The Washington Post Sunday - Crossword Answers | 2020 09 27

crossword answers
Clue Answer
BENT OUT OF SHAPE CROOKED
Address for a Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtle DUDE
Admirer's exclamation OOH
Ancient nomadic warrior HUN
Apple's G5 desktop, e.g IMAC
Arcade machine insert TOKEN
'Battlestar Galactica' actress Helfer TRICIA
'Help me,' e.g PLEA
1973 National Women's Hall of Fame inductee Keller HELEN
Basilica table ALTAR
Black ___ (hip-hop duo featuring string instruments) VIOLIN
Boas and such NECKWEAR
Box full of breakers PANEL
Calorie, e.g UNIT
Cardinals legend Brock LOU
Chrysanthemum containers VASES
Cosmetics brand acquired by Natura &Co in 2020 AVON
Decline, in influence WANE
Handle on an app USERID
Heir space? ESTATE
Home of the French aquarium Océanopolis BREST
Hydrologist's subject SEA
Jazz singer Cassidy EVA
Lasik surgery targets EYES
Like azaleas, to cats and dogs TOXIC
Like many adopted pets RESCUED
'CITIZEN ___' KANE
MAIN MODE OF TRAVEL? CRUISE
BOATLOADS TONS
WEARYING ROUTINE RUT
MEANINGLESS INANE
Key hit when starting a new paragraph ENTER
SOLEMN DECLARATION VOW
WILD GATHERING ORGY
VERY TOO
SEE 117 ACROSS PARTS
VERY OHSO
CONTRIBUTE ADDIN
SHOWERS RAINS
WORK OVER REDO
BUSTLE HOOPLA
GOOD TO GO AOK
SUBSEQUENTLY THEN
JUST BARELY ATAD
100 percent accurate EXACT
'Why not ___?' BOTH
Business card abbr TEL
SEE 19 ACROSS VERA
Tartan garments KILTS
ELLIPSOIDAL OVAL
EASILY IRRITATED PRICKLY
INFOMERCIAL PHRASE ASSEENONTV
COMPETITIVE ADVANTAGE EDGE
SURROUND HEMIN
BENEFICIAL QUALITY ASSET
___ SMEAR PAP
Liquid bead source PORE
Lisa Kudrow and Meryl Streep's alma mater VASSAR
Emulate pirates MARAUD
Enclosure for shark divers CAGE
Enjoying REM, say ASLEEP
Explorer Hendrickson for whom the Field Museum's Tyrannosaurus rex is named SUE
Explosion from the surface of a white dwarf NOVA
Flaky mineral that's an anagram of 15 Down MICA
Massage parlor option OILRUB
Met unexpectedly, with 'upon' CHANCED
Metaphor for initial romantic chemistry SPARK
Necromancer's haunt CRYPT
It shelters in a shell HERMITCRAB
NL West pro PADRE
Not just like ADORE
Note-taking implement PEN
Note-taking implements PADS
Notice about a snow day cancellation, e.g ALERT
Nuclear reactor items RODS
Offering from Santa TOY
Garam ___ (Indian spice blend) MASALA
Gandhi who serves as the president of the Indian National Congress SONIA
How some cinematic sword fights are fought TOTHEDEATH
Food, water, etc NEEDS
Fate for some granted political asylum EXILE
Due-in hrs ETAS
'___ ___ Baby' (hit for Vanilla ___) ICE
Guys carrying clubs BATBOYS
'___ to the Thief' (2003 Radiohead album) HAIL
'___ diem!' CARPE
Cable giant offering Xfinity packages COMCAST
'Stormy Weather' singer Waters ETHEL
Brand of dressings and marinades KENS
'Later,' in Le Havre ADIEU
LINK UP WITH TIETO
BROWNISH PEAR BOSC
VARIETIES ILKS
Bio section of a newspaper OBITPAGE
Old-school yet trendy RETRO
On a horse, in a way ASTRIDE
One of two in the U.N.? DOT
One-year contract, maybe LEASE
Atoms that have an unequal number of protons and electrons IONS
Org. administering the GRE ETS
Overbite correctors BRACES
Parliament's lavatory LOO
Piano mover, at times? VAN
Pin count TEN
Potential results of rap battles? DISSTRACKS
Propelled, as a pigskin THREW
Protagonist of 'The Last of Us' video games ELLIE
Pursued a seat RAN
Recipients of fan mail IDOLS
Routine component BIT
Safe, as crackers EDIBLE
Seek treasure, in a way DIG
Shape whose number of sides is equal to this answer's clue number HEPTAGON
Slight trace of color TINGE
Smoked bagel topper LOX
'Crazy Rich Asians' director Jon M. ___ CHU
Some supplies used in body painting DYES
Something read by a fortuneteller TEALEAF
Spreadshirt products TEES
Starling's structure NEST
State where Marilynne Robinson's book 'Gilead' is set IOWA
Steel fixture at a skate park RAIL
Streaming annoyances ADS
Sugar apple, by another name SWEETSOP
Tapped, so to speak CHOSE
Taqueria tortilla TOSTADA
Next-in-command after the ship's first officer SECONDMATE
Toss, as a water balloon LOB
Longtime 'liberal lion' of the Senate TEDKENNEDY
What 5 might signify MAY
Willow family quaker ASPEN
With 119 Across, divisions in a chorus, and a description of how a choral section has been divided across black squares in five rows in this puzzle VOICE
With 8 Down, moisturizer substance ALOE
Work of art? COMIC
Gained financially PROFITED
___-out (poor excuse) COP
'It Takes Two' twins OLSENS
'You've Got Mail' director NORAEPHRON
'Married ... With Children' and 'Sons of Anarchy' co-star KATEYSAGAL
'Inconceivable!' CANTBE
Opened a smidge AJAR
Smoothie seller JUICEBAR
Tips of missiles NOSECONES
Warn, as on the road HONKAT
___ Hirobumi, first prime minister of Japan ITO