The Washington Post Sunday - Crossword Answers | 2021 05 09

crossword answers
Clue Answer
FINE-TUNES HONES
Work detail, for short SPEC
Pub in Chicago? TRIB
Recognition of Washington's or Adams's greatness? OSCARNOD
Site where one's comments can generate reactions FACEBOOK
Smuggling unit KILO
Some winery options REDS
Spill, as secrets BLAB
Proceeds laboriously PLODS
Starts to replace letters ERASES
Superlatively ancient OLDASTIME
Swanky event GALA
They get popped on planes EARS
Thin trace of smoke WISP
Third part of FYI INFO
Ticket piece STUB
Sunken treasure site OCEAN
Pleasure boat site MARINA
'Animal House' wrap TOGA
'Black' day in Nov FRI
'Certainly!' YESIDO
'GoldenEye' villain Trevelyan ALEC
'Humble' residences ABODES
'I wish to tune my quivering ___ / To deeds of fame and notes of fire': Byron LYRE
'Let's go somewhere ___' ELSE
'Rush' director Howard RON
Give a heartfelt hug to EMBRACE
Had, as haddock ATE
Hurrying word akin to '¡Arriba!' ANDALE
Indy racing great Al UNSER
Instrument similar to a shehnai OBOE
Ironworks delivery ORE
Journalist Audie Cornish's station NPR
Kelly on morning TV RIPA
Largely depleted sea ARAL
Liquor-serving space on a train BARCAR
Long and slender fish GAR
Man found in Ontario? ARI
MD dept ICU
Menacing scowl DIRTYLOOK
Messy room, figuratively STY
Metropolis in Peru LIMA
Not currently at work OUT
Note next to C DFLAT
Observe, as a holiday CELEBRATE
Place a call, in a way DIAL
Trivial inventions FIBS
Tubes in Italian cuisine ZITI
Used intelligence? SPIED
Volunteer's statement ICAN
Wait while in a loading zone, say STAND
___ for tat (retaliation) TIT
___ Vice President (title beginning in 2021) MADAM
___-Missouria (Native Oklahomans) OTOE
FINANCIAL ___ AID
WEDDING CAKE LAYER TIER
ASSUMING TAKINGON
SPECIALTIES AREAS
Trap at a ski lodge, say SNOWIN
GRASS-CUTTING TOOL EDGER
SILK ROAD DESERT GOBI
ALTERNATIVES TO PCS MACS
WAGS A FINGER AT SCOLDS
PARKED IT SATDOWN
EXPRESSION OF GRIEF LAMENT
YOUNG CHAP LAD
DEDICATED AVID
LAUGH HEARTILY HOWL
ROYAL FLUSH COMPONENT KING
AT ALL EVER
GRAND ___ OPRY OLE
LEARN ABOUT HEAROF
CULTURAL VALUES ETHOS
PEARL MOSQUE CITY AGRA
GPS abbr AVE
MUSIC OF JAMAICAN ORIGIN SKA
HEART TICKER
DAYS LONG PAST YORE
SANDBANK SHOAL
ET FROM MELMAC ALF
'I want to know more' GOON
'Schitt's Creek' actor Reid NOAH
'The Price Is Right' game requiring disks PLINKO
'Thumbs-up' IAPPROVE
'Touch' singer ___ Mia PIA
'Whoa, ___!' (singer Furtado's debut album) NELLY
'Whose side ___ you on?' ARE
'Willow' actor Kilmer VAL
*Cardinals game ANGRYBIRDS
*The plush teddy Good Luck, e.g CAREBEAR
*To an extreme degree LIKECRAZY
*Tragic accounts SADSTORIES
1930s and '40s POTUS FDR
Alan of 'Jenny' ALDA
Bart, to Lisa, e.g SIB
Be totally responsible? ADD
Becoming strong again RESURGENT
Betray amazement GASP
Blue ___ Carter, Grammy winner at age 9 IVY
Bull's-eye position CENTER
Cage of film, familiarly NIC
Calculation affected by calc GPA
CBS News journalist Brennan MARGARET
CDC message, e.g PSA
Chaotic ___ (certain moral alignment in D&D) EVIL
Charging weapons LANCES
Chest sought by Indiana ARK
Clip in a salon SNIP
Coarse filing tool RASP
Colt's headgear BRIDLE
Cook Political Report national editor ___ Walter AMY
Cornfield creature CROW
Corrosive oven cleaner LYE
Covering a big range WIDE
Cow's or sheep's organ UDDER
Crooked senator's gifts BRIBES
Deckers Brands boots UGGS
Deliberately ignored SNUBBED
Drinks from casks ALES
Enormous quantity TON
ESPN.com basketball writer MacMahon TIM
Floating up above ALOFT
Guy in a relationship BEAU