The Washington Post Sunday - Crossword Answers | 2019 09 15

crossword answers
Clue Answer
MOLLIFY APPEASE
STEAK SPECIFICATION RARE
RED RIVER CAPITAL HANOI
LIGHT BITE NOSH
TOOK OFF RANFORIT
TOOK OFF FLED
SOME FEDS TMEN
CLOSE TO CLOSED AJAR
SERIES OF NUMBERS? GLEE
AMERICAN RED CROSS FOUNDER BARTON CLARA
'Help me out here' INEEDAHAND
She has 2020 visions WARREN
Bride's potential maid of honor, briefly SIS
Challenger of authority REBEL
Craft seen on game day BLIMP
Croft seen on game day? LARA
Currency in Portugal EURO
Does a triathlon leg SWIMS
Eucalyptus consumers KOALAS
Filling, as a cake RICH
Folklore menace OGRE
Food magazine based in a Big Apple borough (New York) EDIBLEBROOKLYN
Heavy metal guitarist Donnie with an apt surname STEELE
It can last 15 minutes FAME
It pays the Bills NFL
L.A. mayor Garcetti ERIC
Like backroom deals SHADY
SLIP PAST ELUDE
CONSECRATE ANOINT
PRIVATE SECTOR? BOOTCAMP
1957 LITERATURE NOBELIST CAMUS
MAMMAL THAT HAS BIG CALVES BUT LACKS CALF BONES ORCA
INNOCENT SORTS BABES
TRIAGE SITES, BRIEFLY ERS
TRIFLED (WITH) TOYED
LIKE SOME AWAKENINGS RUDE
'___ better to have loved and lost ...' TIS
15-time NBA All-Star SHAQ
PEQUOD CAPTAIN AHAB
FAWN'S PARENT DOE
KANGA'S KID ROO
SHEEPISH? OVINE
FLAT-BOTTOMED VESSEL BARGE
PUB PINT ALE
MOO GOO ___ PAN GAI
LUSTROUS SURFACE QUALITY SHEEN
PENCIL IN A COSMETICS STORE EYELINER
MCDONALD'S MAGNATE, OR A BOTTLE STOPPER IN REVERSE KROC
PERCEPTIVE KEEN
SPHERES AREAS
DUELING BLADE RAPIER
REPRODUCED BRED
COLLARS NABS
ORCHESTRATE ARRANGE
APPLE DEBUT OF 1998 IMAC
MAKE RISE, AS DOUGH LEAVEN
MATERIAL THING ENTITY
Picked up with effort HEFTED
SHIRT TAG'S LOCATION NAPE
IN ___ TIME REAL
MUSICIAN'S QUAVER TRILL
CONTENT OF SOME CUBES SUGAR
'What nonsense!' HAH
GROUCHY ORNERY
Code carrier, maybe SPY
Ricky Martin's 'Livin' La Vida ___' LOCA
Revel (in) BASK
BAKER'S SUPPLY YEAST
FLUCTUATE YOYO
CHANEY OF HORROR LON
TOOL WITH TINES RAKE
Shimmer, as a milky gem OPALESCE
IN ORDER NEAT
NATIONAL FLOWER OF VENEZUELA ORCHID
STATE STRONGLY ASSERT
LIKE EXPLOSIVE COMPOUNDS VOLATILE
COMMEND LAUD
JEAN-LUC PICARD'S COMMAND TO JUMP TO WARP SPEED ENGAGE
SEMISOLID STUFF GEL
Word that, if read as a command, suggests that you should remove it after writing it down ERASE
Instrument featured in a Ralph Vaughan Williams concerto TUBA
One making a scene? NOVELIST
'Kodachrome' singer SIMON
TIMELY WINDFALL BOON
Molokai movement HULA
Nation in which people spend pounds SYRIA
Site of the oldest public Japanese garden in the U.S. (California) GOLDENGATEPARK
Spelunking locale GROTTO
Store hours word TIL
Strings for Apollo LYRE
Style for the composer Leonardo Vinci OPERASERIA
Nation that has 11 governorates OMAN
Noise from a ghoul MOAN
O one OPRAH
Old military outpost that served as a battle site during the War of 1812 (Michigan) FORTMACKINAC
Organ that's often lent EAR
Pieces of one's heart? ODES
Potato sack measures, for short LBS
Pundit's offering VIEW
R and R in Rochester, e.g ENDS
Ram rod? AXLE
DISNEY DUCK PRINCESS WHOSE NAME RHYMES WITH A DELI SANDWICH FISH OONA
Blue ring, at times IRIS
Become lubricated for a bodybuilding contest OILUP
Attraction without a straight orientation (England) LEANINGTOWEROFPISA
Acquire canines, say TEETHE
2001 Prince album that tells a story of a religious utopia (New York/Ontario) THERAINBOWCHILDREN
1989 Martin Amis mystery adapted into a 2018 film (England) LONDONFIELDS
'___ Bible' (2007 Arcade Fire album) NEON
'What's ___ ...' MORE
'The Walking Dead' survivor Espinosa ROSITA
'The F Word' chef Gordon RAMSAY
'The Circus Animals' Desertion' poet YEATS
'The Canterbury Tales,' e.g EPIC
'My Name Is Asher ___' (Chaim Potok book) LEV
'Gimme one moment' INASEC
Cool joint? HIP
Composer's instruments? PENS
Closest to none LEAST
Charmingly dated QUAINT
'Fighting' Big Ten team ILLINI
Range of some flutes ALTO
Red wedding garment, perhaps SARI
Reminder of a blow WELT
Reproduce, in a way PRINT
Ring worn on a beach LEI
Scandinavia's Tiger City OSLO
Setting in the 2012 book 'Narcopolis' OPIUMDEN
Settings' settings TABLES
Subs, by another name GRINDERS
Title role for Ellen Page JUNO
Wagon pullers in 'The Oregon Trail' OXEN
Winged annoyances GNATS
___-Federalists ANTI