The Washington Post Sunday - Crossword Answers | 2020 09 27

crossword answers
Clue Answer
'Battlestar Galactica' actress Helfer TRICIA
'Help me,' e.g PLEA
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
Arcade machine insert TOKEN
Apple's G5 desktop, e.g IMAC
Ancient nomadic warrior HUN
Admirer's exclamation OOH
Address for a Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtle DUDE
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
Liquid bead source PORE
Lisa Kudrow and Meryl Streep's alma mater VASSAR
GOOD TO GO AOK
BOATLOADS TONS
SUBSEQUENTLY THEN
'Why not ___?' BOTH
WEARYING ROUTINE RUT
BENT OUT OF SHAPE CROOKED
JUST BARELY ATAD
VARIETIES ILKS
Key hit when starting a new paragraph ENTER
Business card abbr TEL
100 percent accurate EXACT
___ SMEAR PAP
BENEFICIAL QUALITY ASSET
SOLEMN DECLARATION VOW
SEE 19 ACROSS VERA
SHOWERS RAINS
WORK OVER REDO
VERY TOO
VERY OHSO
CONTRIBUTE ADDIN
Tartan garments KILTS
'CITIZEN ___' KANE
MEANINGLESS INANE
COMPETITIVE ADVANTAGE EDGE
SURROUND HEMIN
WILD GATHERING ORGY
ELLIPSOIDAL OVAL
EASILY IRRITATED PRICKLY
BUSTLE HOOPLA
'Inconceivable!' CANTBE
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
It shelters in a shell HERMITCRAB
Massage parlor option OILRUB
Met unexpectedly, with 'upon' CHANCED
Metaphor for initial romantic chemistry SPARK
Necromancer's haunt CRYPT
How some cinematic sword fights are fought TOTHEDEATH
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
'___ ___ 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
Bio section of a newspaper OBITPAGE
BROWNISH PEAR BOSC
SEE 117 ACROSS PARTS
INFOMERCIAL PHRASE ASSEENONTV
MAIN MODE OF TRAVEL? CRUISE
Fate for some granted political asylum EXILE
Due-in hrs ETAS
Food, water, etc NEEDS
Gained financially PROFITED
Gandhi who serves as the president of the Indian National Congress SONIA
Garam ___ (Indian spice blend) MASALA
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
Opened a smidge AJAR
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
Smoothie seller JUICEBAR
Atoms that have an unequal number of protons and electrons IONS
1973 National Women's Hall of Fame inductee Keller HELEN
'Crazy Rich Asians' director Jon M. ___ CHU
Longtime 'liberal lion' of the Senate TEDKENNEDY
Next-in-command after the ship's first officer SECONDMATE
'It Takes Two' twins OLSENS
'You've Got Mail' director NORAEPHRON
'Married ... With Children' and 'Sons of Anarchy' co-star KATEYSAGAL
LINK UP WITH TIETO
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
Tips of missiles NOSECONES
Toss, as a water balloon LOB
Warn, as on the road HONKAT
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
___ Hirobumi, first prime minister of Japan ITO
___-out (poor excuse) COP