The Washington Post Tuesday - Crossword Answers | 2020 10 20

crossword answers
Clue Answer
PRIOR TO, IN POEMS ERE
LAYER ON A STAGNANT POND SCUM
ACKNOWLEDGES APPLAUSE BOWS
GATOR'S COUSIN CROC
IMPULSE URGE
LOVE HANDLES, SO TO SPEAK FLAB
Very often ALOT
GERMAN CAMERA LEICA
GRAND-SCALE PRODUCTION EPIC
SHADE TREE ELM
GIVE PERMISSION ALLOW
Singer __ Amos TORI
'Xanadu' rock gp ELO
GRABS SOME SHUTEYE SLEEPS
HIDE-HAIR CONNECTOR NOR
SCALE STARTERS DOREMI
SIGN OF SUMMER LEO
SECRETLY SUBROSA
PAVAROTTI, FOR ONE TENOR
Cold, in Cádiz FRIO
AVRIL LAVIGNE'S 'SK8ER __' BOI
WRESTLER JOHN CENA
PLAY DIVISIONS ACTS
BACK ON BOARD AFT
LEGAL CHALLENGE APPEAL
MEXICAN BREAD? PESO
EXPECTED OUTCOMES NORMS
BURGER JOINT DRINKS SHAKES
DISCONCERT ABASH
POI SOURCE TARO
'Open __ 9 p.m.': store sign UNTIL
LIMITED IN SCOPE NARROW
SNAPPLE RIVAL NESTEA
PREVENTION MEASURE? OUNCE
ARTIFICIAL BAIT LURE
PILLOW FILLER FOAM
BEGINNING ON ASOF
BRIDE-TO-BE FIANCEE
OLD STORIES LORE
CITRUS COOLERS ADES
VATICAN LEADER POPE
YELLOWFIN TUNA AHI
ENTERTAINMENT AWARDS ACRONYM EGOT
STUFFED SHIRT PRIG
SPENDING LIMIT CAP
GENESIS CREATOR SEGA
'The First __': holiday song NOEL
'Voices Carry' co-songwriter Mann AIMEE
Bach mini comic opera about a beverage addiction COFFEECANTATA
Caroline, to Bobby Kennedy NIECE
Garden trimming gadget EDGER
Last parting, or what can literally be found in 20-, 25- and 47-Across FINALFAREWELL
Letter-shaped plumbing trap UBEND
Liberty Bell flaw CRACK
They're often swiped at work IDCARDS
Site of many a college party FRAT
Relay race segments LEGS
React to an insult, maybe STIFFEN
Opp. of 56-Down MAN
Modern car receivers SATELLITERADIOS
Makeup streak SMEAR
Tosses in one's cards FOLDS
Wiped out by excess costs, as profits EATENUP
Works-by-itself setting AUTO
Denver-to-Chicago dir ENE
PERCHED ON ATOP