The Washington Post Sunday - Sep 8 2019 Crossword Answer

The Washington Post Sunday - Sep 8 2019 Crossword Answer

Clues	Answers
Landform distinct from barrier or fringing reefs	ATOLL
Large amount	ALOT
Licorice flavoring	ANISE
Lift	HOIST
Like 'The Exorcist'	EERIE
Like gumdrops	CHEWY
Like some potatoes	RICED
Like some scales	MINOR
Main mode of travel?	SHIP
Maxwell who founded a department store	KOHL
Message at the end of a 'G.I. Joe' episode	PSA
More hoarse, as voices	RASPIER
Morticia, to Wednesday	MOM
Noble descendants	SCIONS
Notes with Hamilton	TENS
OB/GYN, e.g	DOC
Oft-misused pronoun	WHOM
Opéra Nouvel city	LYON
Pale from shock	ASHEN
Performs adequately	DOESOK
Pit with a bucket	WELL
Polk's middle name	KNOX
Polynesian language	MAORI
Polynesian Triangle isle	OAHU
Poseidon, e.g	SEAGOD
Possessive for a group	OURS
Pre-admission phrase	ITSME
Prepare, as spaghetti	BOIL
Pretty chilly	NIPPY
Qualifying athletic contests, briefly	PRELIMS
Raise with great effort	HEAVE
React to being walloped	REEL
Rear-washing fixture	BIDET
Relinquish officially	CEDE
Result of brainstorming	IDEA
Rock formation?	FIST
Rocker Slick's nickname when she insults people?	DISGRACE
Runs around a few blocks, say	JOGS
Sampras rival	AGASSI
Show anguish, in a way	SOB
Sites of rock concert hits?	DRUMS
Small amount	ATAD
Small unit of time?	SEC
Snobs put them on	AIRS
Somewhat slow, on a score	ANDANTE
Southwestern people	APACHE
Specialty of André 3000	RAP
Stand	ABIDE
Start of a Napoleonic palindrome	ABLE
Stat	ASAP
Stir up	RILE
Sultan Qaboos, e.g	OMANI
Surmounting	ATOP
Sweetened cooler, often	ICEDTEA
Sword master's case	SHEATH
Terminated	ENDED
Test for screening out bots	CAPTCHA
The Indian ruler Lakshmi Bai, e.g	RANI
They get high at the World Series of Poker	STAKES
They have many lines	PLAYS
Tide type	NEAP
Title role, often	LEAD
Tree with winged seeds	MAPLE
Triumphs over	BESTS
View again	RESEE
Wear down naturally	ERODE
What 100 may signify	APLUS
What Galileo observed in 1610	VENUS
Work with the king of Egypt	AIDA
___ Lankans	SRI
___ out (made uncomfortable)	CREEPED
___ rickey (drink)	LIME

Clues	Answers
'A roach!'	EEK
'Awesome,' to a 1980s skateboarder	RAD
'Juneteenth' author Ralph	ELLISON
'___ do this!'	LETS
'___ out!'	GET
2, for 1 and 1	SUM
2026 Winter Olympics co-host city	MILAN
38 Down's pole	MAST
Activation phrase for an iPhone user	HEYSIRI
Actor Danson's nickname when he has multiple heads?	HYDRATED
Actor McKellen's nickname when he gives a dazzling performance?	ELECTRICIAN
Actress Heard's nickname when she uses a stiffening agent at the laundromat?	STARCHAMBER
Actress Kendrick's nickname when she joins a musical group?	BANDANNA
Address bar address	URL
Analgesic since 1955	TYLENOL
As guilty as ___	SIN
Author Grafton's nickname when she worked as a clerk?	COUNTERSUE
Author Uris's nickname when he was in the 'Round and Round' rock group?	RATTLEON
Badminton barrier	NET
Bane of Bane	BATMAN
Be annoyingly sweet	CLOY
Big fennec fox features	EARS
Black ___ (rare gem)	OPAL
Blister look-alikes	WARTS
Bombshell basis, often	LEAK
Bow feature	KNOT
Bulletin board makeup	CORK
Buttress	BOLSTER
Causes to rise, in a way	LEAVENS
Change flats?	MOVE
China setting	ASIA
China setting	TABLE
Close to home	LOCAL
CNN anchor Lemon's nickname when he discusses no-longer-current events?	PASSEDON
Conclusion of a Napoleonic palindrome	ELBA
Conduits from ventricles	AORTAS
Conspiratorial faction	CABAL
Contralto Anderson's nickname when she used the metric system?	GRAMMARIAN
Coordinate plane line	AXIS
Country singer Adkins's nickname when he handles a large snake?	BOATRACE
Dance with a chair	HORA
DCA approximations	ETAS
Decides one will	OPTSTO
Deliver a keynote, e.g	ORATE
Delta force?	JETS
Direct	STEER
Disseminate	SOW
Doze, say	REST
Droplets by a waterfall	SPRAY
Emperor until 68 A.D	NERO
Emulate a furry pet	SHED
Faked out a la Gretzky	DEKED
Feathered friends	FOWL
Feels regret over	LAMENTS
First in line, perhaps	OLDEST
Flathead Lake state	MONTANA
Foot on a page	IAMB
From Nan or Narathiwat	THAI
Gets something for nothing	MOOCHES
Give off, as heat	RADIATE
Guitarist Paul's nickname when he wouldn't stop playing?	CHRONICLES
Harvard Law memoir	ONEL
Have a getaway before a honeymoon	ELOPE
HBO watcher, usually	ADULT
Herbivore with horns	RAM
Hit from 'Flashdance'	MANIAC
Indicate	DENOTE
International settlement	PACT
It's twisted to open	KNOB
Jazz singer Fitzgerald's nickname when she ate lox?	SALMONELLA
Jazzy Anita	ODAY
Kept a sustained pitch	DRONED