The Washington Post – May 25 2016 Crossword Solution
Clues |
Answers |
‘Call me ___’ |
ISHMAEL |
‘Shake a leg!’ |
CMON |
1973 Supreme Court decision name |
ROE |
Actress Peet |
AMANDA |
Adam’s madam |
EVE |
Apple variety |
FUJI |
Asian occasion |
TET |
At the summit of |
ATOP |
Attention-getters |
HEYS |
Bad shot for a hoopster |
AIRBALL |
Bar opening? |
ISO |
Beantown basketballer |
CELT |
Bibliography space-saver |
ETALII |
Black ink item |
ASSET |
Blond shade |
ASH |
Blows it |
ERRS |
Boeing 747, e.g |
JET |
Bone-chilling |
EERIE |
Butler of fiction |
RHETT |
Bypass |
OMIT |
Canadian capital? |
CEE |
Chicago political family |
DALEYS |
Cohort |
PAL |
Colo. clock setting |
MST |
Colorful concrete? |
REDCEMENT |
Common ___ |
CORE |
Competed |
VIED |
Conventions |
MORES |
Crops up |
ARISES |
Dermatologist’s concern |
CYST |
Desert engineering sch.? |
CAMELTECH |
Doctor’s order, perhaps |
REHAB |
Domesticated |
TAME |
El ___ (Spanish hero) |
CID |
Empowered |
ENABLED |
Eye sore |
STYE |
Fencer’s defense |
PARRY |
Food scrap |
ORT |
Gasteyer of ‘Mean Girls’ |
ANA |
Clues |
Answers |
Good to go |
ALLSET |
Harsh |
SEVERE |
Heavy hammers |
SLEDGES |
High spirits |
GLEE |
Historic leader? |
PRE |
In shape |
FIT |
Island ring |
LEI |
It may follow you |
ARE |
Junior’s junior |
III |
Lennon’s love |
ONO |
Loads from lodes |
ORES |
Locks up |
ICES |
Look after a Persian |
CATSIT |
Menlo Park middle name |
ALVA |
Mercedes rival in Munich? |
GERMANBEEMER |
Mr. Brown with a band |
ZAC |
Napkin in a Chinese restaurant? |
LOMEINCLOTH |
NCAA hoops powerhouse |
UCONN |
Nice girl? |
FILLE |
Ovum from King Midas’s wife? |
GOLDENGAMETE |
Payola |
GRAFT |
Perfume |
CENSE |
Periphery |
EDGE |
Place for a firing |
KILN |
Police get-together? |
LAWMENPARTY |
Prefix with morph |
ENDO |
Raggedy doll |
ANN |
Ribald |
BAWDY |
Robin Cook thriller |
COMA |
Scene of ‘The Rumble in the Jungle’ |
ZAIRE |
Selected |
CHOSE |
Sensitive subject, to some |
AGE |
Shoot up |
SOAR |
Showered with Charmin, for short |
TPED |
Sound of a wind chime |
TINKLE |
St. ___ fire |
ELMOS |
Time pieces? |
DAYS |
Winter pear |
BOSC |
Wordsworth, for one |
ODIST |