The Washington Post – May 29 2018
Published in The Washington Post Crossword. Tags: ADAPT, ANTS, ELAN, EXE, IPAD, Pearl Harbor, TIC, TIMOTHY.
Clues |
Answers |
‘Dagnabbit!’ |
DRAT |
‘Girls’ creator Dunham |
LENA |
‘I am so stupid!’ |
DOH |
‘Julie & Julia’ director Ephron |
NORA |
‘Just like I said!’ |
SEE |
‘Mack the Knife’ singer Bobby |
DARIN |
‘Sí,’ on the Seine |
OUI |
‘The Sixth Sense’ writer/director M. Night __ |
SHYAMALAN |
‘What was __ expect?’ |
ITO |
2010 Apple release |
IPAD |
@ signs |
ATS |
Absence |
LACK |
Acorn producer |
OAK |
Actress Poehler and singer Grant |
AMYS |
Application file suffix |
EXE |
Axis dictator who ordered the Pearl Harbor attack |
TOJO |
Basic cocktail with Dewar’s |
SCOTCHANDSODA |
Birds with eyelike spots on their tails |
PEACOCKS |
Boston skyscraper, with ‘the’ |
PRU |
Bourbon Street cuisine |
CAJUN |
Campfire remnant |
ASH |
Chore |
TASK |
Cool, in ’90s slang |
PHAT |
D-Day beach |
UTAH |
De __: actual |
FACTO |
Diet-friendly |
NOCAL |
Embarrasses deeply |
MORTIFIES |
Exhortation to come together … and a hint to 20-, 24- and 42-Across |
LETSJOINHANDS |
Flight board abbr |
ETD |
Football’s ‘Iron Mike’ |
DITKA |
Forget-me-__ |
NOT |
Gillette blade |
ATRA |
Grain tower |
SILO |
Greek column type |
IONIC |
Gung-ho |
AVID |
Hawaiian hi |
ALOHA |
Clues |
Answers |
Hebrides isle |
IONA |
Indian political family |
NEHRUS |
Learn to fit in |
ADAPT |
Left open, as a door |
UNSHUT |
Like very serious errors |
FATAL |
Little rascals |
IMPS |
Live frugally |
PINCHANDSCRAPE |
Lube shop container |
OILCAN |
Martini garnish |
OLIVE |
Most of Wile E. Coyote’s gadgets, brand-wise |
ACMES |
Muscle spasm |
TIC |
NASA’s __ Space Flight Center |
GODDARD |
Nasser of Egypt |
GAMAL |
Nick of ‘Cape Fear’ |
NOLTE |
Octopus octet |
ARMS |
Ohio border lake |
ERIE |
Oscar winner Marisa |
TOMEI |
Pests in a pantry |
ANTS |
Place for a waxing |
SPA |
Political entities subject to Constitutional separation |
CHURCHANDSTATE |
Prefix with frost |
PERMA |
Represented |
ACTEDFOR |
Ron Darling or Tom Seaver |
EXMET |
Shoelace problems |
KNOTS |
Some ‘Iliad’ warriors |
TROJANS |
Spanish ‘other’ |
OTRA |
Splashy style |
ELAN |
Stockholm airline |
SAS |
Surrealist painter Joan |
MIRO |
To be, to Livy |
ESSE |
Utterly absurd |
ASININE |
V-shaped cut |
NOTCH |
Wear away |
ERODE |
What truants ‘play’ |
HOOKY |
Where Nome is |
ALASKA |
Youngest-ever Best Supporting Actor Oscar winner Hutton |
TIMOTHY |