The Washington Post Sunday – Apr 1 2018
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The Washington Post Sunday – Apr 1 2018
| Clues | Answers |
|---|---|
| ‘… it may be risky to describe it this way …’ | DAREISAY |
| ‘Cut me ___ slack!’ | SOME |
| ‘Giant’ author Ferber | EDNA |
| ‘Hair’ piece? | ACT |
| ‘HOW COULD THIS HAPPEN?!’ | WHY |
| ‘It ain’t gonna happen’ | NOPE |
| ‘Mars Attacks!’ fleet | UFOS |
| ‘That’s probably true’ | GUESSSO |
| ‘___ Misérables’ | LEXS |
| *’Rebecca’ producer | DAVIDSELZNICK |
| *Cold War leader | HARRYTRUMAN |
| *Geneva-born automotive pioneer | RANSOMOLDS |
| *Independent Spirit Award-winning star of ‘Pulp Fiction’ | SAMUELJACKSON |
| *Notable socialist presidential candidate | EUGENEDEBS |
| 2017 World Series champions | ASTROS |
| About, on a memo | INRE |
| Afternoon social drinks | TEAS |
| Alan of ‘The Aviator’ | ALDA |
| Anti-snow man, briefly? | NARC |
| Antiquated pronoun | YEX |
| Approximate distance of four laps around the track, in track and field | ONEMILE |
| Basilica section | APSE |
| Beasts in Tarzan novels | APES |
| Big geographical expanse across the Four Corners states | PLATEAU |
| Blackens | TARS |
| Blakely who founded the shapewear brand Spanx | SARA |
| Body of water that’s built in the board game Terraforming Mars | OCEAN |
| Body part with a drum | EAR |
| Bond player Connery | SEAN |
| Bosnian or Bosniak | SLAV |
| Burns things? | VERSES |
| Bush once in the White House | LAURA |
| Cage of ‘Rage,’ informally | NIC |
| Chants sans inflection | INTONES |
| Chum | PAL |
| Collection of state highway maps | ROADATLAS |
| Complete drubbing | ROUT |
| Compute a total | ADD |
| Concepts | NOTIONS |
| Corsair’s milieu | SEA |
| Covers, as ground | SODS |
| Creepy plaything in a horror film | DOLL |
| Criticize harshly | SLAM |
| Dessert hurled during a classic food fight scene in the 1965 film ‘The Great Race’ | PIXE |
| Didn’t go on | ENDED |
| Disregard the script | ADLIB |
| Dodged | ELUDED |
| Don of morning radio | IMUS |
| Druids’ sacred trees | OAKS |
| English hunting canine | POINTER |
| Expected result | NORM |
| Feature of an essay | THEME |
| Felix’s sitcom surname | UNGER |
| Firefox alternative | CHROME |
| First name in jazz | ELLA |
| Floored it | SPED |
| Following a prescribed regimen, informally | ONMEDS |
| Food that may be covered in tobiko | SUSHI |
| Former queen born in D.C | NOOR |
| French city on the Orne | CAEN |
| Garofalo of ‘Mystery Men’ | JANEANE |
| Generic dog name | REX |
| Giants slugger Mel | OTT |
| Gives an edge to | HONES |
| Got into a mess? | ATE |
| Granola bar tidbit | OAT |
| Have a dream, say | SLEEP |
| Hero of ‘The Matrix’ | NEO |
| Home pages? | DEEDS |
| Hypotheticals | IFS |
| ID first issued in 1936 | SSN |
| In the style of | ALXA |
| Indefinite ordinal | NTH |
| Ingredient in a zombie | RUM |
| Clues | Answers |
|---|---|
| Instruction for finding more information | SEENOTE |
| Intersect (Link, Part 2) | CROSS |
| It covers the leftovers | SARAN |
| It often lasts for years | ERA |
| Item with cups | BRA |
| James of ‘Elf’ | CAAN |
| Kid sister of Yakko and Wakko on ‘Animaniacs’ (Link, Part 3) | DOT |
| Kvetching exclamation | OYVEY |
| Last part of the link that’s missing from this puzzle | XXXXX |
| Lawn bowling game | BOCCE |
| Letter-shaped fastener | TNUT |
| Letters of immediacy | ASAP |
| Longtime Syrian leader | ASSAD |
| Looks at impolitely | OGLES |
| Lounge for big shots, briefly | VIPROOM |
| Lower, price-wise (Link, Part 5) | SLASH |
| Make less tight | LOOSEN |
| Many godparents | AUNTS |
| Media mogul who starred in ‘A Wrinkle in Time’ | OPRAH |
| Metadata-collecting org | NSA |
| Metamorphic stage | LARVA |
| Metro route locations | STOPS |
| Morse code syllable | DAH |
| NBA game site | ARENA |
| Opportunity to slay, say | SOLO |
| Org alternative (Link, Part 4) | COM |
| Outperformed | TOPPED |
| Part of a dark suit | SPADE |
| Part of a drum set | SNARE |
| Part of BYOB | OWN |
| Part of QED | ERAT |
| Perón of Argentina | EVA |
| Petting zoo camelid | LLAMA |
| Petty squabble | SPAT |
| Pithy bit of wisdom | ADAGE |
| Post a comment on a political blog, say | OPINE |
| Postal abbr. of Helena’s state | MXT |
| Primly restrained | STAID |
| Procrastinate big-time | LAZE |
| Program recorder | TIVO |
| Project (out) | JUT |
| Prom hairstyle, maybe | UPDO |
| Prosecutors, briefly | DAS |
| Ranges | EXTENTS |
| Red Halloween outfit, typically (Link, Part 1) | DEVIL |
| Remove, as a DVD | EJECT |
| Reporters’ stations | DESKS |
| Ring bearers? | SPOUSES |
| Showed shame | BLUSHED |
| Shows curiosity | ASKS |
| Sicilian stratovolcano | ETNA |
| SMTWTFS, collectively | WEEK |
| Snow day vehicles | PLOWS |
| Sorrowful state | SADNESS |
| Soviet spy in John le Carré novels | KARLA |
| Spur | GOAD |
| Stick around | STAY |
| Streamed lecture | TEDTALK |
| Street ___ (rep) | CRED |
| Succumb to gravity | SAG |
| Time to turn in? | DEADLINE |
| Title in colonial India | SAHIB |
| To no ___ | AVAIL |
| Turner on the radio? | DIAL |
| Way to go, way up high | AIRLANE |
| Wedding cake sections | LAYERS |
| Well-intentioned sort? | OILTYCOON |
| Wertmüller who was the first woman to be nominated for a best-director Oscar | LINA |
| ___ Aviv | TEL |
| ___ cry (sobbing that results in unpleasant contortions of the face) | UGLY |
| ___ diet (modern fad, ironically) | PALEO |
| ___ Jeanne d’Arc | STE |
| ___ vera | ALOE |