Friday, April 29, 2016

Washington-Post Daily Crossword - April 29, 2016

Clues                    Answers
‘Fantasy Island’ sidekickTATTOO
‘The Balcony’ playwright JeanGENET
Actor/director Orson of ‘Citizen Kane’WELLES
Afternoon serving pieceTEATRAY
AgreementASSENT
Apply messily, as lipstickSMEAR
Berry rich in antioxidantsACAI
BonkersLOCO
Boo-booERROR
Broadway honorsTONYS
ChargeJURYINSTRUCTION
ChargeELECTRICALBOOST
ChargeVISATRANSACTION
Clichéd Halloween decorationCOBWEB
Comb-over alternativeRUG
Comedic actor LevyEUGENE
CompositionOPUS
Constituent of EMILY’s List?YEAST
ConsumedATE
Convent residentSISTER
Crunch’s rankCAPN
Diggs of ‘How Stella Got Her Groove Back’TAYE
DiplomacyTACT
DisturbROIL
Draw outELICIT
Emma Lazarus and Maya AngelouPOETS
Facilitate a compromise, perhapsMEDIATE
FactualTRUE
Finger painting, for exampleART
Fit to be tiedIRATE
Gas pump ratingOCTANE
Half of this is better than none, they sayLOAF
HiberniaEIRE
Hole in the water into which one pours money, according to someBOAT
HoopsBBALL
In flamesAFIRE
IncreaseGROW
Ingenuous oneNAIF
Isaac Bashevis Singer character portrayed by Barbra StreisandYENTL
Isaac’s more hirsute sonESAU
Jai ___ALAI
Junior hooterOWLET
Less common belly button typeOUTIE
Luxor or New York-New YorkCASINO
Menlo Park middle nameALVA
Minority member in the barrio, probablyANGLO
MixSTIR
NaturalAFRO
Not having yet set sail, as a cruise shipINPORT
One who’s paid to playPRO
Only digit whose value is equal to the number of letters in its nameFOUR
PastureLEA
Pocket for falafelPITA
Precalc subjectTRIG
PretensionsAIRS
Romulus, to RemusTWIN
Samoa’s capitalAPIA
SchismRIFT
Scott Turow memoir about his Harvard yearsONEL
Sell for an outrageous premiumSCALP
Shabby shipTUB
Showing fatigue, in a wayYAWNING
Some stringsCELLI
Some urgent care facilities, for shortERS
Standard of measurementUNIT
StratagemPLOY
ThroneCAN
Toward the sternAFT
Turn ___ ear toADEAF
TV journalist Matt of ‘Today’LAUER
TypeSORT
Western Mexico peninsulaBAJA
Wind burstGUST
Zagreb nativeCROAT
___ New York minuteINA
___ the crack of dawnUPAT

Washington-Post Daily Crossword - April 28, 2016

Clues                    Answers
‘Groovy!’COOL
‘Pow!’BAM
‘This ___’ (‘We’re finished’)ISIT
‘Will there be anything ___?’ELSE
AcquireGARNER
Agenda of hoped-for activitiesBUCKETLIST
Apple spokesperson?SIRI
Big sports group?EAST
BlurredHAZY
Bobby of ’60s rockVEE
Booze it upTOPE
Brit. reference that recently added the word ‘phablet’OED
Building synonymous with scandalWATERGATE
Burn a bitCHAR
CajoleCOAX
Call forthELICIT
ChuckTOSS
Cowboy’s monikerTEX
Crystalline gemstone found in several colorsTOPAZ
DazedINAFOG
Devilish deedSIN
Eat unenthusiasticallyPECKAT
Fight site of 1836ALAMO
Firm for fashions and fragrancesDIOR
Fly catchers?MITTS
Freed from confinementLOOSE
Gets comfySETTLESIN
Hardy heroine arrested at StonehengeTESS
Hit repeatedlyPUMMEL
Home to Iowa State UniversityAMES
Homeland of Plácido Domingo and Pablo CasalsSPAIN
James in the Grammy Hall of FameETTA
KindILK
Leader for Romeo?ALFA
Less riskySAFER
Like San Francisco, in a wayHILLY
Madeleine or ladyfinger, basicallySPONGECAKE
Mined mineralORE
Mobile device diversionsAPPS
More than usualEXTRA
Nation between the Black and Caspian SeasARMENIA
New lions and tigers and bearsCUBS
No. 2 worker, perhapsASST
Obscure astronomical event?ECLIPSE
ObserveWATCH
One holding many recordsARCHIVIST
Oppressively heavyLEADEN
Out-of-control crowdMOB
Palm tree with a ‘superfood’ berryACAI
Paranormalist GellerURI
Personality part, à la FreudEGO
Photo-organizing websitePICASA
Renée Fleming solosARIAS
Rock band ___ SpeedwagonREO
Sicilian smokerETNA
Singing Ant of popADAM
Snaky configurationCOIL
Spot for mowers and blowersSHED
Spot for slopSTY
Storage area for hayLOFT
Sweet apple varietyGALA
Syncopated music genreRAGTIME
Tangled TV tale, typicallySOAPOPERA
Theater backgroundSCENERY
Theatrical openingACTI
TightwadMISER
Tough situationsPLIGHTS
TV’s Science GuyNYE
UnaidedALONE
UnspokenTACIT
Vain hopePIPEDREAM
Very nearPROXIMATE
Votes into officeELECTS
Waikiki welcomeALOHA
Waterston of ‘Law & Order’SAM
What budgeters try to trimFAT
WhopperLIE
Wray of ‘King Kong’FAY

Washington-Post Daily Crossword - April 27, 2016

Clues                    Answers
‘#@&%!,’ e.gCURSE
‘A Fish Called ___’WANDA
‘I ___ I had an answer to that because I’m tired of answering that question’ (Yogi Berra)WISH
‘Manon Lescaut’ highlightARIA
‘Star ___’TREK
‘The Biggest Little City in the World’RENONEVADA
‘Totally awesome!’RAD
Affectionate attentionCARE
Alpha followerBETA
Automobile pioneer RansomOLDS
Ball club ball clubs?BATS
Bay State birthplace of two US presidentsQUINCY
Blue Cross option, brieflyHMO
Burkina Faso neighborMALI
Canvas coverTENT
Castle protectorsMOATS
Coffee containerURN
College cram sessionALLNIGHTER
Cracked rivalMAD
DateSEE
Deadly poisonsBANES
Disturbed deeplyATEAT
Drops in the mailboxSENDS
Electric car manufacturerTESLA
Fairy tale beginningONCE
Field of expertiseAREA
FoundationBASIS
Fruit drinkADE
Gardener’s toolRAKE
Geotechnical engineer’s concernSOIL
Giants quarterback ManningELI
Go with the flowAGREE
Greek vowelsETAS
Hoity-toity attitudesAIRS
Home of the mythological LabyrinthCRETE
Huddle callPLAY
Hudson Bay nativeCREE
In a jam, in a wayTREED
Instrument heard at theaters during silent filmsWURLITZERORGAN
It can be pierced or hookedNOSE
Jai ___ALAI
Keebler crackerZESTA
KnuckleheadBOOB
Land of leprechaunsERIN
Like most newspapersDAILY
Look like a wolfOGLE
Lose steamSLOW
Missile Crisis countryCUBA
Mouse catcherTRAP
Nolo contendere, e.gPLEA
Objects on hand?NAILS
Old Italian breadLIRA
Opposed toANTI
Org. Liam Neeson belonged to in ‘Taken’CIA
Org. that has boomed due to boomersAARP
Peruse Poe, possiblyREAD
PledgeVOW
Prudhoe Bay settingALASKA
Puff upBLOAT
Rare violinAMATI
RawUNCENSORED
Request more TimeRENEW
Result of a day at the beach, maybeBIKINILINE
Rhapsodic wordsODE
Rum cocktailBANANADAIQUIRI
Rum cocktailMAITAI
Russian riverURAL
Shells outPAYS
Show upAPPEAR
Sprinkle of saltDASH
Thompson of ‘Family’SADA
Throws inADDS
Tiny buzzerGNAT
Van Susteren of Fox NewsGRETA
Web site?ATTIC
XericARID
Zhou of ChinaENLAI
[What nerve!]SLAP