The Washington Post - Nov 27 2015

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Clues Answers
'Girls' creator Dunham LENA
'The Silver State' (abbr.) NEV
2004 movie set in California's wine country SIDEWAYS
Adam and Eve on a ___ (poached eggs on toast, in dinerspeak) RAFT
Amazes, in a good way AWES
Annoying little biter NOSEEUM
Au courant UPTOTHEMINUTE
Befuddlement DAZE
Big name in peanut butter cups REESE
Bugle melody to signal day's end TAPS
Bygone anesthetic ETHER
Byproduct of deception, according to Sir Walter Scott TANGLEDWEB
Classic fairy tale bad guy OGRE
Clementine or kumquat CITRUS
Cobblers' tools AWLS
Contents of the chilliest supermarket aisle, usually FROZENFOOD
Coup d'___ ETAT
Danger PERIL
Dealer's device SHOE
Destitute ones PAUPERS
Dieter's salad dressing specification, perhaps NOOIL
Discreet auction bid NOD
Dystopian Huxley novel with a title from Shakespeare's 'The Tempest' BRAVENEWWORLD
Evening event SOIREE
Federal narcs' org DEA
Formerly, formerly ERST
Goalie's structure CAGE
Graven image IDOL
Heed OBEY
In progress AFOOT
In the past AGO
Israeli weaponry UZIS
It enables one to focus LENS
It's cracked by a cryptographer CODE
It's not enough, per Jacqueline Susann ONCE
Judgmental sound TSK
Kerfuffle ADO
Lead-in to plant or hitter POWER
Clues Answers
Levels TIERS
Linguist's concern USAGE
Mamie's predecessor in the White House BESS
Modify AMEND
Musician Scaggs BOZ
Natural do AFRO
Newbie cop's mentor, in police slang RABBI
One-fifth of a fin SINGLE
Parcel out ALLOT
Park with great care, perhaps EASEIN
Permission LEAVE
Pert SASSY
Pitiful PATHETIC
Plenty ALOT
Political gp. headquartered in Ramallah PLO
Pouffe's relative TUFFET
Prompt's prompt CUE
Red ink DEBT
Refer to as authority CITE
Repeat ITERATE
Richard who bared it all in 'American Gigolo' GERE
Ropes, as a dogie LASSOS
Rug rat TOT
Seemingly bottomless pit ABYSS
Snakelike fishes EELS
Some national laureates POETS
Sums TOTALS
Unattractive-sounding hybrid fruit UGLI
Utters SAYS
Wall St. acquisition LBO
Wander about ROVE
Wardrobe staple in many a period piece CORSET
Wee swallow NIP
Westley's portrayer in 'The Princess Bride' CARYELWES
What a ball represents in a ball-and-stick molecular model ATOM
Worker whose stock-in-trade is spit and polish BOOTBLACK
Zebra seen on fields, for short REF
Zero, to Manchester United NIL