The Washington Post – Mar 1 2016 Crossword Solution
| Clues |
Answers |
| ’60s drug |
LSD |
| ‘A New Argentina’ musical |
EVITA |
| ‘Believe’ singer |
CHER |
| Annoys |
IRKS |
| Approximately |
CIRCA |
| Barbecue-flavored fast food sandwich |
MCRIB |
| Before kickoff |
PREGAME |
| Borrow, in slang |
BUM |
| Bullets and such |
AMMO |
| Car rental company |
ALAMO |
| Certain family reunion attendee |
NIECE |
| Characterized by sound reasoning |
LOGICAL |
| Chinese food additive, briefly |
MSG |
| Church official |
ELDER |
| Clio or Erato |
MUSE |
| Coffee addition |
SUGAR |
| Coffee cups |
MUGS |
| Cuts back on the sweets, say |
DIETS |
| D&D humanoid |
ORC |
| Dance move |
STEP |
| Daughter of Lorelai, on a 2000s TV show |
RORYGILMORE |
| Doctor who may treat strep |
ENT |
| Engine parts |
CAMS |
| Entrepreneur Musk |
ELON |
| Flammable barrelful |
OIL |
| Food drive item |
CAN |
| Fool |
ASS |
| Gloomy |
DOUR |
| Grind, as one’s teeth |
GNASH |
| Grocery holder |
BAG |
| Have the courage (to) |
DARE |
| High muckety-muck |
GRANDPOOBAH |
| Hit the hay |
WENTTOBED |
| Hyphen’s kin |
DASH |
| Inflexible |
RIGID |
| Joe of ‘Casino’ |
PESCI |
| Lowest possible soccer score |
NIL |
| Manners of walking |
GAITS |
| Navel type |
OUTIE |
| Clues |
Answers |
| Novelist Levin |
IRA |
| Numbered highway off-ramps |
EXITS |
| One of the Bridges brothers |
BEAU |
| Poehler of ‘Sisters’ |
AMY |
| Poems of tribute |
ODES |
| Police chief’s concern |
CRIME |
| Printer ink container |
CARTRIDGE |
| Pub pastime |
DARTS |
| Purchases |
BUYS |
| Regret |
RUE |
| Religious dissenter |
HERETIC |
| Resource-rich material |
ORE |
| Sense of self |
EGO |
| Single-stranded molecule, for short |
RNA |
| Site of a hammer and a drum |
EAR |
| Sneaker brand |
ADIDAS |
| So far |
YET |
| Some family reunion attendees |
AUNTS |
| Stereotypical robot sound |
BEEP |
| Students’ end-of-semester ordeals |
EXAMS |
| Superglue remover component |
ACETONE |
| Ten-sided figure |
DECAGON |
| The Braves, on scoreboards |
ATL |
| The Clash hit of 1982 |
ROCKTHECASBAH |
| Thin piece of wood |
SLAT |
| Tony winner Carter |
NELL |
| Tool for cutting wheat |
SCYTHE |
| Track event |
RACE |
| Track shapes |
OVALS |
| Transfer |
DECAL |
| Two-time Super Bowl MVP Manning |
ELI |
| Typing stat (abbr.) |
WPM |
| Villainous alter ego of fiction |
HYDE |
| Way to go |
PATH |
| West Coast clock setting (abbr.) |
PST |
| Word in many California cities |
SANTA |
| Work the runway |
MODEL |
| You might see a butterfly during one |
RORSCHACHTEST |
| ___ Alliance (‘Star Wars’ fighters) |
REBEL |