The Washington Post Sunday - Mar 11 2018 Crossword Answer

The Washington Post Sunday - Mar 11 2018 Crossword Answer

Clues	Answers
General areas?	WARZONES
Gere title role of 2000	DRT
Gluck's title character who sings 'Che farò senza Euridice?'	ORFEO
Graphic displaying OK	USMAP
Hair extension	WEAVE
Have a scuffle	GOATIT
Hieroglyphics symbol	ASP
Hit Bette Midler song that compares love to a river, a razor, a hunger and (most important) a flower	THEROSE
Honorific before Bear, Fox or Rabbit	BRER
Hoodwinks	DUPES
Horror film weapon	CHAINSAW
Hound	NAG
In the thick of	AMIDST
Incited	ROUSED
Infomercial phrase	ONSALENOW
It's mentioned 12 times in a Christmas carol	PEARTREE
Lacking expressiveness	MONOTONE
Light Cordoba courses	TAPAS
Like 8675309, say	PRIME
Like Ant-Man, at times	TINY
Like some short ribs	BRAISED
Make precious	ENDEAR
Make pretty	ADORN
Making like	APING
Miner character of a 1937 film	DOC
More likely to slack off	LAZIER
Most prolix	WORDIEST
Nasty	SNIDE
Night rider of fiction	HEADLESSHORSEMAN
No. 1 hit whose lyric 'This'll be the day that I die' was turned into 'Soon I'm gonna be a Jedi' by Weird Al	AMERICANPIE
Nominee lists	SLATES
Not on time for	LATETO
Note below an F, maybe	SEEME
Offers	BRINGSTO
One of an old TV couple	DESI
Oxen, to each other	YOKEMATES
Pacific yellowfin tuna	AHI
Party refreshment	SODA
Period of one's youth	TENDERAGE
Person cured in the Book of Matthew	LEPER
Phone camera option	FLASH
Pop quintet singer with a fashionable nickname	POSHSPICE
Quick trip	HOP
Removed, as a coat	SHED
Represent, in a way	PORTRAY
Requiem, e.g	MASS
Rock bottom	NADIR
Rutherford or Hayes, e.g	BESTSUPPORTINGACTRESS
Seized, as territory	ANNEXED
Short spot before a longer spot	TEASERAD
Sinister sign, perhaps	OMEN
Sirius Black, after his time in Azkaban	ESCAPEE
Small brawl	SCRAP
Sound of an object falling into a sound	PLOP
St. Peter's masterpiece	PIETA
Stage backdrops	SCRIMS
Take pains?	ACHE
Term for a person with 'hyperempathy,' in Octavia E. Butler books	SHARER
Thorough medical examination	WORKUP
Tony-winning musical whose main characters are named Guy and Girl	ONCE
Top choice, in slang	FAVE
Truck capacity units	TONS
Walmart rival	TARGET
WHO member?	HEALTH
Zeal	ARDOR
___ name	PEN

Clues	Answers
'Forgot About ___' (2000 rap hit)	DRE
'Golden' shape in mathematics	SPIRAL
'Hot' fad of the 1970s	PANTS
'Law & Order' spinoff, for short	SVU
'Ludovisi ___' (sculpture of Mars)	ARES
'My Way' lyricist	ANKA
'Oh, is that so?'	AMI
'Quick, in the closet!'	HIDE
'Someone I know wants to know (and that someone is me)'	ASKINGFORAFRIEND
'That's wrong'	NOPE
'The Family Reunion' playwright	ELIOT
'Yankee Doodle Dandy' Oscar winner James	CAGNEY
'___ let the beetle, ___ the death-moth be / Your mournful Psyche': Keats	NOR
10 Down's 10 Down, say	LOGO
1974 CIA spoof	SPYS
Afternoon event platter	TEATRAY
Alternative to a Swiffer WetJet	SPONGEMOP
Animal who becomes a kung fu master in an animated film franchise	PANDA
Anticipate	AWAIT
Apt nickname of Sam Rothstein in 'Casino'	ACE
Area at the bottom of a certain window	STATUSBAR
Band chasing bandits	POSSE
Being created from light, in Islamic faith	ANGEL
Big growth for Marx	BEARD
Bouncy sound effect	BOING
Breadstick tidbits, at times	SESAMESEEDS
Business-supplies retailer involved in a 2013 merger	OFFICEMAX
Captured	TOOK
Carousel objects	BAGS
Ceremonial affirmation	IDO
Certain family VIPs	DONS
Chalcopyrite and others	ORES
Check instruction	ENDORSEHERE
Chef Ina who hosts 'Barefoot Contessa'	GARTEN
Combustible structures	PYRES
Comedic contemporary of Jean de La Fontaine	MOLIERE
Composition of Yosemite's Half Dome	GRANITE
Construction units	BEAMS
Control group?	BOARD
Counselor born in 2336	TROI
Critiques like a chef?	PANS
Cronies	PALS
Crooner Damone	VIC
Cross-country event, perhaps	SKIRACE
Cutting-edge	MODERN
Declutter	NEATEN
Demond's co-star in a 1970s sitcom	REDD
Dentist's instruction	BITE
Depression used for drainage	DITCH
Director Lee	DANIELS
Display	EVINCE
Dissertation feature	RESEARCH
Documents listing the prices for printed pitches in a newspaper	RATECARDS
Draw forth	EVOKE
Eagles coach?	SCOUTLEADER
Eject with force	SPEW
Emerge	ARISE
Enterprise setting	SPACE
Equine noises	BRAYS
Essential ___ Energy (Optimum Nutrition dietary supplement)	AMINO
Exhaust emission	SMOKE
Eye spot?	FACE
Fire-___ (some sideshow performers)	EATERS
First athlete to be depicted on a Wheaties box (in 1934)	GEHRIG
Flippant	PERT
From Rishon LeZion, say	ISRAELI