The Washington Post – Aug 28 2016 Crossword Solution
Clues |
Answers |
‘Cocoon’ prop, for short |
UFO |
‘Exceed Your Vision’ printer company |
EPSON |
‘Sorry, too busy’ |
NOTIME |
‘Ten-four’ sayer |
CBER |
‘Try that again’ |
DOITOVER |
1945 demo at Alamogordo |
ATEST |
1957 Broadway musical debut |
WESTSIDESTORY |
Ad or post follower |
HOC |
Admires tenderly |
REVERES |
Alternatives to Sonys |
RCAS |
Androgynous |
EPICENE |
Artistic touch? |
DAB |
Atl. traversers, once |
SSTS |
Band with two cuts on the ‘Doctor Detroit’ soundtrack |
DEVO |
Birds that can jump seven feet straight up |
EMUS |
Border collie’s charges |
SHEEP |
Bowlful near some cash registers |
MINTS |
Brainy youngster |
WHIZKID |
Brassy person’s lack |
SHAME |
Caravan creature |
CAMEL |
Change, as a hem |
RESEW |
Chaotic jumble |
WELTER |
Clips and clasps |
FASTENERS |
Contest for filmdom’s Akeelah |
BEE |
Convert to carbon |
CHAR |
Defiant response to an accusation |
SUEME |
Demand from a door pounder |
OPENUP |
Displayed irritation |
FUMED |
Exploitation practitioners |
ABUSERS |
First name in silent horror |
LON |
Forms a blanket, in a way |
SNOWS |
Hardly harsh |
GENTLE |
Iago or Becky Sharp |
SCHEMER |
Joseph of frozen confection fame |
EDY |
Kevin Kline comedy whose poster features the White House |
DAVE |
Letter that rhymes with its two successors |
PHI |
Clues |
Answers |
Makes public |
AIRS |
Misgiving |
UNEASE |
Musical character who is told in absentia, ‘Our mothers all are junkies’ |
OFFICERKRUPKE |
Needing nursing |
ILL |
Out to get |
AFTER |
Partners of dreams or fears |
HOPES |
PDQ alternative |
ASAP |
Perform high-tech surgery on |
LASE |
Pig in children’s books |
OLIVIA |
Plucky quality |
MOXIE |
Purchase that may be padded |
BRA |
Randy’s rink partner |
TAI |
Reasoning capacity |
SENSE |
Regularly, in rhymes |
OFT |
Roxie portrayer in ‘Chicago’ |
RENEE |
Savvy about |
HIPTO |
Scorch slightly |
SEAR |
Section of a circumference |
ARC |
Seeks favor from |
PLAYSUPTO |
Showed reluctance |
HUNGBACK |
Sling mud at |
ASPERSE |
Spot for a jumper cable’s red clamp |
ANODE |
Squid’s squirt |
INK |
Stamp mill material |
ORE |
Standard & ___ |
POORS |
Stimulating swigs |
BRACERS |
Strands at a ski lodge, perhaps |
ICESIN |
Stud’s scion |
FOAL |
They’ve never been union members |
BACHELORS |
Trait of Roger Rabbit’s wife Jessica |
SEXYVOICE |
Vespers activity |
WORSHIP |
Vessel that visited Colchis |
ARGO |
Vic whose first hit was ‘I Have But One Heart’ |
DAMONE |
Word in the subtitle of Alex Haley’s ‘Roots’ |
SAGA |
World capital near Lake Titicaca |
LAPAZ |
Zoe who cowrote the script for ‘Camille’ |
AKINS |