The Washington Post - Dec 18 2016

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Clues Answers
'It may come ___ surprise ...' ASNO
'Lady and the Tramp' cat breed SIAMESE
1946 Literature Nobelist HESSE
Anthropoid APE
Bank employee GUARD
Bar or bakery order RYE
Bills featuring Hamilton TENS
Certified ATTESTEDTO
Chicken ___ POX
Children, in legalese ISSUE
Close NEAR
Concerning the ear OTIC
Conservative strongholds REDSTATES
Controversial 1922 novel ULYSSES
Delmonico, e.g STEAK
Dermatologist's concern MOLE
Disciple's query ISITI
Do some camber work ALIGN
Early outcast EVE
ERA and RBI, say STATS
Excessive interest rate charges USURIES
Fabled Himalayan creature YETI
Far northern American port NOMEALASKA
Following a military order RETREATING
Futures dealers? SEERS
Glacial soil deposit ESKER
God, in Italian DIO
Handle poorly ILLUSE
Hungarian name in showbiz GABOR
Israeli notable EBAN
LAX approximations ETAS
MacFarlane of 'Family Guy' SETH
Milk source SOY
Modern pictograph EMOJI
Montana mining center BUTTE
Morales of 'NYPD Blue' ESAI
Clues Answers
Most curve-laden SHAPELIEST
Non-Latino, maybe ANGLO
Object with multiple heads DRUMSET
One of the deadly sins LUST
Onetime VHS rival BETA
Paints delicately DABS
Perseus, to Zeus SON
Pops up ARISES
Printer powder TONER
Pundit's page OPED
Put on the shelf DEFER
Race start? ETHNO
Represent falsely FEIGN
Retro golf wear TAM
Savage BEAST
Schubert's '___ Maria' AVE
Ship's records LOGS
Showy annual ASTER
Simplicity EASE
Slangy negative IXNAY
Slow equine gait JOGTROT
Small African antelope ORIBI
Society newcomer, briefly DEB
Strait's 'All My ___ Live in Texas' EXS
Supply for a plastic surgeon BOTOX
The Steve Miller Band's 'Fly Like an ___' EAGLE
They might attract workers NECTARS
Those who worship ADORERS
Totally busted SHOT
Track action BET
Unlikely winner DARKHORSE
Wing alternative THIGH
Wing tips, perhaps DRESSSHOES
With brevity TERSELY
Wows ASTONISHES
___ Reader (eclectic digest) UTNE