Washington-Post Daily Crossword: May 2016

Clues	Answers

‘American Gods’ novelist Neil	GAIMAN
‘Fun, Fun, Fun’ car	TBIRD
‘Going My Way’ Oscar winner	CROSBY
‘No problemo’	CANDO
Air rifle ammo	BBSHOT
Animal pursued in the Calydonian Hunt	BOAR
Annual Florida football game	ORANGEBOWL
Basics for beginning readers	ABCS
Bit of a chuckle	HEE
Bones that parallel radii	ULNAS
Boxy Toyota	SCION
Bread that might be seeded	RYE
Campus mil. group	ROTC
Captain played by Pine since 2009	KIRK
Carpenter’s cutter	SAW
Caustic chemical	LYE
City southwest of Bogotá	CALI
Civil rights icon Parks	ROSA
Close to the hour	TENOF
Come up again	RECUR
Criminal court that was built over part of London’s former city wall	OLDBAILEY
Cultural Revolution leader	MAO
Dench of ‘As Time Goes By’	JUDI
Docs who deliver, or what this puzzle’s longest entries have in common	OBS
Domino spot	PIP
Drama in which Tatiana Maslany plays multiple roles	ORPHANBLACK
Easy to pick up, say	ATHAND
Feature of some large kitchens	ISLAND
First host of ‘Family Feud’	DAWSON
Forensic evidence collector	SWAB
Free TV ad	PSA
Gadget with earbuds	IPOD
Give the cold shoulder to	IGNORE
Go public with	AIR
Great Salt Lake abundance, to a chemist	NACL
Hindu class	CASTE
Home of the Braves (abbr.)	ATL
Hustle, quaintly	HIE
In-flight figs	ETAS

Is abuzz	HUMS
Japanese soup	MISO
Joule fractions	ERGS
Judd of country music	NAOMI
Laura Bush’s brother-in-law	JEB
Like pawned items	INHOCK
Line of work, briefly	BIZ
Maker of Beneful pet treats	PURINA
Mineo of ‘Rebel Without a Cause’	SAL
Nabe south of Pasadena	EASTLA
NFL ballcarriers	RBS
Normandy landing spot	OMAHABEACH
One with a subscription to the Met, probably	OPERABUFF
Pandora’s boxful	ILLS
Part of C in C (abbr.)	CDR
Photo lab abbr	ENL
Place for fuzzy navels	BAR
Plant with stickers	NETTLE
Poetic feet	IAMBI
Poker seed money	ANTE
Potato gadget that resembles a garlic press	RICER
Quaint cash register button	NOSALE
Quentin Tarantino’s two-part martial arts film	KILLBILL
Rolled oats cereal	MUESLI
Sick kid’s TLC giver	DRMOM
Snowman’s neckwear	SCARF
Sound from the bull pen	SNORT
Source of child support?	KNEE
South American plain	LLANO
State secrets?	BLAB
Tab	CHECK
That dude’s	HIS
The Yoko of ‘Dear Yoko’ and ‘Oh Yoko!’	ONO
Thomas More work	UTOPIA
Toondom’s Olive	OYL
Vital	KEY
Where ‘it’s all happening,’ per Simon & Garfunkel	ATTHEZOO
Where the floor is always wet	OCEAN
___-Wan Kenobi of ‘Star Wars’	OBI

Clues	Answers

‘Bus Stop’ playwright William	INGE
‘Game of Thrones’ network	HBO
‘Gil ___’ (Lesage novel)	BLAS
‘Sign me up!’	IMIN
‘Star Trek’ creator Roddenberry	GENE
‘___ on Main St.’ (1972 double album by The Rolling Stones)	EXILE
1962 hit by The Four Seasons	SHERRY
30-Across cager	SPUR
32,000 ounces	TON
401(k) and 403(b)	RETIREMENTPLANS
Actor LaBeouf	SHIA
Amped up the effort	TRIEDHARDER
AT&T Center, in San Antonio	ARENA
Backyard recreation (and a clue to the starts of 17-, 23-, 37-, and 45-Across)	TIRESWING
Bad break	MISHAP
Bouncing off the walls	HYPER
Buck naked	BARE
Calculus calculation	AREA
Chose	OPTED
Cinque Terre locale	ITALY
Civil wrong	TORT
Coffee break time, for some	TENAM
Colin Kaepernick, for one	NINER
Compote component, perhaps	PEAR
Cottage or bungalow	ABODE
Crookshanks, notably	CAT
Fancy spread	PATE
Fifth-century barbarian	HUN
Flounder’s frat pal in ‘Animal House’	OTTER
Forbidden City location	CHINA
Gives off	EXUDES
Greek god of war	ARES
Harmless prank	LARK
Harzer or Limburger	CHEESE
Hathaway of ‘Interstellar’	ANNE
Hissy fit	SNIT
Hitching post?	ALTAR
Horse trade	SWAP
Hot dog topping	CHILI

It’s usually right	EAST
Items that may be pinned or pierced	EARS
Kindle Fire alternatives	IPADS
Lennon’s love	ONO
Ligurian or Ionian	SEA
Like a World War II veteran	OLD
Like many a teenager’s room	MESSY
Little piggies	RUNTS
Muscle injury, maybe	TEAR
Neck and neck	CLOSE
One of the Great Lakes	HURON
Onetime NATO target	USSR
Part of mph	PER
Patient record	CHART
Pulls down	EARNS
Radiology pioneer Curie	MARIE
Razor sharpener	STROP
Repetitive procedure	ITERATION
Rib-tickler	GASSER
Roger Moore or Sean Connery	SIR
Sharp as a tack	SMART
She played Susan Delfino on ‘Desperate Housewives’	TERIHATCHER
Short-legged hound	BASSET
Sold-out letters	SRO
Sponge	MOOCH
Stage designs	SETS
Steady fellow	BEAU
Style of Ice-T or Jay Z	RAP
Suggestion	HINT
Sweeping shot	PAN
Think tank output	IDEAS
Three sheets to the wind	DRUNK
Toy with a museum in Burlington, Wisconsin	TOP
Turned green, perhaps	AGED
Used your scull?	OARED
What a yenta yaks about	DIRT
Where eagles care?	NEST
Where the deer and the antelope play	RANGE
___ Sports Bureau	ELIAS

Clues	Answers

‘Fatal Attraction’ husband	DAN
‘Finish,’ to sommeliers	AFTERTASTE
‘___ Dos Fridas’ (Kahlo painting)	LAS
Abandon, informally	DITCH
Associate with	TIETO
Atlas Mtns. locale	AFR
Author on Italy’s two-euro coin	DANTE
Beanies and yarmulkes	SKULLCAPS
Book jacket reviews, usually	ACCOLADES
By way of, old-style	THRO
Carnival ride music, e.g	LILT
Carpenter’s collapsible measuring gadget	ZIGZAGRULE
Chophouse orders	TBONES
Concorde fleet, once	SSTS
Confucian ‘path’	TAO
Consider	DEEM
Conversational taboos, perhaps	SORESPOTS
Creamy cheese made with remnants of mozzarella	BURRATA
Creator of laudatory lines	ODIST
Cries of disappointment	DRATS
Cruciform letter	TAU
Crumble	FALLAPART
Dealt in stocks	TRADED
Drosselmeyer’s godchild in ‘The Nutcracker’	CLARA
Early surgery aid	ETHER
Eastern au pair	AMAH
Father, to Philippe	PERE
Flop’s opposite	HIT
Frosty the Snowman transformer	HAT
Guffaw syllable	HAR
HMO participants	MDS
Insolvent	FLATBUSTED
Itinerary info	ETAS
Liberals	LEFTISTS
Looney Tunes ‘devil,’ casually	TAZ
Many an ’80s Chrysler	KCAR

Minister’s calling, with ‘the’	CLOTH
Mother who hums to her offspring	LLAMA
Nonplussed	FAZED
One in protective gear at home	UMP
Org. handing down rules for clubs	USGA
Outshone	ECLIPSED
Oxonian’s ‘Outstanding!’	CAPITAL
Performers who might pretend to be trapped in a box	MIMES
Place to detrain (abbr.)	STA
Pol. affiliation of Teddy Roosevelt	GOP
Produce suddenly	SPROUT
Punctuate a rapprochement, in modern lingo	HUGITOUT
Resolute	FIRM
Rile up	ANGER
Run off at the mouth	BLATHER
Scarf tucked into a bodice	FICHU
Second Amendment subject	MILITIA
Sistine Chapel ceiling figure with an extended arm	ADAM
Sitcom featuring a voice-only doorman	RHODA
Something metaphorically massaged	EGO
Specialized jargon	ARGOT
State of ‘champagne wishes and caviar dreams’	HIGHLIFE
Tenacious foe of Julius Caesar	CATO
Texter’s roar	LOL
The Big ___ (Shaquille O’Neal nickname)	ARISTOTLE
Tony Shalhoub’s ‘Cars’ role	LUIGI
Towering	IMMENSE
Transposing two numbers, say	MISDIALING
Wackford Squeers in ‘Nicholas Nickleby’ or Henry Brocklehurst in ‘Jane Eyre’	HEADMASTER
Wag one’s finger at	CHIDE
Welcome gift that may include dental floss	LEI
What an echo on a recording may delineate	AURALSPACE
Where Troy Aikman was a QB	UCLA
Whodunit suspect, often	HEIR
Wildlife photographer’s excursion	SAFARI
Words indicating second thoughts	THENAGAIN

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