The Washington Post Sunday – Apr 29 2018
Published in The Washington Post Sunday Crossword. Tags: AGE, EMU, IRONIC, LOPE, MSG, NBA, SCARRED, SOSA.
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| Clues | Answers |
|---|---|
| ‘A Thousand Miles’ singer Carlton | VANESSA |
| ‘A Woman Called Golda’ role | MEIR |
| ‘Be My Love’ lyricist | CAHN |
| ‘Dallas’ or ‘Nashville,’ e.g | SHOW |
| ‘House’ parties? | NURSES |
| ‘Kite Stories’ composer Brian | ENO |
| ‘Not gonna happen!’ | YOUWISH |
| ‘Rubyfruit Jungle’ writer ___ Mae Brown | RITA |
| ‘Sounds like fun to me’ | IMGAME |
| ‘The Four Seasons’ star | ALANALDA |
| ‘The Shock Doctrine’ author Naomi | KLEIN |
| ‘___ What I Like’ (Grammy-winning song by Bruno Mars) | THATS |
| 1986 rock memoir | ITINA |
| Actress Cooke who played Art3mis in ‘Ready Player One’ | OLIVIA |
| Aggravated | VEXED |
| AL MVP in 1927 and 1936 | GEHRIG |
| Alamo rival | AVIS |
| Ancient temple builders | MAYA |
| Anecdotal knowledge | LORE |
| Apt to pull a ruse | SLY |
| Artists’ workplaces | ATELIERS |
| Athletic center org.? | NBA |
| Auto club job | TOW |
| Back | REAR |
| Barbecue receptacle | AS{HP}IT |
| Barber’s offering | OPERA |
| Barber’s offering | TRIM |
| Big island in the Malay Archipelago | SUMATRA |
| Big river swimmers | HIPPOS |
| Blue- or green-winged duck | TEAL |
| Blunder | FLUB |
| Bolt providing electricity at the Olympics, once | USAIN |
| Bone seen in X-rays | RIB |
| Books on electronic devices? | MANUALS |
| Bush’s opponent, once | REAGAN |
| Cake number, at times | AGE |
| Candied side item | YAM |
| Capital of the ___ (nickname of Innsbruck, Austria) | ALPS |
| Carried | BORNE |
| Cartesian plane line | AXIS |
| Castle wall attachment | TURRET |
| Causing cynicism in | JADING |
| Certain military strike | SORTIE |
| Character shipwrecked on what he called the ‘Island of Despair’ | CRUSOE |
| Chess player’s friend? | MATE |
| Clubbing weapons | MACES |
| Co. ending | INC |
| Code-breaking govt. org | NSA |
| Coin ___ | SLOT |
| Coniferous evergreens | YEWS |
| Contents of 56 Down | ICE |
| Convinced with flattery | CAJOLED |
| Daily Planet surname | KENT |
| Deep cut, perhaps | L{ACER}ATION |
| Don, as pajamas | SLIPINTO |
| Erupts | HASAFIT |
| Excavation site | RUIN |
| Expected landing hr | ETA |
| Extensive school assignment | RESEARC{HP}ROJECT |
| Features of the Mars landscape | MESAS |
| Form 2555-EZ publisher | IRS |
| Former SNL star Kristen | WIIG |
| Former Swedish imports | SAABS |
| German auto pioneer | BENZ |
| Goes under the bar | LIMBOS |
| Gold or platinum, e.g | HUE |
| Got comfy | SAT |
| GPA maximums, maybe | FIVES |
| Gradually remove (from) | WEAN |
| Greet the queen, say | RISE |
| Group get-together | MEETUP |
| Growing concerns | CROPS |
| Clues | Answers |
|---|---|
| Have a blue face, say | MOPE |
| He slew the Cyclopes, in some myths | APOLLO |
| Interactive programs on some websites | JAVA{APPLE}TS |
| Interest | BEHALF |
| Jennifer of ‘Ferris Bueller’s Day Off’ | GREY |
| Jerry’s sitcom ex | ELAINE |
| Jet-skiing spot | LAKE |
| Land line? | BORDER |
| Large lager holders | KEGS |
| Like bulls and bucks | MALE |
| Like Columbus | GENOESE |
| Like Eid al-Fitr traditions | ISLAMIC |
| Like life in Death Valley | IRONIC |
| Load, as old settings on a desktop | RESTORE |
| Long-necked bird | EMU |
| Longtime Colts QB | UNITAS |
| Marvel mutant who can absorb other mutants’ superpowers | ROGUE |
| Metaphorical durability | LEGS |
| Mineo of ‘Exodus’ | SAL |
| Modern battle cry | ITSON |
| Night ___ | SHIFT |
| Nursery rhyme character | FARMERINTHE{DELL} |
| Offbeat and innovative | EDGY |
| Old term for desktops and laptops, and a hint to this puzzle’s theme | MICROCOMPUTERS |
| One way to sway | FRO |
| Palomino’s gait, maybe | LOPE |
| Part of a voltaic cell | ANODE |
| Part of the rial world? | OMAN |
| Party staples | DIPS |
| Passed, as a race car | LAPPED |
| Peking duck additive, maybe | MSG |
| Permanently marked | SCARRED |
| Preposition in directions | VIA |
| Required one’s words to be bowdlerized, maybe | CUSSED |
| Returns pro, briefly | CPA |
| Sammy seen in many ESPN highlights in 1998 | SOSA |
| Scattered about | STREWN |
| See 48 Down | BEER |
| Shut (up) | PENT |
| Sigmatism, by another name | LISP |
| Sign of inflammation | ABSCESS |
| Singer on the 1950s album ‘The Story of the Blues’ | {DELL}AREESE |
| Single-stranded chain | RNA |
| Soda container | CAN |
| Soda containers | COOLERS |
| Some metal bands | DUOS |
| Sonneteer’s preposition | ERE |
| Space where a heating appliance is installed | FURN{ACER}OOM |
| Steeping item | TEABALL |
| Storyteller’s tale | LIE |
| Strange, a la an alternate universe in Superman comics | BIZARRO |
| Subs’ pulse emitters | SONARS |
| Sunlit spaces | SOLARIA |
| Suppose to be true | ASSUME |
| Surface area? | SEALEVEL |
| The continuation of the status quo | BUSINESS{ASUS}UAL |
| This clue number divided by nove | TRE |
| Top off | FRESHEN |
| Trains seen at the end of tunnels? | ELS |
| Trapeze supporter | ROPE |
| Tries to understand, as a problem | GR{APPLE}SWITH |
| Trough locale | STY |
| Unloads, in a way | SELLS |
| Weapon for d’Artagnan | RAPIER |
| What Gandhi once practiced | LAW |
| Winged creature in the TriStar Pictures logo | PEG{ASUS} |
| With 62 Across, product from a small brewery | CRAFT |
| Yonder people | THEM |
| Youngster in a den | BEARCUB |
| [This was their mistake] | SIC |
| ___ Grady (‘Jurassic World’ protagonist) | OWEN |
| ___ USA | MISS |