The Washington Post Sunday – Dec 26 2021 Crossword Solution
The Washington Post Sunday – Dec 26 2021
Clues | Answers |
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‘Archer’ voice actress Judy | GREER |
‘Citizen Kane’ locale | XANADU |
‘Home ___’ | ALONE |
‘I Want to Come Home for Christmas’ singer Gaye | MARVIN |
‘I’ll be home for Christmas / If ___ in my dreams’ | ONLY |
‘Night’ author Wiesel | ELIE |
‘Open the door, human!’ | MEOW |
‘Sun’s out, guns out’ muscles | BICEPS |
‘The Café-Concert’ painter, 1879 | MANET |
‘The Nutcracker and the Mouse King,’ e.g | TALE |
‘Things ___ looking up!’ | ARE |
‘We did it!’ | YEAH |
‘We ___ a miracle!’ | NEED |
‘Welcome to Hell World’ author Luke | ONEIL |
‘Who wants to take a crack at it?’ | ANYBODY |
‘Wintersong’ musician McLachlan | SARAH |
‘Zing!’ | HIYO |
‘___ the kraken!’ | RELEASE |
*’Doesn’t affect me’ | ITSNOSWEATOFFMYBACK |
*1979 film whose final line is a quotation from ‘Heart of Darkness’ | APOCALYPSENOW |
*Card game that’s a gambling variant of a simpler card game | CASINOWAR |
*Phrase used to emphasize the truth of something | GOODNESSKNOWS |
*Scandinavian city that’s home to the Science Factory | SANDNESNORWAY |
Abbr. on office mail | STE |
Adjusts, as shoelaces | RETIES |
Allstate competitor | AFLAC |
Atlas box | INSET |
Attach | ADJOIN |
Attempts to connect with another plane? | SEANCES |
Avoid | EVADE |
Band around a joint | ANKLET |
Band or toy preceder | BOY |
Bathroom cleaner | SOAP |
Be abundant | TEEM |
Bistro reading | MENU |
Bolt | SKEDADDLE |
C feature | CURVE |
Chem class charges | LABFEES |
Christmas feast, e.g | REPAST |
Christmas song lyric that serves as a hint to this puzzle’s meta | DASHINGTHROUGHTHESNOW |
Closefitting head cover | DURAG |
Common Christmas ornament | ORB |
Completely absorbed | ENRAPT |
Considered to be | SEENAS |
Crime drama genre | NOIR |
Cute source of pants? | DOG |
Delegate from Can. or Mex., e.g., who assembles in NYC | UNREP |
Discreet email initials | BCC |
Dodgeball balls, essentially | AMMO |
Downcast | SAD |
Eagle ___ (source of nest broadcasts) | CAM |
Emulated crows | CAWED |
Faked out, in hockey | DEKED |
False fronts | GUISES |
Far from terse | WORDY |
Farmer’s site, in a song | DELL |
Feature of rotten eggs | ODOR |
Fiddles’ kin | VIOLAS |
Figure skater Brian who performed in ‘Carmen on Ice’ | ORSER |
Flavor enhancer inits | MSG |
Form of sunscreen | GEL |
Former Firebird maker | PONTIAC |
Gave, as a hand | LENT |
Get into a pizza, say | BITE |
Glazed Christmas dish, perhaps | HAM |
Go swiftly | SPEED |
Gold medal-winning runner Sebastian | COE |
Grant with the album ‘Home for Christmas’ | AMY |
Greek series finale? | OMEGA |
Greek symbol of density | RHO |
Hack with an ax | HEW |
Having a cold, say | ILL |
Hearing order | ALLRISE |
Held for questioning | DETAINED |
Homering Sammy | SOSA |
How bills may be paid | INCASH |
How some bread tastes | YEASTY |
Clues | Answers |
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Hustle | RUSH |
Idiomatically reinvented device | WHEEL |
Inaugural statements | OATHS |
Instrument heard in the ‘Schitt’s Creek’ theme | TUBA |
Jewelry fastener | CLASP |
Joined forces with horses, say? | RHYMED |
Like blizzards, in part | WINDY |
Lines of celebration | ODE |
Links starting point | TEE |
Little, informally | ITSY |
Lupino of ‘Devotion’ | IDA |
Magazine that’s headquartered in Paris | ELLE |
Make a sincere appeal | PLEAD |
Make tracks | HURRY |
Maker of 4K Ultra HD TVs | RCA |
Many ousted leaders | EXILES |
Membranous structure attached to an embryo | YOLKSAC |
Minimal amount | LEAST |
Molly of an Irish folk song | MALONE |
Move like Shelly-Ann Fraser-Pryce | SPRINT |
National Film Award winner Kapoor | RAJ |
Neat assortments | ARRAYS |
Not as easily solved | HARDER |
Not joking | SERIOUS |
Number two? | DUO |
Off-limits thing | NONO |
OkCupid users’ activity | DATING |
One checking text messages? | EDITOR |
Ornamental lace mat | DOILY |
Parts of feet | TOES |
Patronize, as for lunch | DINEAT |
Poli ___ | SCI |
Power-ful scientist? | WATT |
Prefix with freeze | ANTI |
Protozoan on a slide | AMOEBA |
Puppeteer Baird | BIL |
Reference showing local attractions | AREAMAP |
Repeated bit of music | LOOP |
River vortexes | EDDIES |
Roller coaster track | RAIL |
See 118 Across | LEE |
Serpents on pharaohs’ headdresses | ASPS |
Setting of the game ‘Subnautica’ | SEA |
Shelters securely | ENSCONCES |
Silken net | WEB |
Small unit of vol | TSP |
Sonic, e.g | HEDGEHOG |
Spanish city where the Alhambra is located | GRANADA |
Standing by, as a doctor | ONCALL |
Star pitcher’s low no | ERA |
Storied gift wrapper | ELF |
Summer Games blade | EPEE |
Sunbathing goal, often | TAN |
Supervised reentry into society | PAROLE |
Swamp hopper | TOAD |
Synonym of 7 Across | ARC |
The fourth ___ (journalists, as a group) | ESTATE |
Train unit that carries crude material | OILCAR |
Two, in poker | DEUCE |
Unfair preference, maybe | BIAS |
Uses falsetto, in a way | YODELS |
Vain one’s big thing | EGO |
Wassailing drink | ALE |
Wet floor cleaner | MOP |
What many apps run on | IOS |
Wicked spirit | FIEND |
Willie of Giants fame | MAYS |
Wine ___ (one scoffing at another’s merlot, say) | SNOB |
Winged ___ (tree) | ELM |
Winter wraps | SHAWLS |
With 29 Down, ‘The Ice Storm’ director | ANG |
With a clean slate | ANEW |
Without the means | UNABLE |
Work period | STINT |
World records, e.g | BESTS |
___ grass | OAT |
___ pressure | PEER |