The Washington Post Sunday – Sep 26 2021 Crossword Solution
The Washington Post Sunday – Sep 26 2021
Clues | Answers |
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‘Blessed are the ___: for they shall inherit the earth’ | MEEK |
‘Can’t be ___ careful’ | TOO |
‘Caribbean Blue’ musician | ENYA |
‘Hannibal’ network | NBC |
‘Hunger Games’ rapper ___ Noir | CHE |
‘I’ve been saved!’ | MYHERO |
‘Kapow!’ | BAM |
‘Let It Be’ drummer | STARR |
‘Look … a clue!’ | AHA |
‘Please have a ___’ | SEAT |
‘Since the ___ of time …’ | DAWN |
‘Surely you ___’ | JEST |
‘That’s right,’ silently | NOD |
‘The Age of Innocence’ Oscar nominee Ryder | WINONA |
‘The Treasures of the Yosemite’ author John | MUIR |
‘Took them long enough!’ | ATLAST |
‘___ been expecting you’ | IVE |
*’Frankenstein’ line ranked as No. 49 on AFI’s ‘100 Years … 100 Movie Quotes’ list | ITSALIVEITSALIVE |
*Beach city near the Santa Monica Mountains | MALIBUCALIFORNIA |
*Group of dialects that includes Romanesco | CENTRALITALIAN |
*Orthodontic device similar to ClearCorrect straightening products | INVISALIGNALIGNER |
*Semiaquatic mammal that may be seen by the coast of Kangaroo Island | AUSTRALIANSEALION |
*Term in a 1964 film that ‘If you say it loud enough, you’ll always sound precocious’ | SUPERCALIFRAGILISTICEXPIALIDOCIOUS |
*Whom Albert Einstein called the father of modern science | GALILEOGALILEI |
1,000-gram unit, briefly | KILO |
50 percent of sei | TRE |
Add, as a chef would | STIRIN |
Android transmission | TEXT |
Beginning of kindergarten? | PRE |
Body of water that’s larger than un lac | MER |
Box for a rock band | AMP |
Boxer found twice in each of this puzzle’s asterisked answers | ALI |
Capital of Bulgaria | SOFIA |
Capital that’s home to the Jumeirah Mosque | DUBAI |
Capital where OutKast and TLC were formed | ATLANTA |
Card payments | ANTES |
Cat’s hot surface, in a play title | TINROOF |
Cats’ fan, presumably | VET |
Cause to be upset | VEX |
Cease, as a mission | ABORT |
Common shade of wooden planks | TAN |
Concealed supply | CACHE |
Conciliatory gesture | SOP |
Coral reef swimmer | EEL |
Country often mentioned by the Muppet Sam the Eagle | AMERICA |
Cover with tar, say | PAVE |
Creatures that may run on an exercise wheel | MICE |
Date around? | CIRCA |
Days before festivals | EVES |
Dear, sir or madam, e.g | NOUN |
Deep part of the ocean | TRENCH |
Defensive response to ‘You’re wrong’ | AMI |
DOB-listing cards, often | IDS |
Drawer in a bar? | BEERTAP |
Drive forward | IMPEL |
Egyptian ruler, briefly | CLEO |
Egyptian serpent | ASP |
Essence of a backhanded compliment | INSULT |
Excursions abroad, e.g | TRIPS |
Exercise ball contents | AIR |
Feeling before giving a speech, for many | NERVES |
Fictional agent Gold | ARI |
Fighting in a big way | ATWAR |
Filled up, in a cafeteria | ATE |
Fix, as figurative fences | MEND |
Flower traditionally associated with a 25th wedding anniversary | IRIS |
Flower traditionally associated with a 30th wedding anniversary | LILY |
Flung | THREW |
Furniture store choice | SOFA |
Grant permission to | LET |
Greek letter that’s 69 Down in reverse | ETA |
Grim and glum | DOUR |
Holds | OWNS |
Clues | Answers |
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Home of Mongolia and Myanmar | ASIA |
Incandescent item, maybe | BULB |
Knight of the Round Table’s title | SIR |
Laborer whose interests are promoted by agrarianism | PEASANT |
Like many Halloween costume mustaches | FAKE |
Line of cars? | STREET |
Long-necked zoo creature | OKAPI |
Lovelace called ‘the first tech visionary’ in the New Yorker | ADA |
Low no. for a Cy Young winner, typically | ERA |
Match point? | RING |
Minor amount | TAD |
Move down on snow | SKI |
Music festival that’s Creole slang for ‘a really good time’ | BONNAROO |
Must repay | OWE |
Name spelled in midair? | IDA |
Needing time to heal | ILL |
New Pornographers rocker Case | NEKO |
Nickname that drops ‘anie’ from the end | MEL |
One of two for a biped | LEG |
Oppositional opening | ANTI |
Osijek resident | CROAT |
Parrots, like simians | APES |
Penn or Princeton, e.g | IVY |
Perform excellently | KICKBUTT |
Phony account source | LIAR |
Pies, in a pie fight | AMMO |
Place where one may raise birds or herds | FARM |
Places to hear ‘Clear!’ | ERS |
Postponements issued by judges | STAYS |
Publicly expresses an opinion | SPEAKSUP |
Quick jogging pace | TROT |
Refrigerator brand | AMANA |
Region for Rashtrapati Bhavan, the president of India’s residence | DELHI |
Rest stop? | CRYPT |
Role for Rosamund Pike in ‘Radioactive’ | CURIE |
Role honors | EMMYS |
Sci-fi character whose name sounds like an ancient city | TROI |
See 26 Down | CULPA |
See 93 Across | ANN |
Shoelace complication | KNOT |
Situation in a thought experiment | SCENARIO |
Skilled | ADEPT |
Some cuts of beef | LOINS |
Sound made before grabbing a tissue | ACHOO |
Spandex fiber brand | LYCRA |
Spherical seed | PEA |
Stock up on | AMASS |
Suck up, as water | ABSORB |
The L of ‘take the L’ | LOSS |
The Necronomicon of H.P. Lovecraft stories, e.g | TOME |
Tibetan Buddhist priests | LAMAS |
Toll road charge, e.g | USERFEE |
Traditional ___ (savings plan) | IRA |
Tread carefully | TIPTOE |
Turkish money | LIRA |
Turn down | NIX |
Turn inedible | ROT |
Vertical part of a frame | JAMB |
Village, informally | BURG |
Viola Davis was awarded one for the play ‘Intimate Apparel’ | OBIE |
Weapon with three of the same vowel | EPEE |
Wet spot | POOL |
What a boxing referee may count to | TEN |
What shouting ‘Bananas!’ in Bananagrams means | IWON |
White-hot anger | RAGE |
Winged nocturnal animal | OWL |
Winged nocturnal animal | BAT |
With 102 Across, Latin phrase of apology | MEA |
With 12 Down, site of Gloucester, Mass | CAPE |
X-ray inspection org | TSA |
___ Deportes (Spanish-language sports channel) | ESPN |
___ pal (rhyming friend) | GAL |