The Washington Post Sunday – Jul 15 2018
Published in The Washington Post Sunday Crossword. Tags: AVAIL, AVON, BARE, BUGS, March Madness, OAT, PENNE.
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| Clues | Answers |
|---|---|
| ‘Exactly right!’ | YES |
| ‘Hair’ space, say | STAGE |
| ‘I like this back rub!’ | AAH |
| ‘It’s unfortunate, but …’ | SADLY |
| ‘The Bone People’ author Hulme | KERI |
| ‘The Simpsons’ principal | SKINNER |
| ‘Trinity’ author | URIS |
| ‘___ said that?’ | WHO |
| 0, at the World Cup | NIL |
| 1940s first lady Perón | EVA |
| 1940s first lady Truman | BESS |
| 2007 AL MVP, to fans | AROD |
| 79 Down and others | MOVIESTARS |
| Activity such as the one hinted at by this puzzle’s theme | PARLORGAME |
| Actor who played Gomer Pyle (he was in ‘Cannonball Run II’ with Burt Reynolds, who was in ‘Starting Over’ with 79 Down) | JIMNABORS |
| Actor whose name is spelled out by the letters between six degrees in this puzzle | KEVINBACON |
| Aerial mammal | BAT |
| Androids who interact with guests on ‘Westworld’ | HOSTS |
| Apple jam product? | ITUNES |
| Apt name for a wrestler | NELSON |
| Avaricious sorts | MISERS |
| Banks making bank on TV | TYRA |
| Bat mitzvah party dance | HORA |
| Bedazzled feeling | AWE |
| Bill handled in Jordan | DINAR |
| Bit of graduation attire | CAP |
| Blundering blockheads | OAFS |
| Body spray brand | AXE |
| Box full of bills | ATM |
| Bucks’ toppers | ANTLERS |
| Capital in 1975 news | SAIGON |
| Carrier for an NFL team | RUSHER |
| Cattle digs | PEN |
| Cause a crack in, e.g | MAR |
| Cell phone collection | DATA |
| Champ Kind’s portrayer in ‘Anchorman’ (he was in ‘My One and Only’ with 79 Down) | DAVIDKOECHNER |
| Chaser | PURSUER |
| Clinton and Carter were in his Cabinet | OBAMA |
| Cole of ‘Black-ish’ | DEON |
| Commanderette Zircon’s portrayer in ‘Spaceballs’ (she was in ‘The Lonely Guy’ with Andy Garcia, who was in ‘The Air I Breathe’ with 79 Down) | LESLIEBEVIS |
| Connecticut city on Long Island Sound | NORWALK |
| Couple of People? | ITEM |
| Denpasar’s island | BALI |
| Deteriorate over time | ERODE |
| Diagnostic aids, briefly | MRIS |
| Do a Safari exploration? | SURF |
| Duelist’s shout | DRAW |
| East Lansing inst | MSU |
| Emollient ingredient | ALOE |
| Enjoys Spotify, say | LISTENS |
| Entertainer with the 2015 Christmas album ‘Slay Belles’ | RUPAUL |
| Entomology subjects | BUGS |
| Exam taken by jrs | PSAT |
| Film director Louis | MALLE |
| Flings with force | HEAVES |
| Former child actor on ‘The Partridge Family’ (he was in ‘The Jerk Theory’ with Tom Arnold, who was in ‘We Married Margo’ with 79 Down) | DANNYBONADUCE |
| Freeing for a high price | RANSOMING |
| General Mills cereal | KIX |
| Gomez’s hirsute cousin | ITT |
| Have a bawl | SOB |
| Have a bawl | CRY |
| Heart | MIDST |
| Historical drama in which 79 Down played a post-presidential chief of staff | FROSTNIXON |
| History segment | ERA |
| Honorary co-chair of the 2017 March for Science | NYE |
| Industry event, briefly | EXPO |
| Insect forms of some ancient amulets | SCARABS |
| Islamic denomination | SUNNI |
| Japan Golf Tour Organization chairman Aoki | ISAO |
| Jazz singer Anderson whose name sounds like a climbing plant | IVIE |
| Jerry’s business partner | BEN |
| Journal article summary | ABSTRACT |
| Journalist Tarbell | IDA |
| Clues | Answers |
|---|---|
| Jumbo preceder | MUMBO |
| Kodiak Island’s locale | ALASKA |
| Lacking decoration | BARE |
| Lady Macbeth, for one | SCOT |
| Large, curly do | AFRO |
| Like red emeralds | RARE |
| Like wallflowers | SHY |
| Magritte of surrealism | RENE |
| Make an inquiry | ASK |
| March Madness org | NCAA |
| Mark in ‘I, Claudius’? | COMMA |
| Migratory antelopes | GNUS |
| Minotaur’s island | CRETE |
| Muesli morsel | OAT |
| Neither companion | NOR |
| Notable mascara maker | AVON |
| O.J. trial judge | ITO |
| Office tools with ‘teeth’ | STAPLERS |
| One of 16 in Germany | STATE |
| One scuttling sideways | CRAB |
| Ordered (around) | BOSSED |
| Org. in which Blazers wear jerseys | NBA |
| Oscar nominee for ‘Passion Fish’ (she was in ‘Blue Chips’ with Alfre Woodard, who was in ‘Beauty Shop’ with 79 Down) | MARYMCDONNELL |
| Oscar winner for ‘L.A. Confidential’ (she was in ‘The Natural’ with Robert Duvall, who was in ‘Jayne Mansfield’s Car’ with 79 Down) | KIMBASINGER |
| Palindromic DuVernay | AVA |
| Pare hair | SHAVE |
| Parthenon features | COLUMNS |
| Perps’ patterns | MOS |
| Pizzeria purchases | PIES |
| Plant’s container | SAC |
| Pleasant-sounding | MELODIC |
| Pop singer Carter | AARON |
| Postnuptial title, maybe | MRS |
| Pride Lands king | SIMBA |
| Prove useful to | AVAIL |
| Quaint contraction | TIS |
| Rachel’s biblical sister | LEAH |
| Rapper ___ Jon | LIL |
| Requires rest, maybe | AILS |
| Retreat in the mountains | SKILODGE |
| River barrier | LEVEE |
| Scavenging arthropod | MILLIPEDE |
| Sculling object | OAR |
| Sets of 12 wine bottles | CASES |
| Show to the door | SEEOUT |
| Showed faith in | TRUSTED |
| Sibling of Chico | HARPO |
| Single player? | RADIO |
| Sources of cold cuts | DELIS |
| Supplements | ADDSTO |
| Tenor Pavarotti | LUCIANO |
| Test the concentration of, as a solution | TITRATE |
| Tethered toy | KITE |
| They form by oogenesis | OVA |
| Through | VIA |
| Timetable, informally | SKED |
| Tonga Room in the Fairmont San Francisco hotel, e.g | TIKIBAR |
| Tubular trattoria dish | PENNE |
| Up to, for short | TIL |
| Vague but large amount | MANY |
| Variable in the ideal gas law equation | PRESSURE |
| Web connection letters | DSL |
| What a retinal scanner scans | EYE |
| Whirlpool setting | SPA |
| White Sox great Frank Thomas’s nickname, with ‘the’ | BIGHURT |
| Wilson of ‘The Rocker’ | RAINN |
| Without stopping | ONEND |
| Yankees shortstop Gregorius with a repetitive first name | DIDI |
| ___ Mahal | TAJ |
| ___ pickings | SLIM |
| ___ Torino | GRAN |
| ___ town (flee secretly) | SKIP |
| ___-choice | PRO |