The Washington Post Sunday – Mar 6 2022 Crossword Solutions
The Washington Post Sunday – Mar 6 2022
Clues | Answers |
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‘An appalling waste of energy,’ per Katherine Mansfield / Exploring deeply | RESEARCHING |
‘Atlanta,’ ‘Dallas’ or ‘Nashville,’ e.g | SERIES |
‘Be on your guard’ | STAYALERT |
‘Dig in!’ | EAT |
‘Earthquake’ actress Gardner | AVA |
‘Eloquent Rage: A Black Feminist Discovers Her Superpower’ author Brittney | COOPER |
‘Elysium’ actor Matt | DAMON |
‘God …!’ | SONOFA |
‘Heat’ actor Kilmer | VAL |
‘I like ___’ (1950s presidential campaign slogan) | IKE |
‘I’m here’ | ITSME |
‘Is this thing on?’ strike | TAP |
‘L-O-V-E’ singer ___ King Cole | NAT |
‘Let’s get ready to rumble!’ | GAMEON |
‘Little Trip to Heaven (On the Wings of Your Love)’ singer, 1973 | TOMWAITS |
‘No ___ traffic’ | THRU |
‘Score!’ | GOAL |
‘That goes for me, too’ | SOAMI |
‘Warlords’ maker | ATARI |
‘Way to get yourself out of trouble there’ | NICESAVE |
‘___ made up my mind’ | IVE |
105 Across that’s spelled out by the first letters of this puzzle’s unclued Down answers | GREBE |
55 Down blades | GRASS |
EAGLE | |
GOOSE | |
BUNTING | |
EGRET | |
RAVEN | |
Supreme Court ruling reaffirmed in City of Akron v. Akron Center for Reproductive Health (1983), informally | ROE |
Aces of Aces and kings of Kings, e.g | ALLSTARS |
Also-ran in 1988 | DUKAKIS |
Alter ___ (superhero’s second self) | EGO |
AOC : Ocasio :: RBG : ___ | BADER |
Attorney’s document | BRIEF |
Away at the moment | NOTIN |
Barbecue portion | SPARERIB |
Be highly successful | THRIVE |
Big part of Chad | SAHARA |
Bran source | OAT |
Bring about | GENERATE |
Burns’ remedies | BALMS |
Change color slightly | TINT |
Commencement | ONSET |
Contraction eliding ‘un’ | TIL |
Cookware brand based in France | STAUB |
Cowardly / Sellers of fabric and knitting supplies | CRAFTSTORES |
Crew locale | SHIP |
Depletes | SAPS |
Dish that may be filled with salsa and chipotle peppers | CHALUPA |
Dishonorable fellows | CADS |
Ears full of sugar | SWEETCORN |
Egyptian god of war and chaos | SET |
Enter undetected | SNEAKIN |
Envision with divination | FORESEE |
Everyday explosions | SNEEZES |
Exam prep expert | TUTOR |
Extract, in metallurgy | SMELT |
Extremely | EVERSO |
Fabric often worn torn | DENIM |
Flabbergasts | STUNS |
Food from the French for ‘saucepan’ | CASSEROLE |
Fried ring thing | ONION |
Galway’s country: Abbr | IRE |
Ganesha or Krishna, in Hinduism | DEITY |
Give credit, with ‘to’ | ASCRIBE |
Go through ‘1984’ again, say | REREAD |
Had been | WERE |
Have a banquet meal | DINE |
Infant’s hooded garment / One born during the 1950s, maybe | BABYBOOMER |
Laudatory stanzas | ODE |
Clues | Answers |
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Law of ___ (trigonometry equation) | SINES |
Lead-in to a big event | EVE |
Like bulls from the Vatican | PAPAL |
Like fans during a triple-overtime thriller | TENSE |
Like one going on a tirade | IRATE |
Like vintage Gouda | AGED |
Linguistics topic | SLANG |
Lost son of the clownfish Marlin | NEMO |
Made an offer that one couldn’t refuse, say | LURED |
Make at the workplace | EARN |
May day event, usually | PROM |
Meal the begins with reciting the kiddush | SEDER |
Medical procedures that aren’t closed | OPENMRIS |
Midwest city where the first Gibson guitars were manufactured | KALAMAZOO |
Negation of ‘dele,’ in editing | STET |
Nurturing man | DAD |
Objective of pollution reduction | CLEANAIR |
One making a swift descent, illustrated by each unclued Down answer in this puzzle | DIVINGBIRD |
One with love interests | EROS |
Org. profiled in James Bamford’s book ‘Body of Secrets’ | NSA |
Painting perimeter | FRAME |
Performance check | TESTRUN |
Person who is hard-working and successful while ‘high’ | ACHIEVER |
Peter, Ray and Winston’s fellow Ghostbuster | EGON |
Place where caddies hold bags | TEAROOM |
Preposition in a sonnet | ERE |
Prized flower in ‘The Little Prince’ | ROSE |
Proposition accepted as true | AXIOM |
Qatar royal | EMIR |
Reason for tripping | LSD |
Received by the ears | AURAL |
Record label found in ‘remixes’ | EMI |
Relative of a meerkat / Citizens of Ulaanbaatar | MONGOLIANS |
Reluctant (to) | AVERSE |
Reminds over and over | NAGS |
Restriction at some apartments | NOPETS |
Rock bottom moment? | BASSSOLO |
Role model | EXEMPLAR |
Sandra Bullock film involving Web surfing | THENET |
Sch. application nos | GPAS |
Science educator Bill | NYE |
Section of a building opposite the front | REARAREA |
Seizes the attention of | GRABS |
Sheep noise | BLEAT |
Shouts | CRIESOUT |
Sly summons | PSST |
Snoopy, e.g. / Stout vessel | BEERBARREL |
Stage during an insect’s metamorphosis | LARVA |
Subject for Dian Fossey | APE |
Sufficiently skilled | ABLE |
The 5th Dimension member Florence | LARUE |
The F of AFAIK | FAR |
The Red Bear Brewing Co. drink Skookum, e.g | ALE |
Tiger noises | ROARS |
Tool for making piles | RAKE |
Tornado warning noisemaker | SIREN |
Tree used to build King David’s house | CEDAR |
Try out a bouquet | SMELL |
Unique | ALONE |
Verb used in cooking | STIR |
What this puzzle’s featured creatures build | NESTS |
Where disc golfers make their first throws | TEEPADS |
Where Maria sings ‘The Hills Are Alive’ in ‘The Sound of Music’ | MEADOW |
Wish list recipient? | GENIE |
Word before Major or Minor, in astronomy | URSA |
Works really hard | TOILS |
Writer Umberto | ECO |
Wrong letter in a crossword, e.g | ERROR |
www.gallaudet.___ | EDU |
___ stateswoman | ELDER |