The Washington Post - Feb 16 2017

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#26 on the periodic table IRON
'Must I draw you ___?' AMAP
2016 'Final Five' Olympian GYMNAST
Act of derring-do FEAT
Affirmation before a certain pronouncement IDO
All major party presidential nominees, until 2016 MEN
Asserted STATED
Attention, metaphorically EAR
Aves. and blvds STS
Brunch libation MIMOSA
Bush who promoted literacy LAURA
Cable network on which 'Sex and the City' originally appeared HBO
Camp David Accords, for example BILATERALTREATY
Change for a five ONES
Classical calculator ABACUS
Clear the condensation from, as a windshield DEFOG
Dry as a bone ARID
Each APOP
Easy gait LOPE
Endodontist's deg DDS
Eponym of a brainteasing colored cube RUBIK
Erstwhile planet that was demoted in 2006 PLUTO
Et ___ ALII
Evidence for which crime scene investigators dust LATENTPRINTS
Fat-fingered touchscreen user's aid STYLUS
Flagship event at Billie Jean King National Tennis Center USOPEN
For example SAY
Four Corners region COLORADOPLATEAU
Foursome TETRAD
George Michael's erstwhile duo WHAM
Grand ___ (bygone sporty Pontiacs) AMS
Hairy hominid in a Eugene O'Neill title APE
Hand out, as cards DEAL
Iconic recruitment poster uncle SAM
In tandem with Alt and Del, a keyboard escape mechanism CTRL
It might be stacked or swabbed DECK
Italian sonnet's 'resolution,' named for the number of lines it contains SESTET
Jamaican music genre SKA
Jazz legend Fitzgerald ELLA
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John Donne work ELEGY
Knocks the socks off WOWS
Lavishes love and attention (on) DOTES
Level TIER
Lie next to ABUT
Like a Brinks truck ARMORED
Liquid rock LAVA
Little devil IMP
Marshmallow-garnished winter beverage HOTCHOCOLATE
Most of a meringue EGGS
Much of this might be about nothing, per Shakespeare ADO
Not clerical LAIC
Of monumental size EPIC
Old London theater name VIC
Otherworldly glow AURA
Pride of lions? MANE
Purchase when your tires are running low AIR
Rawboned sort SCRAG
Roll an inopportune seven, with 'out' CRAP
Rug rat TYKE
San ___ (Italian Riviera resort city) REMO
Scratches (out) EKES
Show appreciation, in a way CLAP
Shrek and Fiona OGRES
Singer Lavigne AVRIL
Sitarist Shankar RAVI
Skimpy lingerie item that's the subject of a Sisqo song THONG
Splinter group SECT
Sport not suitable for gate crashers SLALOM
Technical music composition ETUDE
Theater award for productions in smaller venues OBIE
Threadbare WORN
Tickler of the ivories PIANIST
Title island in a popular computer game MYST
Wake-up call ALARM
Was in front LED
Whenever ANYTIME
Wrack line maker TIDE
Writer without artistic talent HACK