The Washington Post Sunday – Feb 20 2022 Crossword Solutions
The Washington Post Sunday – Feb 20 2022
Clues | Answers |
---|---|
‘Bon appetit!’ | DIGIN |
‘Fireproof’ author Wilson | ERIC |
‘Garfield’ diner owner | IRMA |
‘I’m afraid not’ | NOCANDO |
‘I’m all ___!’ | EARS |
‘I’m done for!’ | OHNO |
‘It’s hard to explain the fun to be found in seeing the right kind of bad movie’ writer | EBERT |
‘John ___ Jingleheimer Schmidt’ | JACOB |
‘Pondering My ___’ (meme showing a wizard staring into a crystal ball) | ORB |
‘Roots’ actor John | AMOS |
‘The loss we carry, ___ we must wade’: Amanda Gorman | ASEA |
‘The Squad’ congresswoman Ilhan | OMAR |
‘Whatever It Takes’ singer Baker | ANITA |
‘___ Man’s Party’ (Oingo Boingo song) | DEAD |
‘___ of New York’ (2002 film) | GANGS |
‘___ the Explorer’ | DORA |
1845 work with an ‘ebony bird beguiling my sad fancy into smiling’ | THERAVEN |
Accessory frequently worn by Moira Rose on ‘Schitt’s Creek’ | WIG |
Actor Jack’s fish dish? | BLACKBASS |
Actor Martin’s meat dish? | SHORTRIBS |
Actress Betty’s sliced dish? | WHITEPIZZA |
Actress Eva’s lettuce dish? | GREENSALAD |
Ambulance noise | SIREN |
Animated anchorman Brockman | KENT |
Antlered herbivore | ELK |
Archipelago in Oceania | TONGA |
Author of 4 Down | POE |
Avian peace symbol | DOVE |
Balls with lit fuses, in comics | BOMBS |
Beckoning cry | INHERE |
Beginning of a trilogy, perhaps | PARTI |
Big auction corporation | EBAY |
Bluesman B.B.’s fish dish? | KINGSALMON |
Bread or Cake, e.g | BAND |
Caramel candy color | TAN |
CBS News reporter Doane | SETH |
Certain park rompers | DOGS |
Cheap cabernet, e.g | HOUSERED |
Chromatic scale’s dozen | NOTES |
Collection of an author’s works | OMNIBUS |
Comedian Chris’s crustacean dish? | ROCKLOBSTER |
Complaint about having too many degrees? | IMHOT |
Completely surround | ENWRAP |
Country estates’ units | ACRES |
Deciduous tree, or an iris color | HAZEL |
Deigned (to) | STOOPED |
Disconnect | DETACH |
Eaglet’s home | AERIE |
Emphasized, as in type | BOLDED |
Fancy shoulder wear | STOLES |
Fangorn Forest beings | ENTS |
Forms a curve, as with one’s back | ARCHES |
Georgetown address ender | EDU |
Gets going | SETSOUT |
Having more wealth than anyone | RICHEST |
Horizontal punctuation mark | DASH |
Huggies product carrier | DIAPERBAG |
Ideally | ATBEST |
In case | LEST |
In the style of, in recipes | ALA |
Indonesia includes thousands of them | ISLES |
It may be queen-size | BED |
Its Turkish name means ‘mountain of pain’ | ARARAT |
Knitting item | NEEDLE |
Königswinter’s river | RHINE |
Last word of the ‘Lacrimosa’ movement in Mozart’s ‘Requiem’ | AMEN |
Latin Grammy winner Fonsi | LUIS |
Like parking that’s not in a parking lot | ONSTREET |
Like Proxima Centauri, among all stars, to the sun | CLOSEST |
Little gent | LAD |
Lodging establishment | INN |
Clues | Answers |
---|---|
Magmatic deposits, at times | ORES |
Make less confident | ABASH |
Medical records | CHARTS |
Medieval Times wear | ARMOR |
Metric units of weight | TONNES |
Michael played by Ashton Kutcher on ‘That ’70s Show’ | KELSO |
Milk ___ (dark beer brewed with lactose) | STOUT |
Moon ___ (sci-fi site) | BASE |
More achy | SORER |
Muffin makeup | BRAN |
Mules’ dads | ASSES |
Negotiation objective | DEAL |
Number of balls needed for a full count | THREE |
Ode composer | POET |
Only | SOLE |
Play the storyteller | NARRATE |
Prom garments | GOWNS |
Public artwork by Lady Pink, e.g | MURAL |
Purchases the whole supply of | BUYSUP |
Rapper Foxy’s fish dish? | BROWNTROUT |
Receive due to effort | EARN |
Region | AREA |
Rental car agency | ALAMO |
Reunion invitees | ALUMS |
Sadistic one | SICKO |
Saltpeter | NITER |
Score finale | CODA |
Searing kitchen tool | FRYPAN |
Setting of Peggy Rathmann’s book ‘Good Night, Gorilla’ | ZOO |
Shed like a bird | MOLT |
Sincere in one’s beliefs | EARNEST |
Singer Fiona’s pastry dish? | APPLESTRUDEL |
Singer John’s egg dish? | DENVEROMELET |
Solemn recitation | OATH |
Speaks before a crowd | ORATES |
Spots for painted nails | TOES |
Square pattern | GRID |
Staffer for a prime minister | AIDE |
Stats for Laila Ali | TKOS |
Super Nintendo controller button | START |
Symphonic tuners | OBOES |
T/I/N/A turner | VANNA |
Take acid and write letters, say | ETCH |
Teddy bear, to Teddy Roosevelt | NAMESAKE |
Tests, at a winery | SIPS |
Theater balcony box | LOGE |
They may have it at the Capitol | AYES |
Throwdowns? | BODYSLAMS |
Tips for solvers | HINTS |
Titans, or an NFL team that might play against the Titans | GIANTS |
Tree that’s Spanish for ‘raft’ | BALSA |
Try out with, as a joke | USEON |
Tykes’ track vehicles | GOKARTS |
Ultracycling vehicle | BIKE |
Unit of gold fineness | KARAT |
Unmotivated state | APATHY |
Vault | LEAP |
Victor’s boast | IRULE |
Waffling over something | TORN |
What a passive-aggressive person ‘throws’ | SHADE |
Where one cube face meets another | EDGE |
Word after private or public | SECTOR |
Word after private or public | EYE |
Worry (over) | STEW |
Young cow or whale | CALF |
Zero | NONE |
___ Grissom, role for William Petersen on ‘CSI’ | GIL |
___ jacket (sailor’s coat) | PEA |
___ National Park (Alberta attraction) | JASPER |
___ one’s time (wait) | BIDE |
___-bitty | ITTY |