The Washington Post Sunday - May 9 2021

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Clues Answers
'Animal House' wrap TOGA
'Black' day in Nov FRI
'Certainly!' YESIDO
'GoldenEye' villain Trevelyan ALEC
'Humble' residences ABODES
'I want to know more' GOON
'I wish to tune my quivering ___ / To deeds of fame and notes of fire': Byron LYRE
'It's their ___' LOSS
'Let's go somewhere ___' ELSE
'Mayor' author Ed KOCH
'Rush' director Howard RON
'Schitt's Creek' actor Reid NOAH
'The Last Battle' author CSLEWIS
'The Price Is Right' game requiring disks PLINKO
'Thumbs-up' IAPPROVE
'Touch' singer ___ Mia PIA
'Whoa, ___!' (singer Furtado's debut album) NELLY
'Whose side ___ you on?' ARE
'Willow' actor Kilmer VAL
*Cardinals game ANGRYBIRDS
*Evoking guffaws rather than raised eyebrows HAHAFUNNY
*Quality that really excites people WOWFACTOR
*The plush teddy Good Luck, e.g CAREBEAR
*To an extreme degree LIKECRAZY
*Tragic accounts SADSTORIES
*Translation of 'pomme d'amour,' the old French term for a tomato LOVEAPPLE
1930s and '40s POTUS FDR
Alan of 'Jenny' ALDA
Alternatives to PCs MACS
Animals that people are transformed into in 'The Witches' by Roald Dahl MICE
Assuming TAKINGON
At all EVER
Bart, to Lisa, e.g SIB
Be totally responsible? ADD
Becoming strong again RESURGENT
Betray amazement GASP
Blue ___ Carter, Grammy winner at age 9 IVY
Breads with a bread-related homophone RYES
Bull's-eye position CENTER
Cage of film, familiarly NIC
Calculation affected by calc GPA
CBS News journalist Brennan MARGARET
CDC message, e.g PSA
Chaotic ___ (certain moral alignment in D&D) EVIL
Charging weapons LANCES
Chest sought by Indiana ARK
Clip in a salon SNIP
Coarse filing tool RASP
Cocktail relatives of the Buck's Fizz (but with less champagne) MIMOSAS
Colt's headgear BRIDLE
Converts to leather TANS
Cook Political Report national editor ___ Walter AMY
Cornfield creature CROW
Corrosive oven cleaner LYE
Covering a big range WIDE
Cow's or sheep's organ UDDER
Crooked senator's gifts BRIBES
Cultural values ETHOS
Days long past YORE
Deckers Brands boots UGGS
Dedicated AVID
Deliberately ignored SNUBBED
Does cascading ochos on the dance floor, say SALSAS
Drinks from casks ALES
Enormous quantity TON
ESPN.com basketball writer MacMahon TIM
ET from Melmac ALF
Explanation that may lead to exoneration ALIBI
Expression of grief LAMENT
Faithful denomination SECT
Financial ___ AID
Fine-tunes HONES
Floating up above ALOFT
Format for the 1993 game 'Return to Zork' CDROM
Give a heartfelt hug to EMBRACE
Giving people a B when you should be giving them an A, say OFFKEY
GPS abbr AVE
Grand ___ Opry OLE
Clues Answers
Grass-cutting tool EDGER
Guy in a relationship BEAU
Had, as haddock ATE
Heart TICKER
Hero of the Machine War in a sci-fi franchise NEO
Hurrying word akin to '¡Arriba!' ANDALE
In the vicinity AROUND
Indy racing great Al UNSER
Instrument similar to a shehnai OBOE
Ironworks delivery ORE
Jazz enthusiast, e.g NBAFAN
Journalist Audie Cornish's station NPR
Kelly on morning TV RIPA
Largely depleted sea ARAL
Laugh heartily HOWL
Learn about HEAROF
Liquor-serving space on a train BARCAR
Lizard that can't blink GECKO
Locale of every other Ryder Cup competition EUROPE
Long and slender fish GAR
Man found in Ontario? ARI
MD dept ICU
Menacing scowl DIRTYLOOK
Messy room, figuratively STY
Metropolis in Peru LIMA
Music of Jamaican origin SKA
Not currently at work OUT
Note next to C DFLAT
Observe, as a holiday CELEBRATE
On the double ATONCE
One in the Democratic Union Party in Syria KURD
Ones challenging Victorian gender roles during the 1920s FLAPPERS
Parked it SATDOWN
Part of the water cycle RAIN
Pearl Mosque city AGRA
Pirate seen at Disney theme parks SMEE
Place a call, in a way DIAL
Pleasure boat site MARINA
Proceeds laboriously PLODS
Pub in Chicago? TRIB
Quick and to the point BRIEF
Recognition of Washington's or Adams's greatness? OSCARNOD
Reduced to grain-size pieces, in the kitchen RICED
Royal flush component KING
Sandbank SHOAL
Set apart from others ISOLATE
Silk Road desert GOBI
Site where one's comments can generate reactions FACEBOOK
Smuggling unit KILO
Some winery options REDS
Something boosted by praise or a prize EGO
Specialties AREAS
Spill, as secrets BLAB
Starts to replace letters ERASES
Sunken treasure site OCEAN
Superlatively ancient OLDASTIME
Swanky event GALA
They get popped on planes EARS
Thin trace of smoke WISP
Third part of FYI INFO
Ticket piece STUB
Tippi who starred in the Hitchcock film 'Marnie' HEDREN
Trap at a ski lodge, say SNOWIN
Trivial inventions FIBS
Tubes in Italian cuisine ZITI
Used intelligence? SPIED
Value of x that satisfies the equation (sqrt(x))^x = x TWO
Volunteer's statement ICAN
Wags a finger at SCOLDS
Wait while in a loading zone, say STAND
Wedding cake layer TIER
Word before north, south, east or west DUE
Work detail, for short SPEC
Young chap LAD
___ for tat (retaliation) TIT
___ Vice President (title beginning in 2021) MADAM
___-Missouria (Native Oklahomans) OTOE