The Washington Post - Dec 2 2018 Crossword Answer

The Washington Post - Dec 2 2018 Crossword Answer

Clues	Answers
Lead in a movie, say	ROLE
Legally off base	ONLEAVE
Less risky	SAFER
Like many crosswords	THEMED
Longtime Eur. realm	HRE
Lost on purpose	TANKED
Lumps for Miss Muffet	CURDS
Make widely known	AIR
Menial work	MCJOB
Mercedes line	ECLASS
Minute	WEE
Musical handicap	NOEAR
Musical Mel	TORME
Musical muscle car	GTO
Name in a Tolstoy title	ANNA
NBA part	ASSN
Nickname for José	PEPE
Now	TODAY
Obliterate, in Oxford	RASE
Often painful crack	CHAP
Often tickled bone?	RIB
Old anesthetic	ETHER
Omar of 'In Too Deep'	EPPS
One may be dull	ACHE
Orange discard	PEEL
Out in the yacht	ASEA
Passed quickly, as time	FLEW
Picked up	HEARD
Pigeon calls	COOS
Pindar piece	ODE
Price enders, often	NINES
QB's stat	ATT
Rant	HARANGUE
Rescue squad initials	EMS
Run-of-the-mill	ORDINARY
Samples	TASTES
Sandwich shop order	ONRYE
Scalia's successor	GORSUCH
Second-tallest living bird	EMU
Selling point?	STORE
Shaft between wheels	AXLE
Shocked text letters	OMG
Shuts down	ENDS
Signs of garden neglect	WEEDS
Skin-related	DERMAL
Sorority letter	ETA
Stadium staples	FRANKS
Standard	NORM
Stands at lectures	PODIA
Start of an adage about humanity	TOERR
Subject of Huáscar	INCA
Symphonic disc	CYMBAL
Takes a breather	RESTS
Thesaurus wd	SYN
Touch	ABUT
Trek pack animal	LLAMA
Trivial	LITTLE
Trojan War god	ARES
TruTV show for board game enthusiasts?	REALITYCHECKERS
Vacation destination	BEACH
Vivacious	PERT
Volta's birthplace	ITALY
Weasel cousin	STOAT
Wedding chapel's main form of advertising?	HITCHINGPOSTERS
What the acrobatic landlady liked to do?	JUMPOVERBOARDERS
When a pro might practice at Augusta National?	BEFORETHEMASTERS
Where bills should be put after an audit?	BACKINTHEFOLDERS
Wile E. Coyote supplier	ACME
Words near an 'F,' maybe	SEEME
WWII prison camp	STALAG
Yon yacht	SHE
__ plume	NOMDE

Clues	Answers
'... but I could be wrong'	ORNOT
'Chain of Fools' name	ARETHA
'Exodus' protagonist	ARI
'Foucault's Pendulum' author	ECO
'Gotcha!'	IDIG
'Once __ a time ... '	UPON
'Slippery' trees	ELMS
'The Simpsons' retailer	APU
'The Situation Room' airer	CNN
'The wisdom of many and the wit of one': Russell	PROVERB
'Up' star	ASNER
'__ it!'	YOURE
2012 Ben Affleck film	ARGO
86-Across variety	PEKOE
Agave plant	YUCCA
Algonquian language	CREE
Antelope playmates	DEER
Astros catcher McCann	BRIAN
Attention	CARE
Avian mimic	MYNA
Baited insect collector	ANTTRAP
Basilica recess	APSE
Beans or greens	SIDE
Bigelow product	TEA
Bite playfully	NIP
Bonnie Blue's dad	RHETT
Buds, possibly	BEERS
Cabinet department	ENERGY
Caroline Islands components	ATOLLS
Casino game requirement, often	ANTE
Category	GENRE
Celestial ovine	ARIES
China's Zhou __	ENLAI
City from which Vasco da Gama sailed	LISBON
Climbed	ROSE
Colorist's supply	DYES
Comedy __	ACT
Consider carefully, with 'over'	CHEW
Cut with a small knife	PARE
Departed	GONE
Diagonal sail extender	SPRIT
Doctor's order	XRAY
Doing nothing	IDLE
Don't hold your breath	EXHALE
Dread	FEAR
Driver's license info	GENDER
Drops	OMITS
Eastwood's 'Bronco Billy' co-star Sondra	LOCKE
Eerie fliers	UFOS
Electric wheels	TESLA
Enhancing word	VERY
Fictional hunter in a floppy hat	ELMER
Fictional plantation	TARA
Formal split	DIVORCE
Former LeBron team, on sport tickers	CLE
Former LeBron team, on sports tickers	MIA
French __	HORN
Gemini docking target	AGENA
German river, to locals	RHEIN
German state	HESSE
GM subsidiary	ONSTAR
Gold medal winners at the Renaissance fair?	TRIUMPHALARCHERS
Guy's girlfriend	AMIE
Gym employees for those getting in shape fast?	EXPRESSTRAINERS
Handy	USEFUL
Hardly favored	HATED
Have high hopes	ASPIRE
Hindu 'Destroyer'	SIVA
Inform	TELL
It's game	TAG
Kind of column	IONIC
Kings' org	NHL