The Washington Post Tuesday - Crossword Answers | 2020 12 27

crossword answers
Clue Answer
INVESTIGATION PROBE
TRUNK TORSO
ARREST NAB
Contentious filings LAWSUITS
Dad's and Mug ROOTBEERS
Destination for aficionados MECCA
EPA-banned toxins PCBS
Event in a classic William Peter Blatty novel EXORCISM
Gets a ride, but not a Lyft UBERS
Good news, in a metaphor MUSIC
Half-off sale acronym BOGO
Holey Italian bread CIABATTA
Island east of Sumatra BORNEO
It may be an X or an O TAC
Jazz club group TRIO
Kauai breakfast restaurants? ISLANDIHOPS
Last of 24 OMEGA
Like much of Nebraska RURAL
Like Span. o-ending nouns MASC
Order to a construction worker? RAISETHEIBAR
Parachute necessity CORD
Prepared for surgery, in a way STERILE
University near Durham, NC ELON
Upper left key ESC
Vitamin spec USRDA
Workplace movie screen? OFFICEIMAX
__ Sticks: drain-cleaning aid SANI
LEBANESE PORT SIDON
TYPE OF WHISKEY IRISH
PRESS IRON
Throaty attention-getter AHEM
Chicago-to-Indianapolis dir SSE
Bitcoin, e.g ECASH
'A horse is a horse' horse MRED
PROMOTED TO EXCESS HYPED
Cold war enemy USSR
BARN-RAISING GROUP AMISH
MUCH ALOT
CLEVELAND'S LAKE ERIE
HALF A '60S QUARTET MAMAS
VAULTED LEAPT
STYLE MODE
__ POLLOI HOI
Titles for attys ESQS
'True dat!' NOLIE
Test for jrs PSAT
TITLE KAZAKH IN A 2006 SPOOF BORAT
ALLEVIATED EASED
EAT AWAY ERODE
CHILL-INDUCING EERIE
OVINE CRY BAA
ACTRESS LUPINO IDA
CHARITY ALMS
CORK'S HOME EIRE
Seed pod ARIL
SUMMER QUAFFS ADES
50-50 CHANCE TOSSUP
LOYAL SERVANT YEOMAN
PROPOSAL OFFER
GRACEFUL FLUID
ACTION MOVIE STAPLE CARCRASH
UTAH RANGE UINTA
UTAH VALLEY UNIVERSITY CITY OREM
ALOE __ VERA
SECOND PLACE? TENS
CONK BOP
UPPER CLASS ELITE
FRITES SEASONING SEL
CUT INTO CUBES DICE
DARK FILM GENRE NOIR
SUSPENSION BRIDGE SUPPORT CABLE
TROJAN KING PRIAM
SOME STEAKS LOINS
CHOPIN WORK ETUDE
TWIRLED SPUN
COURT GAME WORD ALAI
CHEATER'S DEVICE CRIB
INTIMIDATE DAUNT
'All That Jazz' choreographer FOSSE
'Hang on ... ' INASEC
'Silent Night' et al HYMNS
'Which one will it be?' CHOOSE
'__ had known ... ' IFI
Balaban of 'Definitely, Maybe' LIANE
Côte d'__ AZUR
Beat anxiously RACED
Checked out in advance CASED
Bend in pointe shoes PLIE
Apple product for unmarried men? BACHELORIPAD
Apple media player for silly songs? LOONEYITUNES
African capital once known as Salisbury HARARE
Tampico abode CASA
Swimsuit designer Gernreich RUDI
Surveillance plane acronym AWACS
Standouts in a field ROCKSTARS
Small Kia SUV SPORTAGE
Emulate Earhart AVIATE
Donovan of 'Clueless' ELISA
'Devil Inside' band INXS
CONDUCTOR ZUBIN MEHTA
TRIP ODOMETER FUNCTION RESET
STREET SHOW RAREE
SWEET-TALK COAX
NOR. NEIGHBOR SWED
ASSERT CLAIM
DEVIATE FROM A COURSE YAW
AROUND CIRCA
RELUCTANT LOATH
__ FACTO IPSO
STIFFLY PROPER PRIM
'M*A*S*H' figure MEDIC
Form of security LIEN
DORM DIET STAPLE RAMEN
CORRIDA CRIES OLES
FIST BUMPS DAPS
WIN BY __ ANOSE