The Washington Post - Dec 17 2015

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Clues Answers
'All in the Family' spin-off MAUDE
'Got no clue!' IDUNNO
'Hey ... over here!' PSST
'Mama' Cass ELLIOT
'The World According to ___' (1982 film) GARP
'This' to Pablo ESTO
'True Blood' star Paquin ANNA
'___ Ben Adhem' (James Leigh Hunt poem) ABOU
'___ go bragh!' ERIN
1993 movie role for Liam OSKAR
Altar promises IDOS
Amtrak employees REDCAPS
Anderson of TV and film LONI
Autumn birthstone OPAL
Baseball's Tribe, on scorecards CLE
Be not up to par AIL
Beyond merely snug TIGHT
BMI competitor ASCAP
Bruin legend Bobby ORR
Carrier to Tokyo ANA
Chasing party PURSUER
Columnists, in a way, in this puzzle's four longest answers MDS
Composer Bruckner ANTON
Courteous refusal to a woman NOMAAM
Cracker spread PATE
Cumbersome boats ARKS
Della's angel role TESS
Devices that recognize physical activity MOTIONDETECTORS
Dot in the ocean ISLET
Ecclesiastical gathering SYNOD
Eighth of a circle OCTILE
Embarrass ABASH
Essential part GIST
Excavating machine DREDGE
Fergie, formally SARAH
Former nutritional fig RDA
French cleric ABBE
Fundamental, as issues MEATANDPOTATOES
Clues Answers
Handles a problem COPES
Hawaiian strings, informally UKE
Huge ref. set OED
Immigrant's course, for short ESL
Inlaid designs MOSAICS
Jargon SLANG
Kenya's capital NAIROBI
Kitchen and bathroom features SINKS
Letter-shaped support piece IBAR
Like the proverbial family man MARRIEDWITHKIDS
Method WAY
Move like molasses OOZE
Needle holes EYES
Nursery item SAPLING
Object of a mil. search AWOL
Offed DIDIN
Old-fashioned chest cold home remedy MUSTARDPLASTERS
On the level REAL
Out of the weather ALEE
Perceptive faculties SENSES
Place of luxury? LAP
Plays a Halloween prank on, informally TPS
Reheat, nowadays ZAP
River near the Pyramids NILE
Sci. of the stars ASTR
Sean who played Sam Gamgee ASTIN
Slurs over ELIDES
Sommer of 'The Prize' ELKE
Stick in the microwave NUKE
Three-player card game SKAT
Tip-top ACME
Tributes in verse ODES
Trouble ANNOY
Troubles WOES
U.K. neighbor IRE
Vampire that Cruise portrayed LESTAT
Verbal hesitations ERS
Women's patriotic org DAR