The Washington Post Sunday – May 15 2022 Crossword Solutions
The Washington Post Sunday – May 15 2022
| Clues | Answers |
|---|---|
| ‘Agreed’ | YEAH |
| ‘Don’t make me laugh!’ | OHPLEASE |
| ‘Gee ___!’ | WHIZ |
| ‘I’m never finished with my paintings; the further I get, the more I seek the impossible and the more powerless I feel’ writer | MONET |
| ‘If you’re thinkin’ that belongs to Mr. McCartney, you’re wrong’? | AINTPAULS |
| ‘Knock, knock.’ ‘Who’s there?’ ‘Interrupting cow.’ ‘Interru—’ ‘___.’ | MOO |
| ‘Number the Stars’ novelist Lowry | LOIS |
| ‘Rhetoricians at a Window’ painter Jan | STEEN |
| ‘Sneak Previews’ co-host, 1975-1982 | EBERT |
| ‘Snowpiercer’ network | TNT |
| ‘That’s unreal!’ | IMINAWE |
| ‘The Great British Baking Show’ creations | CAKES |
| ‘We? What do you ___ ‘we’?’ | MEAN |
| ‘Well … maybe’ | IGUESS |
| ‘___ of a gun!’ | SON |
| 1992 film in which an ice age cave dweller adjusts to life in modern Los Angeles | ENCINOMAN |
| After the deadline | LATE |
| Ancient wall inscription | RUNE |
| Area along the ocean | COAST |
| Author ___ Stanley Gardner | ERLE |
| Bangkok currency | BAHTS |
| Bears, to the Packers | RIVAL |
| Become despondent | LOSEHEART |
| Bend under pressure | SAG |
| Best at downing a pie, say | OUTEAT |
| Bibliography listing | TITLE |
| Big group of warships | ARMADA |
| Bob Marley, e.g | RASTA |
| Body parts pressed into the slabs at Grauman’s Chinese Theatre | HANDS |
| Brink | EDGE |
| Brooks who directed ‘Spaceballs’ | MEL |
| Bull session? | NBAGAME |
| Cacciucco and ciambotta in Italian cuisine | STEWS |
| Cartographic reference | ATLAS |
| Carve into a shape, as from a piece of wood | WHITTLE |
| Catches some rays | SUNS |
| Chess champ Rubtsova | OLGA |
| Clinging greenery | IVY |
| Considers unlikely | DOUBTS |
| Cry one’s eyes out | SOB |
| Cut of pork | LOIN |
| Dilating parts of eyes | PUPILS |
| Dinnerly delivery | MEAL |
| Drop curse words on | SWEARAT |
| Dropped hallucinogen | LSD |
| Ducks with blue or green wings | TEALS |
| Eggs in a clinic | OVA |
| Electroplating element | COBALT |
| Eliciting compliments to the chef | TASTY |
| Enjoys something a lot | DIGSIT |
| Eris’s warring brother | ARES |
| Every last bit | ALL |
| Excellent test result | APLUS |
| Expressed a belief | OPINED |
| Fall (over) | KEEL |
| Feeling of apprehension | ANGST |
| Figure in many of Plato’s dialogues | SOCRATES |
| Gemstones that come from living creatures | PEARLS |
| General Mills cereal | TRIX |
| Get cozy | NESTLE |
| Get out of bed? | UPROOT |
| Glue stick brand | ELMERS |
| Governance free of external authority | SELFRULE |
| Group training majors | FACULTY |
| Happy hour bill | TAB |
| Harmful atmosphere | MIASMA |
| Hit hard | SWAT |
| Indulges | HUMORS |
| Informal name of a college where black-and-white animals fight in boxing matches? | PANDABOUTU |
| Investment option in IRS Publication 590-A | IRA |
| Jumping to conclusions, and what’s spelled out by the eight letters that have literally jumped to conclusions | ASSUMING |
| Clues | Answers |
|---|---|
| Kelli on Broadway | OHARA |
| King with the line ‘O, that way madness lies’ in a Shakespeare play | LEAR |
| Leeway for pleading? | ROOMTOBEG |
| Like a pixie cut | SHORT |
| Like latex balloons | RUBBERY |
| Like towelettes | MOIST |
| Liver fluid | BILE |
| Lousy | CRUDDY |
| Made use of a couch | SAT |
| Meadow noise | BLEAT |
| Military leaders in charge of dessert wines? | PORTSBRASS |
| Move with air currents | GLIDE |
| Mythical beast that’s an anagram of 41 Across | ORC |
| Mythical beast that’s an anagram of 55 Across | ROC |
| National flower of the Netherlands | TULIP |
| Navigated a touch screen, in a way | SWIPED |
| Neighbor of Mozambique | ZAMBIA |
| Newspaper headline about how comedian Philips managed a hydroelectric facility? | EMORANDAM |
| Not digital, in publishing | |
| Of an anatomical cord | SPINAL |
| Org. with biomonitoring publications | EPA |
| Parties setting up parties? | PLANNERS |
| Pâté dishes | TERRINES |
| Pathetic | SAD |
| Pinterest or Reddit, e.g | SITE |
| Pirate’s plunder | LOOT |
| Playfulness of a pun | WIT |
| Predicated (on) | BASED |
| Production for Marilyn Horne or Renée Fleming | OPERA |
| Pulls with force | TUGS |
| Put into effect | ENACTED |
| Rhythmic units of a musical measure | BEATS |
| Rick shown when someone is Rickrolled | ASTLEY |
| Roman fountain designed by Nicola Salvi | TREVI |
| Rural, feudal laborer | PEASANT |
| Samples syrah, say | SIPS |
| Sculptor Manley | EDNA |
| Seriously injure | MAIM |
| Share photo evidence of oolong online, say? | POSTATEA |
| Sharp-toothed fish | EELS |
| Shred | TEAR |
| Signal-boosting devices | AMPS |
| Silly and foolish | DIPPY |
| Sirtis’s sci-fi role | TROI |
| Slender woodwinds | OBOES |
| Small bunch of flowers | POSY |
| Some spotted baby birds spotted? | OWLETSSEEN |
| Steal worker? | THIEF |
| Stimulates one’s desire | TEMPTS |
| Strand on a spool | THREAD |
| Subdivisions of eons | ERAS |
| Subwoofer device | STEREO |
| Supporters of a cause | ALLIES |
| Terminates | ENDS |
| Those who really enjoy solving crosswords | PUZZLERS |
| Throughout all of New York or California, say | STATEWIDE |
| Tied, as Air Jordans | LACED |
| To a huge extent | BYFAR |
| Traveled paths | ROUTES |
| Unknown author: Abbr | ANON |
| War heroes, or war cards | ACES |
| Weekend warrior, perhaps | RESERVIST |
| What a karate master hopes is the reply to ‘Which dojos are better than mine?’? | NONESENSEI |
| Whiskey ___ (c*cktail) | SOUR |
| Word with cells or sells | SEX |
| Your last one may be shared by others in your family | NAME |
| ___ bran | OAT |
| ___ force (raw power) | BRUTE |
| ___ House (Chicago landmark designed by Frank Lloyd Wright) | ROBIE |
| ___ Jersey (estado atlántico) | NUEVA |
| ___ rights (subject of Human Rights Campaign advocacy) | LGBT |