The Washington Post Sunday - Crossword Answers | 2020 09 27

crossword answers
Clue Answer
Basilica table ALTAR
Black ___ (hip-hop duo featuring string instruments) VIOLIN
Boas and such NECKWEAR
Box full of breakers PANEL
Brand of dressings and marinades KENS
Calorie, e.g UNIT
Cosmetics brand acquired by Natura &Co in 2020 AVON
Decline, in influence WANE
'Help me,' e.g PLEA
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
'___ ___ Baby' (hit for Vanilla ___) ICE
'___ to the Thief' (2003 Radiohead album) HAIL
'___ diem!' CARPE
Chrysanthemum containers VASES
Cardinals legend Brock LOU
Hydrologist's subject SEA
Cable giant offering Xfinity packages COMCAST
Jazz singer Cassidy EVA
Lasik surgery targets EYES
Like azaleas, to cats and dogs TOXIC
Like many adopted pets RESCUED
Liquid bead source PORE
JUST BARELY ATAD
SOLEMN DECLARATION VOW
Bio section of a newspaper OBITPAGE
Explosion from the surface of a white dwarf NOVA
Flaky mineral that's an anagram of 15 Down MICA
'Battlestar Galactica' actress Helfer TRICIA
Massage parlor option OILRUB
Met unexpectedly, with 'upon' CHANCED
Metaphor for initial romantic chemistry SPARK
Necromancer's haunt CRYPT
Next-in-command after the ship's first officer SECONDMATE
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
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
'Stormy Weather' singer Waters ETHEL
'You've Got Mail' director NORAEPHRON
'Later,' in Le Havre ADIEU
WEARYING ROUTINE RUT
Due-in hrs ETAS
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
Fate for some granted political asylum EXILE
Food, water, etc NEEDS
Gained financially PROFITED
'It Takes Two' twins OLSENS
Garam ___ (Indian spice blend) MASALA
Atoms that have an unequal number of protons and electrons IONS
1973 National Women's Hall of Fame inductee Keller HELEN
Heir space? ESTATE
'Crazy Rich Asians' director Jon M. ___ CHU
Piano mover, at times? VAN
Pin count TEN
How some cinematic sword fights are fought TOTHEDEATH
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
'Inconceivable!' CANTBE
LINK UP WITH TIETO
BROWNISH PEAR BOSC
'CITIZEN ___' KANE
BOATLOADS TONS
MAIN MODE OF TRAVEL? CRUISE
SEE 117 ACROSS PARTS
WILD GATHERING ORGY
COMPETITIVE ADVANTAGE EDGE
SURROUND HEMIN
Business card abbr TEL
SHOWERS RAINS
WORK OVER REDO
SUBSEQUENTLY THEN
100 percent accurate EXACT
BENEFICIAL QUALITY ASSET
SEE 19 ACROSS VERA
VARIETIES ILKS
___ SMEAR PAP
CONTRIBUTE ADDIN
GOOD TO GO AOK
BENT OUT OF SHAPE CROOKED
'Why not ___?' BOTH
ELLIPSOIDAL OVAL
EASILY IRRITATED PRICKLY
INFOMERCIAL PHRASE ASSEENONTV
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
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
It shelters in a shell HERMITCRAB
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
Lisa Kudrow and Meryl Streep's alma mater VASSAR
___-out (poor excuse) COP
Gandhi who serves as the president of the Indian National Congress SONIA
VERY TOO
Key hit when starting a new paragraph ENTER
Tartan garments KILTS
MEANINGLESS INANE
BUSTLE HOOPLA
VERY OHSO
Handle on an app USERID
Home of the French aquarium Océanopolis BREST
Potential results of rap battles? DISSTRACKS
Tips of missiles NOSECONES
Longtime 'liberal lion' of the Senate TEDKENNEDY
'Married ... With Children' and 'Sons of Anarchy' co-star KATEYSAGAL
Guys carrying clubs BATBOYS
___ Hirobumi, first prime minister of Japan ITO