The Washington Post – Mar 2 2016 Crossword Solution
| Clues |
Answers |
| ‘The Lord of the Rings’ baddies |
ORCS |
| Actress Gibbs |
MARLA |
| Actress Rae Dawn ___ |
CHONG |
| Advil target |
ACHE |
| Airport safety org |
TSA |
| Arthur of tennis |
ASHE |
| At hand, in verse |
NIGH |
| Attacks |
HASAT |
| Author Carle |
ERIC |
| Bawls |
SOBS |
| Bengals’ city, casually |
CINCY |
| Blows it |
ERRS |
| Bond player before Dalton |
MOORE |
| Buddhist spiritual guide |
ZENMASTER |
| Chophouse order |
STRIPSTEAK |
| Clock radio letters |
AMPM |
| Coloration |
TINCT |
| Comfy clothes for around the house |
LOUNGEWEAR |
| Common inert gas |
ARGON |
| Danish physicist Niels |
BOHR |
| Doctor of sci-fi |
WHO |
| Door attachments |
HINGES |
| Dromedary’s feature |
HUMP |
| Drop ___ (moon) |
TROU |
| Egypt’s ___ Canal |
SUEZ |
| Employ |
USE |
| Expositions |
FAIRS |
| Falling pellets |
HAIL |
| Falsify, as figures |
FUDGE |
| Film in which Joe Pesci plays a criminal |
HOMEALONE |
| Frequent memo starter |
INRE |
| Go on a cruise |
SAIL |
| Gold medalist skier Hermann |
MAIER |
| Greece’s Mount ___ |
OSSA |
| Handled the music at a rave, briefly |
DJED |
| HBO rival |
SHO |
| HBO rival |
STARZ |
| Hornswoggle |
ROOK |
| Clues |
Answers |
| Impromptu court contest |
PICKUPGAME |
| In a previous life |
ONCE |
| Irritants |
PESTS |
| It might have a hi-hat and tom-toms |
DRUMSET |
| Jan. honoree |
MLK |
| Jerusalem’s Mount ___ |
ZION |
| Keatsian, e.g |
ODIC |
| Locked up |
ONICE |
| Maker of fuel additives |
STP |
| Marine predator |
ORCA |
| NFL group including tackles and ends |
DLINE |
| Nice chunk of change |
TIDYSUM |
| Number of Greek Muses |
NINE |
| Old tales |
LORE |
| Onetime rival of Pan Am |
USAIR |
| Opposing |
ANTI |
| Part of a battlement |
CRENEL |
| Place to do laps |
POOL |
| Practical joker’s placard |
KICKMESIGN |
| Queried |
ASKED |
| Reach new heights |
SOAR |
| Relative of canasta |
GINRUMMY |
| Road hazard marker |
CONE |
| San ___ Obispo, California |
LUIS |
| Sector’s sides |
RADII |
| Shriek of surprise |
EEK |
| Some lapdogs, for short |
POMS |
| Songwriter Mitchell |
JONI |
| Sordid |
SEAMY |
| Sound of coconuts in ‘Monty Python and the Holy Grail’ |
CLIPCLOP |
| Soup vegetable |
OKRA |
| Stoneworker |
MASON |
| Successor |
HEIR |
| Tubular pasta |
PENNE |
| Untimely mistake? |
ANACHRONISM |
| Unwanted attraction |
STATICCLING |
| View as |
DEEM |
| ___ out a living (barely scrape by) |
EKE |