The Washington Post – Mar 13 2016 Crossword Solution
Clues |
Answers |
‘Fat chance, lassie’ |
NAE |
‘Polly wanna cracker?’ response, maybe |
AWK |
‘Robin Hood: ___ in Tights’ |
MEN |
‘The Robots of Dawn’ author |
ASIMOV |
‘Time’s Arrow’ novelist |
AMIS |
Addis Ababa is its capital (abbr.) |
ETH |
Airport pickup |
RENTALCAR |
Babbling Addams Family member |
ITT |
Bates’s ‘Misery’ costar |
CAAN |
Beach find turned into puka jewelry |
CONESHELL |
Becomes a wet mess |
SOGS |
Binges |
SPREES |
Burundi neighbor |
RWANDA |
Chew the scenery |
EMOTE |
Chili server |
LADLE |
Churn |
ROIL |
Circle of cowpokes? |
LARIAT |
Coarse, nubby fabric |
RATINE |
Constellation containing the Stingray Nebula |
ARA |
Creature on the Australian coat of arms |
EMU |
Credit card activity? |
SWIPING |
Curative locale |
SPA |
Daisy in ‘Blondie,’ e.g |
PETDOG |
Day of the wk. for the 1929 Wall Street crash |
TUE |
Drill sergeant’s order |
STANDATEASE |
Exasperated boss played by Tim Conway in ‘The Carol Burnett Show’ sketches |
MRTUDBALL |
Falco or Brickell |
EDIE |
Floral symbol of prestige, in China |
PEONY |
Fraction of a newton |
DYNE |
Frontier shelters that are all roof and no walls |
VHUTS |
Garbage carrier |
SCOW |
Glittery threads |
TINSEL |
Grain bane |
ERGOT |
Hogwarts spell that produces a flock of birds |
AVIS |
Clues |
Answers |
Hopper or crisper |
BIN |
In the future |
TOCOME |
Info above an Amazon.com pre-order button |
RELEASEDATE |
Interrogation room features |
TWOWAYMIRRORS |
Jaunty cadence |
LILT |
Leakes of ‘Real Housewives’ fame |
NENE |
Long pitch |
SPIEL |
Message conforming to a 140-character limit |
TWEET |
Muzzles |
SNOUTS |
Official lang. of Belize |
ENG |
Okra, often |
THICKENINGAGENT |
Old ‘Put a tiger in your tank’ brand |
ESSO |
Paris’s ___ des Beaux-Arts |
ECOLE |
Patch things up, e.g |
SEW |
Peloponnesian War victor |
SPARTA |
Ph.D. hurdles |
ORALS |
Plankton animal |
ROTIFER |
Prefix with content |
MAL |
Primary maker of Formula One racing suits |
PUMA |
Publisher who inspired ‘Citizen Kane’ |
HEARST |
Raison d’___ |
ETRE |
Repentant miser of fiction |
SCROOGE |
Riverside raptors |
OSPREYS |
Shoe lift |
HEELTAP |
Sign by a sold-out ticket booth |
SRO |
Stanford rival, familiarly |
CAL |
Star of the Broadway premiere of ‘Agnes of God’ |
GERALDINEPAGE |
Suspends |
HALTS |
Towed vehicle, perhaps |
REPO |
Trinity member |
THESON |
Try to locate |
TRACE |
Upper-story makeovers to obsolete industrial buildings |
LOFTCONVERSIONS |
Visibly mortified |
RED |
___ Set |
ERECTOR |