The Washington Post – Feb 12 2016 Crossword Solution
| Clues |
Solutions |
| $50 payment in Monopoly |
BAIL |
| ‘Take off, tabby!’ |
SCAT |
| ‘The Hunger Games’ missile |
ARROW |
| ‘The Well-Tempered Clavier’ composer |
BACH |
| ‘Transformers’ star LaBeouf |
SHIA |
| ‘Way to go, torero!’ |
OLE |
| ‘___ Song’ (2007 Taylor Swift hit) |
OUR |
| Advocating |
FOR |
| Alloy ingredients |
METALS |
| Annette seen on ‘Smallville’ |
OTOOLE |
| Appeases through indulgence |
SATES |
| Arch-bladed woodworking tool |
ADZE |
| Awesome, slangily |
DABOMB |
| Being observant, to a hipster |
DIGGINGTHESCENE |
| Belieber or Deadhead |
FAN |
| Between tasks |
IDLE |
| Big klutz |
LUG |
| Blow the mind of |
AMAZE |
| Bottleful on a rib joint table |
SAUCE |
| Calcutta cover-up |
SARI |
| Clarifying, as a subject |
SHEDDINGLIGHTON |
| Clip or pop follower |
ART |
| Common word on California maps |
SAN |
| Corsage fastener |
PIN |
| Dam that created Lake Nasser |
ASWAN |
| Defeat all competitors in |
SWEEP |
| DeLuise of the ‘Cannonball Run’ films |
DOM |
| Dishwasher cycle |
RINSE |
| Drought-ravaged |
ARID |
| Engine or warrant preceder |
SEARCH |
| First word of ‘Scarborough Fair’ |
ARE |
| Fixed charge |
SETRATE |
| Forms a head |
FOAMS |
| French valley famed for châteaus |
LOIRE |
| Gagarin whose orbiter was Vostok I |
YURI |
| Geographically based ins. plan |
HMO |
| Grief-filled |
SAD |
| Gyroscope component |
AXIS |
| High-volume annoyances |
DINS |
| Clues |
Solutions |
| Historic Peac*ck Throne occupants |
SHAHS |
| Holly berry’s hue |
RED |
| Instinctual energy in psychoanalysis |
LIBIDO |
| It may be ignited by lightning |
WILDFIRE |
| Joe Friday, self-descriptively |
COP |
| Joined by stitching |
SEAMED |
| Kind |
ILK |
| Look quickly toward |
GLANCEAT |
| Made like Lady Godiva |
RODE |
| Many college newsletter addressees |
ALUMNI |
| Many have skyboxes |
ARENAS |
| Melanie’s portrayer in ‘Gone With the Wind’ |
OLIVIA |
| Mollycoddling type |
DOTER |
| Namby-pamby fellow |
MILKSOP |
| Neat drink’s lack |
ICE |
| Norse god who traded an eye for wisdom |
ODIN |
| Not distant |
NEARBY |
| Pennsylvania’s fourth-largest city |
ERIE |
| Pep rally yell |
RAH |
| Pituitary gland’s shape |
OVAL |
| Pump part |
SOLE |
| Quaint outburst |
EGAD |
| Rathskeller order |
ALE |
| Resignedly choosing to tackle a difficult situation |
BITINGTHEBULLET |
| Scratch resistance scale |
MOHS |
| Separator of states |
BORDER |
| Shortly, to Shakespeare |
ANON |
| Signs of engine trouble |
PINGS |
| Smoking or stress, some say |
AGER |
| Stephen King teen with telekinetic powers |
CARRIE |
| Synagogue singer |
CANTOR |
| Team on Nebraska’s state quarter |
OXEN |
| Test that takes over seven hrs |
GED |
| Trawler’s trapper |
NET |
| Trimmed along a path, say |
EDGED |
| URL ender for nonprofits |
ORG |
| Writer’s block breakthrough |
IDEA |
| Wrote |
PENNED |
| ___-relief |
BAS |