The Washington Post - Dec 20 2015

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Clues Answers
'Buzz off!' SCRAM
'Ghosts' playwright IBSEN
'I don't buy it!' PSHAW
'The Crooked Stick' poet Wylie ELINOR
'___ la guerre!' CEST
Actress in the Sweeney Sisters sketches on 'SNL' NORADUNN
Angled ASLANT
Answer testily SNAPAT
Asian Turkey ANATOLIA
Attachable without needle and thread IRONON
Bargain-basement ELCHEAPO
Breeze noises WHISPERS
Carlisle Cullen's wife in the 'Twilight' series ESME
Centipede producer ATARI
Chicken COWARD
Coming-of-age story BILDUNGSROMAN
Diarist who was a bigamist NIN
Dirtbags SLEAZES
Disintegration of social norms ANOMIE
Doctor Dolittle patients ANIMALS
Edamame source SOYA
Ex ___ (from the beginning) NOVO
Exercise that involves pedaling? ETUDE
Fidgety RESTLESS
First TV series to achieve a #1 Nielsen rating for its pilot episode RHODA
Form-fitting pieces of lingerie BUSTIERS
Former Abbey Road Studios owner EMI
Fortnight's pair (abbr.) WKS
France's 1947 Nobelist in Literature GIDE
Heading on a lost-dog poster REWARD
Helen of Troy's mother LEDA
Homecoming guest, for short ALUM
Hoodwinks COZENS
Item in a guitar case PICK
Jon who broke a long Emmy losing streak in 2015 HAMM
Clues Answers
Lady Liberty's garb ROBE
Less filling, maybe LITE
Like some birthday parties THEMED
Loud like heavy surf AROAR
Love-at-first-sight number from Sondheim's 'Sweeney Todd' AHMISS
Many a character in 'The Canterbury Tales' PILGRIM
Newspaper columnist, e.g SCRIBE
Ones who are easily shocked PRUDES
Org. whose seal appears on Listerine bottles ADA
Parenthetical note from one who has added emphasis to a quotation ITALICSMINE
Paris institution where 'Whistler's Mother' is on view MUSEEDORSAY
Peer below a marquess EARL
Pledge VOW
Prior to A.D BCE
Propagate SOW
Put graffiti on TAG
Radar gun reading (abbr.) MPH
Rapscallion IMP
Risk burnout, maybe OVERDO
Rustic folks MAANDPA
Schnauzer created by Dashiell Hammett ASTA
Shakespearean father who calls ingratitude a 'marble-hearted fiend' LEAR
Some AOL exchanges IMS
Sometimes called, for short AKA
Stage in which you are close to getting a mate? ENDGAME
Stately processional dance PAVANE
Stretch dangerously thin, as a line of reasoning WIREDRAW
Sudden contraction SPASM
Take down a peg DEBASE
The NFL's Steely McBeam, e.g MASCOT
Tropical fruit with a segmented green rind SWEETSOP
Type of 'College Bowl' question TOSSUP
Underwater excavator DREDGE
Where 'Murder on the Orient Express' opens ISTANBUL
World capital in song titles by Cat Stevens and Bob Seger KATMANDU