The Washington Post – Apr 15 2018
Published in The Washington Post Crossword. Tags: AESOP, MOTETS, OGRES, OPEC, PSEUD, RARE, ROAR, VIAL.
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| Clues | Answers |
|---|---|
| ‘Immediately!’ | ASAP |
| ‘Is that __?’ | ANO |
| ‘The War of the Worlds’ narrator of 1938 | WELLES |
| ‘We need a cat!’ | EEK |
| ‘You got that right!’ | ILLSAY |
| ‘__ the fields we go … ‘ | OER |
| ‘__ the season … ‘ | TIS |
| 2016 W.S. losers to the Cubs | CLE |
| Acidity-correcting fertilizer | MARL |
| Action film weapon | UZI |
| Actresses Linney and Dern | LAURAS |
| Additional | OTHER |
| Advanced, as old age | RIPE |
| Afflict | AIL |
| Albania’s capital | TIRANA |
| Annual winter telecast, with ‘The’ | OSCARS |
| Article seen daily | NEWSPAPERREPORT |
| Asian honorific | SRI |
| Atavism | THROWBACK |
| Author Zora __ Hurston | NEALE |
| Beetle juice? | GAS |
| Big name in Champagne | MUMM |
| Biol. branch | ECOL |
| Block-stocking building | ICEHOUSE |
| Boiling state | IRE |
| Bone-dry | SERE |
| Bring upon oneself | INCUR |
| Builder’s need | PLAN |
| Cabbage | GELT |
| Carb-loaded | STARCHY |
| Cariou of ‘Sweeney Todd’ | LEN |
| Champagne word | SEC |
| Champagne word | BRUT |
| Chap | LAD |
| Charlie Brown correspondent | PENPAL |
| Chinese and Vietnamese | TONALLANGUAGES |
| Cinematic FX | CGI |
| Classic Fender guitar, familiarly | STRAT |
| Coastal casino center | ATLANTICCITY |
| Coastline feature | RIA |
| Collaborative website | WIKI |
| Common Market letters | EEC |
| Contemptible sorts | TOADS |
| Cos. with Xings | RRS |
| Costa __ | RICA |
| Count (on) | RELY |
| Courses for coll. credit | APS |
| Creator of many talking animals | AESOP |
| Crew member | OAR |
| Crowd sound | ROAR |
| Crude gp.? | OPEC |
| Current route | ELECTRICCIRCUIT |
| D.C. VIP | SEN |
| Dior or Klein | COUTURIER |
| Exorbitant | STEEP |
| Film lover | CINEASTE |
| First name in architecture | EERO |
| Flippant | SASSY |
| Follies | IDIOCIES |
| Forklift load: Abbr | CTNS |
| Frisbee, e.g | DISC |
| Frozen Wasser | EIS |
| Frying pan spray | PAM |
| Gives a seat to | ELECTS |
| Goals | AIMS |
| Gym unit | REP |
| Hard to come by | RARE |
| High-fives, e.g | SLAPS |
| Hombre’s hand | MANO |
| Hotel evaluation system | STARRATINGS |
| Hum-dinger of an instrument? | KAZOO |
| I strain? | EGO |
| Clues | Answers |
|---|---|
| In a fitting way | APTLY |
| Indian nurse | AMAH |
| Inlet or cove | ARM |
| Iota | WHIT |
| It floods Florence periodically | ARNO |
| It may be proper | NOUN |
| It’s composed of balances | DEBT |
| IV part | INTRA |
| Journalist Bill inducted into the TV Hall of Fame in 1995 | MOYERS |
| Lab vessel | VIAL |
| Ladies of Sp | SRAS |
| Ladybug’s lunch | APHID |
| Langston Hughes poem | ITOO |
| Lights into | ASSAILS |
| Like a well-grounded argument | TENABLE |
| Like this ans | ACR |
| Long time follower? | NOSEE |
| Longtime TV broadcaster of 87-Across games | KCAL |
| Mary __ cosmetics | KAY |
| Meas. checked after tire rotation | PSI |
| Middle of a Latin trio | AMAS |
| Morales of ‘The Brink’ | ESAI |
| Mystery writer Nevada __ | BARR |
| Nasdaq rival | NYSE |
| No. 2 at the statehouse | LTGOV |
| Noodle concoction? | IDEA |
| On the double | APACE |
| One getting smashed at a bash? | PINATA |
| One offering quarters | LESSOR |
| Open carriage | SHAY |
| Out of concern that | LEST |
| Papier-__ | MACHE |
| Play the flute | TOOTLE |
| Poppycock | HOOEY |
| Pretends | PLAYACTS |
| Pretentious sort | PSEUD |
| Private eye | TEC |
| Pueblo pronoun | ESA |
| Q-tip | SWAB |
| Refer (to) | ALLUDE |
| Regrets | RUES |
| Sacred songs | MOTETS |
| Scrolling unit | PAGE |
| Seafood serving | PRAWN |
| Seer’s claim | ESP |
| Small amount | LITTLE |
| Smartphone ancestor, briefly | PDA |
| Some decision makers | TOSSES |
| Some rechargeable shavers | BRAUNS |
| Source of stress, probably | ONUS |
| Speak without restraint | LETRIP |
| St. Pete’s place | FLA |
| Staple for a collegian on a tight budget | RAMEN |
| Staples Center player | LAKER |
| Straightens up | TIDIES |
| Tats | INK |
| Tell | RAT |
| Terrible time? | TWOS |
| The last Mrs. Chaplin | OONA |
| Third-least populous state | ALASKA |
| Three-dimensional arrangement of atoms inside a diamond, say | CRYSTALLATTICE |
| To the extent that | ASFARAS |
| Tough bosses to work for | OGRES |
| Transit syst. component | STA |
| Typewriter roller | PLATEN |
| Washington Monument, for one | OBELISK |
| Watching closely | EYEING |
| Website evaluation tool | USERRESEARCH |
| Well-shod Marcos | IMELDA |
| Wind worth a warning | GALE |
| __ belli: act of war | CASUS |
| __ McAn shoes | THOM |