved | PEWS |
WNBA franchise that was originally founded in 1998 | WASHINGTONMYSTICS |
___ and turn | TOSS |
___ Fields (snack brand) | MRS |
___’s Daughters (activist organization named after Black Liberation Army member Shakur) | ASSATA |