The Washington Post Sunday - Feb 24 2019 Crossword Answer

The Washington Post Sunday - Feb 24 2019 Crossword Answer

Clues	Answers
Inclinations	BENTS
Initials before Tolkien	JRR
It may begin with a semicolon	EMO
It's on the syllabus	EXAM
Jane who taught Adèle	EYRE
Kansai University locale	OSAKA
Lao Tzu's 'way,' or a cereal grass backward	TAO
Large container of water designed for observing swells on the water's surface	WAVETANK
Liable	APT
Like a 65 Down	HINDU
Like many Berg or Schoenberg pieces	ATONAL
Like some organs	INTERNAL
Like stale jokes	OVERDONE
Like the Hijri calendar	ISLAMIC
Line blocking passage	CORDON
Lock's place	SCALP
Lock's place	DOOR
Lode-bearing places	MINES
Long line, of a sort	DYNASTY
Lynx gripper	CLAW
Magic star until 1996, familiarly	SHAQ
Make Money, say	PRINT
Making the most of	MAXI
Miriam of 'Hedwig and the Angry Inch'	SHOR
Most secure, as seals	TIGHTEST
Nasty types	MEANIES
Nestlé chocolate bar	AERO
Nudge	PROD
Old weapon loader	RAMROD
One in a 'pocket rockets' pair	ACE
One making big bucks playing big Bucks, say	NBACOACH
One of seven vowels	ETA
Originates (from)	ARISES
Pen fare	SLOP
Pertaining to the Kabbalah	JUDAIC
Phenomenal	STELLAR
Place not far from Tennessee Avenue	STJAMES
Plutocracy supporters	ELITISTS
Potato skin shape, often	OVAL
Princess of Monaco	CHARLENE
Private support grp.?	USO
Program listing	CAST
Promotes to the majors	CALLSUP
Retail calculation	NETSALES
Ring-shaped structure formed over millions of years	CORA
Royal widow	QUEEN
Safe spaces?	BANKS
Scale unit raised eight times in this puzzle	NOTE
Shmi Skywalker's son, familiarly	ANI
Sketch comedy group's intro?	MONTY
SNL alum Horatio	SANZ
Sonnet sections	SESTETS
Squelch	STIFLE
Stead	LIEU
Storage units	SHEDS
Tegan's twin sister and band partner	SARA
Term for oil in a 1960s sitcom's theme song	TEXASTEA
They've got the goods	MARKETS
Tollbooth feature	GATE
Tricksy one	IMP
Tuned in, daddy-o	HEP
Unimaginative film revivals, in slang	RETREADS
Village ___	ELDER
Voided service	LET
Went line by line?	TRACED
What often goes up in a big city	RENT
What you would expect	NORM
What you wouldn't expect	ANOMALY
Wheel of Fortune's deck	TAROT
Whiskey sour garnish	SLICE
Words of thanks	ODE
___ crackers	SODA
___ out a win	EKES
___ point	HIGH

Clues	Answers
'America' contraction	TIS
'Ella Enchanted' beast	OGRE
'Follow these steps'	DOASIDO
'Hyperion' author Simmons	DAN
'I want to hear more!'	ENCORE
'Including ...?'	SUCHAS
'Inglourious Basterds' antagonist Hans	LANDA
'My Best Friend's Wedding' actor Rupert	EVERETT
'New phone, who ___?' (insult used on social media when pretending not to know someone)	DIS
'Rumors' playwright	SIMON
'Seduction of the Minotaur' author Nin	ANAIS
'Sugar' singer Jones	ETTA
'The Great British Baking Show' judge Prue ___	LEITH
'Winter' singer Amos	TORI
-	TONE
-	RANGE
-	NOT
-	CON
-	WAGER
-	EVER
-	ZING
-	TOLL
1950s song refrain featured in a dinner scene in 'Beetlejuice'	DAYO
1996 De Niro-Snipes film about a homicidal Giants supporter	THEFAN
Affirmative declaration	IAM
Allegorical fall setting	EDEN
Approach	GONEAR
Aquarium gastropod	SNAIL
At all	WHAT
Back, as in a race	ENDORSE
Barley wine, e.g	ALE
Bedevil	VEX
Ben and Jerry, e.g	NAMES
Besides that	ELSE
Buenavista buds	AMIGOS
Burj Khalifa topper	SPIRE
Business card abbr	EXT
Bye, in Birmingham	TATA
Cajole	COAX
Camp accessories	BOAS
Cates of 'Gremlins'	PHOEBE
Comedian Minhaj who hosts the Netflix show 'Patriot Act'	HASAN
Consider	DEEM
Cuttlefish's organ	INKSAC
Declares confidently	AVERS
Deity referenced in a Veda, and an anagram of a word in this clue	DEVA
Dinner tubes	NOODLES
Dr. treating pharyngitis	ENT
Dramatic expression of reluctance	IDA
Drawing game?	LOTTO
Edible sprout source	ALFALFA
Electrical connections	LEADS
EP A	SIDEONE
Exhibited joy, maybe	CRIED
Famke Janssen's 'Nip/Tuck' character	AVA
Father's exhortation	REPENT
Fixed, as a seam	RESEWED
Fogell's amorous-sounding alias in 'Superbad'	MCLOVIN
Form of chrysoberyl that may remind you of a feline body part	CATSEYE
Former boy band singer who hosted 'The Singing Bee'	JOEY
Formerly	NEE
Fortas who resigned from the Supreme Court in 1969	ABE
Future funds, briefly	IRAS
Game designer Meier	SID
Game tester's work experience, ideally	FUN
Georg with 31 Grammys	SOLTI
Giant in a major league clubhouse, maybe?	EGO
Grp. authorised to fly	RAF
Had interest	CARED
Hair holder	SNOOD
Hardest to get	RAREST
Harsh avian noise	CAW
He eschewed the fat	SPRAT
In the heart of	AMID