The Washington Post - Oct 23 2017

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Clues Answers
'All My Children' vixen ERICA
'Cheers' actress Neuwirth BEBE
'Goodness gracious!' EGAD
'Rule, Britannia' composer ARNE
*A little bit at a time, to a mason BRICKBYBRICK
*Hit by *NSYNC about the end of a relationship BYEBYEBYE
*Iconic refrain from the Trammps' 1976 hit 'Disco Inferno' BURNBABYBURN
*Next step up after a crib, for some toddlers BIGBOYBED
1958 Pulitzer-winning author James AGEE
Australian runner EMU
Barely beats EDGES
Base on balls WALK
Began a typical triathlon SWAM
Biting ACERB
Chicago airport OHARE
Child star Temple SHIRLEY
Construction girder IBEAM
Consumer protection org., and a hint to the answers to starred clues BBB
Contractor's details SPECS
Cygnus' brightest star DENEB
Danger PERIL
Did a Cuban dance MAMBOED
Diplomatic office EMBASSY
Discipline with mats YOGA
Distinctive flair ELAN
Easygoing sort TYPEB
Egg layer HEN
Epitaph starter HERE
Eydie who sang with Steve Lawrence GORME
Eye part IRIS
Fathered, biblically BEGOT
Felonious flames ARSON
Football carriers: Abbr RBS
Founded: Abbr ESTAB
Funny stuff HUMOR
Got via hard work EARNED
Grecian vessel of verse URN
Heavy favorites SHOOINS
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Helpful connections INS
Huge LARGE
Japanese sash OBI
Jazzman's job GIG
Landscaper's planting SHRUB
Modern diary BLOG
Newsroom fixtures DESKS
Playground retort AMSO
Prefix with legal PARA
Puppet Howdy __ DOODY
Ready, willing and __ ABLE
Scads of MANY
Shabby homes HOVELS
Shapeless mass BLOB
Sheeplike OVINE
Shogun stronghold EDO
Six-inch putt, say, in golf lingo GIMME
Sleep clinic study APNEA
Sleep stage REM
Space Race destination MOON
Spilled the __: told all BEANS
Spirited horse ARAB
Stephen of 'The Crying Game' REA
Struts like a horse PRANCES
Subsided EBBED
Surprise police action RAID
Theater level LOGE
Those women, in Spain ELLAS
Tolkien tree creature ENT
Tripoli's country LIBYA
Trump predecessor OBAMA
TV chef Lagasse EMERIL
Use sandpaper on ABRADE
Went lickety-split SPED
What 'is yet to come,' in a Sinatra classic THEBEST
When repeated, a Samoan city PAGO
White with age HOARY
Without exception BARNONE