The Washington Post – Nov 2 2018
Published in The Washington Post Crossword. Tags: ELLA, NIECES, TACT, TV.
| Clues | Answers |
| ‘First Lady of Song’ | ELLA |
| ‘It’s __ fun’ | BEEN |
| ‘Settle down!’ | COOLIT |
| ‘Sooey!’ responder | HOG |
| ‘Things are different now’ … and an apt hint to three other answers | TIMESHAVECHANGED |
| ‘Trouble ahead!’ | OHOH |
| ‘Two and a Half Men’ beach setting | MALIBU |
| 1980s TV ET | ALF |
| Audibly awed | AGASP |
| Beast that rhymes with zoo | GNU |
| Black shade | ONYX |
| Black shade | JET |
| Blood classification letters | ABO |
| Call from Mrs. O’Leary’s barn | MOO |
| Cheese go-with | MAC |
| Christmas celebration | ELEVENPMMASS |
| Colorful duck | TEAL |
| Commonly bristly covering | FOUROCLOCKSHADOW |
| Cop making a traffic stop? | NARC |
| Delicacy | TACT |
| Dingo prey | EMU |
| Dirt handful | CLOD |
| Emotionally bother | GETTO |
| Family reunion attendees | NIECES |
| Farm crawler | ANT |
| First name of a literary ‘Papa’ | ERNEST |
| Firstborn | ELDEST |
| Former National Endowment for the Humanities chair Cheney | LYNNE |
| Friend of Frodo | SAM |
| Genesis grandson | ENOS |
| Ginsburg colleague | ALITO |
| Great balls of fire | SUNS |
| Herd butters | GOATS |
| Innate abilities | FLAIRS |
| Last-minute deadline | THETENTHHOUR |
| Like lovestruck eyes | GOOGOO |
| Like Stout’s Wolfe | OBESE |
| Long-billed wader | IBIS |
| Make the cut? | SCISSOR |
| Miller’s salesman | LOMAN |
| Mooch | SPONGE |
| Mustang’s rate of speed, at times | GALLOP |
| Mutt’s companion | JEFF |
| Narrow inlets | RIAS |
| Nasty | VILE |
| Nosy sort | SNOOPER |
| Off the plate | EATEN |
| Pack without an inch to spare | CRAMIN |
| Persist, with ‘on’ | PRESS |
| Pigmented eye area | UVEA |
| Pile | HEAP |
| Polio vaccine pioneer | SALK |
| Ponzi schemes, e.g | SCAMS |
| Pop-up source | ADWARE |
| Positive aspects | PROS |
| Radiate | EXUDE |
| Range on which 7 denotes neutrality | PHSCALE |
| Reasons to take painful steps? | CORNS |
| Red flag | ALARM |
| Salon offering | PERM |
| Scintillas | ATOMS |
| See 36-Across | BACK |
| Selfishness | EGOISM |
| Service calls | AMENS |
| SHO sister channel | TMC |
| Short still? | THO |
| Sock part | TOE |
| Sonic the Hedgehog maker | SEGA |
| Sound of disapproval | TSK |
| Special __ | OPS |
| Squirrel away | STASH |
| Strictly speaking | THATIS |
| TV forensic series | CSI |
| Verb in the song ‘Sloop John B’ | HOIST |
| Watch name | OMEGA |
| Water en un lago | AGUA |
| Whaling weapon | HARPOON |
| When doubled, a Ramone | DEE |
| With 37-Across, an apt reminder | FALL |
| Word with living or dead | END |
| World Heritage Site org | UNESCO |