The Washington Post Sunday - Crossword Answers | 2020 05 24

crossword answers
Clue Answer
'Move it, varmint!' GIT
Requiring recovery HURT
Rap battle VIPs MCS
Post cereal advertised as 'the stuff breakfast dreams are made of' OREOOS
Passion personified EROS
Opposite of busy IDLE
Negation word NOR
NBA Hall of Famer Pippen SCOTTIE
She played Barbara in 1990s SNL sketches CHERI
Botanical wall art plant MOSS
SWEAT SPOT BROW
World of Warcraft being ELF
In a bit, in an ode ANON
ONE EARNING STRIKE PAY? PITCHER
DOZED FOR A BIT APPEND
ACTING KEN OR LENA LION
TUNES OUT IGNORES
UNDILUTED, IN MIXOLOGY NEAT
GIVES A PASS TO, SAY COMPS
PANDORA-BASED FILM AVATAR
SOAP ACTRESS DAVIDSON EILEEN
PUNCHING GADGET AWL
CERTAIN TANK DESCRIPTOR SEPTIC
TEMPORARY INTERIM
SEE 5 DOWN CREAM
UNLOCKS PEONS
FRANK HONEST
'OF COURSE!' ISURECAN
HAS HIGH HOPES SPIREAS
'Captain's Peril' co-author William SHATNER
'Boy' or 'girl' preceder ATTA
Between, pour moi ENTRE
Absorbent implement MOP
GhostCircus Apparel designer ___ James ELI
REFUSE TO GIVE UP? TRASH
STUFFS SATES
GUIDED LED
EXCEPT SAVE
GAMBLING GAME AFRO
ACCEPT EAGERLY EMBRACE
Home of the Dez Dam IRAN
Holed up? POROUS
Hyundai model that mixes up the letters of 112 Down and 66 Across ELANTRA
'Hold ___ your butts' ('Jurassic Park' line) ONTO
GPS approximation ETA
High bridge VIADUCT
Focus of one's enmity FOE
Pavement hazard POTHOLE
Like salmon OILY
ONE OF THE FOURTEEN HOLY HELPERS OF CATH. TRADITION STELMO
BRIDGE MATERIALS? CARDS
GMAIL FOLDER HEADING SENT
GLOSSY CURTAIN FABRIC SATIN
Journey respites STOPS
'Impetuous young boy' of 'Monster Mash' IGOR
Like old astronomical models positing that the sun revolves around Earth EGOCENTRIC
Loud speakers on stage, perhaps HAMS
Louisa May Alcott character portrayed in an Oscar-nominated role by Florence Pugh AMYMARCH
'I urge you all ... to love each other without restraint. Unless you're into leather. Then by all means, use restraints' speaker Margaret CHO
'I'd be glad to help!' NOPROB
Kunis of 'Black Swan' MILA
HOW ALIENS MAY COME, PER SOME SCI-FI TROPES INPEACE
Guy who directed the 2019 'Aladdin' remake ITCHIER
Many a millennial in the early 2000s TEEN
Many athletes' barriers NETS
'It burns!' YEOW
Idris who played Macavity the Mystery Cat in 'Cats' ELBA
Dance music style popularized by Pérez Prado THEMAMBO
Stone found in the Australian mining town of Lightning Ridge OPAL
Cleared for departure? EXCUSED
With 79 Down, shake stuff ICE
Work in a theater DRAMA
With 66 Across, fell behind RAN
Western show business? SALOON
What a shredder shreds SHEET
Ward of 'The Guardian' SELA
Weapon in film noir GAT
RANGE ORPHAN DOGIE
UTILIZE A THEORETICAL CLOAKING DEVICE, SAY VANISH
GETAWAY LAM
LIKE LIFE GRANTED BY THE HOLY GRAIL ETERNAL
PEOPLE PERSON? STAR
MOVES STEALTHILY CREEPS
Obsequious employee YESMAN
'Nightswimming' rockers REM
Single-___ plastics USE
Site for frequent fliers? AVIARY
Sound in a field MOO
'The Night Circus' writer Morgenstern ERIN
SHIP'S CREW TARS
Force wielders of film SITH
Flower with a 'Fragrant Cloud' cultivar TEAROSE
Fall behind, say OWE
Gets by observation SENSES
Experiences decay ROTS
Fill in un océano AGUA
Equidae family member ASS
Eponym of the Sports Scholar Awards from Diverse: Issues in Higher Education ASHE
Disappearing lakes, e.g MIRAGES
Dollar : United States :: kip : ___ LAOS
Curly style PERM
Cooing creature DOVE
Concerning element of home inspections ADORN
Concern for the Union of Concerned Scientists CLIMATE
SEE 112 DOWN LATE
MALICIOUS LOOK LEER
FOR EACH ONE APIECE
DRYING CLOTH DISHRAG
Golden ___ (Temple Run treasure) IDOL
Food brand named for two neighboring states OREIDA
From this point on ... and a phrase that explains (and is spelled out by) the 12 shifted first letters in this puzzle GOINGFORWARD
'Good ___' POINT
'Haste makes ___' ASTEW
Smashing success? ACE
Served a sentence ONETIMED
Slammed in tribute ROASTED
REFORM? MUTATE
AKITA AGREEMENT HAI
OVAL SECTION ARC
MED. CARE SITES ERS
16TH LETTER OF THE NATO PHONETIC ALPHABET PAPA
LIKE FLAGGED FOOTBALL FORMATIONS ILLEGAL
BOX OF BOCKS, SAY CASE
ANIMAL COLLECTIVE HERD
TAJ MAHOTSAV FESTIVAL CITY AGRA
ORDER TO AN AKITA SIT
SNATCH NAB
BLOOD OF THE GODS CHOIR
ATTEMPT TO PERSUADE COAX
Sunken place CRATER
Source of a drumroll SNARE
Subject of an early 2000s collapse ENRON
That, in poetry YON
'The wonder of all things,' per some translations of Lao Tzu TAO
The state of 'State Fair' IOWA
SCATTERS ABOUT STREWS
Shredded, as cheese RATEDG
They move around ORBITERS
Theater honors OBIES