The Washington Post – Jan 20 2017 Crossword Solution
Clues |
Answers |
’57 Varieties’ food company |
HEINZ |
‘Back in the day …’ |
TIMEWAS |
‘Cool Hand’ guy of film |
LUKE |
‘Legally Blonde’ protagonist |
ELLE |
‘Magic Mike’ size, in the sequel |
XXL |
‘Right now!’ |
STAT |
‘Sweet Love’ singer Baker |
ANITA |
‘The lowest form of wit,’ they say |
PUN |
1/cosine |
SECANT |
1994 comedy film based on Julia Sweeney’s ‘SNL’ character |
ITSPAT |
A hundred smackeroos |
ONEC |
A twerker works it |
TUSH |
Adam? |
ORIGINALSINGLE |
Additive in some bodybuilders’ shakes |
PROTEIN |
Article |
ITEM |
Automobile ad abbreviation |
MPG |
Bequeath in favor of |
LEAVETO |
Bit of glitz on an aileron? |
WINGSPANGLE |
Cantina order |
FAJITA |
Cash back? |
IER |
Chauvinistic cheer at the Olympics |
USA |
Colonial news deliverer |
CRIER |
Creature of Himalayan legend |
YETI |
Deli counter call |
NEXT |
Designation on a Parisian restroom door |
FEMMES |
Express contentment, in a way |
PURR |
Failure to add the spice when making Red Hots? |
CINNAMONBUNGLE |
George Stephanopoulos’s current gig, for short |
GMA |
Haw’s opposite |
GEE |
Haw’s partner |
HEM |
He’s a real turkey |
TOM |
Home of the Div. I Spartans |
MSU |
How rent is usually paid |
MONTHLY |
Impossible to replicate |
INIMITABLE |
Iron deficiency |
ANEMIA |
Kristen of 2016’s ‘Ghostbusters’ |
WIIG |
Lepidopterist’s device |
NET |
Lingerie purchase |
SLIP |
Clues |
Answers |
Makes faces |
MUGS |
Mastercard rival, familiarly |
AMEX |
Meat lover’s entrée |
MIXEDGRILL |
Medicinal vial |
AMPULE |
Number of events in a pentathlon |
FIVE |
Number that’s the basis of the decimal system |
TEN |
Oedipal title |
REX |
One-half of Desilu |
ARNAZ |
Osmose, perhaps |
SEEPOUT |
Parties in a postdivorce skirmish |
EXES |
Pester with a honey do list |
NAG |
Pine (for) |
LONG |
Pitchfork feature |
TINE |
Plumber’s paste |
PUTTY |
Quiz |
TEST |
Rap artist with a name that melts in your mouth? |
EMINEM |
Reason for the high ratings on the Celtic version of ‘Three’s Company’? |
IRISHJIGGLE |
Roger who left Fox News under a cloud |
AILES |
Rough, woolen fabric, from the Latin for ‘thread’ |
ESTAMIN |
Santa ___ (dry California winds) |
ANAS |
Send a titillating cybermessage |
SEXT |
Shows hospitality at the door |
SEESIN |
Smallest Great Lake, by volume |
ERIE |
Snow White’s dwarfs and Hawthorne’s gables |
SEPTETS |
Sony cofounder Morita |
AKIO |
Sphere |
ORB |
State VIP |
GOV |
The ___ State (Massachusetts’s nickname) |
BAY |
They’re checked out during colonoscopies |
ILEA |
Tidy |
NEAT |
Tiff |
SPAT |
Tottenham Hotspur’s zero |
NIL |
Trifling amount |
FIG |
Type of embankment to which the Chevy was driven, in ‘American Pie’ |
LEVEE |
Union’s opponent in labor negotiations (abbr.) |
MGMT |
Voluminous British lexicological work (abbr.) |
OED |
Web addresses, for short |
URLS |
What kid lit’s Horton hears |
AWHO |