The Washington Post - May 5 2019

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Clues Answers
'Almost Like Being in Love' composer Frederick LOEWE
'Sorry, lad' NAE
'The Purloined Letter' writer POE
1993 Aerosmith hit that begins 'There was a time / When I was so broken-hearted' CRYIN
About, on memos INRE
Addis Ababa's land: Abbr ETH
Adorn ORNAMENT
Allow LET
Animated image of Santa repeatedly going down the chimney? CHRISTMASGIF
Annoy constantly NAGAT
Basic banking rule? DONTFORGE
Beach volleyball team PAIR
Bearlike marsupial KOALA
Bee team SWARM
Blow up ENLARGE
BP, pulse, etc VITALS
Burdens ONUSES
Buttonholes, e.g SLITS
Campaign nastiness SMEARS
Cashew family shrubs SUMACS
Cato the Elder or Cato the Younger SENATOR
Causes of traffic jams ... or ways to avoid them DETOURS
Civil War fighters REBS
Coll. units DEPTS
Company named for a volcano AETNA
Cop's case-breaking tip, perhaps HOTLEAD
Counseled ADVISED
Country sound TWANG
Courage VALOR
Crew member TAR
Cruller coating GLAZE
Cut of meat LOIN
Dutch city, with 'The' HAGUE
Emperor adopted by Claudius NERO
Eve's first home EDEN
Extract with a solvent ELUTE
Faith RELIGION
Fall behind LAG
Fare-well link THEE
Fast Northeast train ACELA
First catch the fly, then eat the fly? SPIDERPLAN
Friendly dog's offering PAW
Fruity neckwear? BANANABOA
Future attys.' exams LSATS
Garage service LUBE
Goes downhill WORSENS
Goes off ERRS
Greater MORE
Happen at the same time COINCIDE
Happening right now LIVE
Hard work SWEAT
Heart test letters EKG
Hereditary INNATE
How Sitka, Alaska, ranks as the largest U.S. city INAREA
How some things are set INSTONE
Hunger remedy wrongly attributed to Marie Antoinette CAKE
Immerse (in), as maple syrup DROWN
Improve upon OUTDO
Incite PROVOKE
Indication of growing impatience? SECONDSIGH
Inspiring acts? BREATHS
Iridescent gems OPALS
Is indebted to OWES
Japanese pond fish KOI
Japanese tech company NEC
Kitchen convenience TIMER
Like Bach's French Suite No. 6 INE
Lion's warning ROAR
Lost Colony's island ROANOKE
Lyft competitor UBER
Clues Answers
Maker of Aspire laptops ACER
MD workplaces ORS
Meaningless INANE
Means AVENUE
Mortise joiner TENON
Muffin grain OAT
Mythical elephant carrier ROC
North end? ERN
Numb DEADEN
Numerical suffix for 'about' ISH
Owie spot, maybe TOOTSIE
Painting on wet plaster FRESCO
Paul Anka's '__ Beso' ESO
PC-to-PC system LAN
Pet reindeer in 'Frozen' SVEN
Plague SCOURGE
Playwright Chekhov ANTON
Plod TRUDGE
Poor grade DEE
Popular school cafeteria item TATERTOT
Principle TENET
Reach ARRIVEAT
Really bad AWFUL
Recipe meas TBSP
Renter's rental SUBLEASE
Repetitive sound ECHO
Robert who sang the role of Figaro 46 times at the Met MERRILL
Rock at the bar? ICECUBE
Rural skyline standouts SILOS
Sam or Wiggily UNCLE
Set as a price ASK
Sets a match to IGNITES
Severe distress SORROW
Sharpening tool STROP
Ship protected by Hera ARGO
Skin pigment MELANIN
Small-time British crook SPIV
Smaller LESS
Social newcomer who won't go away? LONGTERMDEB
Socially challenged one, often NERD
Sparkling rock GEODE
Subjecting to a basic haunting strategy? GIVINGTHEBOO
Super-impressed AWED
Superfan NUT
Supposes ASSUMES
Tenor's moment ARIA
The 'there' in 'Don't go there' SORESPOT
They're often smashed SOTS
Tiny shape-shifters AMOEBAE
Togo neighbor BENIN
Treaty PACT
Trojan War god ARES
Tuscany city SIENA
Ukulele wood KOA
Unexpected story ending TWIST
USCG officer ENS
Usually well-compensated leader CEO
Valentine card hugs OOO
Votes at a beer convention? BREWERSYEAS
Wedding party BRIDE
Weep SOB
White-plumed wader EGRET
Windshield sticker DECAL
Woman's name that means 'pleasure' in Hebrew EDNA
Words before a view ASISEEIT
Writers PENS
__ Cup WORLD
__ even footing ONAN
__ network NEURAL
__-Nehemiah: Hebrew Bible book EZRA