The Washington Post Sunday - Feb 24 2019

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Clues Answers
'America' contraction TIS
'Ella Enchanted' beast OGRE
'Follow these steps' DOASIDO
'Hyperion' author Simmons DAN
'I want to hear more!' ENCORE
'Including ...?' SUCHAS
'Inglourious Basterds' antagonist Hans LANDA
'My Best Friend's Wedding' actor Rupert EVERETT
'New phone, who ___?' (insult used on social media when pretending not to know someone) DIS
'Rumors' playwright SIMON
'Seduction of the Minotaur' author Nin ANAIS
'Sugar' singer Jones ETTA
'The Great British Baking Show' judge Prue ___ LEITH
'Winter' singer Amos TORI
- RANGE
- NOT
- CON
- WAGER
- EVER
- ZING
- TOLL
- TONE
1950s song refrain featured in a dinner scene in 'Beetlejuice' DAYO
1996 De Niro-Snipes film about a homicidal Giants supporter THEFAN
Affirmative declaration IAM
Allegorical fall setting EDEN
Approach GONEAR
Aquarium gastropod SNAIL
At all WHAT
Back, as in a race ENDORSE
Barley wine, e.g ALE
Bedevil VEX
Ben and Jerry, e.g NAMES
Besides that ELSE
Buenavista buds AMIGOS
Burj Khalifa topper SPIRE
Business card abbr EXT
Bye, in Birmingham TATA
Cajole COAX
Camp accessories BOAS
Cates of 'Gremlins' PHOEBE
Comedian Minhaj who hosts the Netflix show 'Patriot Act' HASAN
Consider DEEM
Cuttlefish's organ INKSAC
Declares confidently AVERS
Deity referenced in a Veda, and an anagram of a word in this clue DEVA
Dinner tubes NOODLES
Dr. treating pharyngitis ENT
Dramatic expression of reluctance IDA
Drawing game? LOTTO
Edible sprout source ALFALFA
Electrical connections LEADS
EP A SIDEONE
Exhibited joy, maybe CRIED
Famke Janssen's 'Nip/Tuck' character AVA
Father's exhortation REPENT
Fixed, as a seam RESEWED
Fogell's amorous-sounding alias in 'Superbad' MCLOVIN
Form of chrysoberyl that may remind you of a feline body part CATSEYE
Former boy band singer who hosted 'The Singing Bee' JOEY
Formerly NEE
Fortas who resigned from the Supreme Court in 1969 ABE
Future funds, briefly IRAS
Game designer Meier SID
Game tester's work experience, ideally FUN
Georg with 31 Grammys SOLTI
Giant in a major league clubhouse, maybe? EGO
Grp. authorised to fly RAF
Had interest CARED
Hair holder SNOOD
Hardest to get RAREST
Harsh avian noise CAW
He eschewed the fat SPRAT
In the heart of AMID
Clues Answers
Inclinations BENTS
Initials before Tolkien JRR
It may begin with a semicolon EMO
It's on the syllabus EXAM
Jane who taught Adèle EYRE
Kansai University locale OSAKA
Lao Tzu's 'way,' or a cereal grass backward TAO
Large container of water designed for observing swells on the water's surface WAVETANK
Liable APT
Like a 65 Down HINDU
Like many Berg or Schoenberg pieces ATONAL
Like some organs INTERNAL
Like stale jokes OVERDONE
Like the Hijri calendar ISLAMIC
Line blocking passage CORDON
Lock's place SCALP
Lock's place DOOR
Lode-bearing places MINES
Long line, of a sort DYNASTY
Lynx gripper CLAW
Magic star until 1996, familiarly SHAQ
Make Money, say PRINT
Making the most of MAXI
Miriam of 'Hedwig and the Angry Inch' SHOR
Most secure, as seals TIGHTEST
Nasty types MEANIES
Nestlé chocolate bar AERO
Nudge PROD
Old weapon loader RAMROD
One in a 'pocket rockets' pair ACE
One making big bucks playing big Bucks, say NBACOACH
One of seven vowels ETA
Originates (from) ARISES
Pen fare SLOP
Pertaining to the Kabbalah JUDAIC
Phenomenal STELLAR
Place not far from Tennessee Avenue STJAMES
Plutocracy supporters ELITISTS
Potato skin shape, often OVAL
Princess of Monaco CHARLENE
Private support grp.? USO
Program listing CAST
Promotes to the majors CALLSUP
Retail calculation NETSALES
Ring-shaped structure formed over millions of years CORA
Royal widow QUEEN
Safe spaces? BANKS
Scale unit raised eight times in this puzzle NOTE
Shmi Skywalker's son, familiarly ANI
Sketch comedy group's intro? MONTY
SNL alum Horatio SANZ
Sonnet sections SESTETS
Squelch STIFLE
Stead LIEU
Storage units SHEDS
Tegan's twin sister and band partner SARA
Term for oil in a 1960s sitcom's theme song TEXASTEA
They've got the goods MARKETS
Tollbooth feature GATE
Tricksy one IMP
Tuned in, daddy-o HEP
Unimaginative film revivals, in slang RETREADS
Village ___ ELDER
Voided service LET
Went line by line? TRACED
What often goes up in a big city RENT
What you would expect NORM
What you wouldn't expect ANOMALY
Wheel of Fortune's deck TAROT
Whiskey sour garnish SLICE
Words of thanks ODE
___ crackers SODA
___ out a win EKES
___ point HIGH