The Washington Post - Dec 30 2016

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Clues Answers
'Alas and alack!' WOEISME
'Hud' costar Patricia NEAL
'Slammin' Sammy' of golf SNEAD
'The Crimson Tide' BAMA
1950-2016 Dodger announcer Scully VIN
Aberdeen negative NAE
Alligator shirt brand IZOD
Assayed TRIED
Barrel component STAVE
Batters' cold streaks SLUMPS
Bela's 'Son of Frankenstein' role YGOR
BIG ___ (NCAA conference) EAST
Britannica's range ATOZ
Buoyed up ELATED
Christens DUBS
Cocktail crustacean SHRIMP
Compassion EMPATHY
Cranberry-growing site BOG
Designer of the JFK Library PEI
Digs of twigs NEST
Disaster film director Allen IRWIN
Empty words of support LIPSERVICE
Far from sophisticates HICKS
Female friend, in Lyon AMIE
First shot at a corp.'s stock IPO
Foundation for something BASIS
French 'thank you' MERCI
Gofer on the Hill SENATEPAGE
Greets casually SAYSHI
Hagen of the stage UTA
Hebrew letter ALEPH
In ___ (incubating) UTERO
Indian boy of film SABU
Indian mentor GURU
Israeli-invented gun UZI
Jack's fairy-tale foe GIANT
Largest city in Africa CAIRO
Left the coop? FLEW
Letter between rho and tau SIGMA
Clues Answers
Long-eared critter HARE
Lugubrious SAD
Made-up monicker ALIAS
Maker of the Rodeo and Trooper ISUZU
Memorable WWII gesture VSIGN
Nostradamus, e.g SEER
Old-time horror villain VINCENTPRICE
Orbiting outpost SPACESTATION
Pension law acronym ERISA
Philatelist's concern STAMP
Post-peseta currency EURO
Present, for one TENSE
Problem on the turnpike FLAT
Qatari bigwig EMIR
Radical '60s org SDS
Rap artist's entourage POSSE
Rather risky DICEY
Rocky outcrop CRAG
Secondary field of study MINOR
Shoot the breeze GAS
Silly in a bearable way DIPPY
Small battery AAA
Some skirts MINIS
Special event rental LIMO
Squirreled away HID
Supplied medicine to DOSED
Sweet or split PEA
Swine sounds OINKS
Take a ___ to (fancy) SHINE
Tan who wrote 'The Joy Luck Club' AMY
Test choice, sometimes TRUE
That is, for Ovid IDEST
The Citadel rival, briefly VMI
They were once bummed a lot, but now not so much CIGS
Tight end Gronkowski ROB
Tony or Hugo AWARD
Venomous snakes ADDERS
Walk falteringly LIMP
Whole ENTIRE