The Washington Post Sunday - Crossword Answers | 2020 05 24

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