The Washington Post - Jun 1 2021

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Clues Answers
'Booksmart' director Wilde OLIVIA
'Bottomless' brunch drinks MIMOSAS
'Sisters' star Ward SELA
'__ Blinded Me With Science': 1983 hit SHE
+ or - particles IONS
14-inch paper size LEGAL
Activist and tennis legend Arthur ASHE
Barn-raising sect AMISH
Batman villain who carries a double-headed coin TWOFACE
Big Aussie bird EMU
Big name in banking CITI
Big-screen format IMAX
Bit of ink TAT
Bit of staircase babyproofing GATE
Bordeaux, say WINE
Breathtaking regimen? AEROBICEXERCISE
Cannes subject CINE
Cares for, as a garden TENDS
Explorer SEEKER
Flat contract LEASE
Former name of Denver's Ball Arena PEPSICENTER
Foxy SLY
Get a delicate dialogue started ... and a hint to 17-, 25-, 34- and 49-Across BREAKTHEICE
Goes into low-power mode SLEEPS
Hightail it BOLT
Horror movie helper IGOR
Italian dumplings GNOCCHI
JFK posting ETD
Jogging wear SWEATS
Key in the water ISLE
LeBron until 2010, for short CAV
Like some decorative glass STAINED
Loads HEAPS
Longoria of 'Desperate Housewives' EVA
Loud comics sound BAM
Machine Gun Kelly or Pretty Boy Floyd PUBLICENEMY
Manitoba tribe CREE
Mature AGE
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Melt THAW
Missy Elliott genre RAP
Musician's asset EAR
Object from a much earlier time RELIC
One with a code name SPY
Pests whose name means 'fly' in a Bantu language TSETSES
Private __ EYE
Put away EAT
Qatari leader EMIR
Quell ALLAY
R&B great James ETTA
R&B's Boyz II __ MEN
Renter TENANT
Run after CHASE
Sandwich letters BLT
See 24-Down ENDERS
Slip slowly through the cracks SEEP
Slipped up ERRED
Soothing balm SALVE
Soothing cuppa HOTTEA
Spud TATER
State-of-the-art NEWEST
Stephen of 'V for Vendetta' REA
Strand at the airport, say FOGIN
Suckling spot TEAT
Top dogs ALPHAS
Transgression SIN
Triumphed WON
Tweets CHIRPS
Under the weather ILL
Underwater shocker ELECTRICEEL
Very few NOTALOT
Whirlpool EDDY
Wild guesses STABS
Wildly excited MANIC
With 13-Down, collisions from behind REAR
Women's __ LIB
Worked the soil HOED