The Washington Post Sunday - Jan 23 2022

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Clues Answers
'AC360' broadcaster CNN
'Black on Both Sides: A ___ History of Trans Identity' (2017 book by C. Riley Snorton) RACIAL
'Concrete Cowboy' actor Idris ELBA
'Finding Nemo' giant WHALE
'Horrible Bosses' director ___ Gordon SETH
'I'm downstairs,' to a friend living in a high-rise apartment ITSME
'Keep your balance!' STEADY
'The most astonishing activity of mankind born out of struggle between wisdom and madness,' per Magdalena Abakanowicz ART
'Up Late' singer Lennox ARI
'___ Land' (2010 film about a vampire hunter) STAKE
'___ looking at you, kid' HEROES
2024 Summer Games city PARIS
Aardwolves' kin HYENAS
Annoyance for Elmer, aptly BUGS
Apple ___ CIDER
Appointed leader? SELF
Approached rapidly RANAT
Artificial radioactivity co-discoverer Joliot-Curie IRENE
Awards show sounds CLAPS
Be down in competition TRAIL
Believing, so to speak BUOYING
Below zero (Hint: The complete answer is an alternate title for this puzzle suggesting a letter that can fit in 10 squares, but has been dropped each time) ONEGATIVE
Black-and-white photoengraving LINECUT
Blended brews, maybe TEAS
Bocas del Toro nation PANAMA
Brought under control TAMED
Cartoon chihuahua RENO
Cause delays, maybe HINDER
Causes of irritation PEEVES
Co. leader's deg., often MBA
Cousin of the Rachel sandwich REUBEN
Credibility, as for an argument HEFT
Deposits, as to an account PAYSIN
Developed choppers TEETHED
Developer's creation APOP
Diamond experts? SKIERS
Dick inducted into the Basketball Hall of Fame in 2008 VITALE
Disc mower maker DEERE
Discern visually SEE
Distracting noise ODIN
Do some pickpocketing THIEVE
Educational basics ABCS
Emmy winner Shore DINAH
Emulate a kangaroo rat LEAP
Ethics class concept EVIL
Event for everyone BIRTH
Expressionist Nolde EMIL
Extraordinary success EPICWIN
Fanning on a film set ELLE
Fired off, as a text SENT
Flight of the Conchords comedian McKenzie BRET
Fronded green specimen FERN
Game with a blitz variety CHESS
Get things in order TIDYUP
Grasslike growth SEDGE
Green field? FINANCE
Group of cells with similar structure and function TISSUE
Harold who played Egon in 'Ghostbusters' RAMIS
Harpsichord family instruments SPINETS
High point of real estate? ATTIC
Highly urgent DIRE
Honey-colored resin AMBER
Improv comedy tenet YESAND
Indiana director? STEVEN
Interlace ENTWINE
Invent a 62 Across, say LIE
Items stuck in cakes CANOODLES
Joining LIONKING
Jorts makeup DENIM
Key that often has a left-facing arrow ENTER
Knowing what's going on AWARE
Lake by Lorain, Ohio ERIE
Clues Answers
Language family for Sotho and Swazi speakers BANTU
Late actress, animal welfare advocate and self-described 'avid crossword puzzle addict' White BETTY
Light source traditionally given to a first-year student at Bryn Mawr College LANTERN
Like a pangolin's skin SCALY
Like an expert ADEPT
Like many fitness trainers INSHAPE
Like some shots at 19th-century saloons? SEPIA
Liturgical book MISSAL
Low euchre cards TENS
Maker of LCD projectors RCA
Maki or uramaki dish SUSHI
Mare : filly :: ___ : pullet HEN
Marine formation REEF
Marsh plants with an animal in their name COATTAILS
Masked athlete's tool EPEE
Michael who played bass for the Bangles STEELE
Mimicking passerine bird MYNA
Minister's assistant BEADLE
Nautical charts SEAMAPS
Not in right now AWAY
Not in right now PASSE
Not uniform UNEVEN
Objectives AIMS
Obliterate ERASE
Observable truth FACT
Offshore platform RIG
One who might drop the ball KLUTZ
One-man show about Capote TROU
Org. opposing dealers ... or leading 'dealers'? DEA
Owner's record DEED
Pair in a Double Quarter Pounder PATOOTIES
Paleontologists' workplaces DIGSITES
Phil, to Will, on 'The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air' UNCLE
Polyhedron feature EDGE
Posting insulting messages online FLAMINGO
Procedure used in a search for one's genetic ancestors DONATESTO
Promising quality UPSIDE
Promo profession ADBIZ
Protective gear PADS
Reactions to a series of unfortunate events, say TIRADES
Resist DEFY
Ring out, like a bell PEAL
Roam, with 'about' GOAD
Sale signifier REDTAG
See 24 Down EAR
Slop(py) space STY
Soda bottle measurements LOITERS
Some pub drinks ALOES
Spot for a wet blanket DRYER
Standards of decorum MANNERS
Start of an encouraging phrase ATTA
Study manuals, say READ
Sweater ___ (knit garments) VESTS
Tabernacle table ALTAR
Tack on ADD
Taking down, in a forest FELLING
Target of many a fan's complaints REF
Tastes, as 3 Down SIPS
Tax Day sign ARIES
Tennessee NFL pro TITAN
Tibias' spots SHINS
Tight people PALS
Unbleached linen hue ECRU
Vigoda of 'North' ABE
Walking aids CANOES
What SPF 50 sunscreen blocks UVRAYS
What YouTube tracks VIEWS
Where an epilogue appears ATTHEEND
With 85 Down, liability for an a cappella singer TIN
[What's this?!] GASP
___ down (subsided) DIED
___ punch (devastating blow) GUT