The Washington Post Sunday – Apr 17 2022 Crossword Solutions
The Washington Post Sunday – Apr 17 2022
Clues | Answers |
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‘First of all …’ | ONE |
‘Get it away from me!’ | AHH |
‘I think we’re onto something here!’ | AHA |
‘Life ___ fair’ | ISNT |
‘Lord of the Rings’ elf played by Liv Tyler | ARWEN |
‘Now!’ for a physician | STAT |
‘Quite right!’ | YES |
‘Storms in Africa’ musician | ENYA |
‘Time and Tide’ author O’Brien | EDNA |
‘Wait, what?’ | HUH |
‘Whaddya ___?’ | SAY |
‘Winter’ singer Tori | AMOS |
1966 Hitchc*ck film set in East Germany, and a description of this puzzle’s sixth parted word | TORNCURTAIN |
8 on a calendar: Abbr | AUG |
Abe, to Homer | DAD |
Accumulated, with ‘up’ | STORED |
Actor Chris of ‘Rush Hour’ films | TUCKER |
Agitates | ROILS |
Animal in a herd | COW |
Apply sloppily | DAUB |
Apt rhyme of ‘quivers’ | SHIVERS |
Bar valve | BEERTAP |
Bark plant | MOSS |
Biblical prophet | ISAIAH |
Birds, collectively | AVIFAUNA |
Blockbuster characters | HEROES |
Boca ___ (Fla. city) | RATON |
Carnallite, e.g | ORE |
Celebratory nights | EVES |
Chemistry lab solvent | ETHER |
Chest muscle, for short | PEC |
Chicken cordon ___ | BLEU |
Cindy Brady portrayer Susan | OLSEN |
Comedian Goldberg | DANA |
Completed | ENDED |
Concave navel variety | INNIE |
Cook’s ‘in the style of’ | ALA |
Crafting material | LACE |
Credit alternative | DEBIT |
Cry on a film set | CUT |
Deadline initials | ASAP |
Deceptive stratagem | RUSE |
Deer friend of Thumper | BAMBI |
Didn’t lose pace | KEPTUP |
Dwell | RESIDE |
Ellipse segments | ARCS |
Ellipses’ look-alikes | OVALS |
Enjoyed big-time | ATEUP |
Escape pod, e.g | CAPSULE |
Euphoric | ECSTATIC |
Federation that dissolved in 1991 | USSR |
First two words of Hamlet’s question | TOBE |
Fix in a shady way | RIG |
Food that the ‘best thing’ is compared to, and a description of this puzzle’s second parted word | SLICEDBREAD |
Formal neckwear | DRESSTIE |
Fraudulent source | LIAR |
Game where you get away from ‘It’ | TAG |
Giant Himalayan legend | YETI |
Had no standing? | SAT |
Having the know-how | ABLE |
Hella good | KICKASS |
Homes that don’t share walls with other homes, and a description of this puzzle’s third parted word | DETACHEDHOUSES |
Iced drink, at times | TEA |
Incubator with a beak | HEN |
Inflatable animal used by striking workers | RAT |
Insolent kid | SNOT |
It’s what you’d expect | NORM |
Jazz hands, e.g | GESTURE |
Joins the sails force? | GOESTOSEA |
Julie’s character in ‘The Sound of Music’ | MARIA |
Lack of adversity | EASE |
Lake seen in many scenes in ‘The Godfather: Part II’ | TAHOE |
Likable miscreant | RASCAL |
Like manchego cheese | AGED |
Clues | Answers |
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Like many used books | RESOLD |
Like some kimonos | SILKEN |
Lips | RIMS |
Lox vendor | DELI |
Made sarcastic remarks, and a description of this puzzle’s first parted word | CRACKEDWISE |
Magician’s cry | TADA |
Make yourself comfortable | SETTLEIN |
Member of the Madrigal family with superhuman strength, in ‘Encanto’ | LUISA |
Messy mound | HEAP |
Metaphor for great sadness, and a description of this puzzle’s fifth parted word | BROKENHEART |
Mix up, as ingredients | STIR |
Moose’s cousin | ELK |
Noisy roommate | SNORER |
Not up to going out, say | ILL |
Of various types: Abbr | MISC |
One putting on a coat? | PAINTER |
Oscar winner Burl whose name is one letter off from 27 Across | IVES |
PC key combo for the command ‘Copy’ | CTRLC |
Pelted, as on Halloween | EGGED |
Pennsylvania home of the Splash Lagoon water park | ERIE |
People performing the Bear Dance | UTE |
Person trying to win a hand? | SUITOR |
Piece sung by Jessye Norman | ARIA |
Playing after the fourth qtr | INOT |
Poison ivy relative | SUMAC |
Popular ISP of the ’90s | AOL |
Pre-10 Across ruler | TSAR |
Prescription measure | DOSE |
Present reasons, say | ARGUE |
Quality for one who puts up no resistance | PASSIVITY |
Recording in a video archivist’s library | TAPE |
Reduced in size | LESS |
Relax for a bit | REST |
Relaxation rooms | DENS |
Repetitive mock laugh | HARHAR |
Ride hailed in a city | CAB |
Route with lanes of opposing traffic separated by a barrier, and a description of this puzzle’s fourth parted word | DIVIDEDHIGHWAY |
Rugby pass | LATERAL |
Sans-___ (font style) | SERIF |
Scary safari sounds | ROARS |
Show’s big gains | EMMYS |
Showbiz star | CELEB |
Sitarist Shankar | RAVI |
Six-time Oscar nominee Deborah | KERR |
SNL actor Chris | REDD |
Spanish coin until 2002 | PESETA |
Spend a night out, say? | CAMP |
Sportscaster Andrews | ERIN |
Stealthy summons | PSST |
Straps on a track | REINS |
Strong ___ (character who answers emails in the web cartoon ‘Homestar Runner’) | BAD |
Subject of much Christian art | PIETA |
Tennis barrier | NET |
The Tomb of Shah Rukn-e-Alam, e.g | SHRINE |
Thurman who played Poison Ivy | UMA |
Tien Shan range region | ASIA |
Topical gel additive | ALOE |
Trudge along | PLOD |
Tuscan river | ARNO |
Twisted cookies | OREOS |
Typical AP class student | TEEN |
Up to this point | ASYET |
Upset and then some | IRATE |
Valets’ workplaces | LOTS |
Valley in Laura Dave’s book ‘Eight Hundred Grapes’ | NAPA |
Vegetable used in pies | RHUBARB |
Water, in Calais | EAU |
What a stylist styles | HAIR |
Wheels in meals, maybe | PASTA |
Wildly | AMOK |
Yemeni gulf port | ADEN |
Zoom button | MUTE |
___ on a true story | BASED |
___-tac-toe | TIC |