The Washington Post Sunday – February 17 2019
Published in The Washington Post Sunday Crossword. Tags: ABETS, ALFA, ENGRAVE, Paris.
| Clues | Answers |
| ‘Carmina Burana’ composer | ORFF |
| ‘Gosh, that’s painful!’ | YOWIE |
| ‘It ___ my pleasure’ | WAS |
| ‘Let’s hear the story!’ | DOTELL |
| ‘That delights me!’ | IMSOGLAD |
| ‘___ Than a Feeling’ (Boston classic) | MORE |
| *Group of clerical workers | OFFICESTAFF |
| *Highest level of NCAA competition | DIVISIONI |
| *Highly hectic | TUMULTUOUS |
| *House opposite Gryffindor, Ravenclaw and Slytherin | HUFFLEPUFF |
| *Like a perfectly filled-in crossword puzzle | ERRORFREE |
| *Mission-critical workspace | CONTROLROOM |
| *Ornamental objects | KNICKKNACKS |
| *Stern and businesslike | NONONSENSE |
| *Terminated with no exit, as a street | DEADENDED |
| *Waters bordering India’s western coast | ARABIANSEA |
| *What may be viewed during a lunar eclipse | BLOODMOON |
| 1 ___ = 43,560 square feet | ACRE |
| 10 percent of XXX | III |
| 1982 Disney sci-fi film | TRON |
| 9 to 5, e.g | ODDS |
| Abundant | RIFE |
| Acronym in commerce | NAFTA |
| Albacore’s appendage | FIN |
| Antique autos | REOS |
| Assists feloniously | ABETS |
| Assume the role of | ACTAS |
| Auditory ossicle | EARBONE |
| Beetle silencer | MUFFLER |
| Biking or hiking locale | TRAIL |
| Bit of a loaf | CRUMB |
| Bounded | LEAPT |
| Brick baking in the sun | ADOBE |
| Cardinal, e.g., or a Cardinal rival | RED |
| Carnation ring, maybe | LEI |
| Castel ___ (Naples attraction that means ‘new castle’) | NUOVO |
| Causing sorrow | DOLEFUL |
| Clerical vestment | ALB |
| Clips, as locks | TRIMS |
| Cloudless period | CLEARDAY |
| Comaneci with medals | NADIA |
| Come to the fore | ARISE |
| Covert ___ | OPS |
| D.C.-born rapper with the 2013 hit ‘Bad’ | WALE |
| Dahab’s peninsula | SINAI |
| Dice game played with three six-sided dice | CEELO |
| Die marking | PIP |
| Discovery of mine? | ORE |
| Drug test sample stuff | URINE |
| Enclose, as with posts | FENCEIN |
| Felix of a 1970s sitcom | UNGER |
| Finishes, as a road | TARS |
| Fires off, as a text | SENDS |
| First name in jazz | ETTA |
| First name in jazz | ELLA |
| First name of Dr. No and Dr. J | JULIUS |
| Fixed zodiac sign | LEO |
| Flat-topped formation | MESA |
| Folded fiesta fare | TACO |
| Former energy company profiled in the 2002 book ‘Pipe Dreams’ | ENRON |
| French airport that’s in either Paris or Lyon? | ORLY |
| Game with 113 Down cards | UNO |
| Go for the gold, say? | DYE |
| Guinness once on stage | ALEC |
| Have debts | OWE |
| Herbal beverage holder | TEAPOT |
| High schooler’s woe | ACNE |
| Hold ’em action | BET |
| Hot state? | SNIT |
| Icon on-screen with another icon, e.g | COSTAR |
| Imprint, as on metal | ENGRAVE |
| In a bit, to Browning | ANON |
| Insects that may form rafts | ANTS |
| Instrument featured in Mozart’s K. 191 concerto in B-flat | BASSOON |
| Instrument for Alan-a-Dale in ‘Robin Hood’ | LUTE |
| Intestinal microbes | ECOLI |
| It’s parallel to a radius | ULNA |
| Jackie Brown portrayer | PAMGRIER |
| Keeper’s place | INN |
| Keystone lawman | KOP |
| Letter before Bravo | ALFA |
| Like Fear, in ‘Inside Out,’ aptly | TIMID |
| Like mozzarella sticks | FRIED |
| Like the Lilliputians in ‘Gulliver’s Travels’ | TINY |
| Livens, with ‘up’ | PEPS |
| Material on a mattress | LINEN |
| Middle-earth giants | ENTS |
| Music streaming service with a Discover Weekly playlist feature | SPOTIFY |
| Nabisco brand that makes pie crusts | NILLA |
| Nearly shut | AJAR |
| Noise heard in a jam | HONK |
| Olympic diving move | FLIP |
| Optimistic | ROSY |
| Org. parodied on ‘Futurama’ as protectors of the rights to own ray guns | NRA |
| Packing a real kick | POTENT |
| Pal of J.D., Turk and Carla on ‘Scrubs’ | ELLIOT |
| Part of a galvanic cell | ANODE |
| Pass over | SKIP |
| Powerful hand, and what’s spelled out by the most frequently occurring letters in the starred clues’ answers | FOUROFAKIND |
| Prey for a polar bear | SEAL |
| Private Mormon sch | BYU |
| Proceeding in a twisty way | SNAKING |
| Production with skits | REVUE |
| Renoir contemporary | MONET |
| Retrievers’ receivers | VETS |
| Sci-fi reading skill? | ESP |
| Scout’s interlacement | KNOT |
| Screen actor? | USER |
| Screenwriter Vardalos | NIA |
| Setting of several Solzhenitsyn novels | USSR |
| Sites of small orbits | ATOMS |
| Small thing you inherit | GENE |
| Solution in a printer | TONER |
| Some gametes | OVA |
| Some green-winged ducks | TEALS |
| Spin-the-bottle request | KISSME |
| Stout sleuth Wolfe | NERO |
| Stuff to the gills | SATE |
| Suit well | BEFIT |
| Super Bowl XXVII MVP Troy | AIKMAN |
| Takes on black diamonds, say | SKIS |
| Takes seconds, say | EATS |
| The 8 from 9 to 5: Abbr | HRS |
| They may provide defense for knights | ROOKS |
| They rotate at barbecues | SPITS |
| Thrash about wildly | FLAIL |
| To a smaller degree | LESSSO |
| Tuna sandwich veggie | CELERY |
| Type of golf tournament | PROAM |
| Unanimously | ASONE |
| Uppercut sound effect | KAPOW |
| Venison | DEERMEAT |
| Venomous serpent | ADDER |
| Weapon detonated on Enewetak Atoll in 1952, briefly | HBOMB |
| West ___ | POINT |
| Where to get a 7 and 7 for $0.00 | OPENBAR |
| WXYZ button, on a cell | NINE |
| You, to you | SELF |
| Zaps, as leftovers | REWARMS |
| ___ Beauty (model Banks’s skin-care brand) | TYRA |
| ___ Heinz (food giant) | KRAFT |
| ___ Valley (city in Ventura County) | SIMI |