The Washington Post - Dec 22 2016

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Clues Answers
'Dire' places STRAITS
'Douglas' evergreen FIR
'Right now,' in the ER STAT
'Son of,' in Arabic names IBN
Academic degrees for which the candidates' hood color is dark blue (abbr.) PHDS
Airline that would never serve scampi ELAL
Answer to the question, 'Fritz, does 5 plus 4 equal 8?'? NEIN
Assessed, as a tax LEVIED
Balto's destination in the 1925 Great Race of Mercy NOME
Beat in an auction OUTBID
Bibliographer's 'and other folks' ETAL
Big oxes OAFS
Bounce like a bunny HOP
Brand of grape pop NEHI
Calendar squares DAYS
Canterbury can LOO
Catcalls JEERS
Commit Fido-filching upon DOGNAP
Communicate manually SIGN
Concede ADMIT
Consume INGEST
Cunning SLY
Cutter's kin SLOOP
Director Lee ANG
Drench SOAK
Drop ___ (moon someone) TROU
Dwell LIVE
Enhanced radiation weapon, for short NBOMB
Eponym of an alternative anthology magazine UTNE
FBI operatives AGTS
Fortune's partner FAME
Frenziedly AMOK
Goat that makes offers the others can't refuse? MAAFIABOSS
Harsh reality of a horse's life? NEIGHKEDTRUTH
How someone who jumps bail might be tried INABSENTIA
Huge, to a poet ENORM
Land and buildings thereon PREMISES
Landlocked African nation whose capital is Lilongwe MALAWI
Clues Answers
Largest organ, anatomically SKIN
Leaning on one's shovel, perhaps IDLE
Leaves out OMITS
Like an uncommon Latin bird? RARA
Like some pickings SLIM
Lose vitality FADE
Lunch counter alternative to American SWISS
Maximally, in a way TOTHETEETH
Method a cow uses to relocate from pasture to pasture? MOOVINGVAN
Modeler's wood BALSA
Moon goddess LUNA
Musical key with five sharps (abbr.) BMAJ
Musical Mr. Dogg SNOOP
Nobel Prize-winning astrophysicist George who cameoed on 'The Big Bang Theory' SMOOT
Not barefoot SHOD
Odafin Tutuola's portrayer on 'Law & Order: SVU' ICET
Opportunist that takes advantage of the other sheep? BAATTOMFEEDER
Pop SODA
Put down DEBASE
Queen Elizabeth II's only daughter ANNE
Roman wrap TOGA
Rosebud, for one SLED
Seeming eternity AEON
Shaq's sneakers, widthwise EEES
Sitar relative LUTE
Small thrill KICK
Spring in one's step PEP
Tangles up ENMESHES
Ten or higher, in bridge HONOR
Texter's bosom buddy BFF
Tittles DOTS
Totally nuts BONKERS
Upon ATOP
USS Enterprise helmsman played by George Takei SULU
Veggie from Vidalia ONION
What many service providers work for TIPS
With 'out,' attain with difficulty EKE
Witness's oath IDO