The Washington Post – May 1 2016 Crossword Solution
Clues |
Answers |
‘Born on the Bayou’ band, briefly |
CCR |
‘Champagne’ King |
EVELYN |
‘Start, already!’ |
GETCRACKING |
‘Uh-uh’ |
NOPE |
‘___ is gorges’ (Cornell college town saying) |
ITHACA |
Ashcan or Hudson River |
SCHOOL |
Basis for a wife’s punny list |
HONEYDEW |
Bothered |
ATEAT |
Car ad adjectival phrase |
BESTINCLASS |
Catastrophic Civil War battle site |
ANTIETAM |
Certain undergrad |
SOPH |
Church support |
TITHE |
Clarinet key |
BFLAT |
Collateral |
ASSETS |
Compel |
COERCE |
Complement for a seersucker suit, perhaps |
PANAMA |
Consolidated |
MELDED |
Counselor’s deg |
MSW |
County west of Dublin |
KILDARE |
Creative |
ARTISTIC |
Descriptor for the tongues of some blue whales |
THREETON |
Domingo, Carrera, and Pavarotti, famously |
TENORS |
Evade a tackler, in a way |
HIGHSTEP |
Firmed up |
CEMENTED |
Flatters |
BECOMES |
Gas giant passed by Voyager 2 in 1989 |
NEPTUNE |
Go through the motions in a music video? |
LIPSYNC |
Grind |
GNASH |
Hermana de la madre |
TIA |
Iconographic nimbi |
HALOS |
In an unclear way |
VAGUELY |
Indy letters |
STP |
Ireland’s features a Celtic harp design |
EURO |
Lands, in a way |
REELSIN |
Length in a geometric figure from its top to its opposite side |
ALTITUDE |
Clues |
Answers |
Like a squat wineglass |
STEMLESS |
Line items? |
BOBS |
Listicle format, often |
TOPTEN |
Making a choice |
OPTING |
Manage |
FEND |
Mentholated smokes |
KOOLS |
Nat ____ (cable channel) |
GEO |
Needle |
TEASE |
Pacino movie whose poster is displayed in many ‘MTV Cribs’ homes |
SCARFACE |
Passé |
OUT |
Peeve |
STEAM |
Pet aisle brand |
IAMS |
Pin, say |
ATTACH |
Proctor’s call |
TIME |
Proprietary |
PATENTED |
Pub array |
BREWS |
Quantity |
AMOUNT |
Rear-___ |
ENDER |
Singer Khan whose name is rapped in her 1984 song ‘I Feel for You’ |
CHAKA |
Singsong syllable |
TRA |
Six Flags visitor’s exclamation |
WHEE |
Snob |
SNOOT |
Son of Poseidon |
TRITON |
Take home |
NET |
Taken care of |
SEENTO |
TE’s coups |
TDS |
Teacher’s follow-up question after no hands are raised, perhaps |
ANYONE |
Throwback pop? |
NEHI |
Trig ratio |
COSEC |
Tumbler narrower than a highball |
COLLINS |
Wall’s opposite, in economic discourse |
MAIN |
What precedes a boy or a girl at birth? |
ITS |
With wisdom |
SAGELY |
Without a date |
STAG |
Worker’s weekly exclamation |
TGIF |