The Washington Post - May 31 2020 Crossword Answer

The Washington Post - May 31 2020 Crossword Answer

Clues	Answers
Legislative body	HOUSE
Longtime PLO chairman	ARAFAT
Look after	TEND
Madeline of 'Blazing Saddles'	KAHN
Many a surfer	AOLER
Mauritania neighbor	MALI
Mediterranean capital	BEIRUT
Mink cousin	OTTER
Miscellany	OLIO
Mount north of Redding, California	SHASTA
Move bit by bit	INCH
My belt __	BUCKLEDUNDERTHESTRAIN
My cake __	FELLDOWNONTHEJOB
My crayon __	DREWABLANK
My knife __	COULDNTMAKETHECUT
My needle __	DIDNTCOMETHROUGH
My ruler __	FAILEDTOMEASUREUP
Native New Zealander	MAORI
Not seen before	NEW
Occupied	INUSE
Old Russian autocrat	CZAR
One of this puzzle's 144	CLUE
Others, in Latin	ALII
Parachute fabric	NYLON
Parasite	LEECH
Pay television	CABLE
Personality categories	TYPES
Play the first card	LEAD
Poet Pound	EZRA
Pot-__: 'on the fire' French stew	AUFEU
Poured juices over	BASTED
Printer cartridge contents	TONER
Quacked company name	AFLAC
Reckless	RASH
Reebok rival	PUMA
Reporter at the front	EMBED
Resting upon	ATOP
Roman garment	TOGA
Sack lead-in	KNAP
Second chance	REDO
Shut (up)	PENT
Sleep disorder	APNEA
Slow way of speaking	DRAWL
Small antelope with an echoic name	DIKDIK
Small deer	ROES
Snake worshippers, e.g	CULT
So last year	DATED
Soften	EASE
Soil	BEFOUL
Sonny and Cher, for one	DUO
South Pacific island group	SAMOA
Spanish 51-Across	TEAMO
Spread outward	SPLAY
Start of a football play	SNAP
Stately trees	ELMS
Stead	LIEU
Step on it when you need to step on it	THEGAS
Swahili boss	BWANA
Symbol of bondage	YOKE
Tab, say	KEY
Tats	INK
Text sent with x's and o's	ILUVU
Thing of the past	RELIC
Title for fictional detective Peter Wimsey	LORD
Trac II cousin	ATRA
Twining plant	VETCH
Vigor	OOMPH
Walt Whitman volunteered as one during the Civil War	NURSE
Wander aimlessly	ROAM
Web message	EMAIL
What may come to mind	IDEA
__ Woods, original voice of Disney's Cinderella	ILENE

Clues	Answers
'All Day Strong' brand	ALEVE
'Groovy!'	NEATO
'Iliad,' for one	EPIC
'Need anything __?'	ELSE
'See ya'	LATER
'To __ own self be true': 'Hamlet'	THINE
'When it's __': answer to a classic riddle	AJAR
'Yess!'	YAY
19th-century diarist Henry __ Robinson	CRABB
A stone's throw	NOTFAR
Academic research papers	THESES
Acquire, as an advantage	GAIN
Add splendor to	ADORN
Airline to Israel	ELAL
And my champagne __	FIZZLEDOUT
Apartment building unit	STORY
Applies henna to, say	DYES
Approached nightfall	GOTDARK
As we speak	NOW
Attacks	ONSETS
Bar mixer	TONIC
Barely ahead	UPONE
Baseball's Doubleday	ABNER
Basketball Hall of Fame coach Smith	DEAN
Beefy soup ingredient	OXTAIL
Benefit	SAKE
Besides that	ALSO
Blunted sword	EPEE
Bond that promotes easy communication	RAPPORT
Boring tools	AWLS
Canasta combination	MELD
Carnival city	RIO
Celtic language	IRISH
Climb, in a way	SHIN
Cockatoo feature	CREST
Cold War initials	USSR
Computer instructions	CODE
Cookie with a Red Velvet variety	OREO
Courtyard	PATIO
Cream additive	ALOE
Crossword-solving Simpson	LISA
Cultural character	ETHOS
Degree	EXTENT
Deserving of	WORTH
Designated space	AREA
Direct attention	REFER
Director in the theater?	USHER
Dramatic offering	PLAY
Empower	ENABLE
European erupter	ETNA
Felt remorse for	RUED
Finally registered	SANKIN
First name in design	COCO
Fix, as a toy	SPAY
Fluffy-eared marsupial	KOALA
Four-wheeler, briefly	ATV
Functional	UTILE
Genetic material	DNA
Golf course rental	CART
Goods suffix	WARE
Grayish	ASHY
Ground cover	TARP
Hard-hit batted ball	LINER
Harmless, as a lie	WHITE
Help grow up	REAR
Honeycomb compartment	CELL
In that case	IFSO
Jellylike alga extract	AGAR
Jewish assembly site	SHUL
Lacking talent for	BADAT
Lead to	ENDIN
Leaning to one side	ALOP