The Washington Post February 18 2018 crossword clues & answers

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The Washington Post Feb 18 2018

Clue	Answer
'70s-'80s batting instructor Charlie	lau
'90s Indian prime minister	rao
'It's My Party' singer Gore	lesley
'It's suddenly clear'	iseenow
'It's __ wind ... '	anill
'MAS*H' extra	rok
'Mi casa __ casa'	essu
'One sec'	amoment
'Rocky' role	adrian
'Star Trek' spin-off, briefly	tng
'__ to eat and run ... '	ihate
'__ woods these are I think I know': Frost	whose
1991 Steve Martin film set in Calif	lastory
2017 Pac-12 champs	usc
Adenauer sobriquet meaning 'the old man'	deralte
Altar agreements	idos
Amazon business	etail
Arizona tourist attraction (#34)	painteddesert
Array of chocolates, say	sampler
Athletic retiree? (#37)	uniformnumber
Austrian expressionist Schiele	egon
Available	onhand
Bad spell	hex
Big ones are found on Wall Street	egos
Bk. after Proverbs	eccl
Bobby in a 1971 #1 hit	mcgee
Breakdown of social norms	anomie
Brown __	ale
Cartoon strip	panel
Cheesy 'Welsh' dishes	rarebits
Cliff dwellings	aeries
Cold and wet, maybe	sleety
Common attached file	pdf
Conan of 'Conan'	obrien
Country rocker Steve	earle
Diner come-on	eathere
Dining __	car
Discharges	egests
Dorm room, perhaps	sty
Dressing choice	italian
Dutch export	edam
Exercise beads?	sweat
Fanfare	hoopla
Fields of comedy	totie
Film based on the novel 'Shoeless Joe' (#32)	fieldofdreams
Finish behind	loseto
Fix, as a rattan chair	recane
Former '60 Minutes' debater __ Alexander	shana
Friend of Hobbes	calvin
Front line?	isobar
Funny Martha	raye
Gain a lap	sit
Garr of 'Tootsie'	teri
Goes on a tirade	rants
Gp. created by a 1955 merger	aflcio
Group in a drive	herd
Hammer site	ear
Happens as a result	ensues
Has legs	lasts
Hybrid with thorns	tearose
Inventor Tesla	nikola
Invited to one's place	hadin
Israeli author who wrote 'A Tale of Love and Darkness'	amosoz
It usually begins 'How many (whatever) does it take ... ' (#36)	lightbulbjoke
Japanese chess	shogi
Judge of hoops	ref
Kiddie lit hero created by Hans and Margret Rey (#18)	curiousgeorge
Knight clubs	maces
KOA visitor	rver
Letting it all hang out, theatrically	emoting
Like supermarkets and stadiums	aisled
Long Island paper	newsday
Longtime rock 'n' roll disc jockey Dan	ingram
Loses interest in	tiresof
Low tie	oneall
Macy's red star, e.g	logo
Main squeeze	steady
Many Beethoven pieces	sonatas
Matthew of 'The Americans'	rhys
Menu option	undo
Mirabile __: wonderful to say	dictu
Mosque leader	imam
Most confident	surest
Mr. Clean competitor	lestoil
Mtge.-offering business	sandl
Must	needsto
Odds and ends	rummage
One-named folk singer	odetta
Overage	excess
Oversimplify, with 'down'	dumb
Physical strength	muscle
Pine forest floor covering	needles
Pitcher Jesse with a record 1,252 regular-season appearances	orosco
Planetary reflected-light ratio	albedo
Prepares (oneself) for impact	braces
Preppy jackets	etons
Pulitzer journalist Seymour	hersh
Put a stop to	cease
Raise	rear
Ran out, as a supply	driedup
Religious high point? (#33)	churchsteeple
Revelations	ahas
Rhythm rattler	maraca
River to the Rhein	aare
Seething	inarage
Shakespearean attendant	varlet
Sharp products	tvs
Singer Gorme	eydie
Small eggs	ovules
Small team	duo
Space cadet?	alien
Spiced up	zested
Stay under the radar	lielow
Stunning surprise	shocker
Surfing indoors, say	online
Suspense novelist Tami	hoag
Sways on a curve	careens
Tennis great Steffi	graf
The Beavers of the Pac-12	osu
Thrice, in Rx's	ter
Trigger was one	palomino
Truckers' competition	roadeo
Turns inside out	everts
Veep between Dick and Mike	joe
Website page	home
Welsh herding dogs	corgis
What love and hate share?	silente
What's hidden in answers with an apt '#' in their clues	presidentialmonograms
Wine characteristic	body
Winnebago descendants	iowas
Winter wear	parka
X-ray examiner, perhaps	dentist
Yankees' pitcher Masahiro	tanaka
__ Gimignano: walled Tuscany town	san
'A Wrinkle in Time' director DuVernay	ava
'Fire' stones	opals
'Right away!'	now
'The Beverly Hillbillies' patriarch	jed
'The Lost World' beast	raptor
'True Life' channel	mtv
'Well, I never!'	whatnerve
'___ That I Love You' (Rihanna song)	hate
1975 film that Pauline Kael said 'may be the most cheerfully perverse scare movie ever made'	jaws
Academic octet	ivies
Amazon's brand of smart speakers	echo
Aquafina rival	evian
Author E.L. James's real first name	erika
Avalanche, to a mountain climber, e.g	peril
Bandleader Pérez Prado's sobriquet	kingofthemambo
Berkshire school	eton
Betray a sulky mood	pout
Beverage sponsoring many a Super Bowl halftime show	pepsi
Binary code digits	ones
Body shop lifter	jack
Bother	ado
Bottom of a boat	hull
Brazilian berry	acai
Canine from Japan	akita
Carpeting calculation	area
Circumvented	avoided
Comedian Kondabolu who starred in the documentary 'The Problem With Apu'	hari
Concern for Poirot	motive
Coral reef formation	atoll
Country that borders Lake Victoria and the Indian Ocean	kenya
Cryptocrystalline form of quartz	onyx
Deep space?	sea
Devil's Cut bourbon brand	jimbeam
Dirk Nowitzki's team, briefly	mavs
Disease caused by plasmodium parasites	malaria
Displays satisfaction	smiles
Domestic employee who resides at the place of employment	liveinnanny
Elongated swimmer	eel
Emmy-winning Eartha	kitt
ESPN.com senior sportswriter Torre	pablo
Evening, in ads	nite
Events with ice cream	socials
Exclude	omit
Exec's degree, perhaps	mba
Extract, as a splinter	tweeze
Fire sign?	alarm
First word of many 48 Down	who
Fish-filled shell, maybe	taco
Fly like a moth	flutter
Former NHL team that relocated to Colorado in 1995	quebecnordiques
Founder of a fruit spread company	smucker
Genetic letters	rna
German car company's motorcycle, in slang	beemer
Gets in a pool, in a way	dives
Glowing sphere, maybe	orb
Gomez's sitcom cousin	itt
Having sore knees, say	achy
High or low card	ace
Highway section	lane
His first bout as a pro was against Hunsaker	ali
Home of the Huskies	uconn
Honor for Crowe or Finch	bestactor
Hookup in a hospital	ivtube
It joined OPEC in 1961	qatar
It makes noise in a crib	rattle
It's primarily nitrogen	air
James of film	caan
James of music	etta
Jumpers from Down Under, briefly	roos
Left, in a way	movedout
Like cues given aloud	verbal
Like some bar drinks	ontap
Like some rebates	mailin
Like tightrope walking	risky
Linguistic pattern	syntax
Make a mend, say	sew
Maker of i-opening products?	apple
Mocked, as at recess	teased
Modifiers of nouns	relativeclauses
Moose kin	elk
Mousse kin	gel
Movie star Dianne who turns into movie star Mae when I ain't there?	wiest
Multinational state that dissolved at the end of World War I	austriahungary
Musical Greenwich	ellie
Muslim cleric's ruling	fatwa
Nile Valley slitherers	asps
No later than	until
Not on the dot	inexact
Numbers pronoun	thou
Oil and water sources	wells
Org. with many programs exposed in 2013	nsa
Overly lean	gaunt
Parts ___ million	per
Pasta variety	penne
Pastime for posers?	yoga
Peyton's little brother	eli
Piercing place	earlobe
Poet's foot	iamb
Puzzle that spells out a quotation	acrostic
R&B singer Marie	teena
Record producer Adler	lou
Red Wings great Gordie	howe
Rice : Burroughs :: ___ : Poe	allan
Rolled lunch	wrap
Safe, as at 98 Across	alee
Savings plans, briefly	iras
Scheduled to arrive	due
Scroll repositories	arks
Seamstress's fastener	pin
Sent up a la Mel Brooks	spoofed
Served as an attendant for a knight	squired
Shifts slightly	budges
Shorn creatures	ewes
Shrek creator William	steig
Sign of a bad egg	odor
Slender and graceful	svelte
Small units of energy	ergs
Smartphone speaker	siri
SNL alum Bayer	vanessa
Software giant	ibm
Some Firestone products	radialtires
Some job benefits	perks
Source of fake news	liar
Spa staffers	masseurs
Spiff (up)	gussy
Styling station	salon
Sulky mood	snit
Super Floss maker	oralb
Swizzles	stirs
Talocrural joint sites	ankles
To-do list listing	task
Tots' parents	mamas
Trash collectors?	bins
Tux accessories	studs
Type of football defense	zone
Variety	ilk
Visits for a bit	stopsby
Wales's national flower	daffodil
William and Mary, e.g	names
Work up a sweat	toil
___ Kong	hong
___ Pistols	sex
___ pods (laundry detergent packs)	tide
___ weevil	boll

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