The Washington Post Tuesday - Crossword Answers | 2020 09 17

crossword answers
Clue Answer
Hose color ECRU
WAS A CANDIDATE RAN
MORE WORK UTOPIA
WAY OFF THE HIGHWAY RAMP
MASSACHUSETTS MOTTO STARTER ENSE
'Queen Sugar' creator DuVernay AVA
Dumbbell abbr LBS
'Desperate Housewives' character BREE
SET OF BELIEFS CREDO
SOUNDING LIKE A DOVE COOING
FLOOD INUNDATE
Serengeti bovine GNU
TOUGH MUTT CUR
POINT AIM
LONDON'S OLD __ VIC
Low clouds STRATI
EGGS OVA
LONGTIME UTAH SENATOR HATCH ORRIN
1800s Mexican leader Juárez BENITO
OLD-TIME DAGGER SNEE
RATIO PHRASE ISTO
LOVED ADORED
IMPROVE, AS A HIGHWAY REPAVE
CUL-DE-__ SAC
COMPOSER ROREM NED
LIP SASS
RATTLE DAUNT
BIG BASH FETE
NOLAN RYAN, NOTABLY ACE
FDR POWER PROGRAM TVA
GOING DOWN SETTING
FLASH DRIVE PORT USB
DAY-__ GLO
Music rights org ASCAP
MAN-GOAT OF MYTH SATYR
Richmond winter hrs EST
Rickety, say UNSOUND
Louisville-based fast-food company KFC
River through Reno TRUCKEE
Scand. locale EUR
Relative in a Cote d'Azur family? NICENIECE
Swindle at a French festival? CANNESCON
Synthetic rubber used in waders NEOPRENE
They're just what the doctor ordered DOSES
Velvet feature NAP
Ward of TV's 'FBI' SELA
Winter weather aftermath SLUSH
Others, to Pablo OTRAS
Excursion in a Loire Valley town? TOURSTOUR
Nissan Leaf and Toyota Prius ECOCARS
National capital on the Cape Verde Peninsula DAKAR
Clear dishes from BUS
Former trucking watchdog agcy ICC
RELIEVE UNBURDEN
LAUGH SYLLABLE HAR
Aspect of a problem FACET
'__ of Us': Joan Osborne hit ONE
'Dust-colored,' in Hindustani KHAKI
MINUTE MAID PARK PLAYER, TO FANS STRO
Horse of southeastern France? RHONEROAN
Shoeshine targets SCUFFS
Japanese carrier that sponsors a major LPGA event ANA
Rome's __ Veneto VIA
REEKING FETID
ACCOMMODATES FITS
Falls for lovers? NIAGARA
MICROWAVED NUKED
Newscast attention-getter TOPSTORY
Lestrade's rank, in Sherlock Holmes stories: Abbr INSP
Newsstand buys DAILIES
City addr. info APTNO
'Islands in the Stream' duettist PARTON
Box score abbr PTS
'Because __ so!!' ISAID
Hybrid linguistic term that hints at the answers to 17-, 25-, 36- and 51-Across FRANGLAIS
ENLISTS AGAIN REUPS