The Washington Post Sunday - Feb 18 2018

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Clues Answers
'A Wrinkle in Time' director DuVernay AVA
'Fire' stones OPALS
'Right away!' NOW
'The Beverly Hillbillies' patriarch JED
'The Lost World' beast RAPTOR
'True Life' channel MTV
'Well, I never!' WHATNERVE
'___ That I Love You' (Rihanna song) HATE
1975 film that Pauline Kael said 'may be the most cheerfully perverse scare movie ever made' JAWS
Academic octet IVIES
Amazon's brand of smart speakers ECHO
Aquafina rival EVIAN
Author E.L. James's real first name ERIKA
Avalanche, to a mountain climber, e.g PERIL
Bandleader Pérez Prado's sobriquet KINGOFTHEMAMBO
Berkshire school ETON
Betray a sulky mood POUT
Beverage sponsoring many a Super Bowl halftime show PEPSI
Binary code digits ONES
Body shop lifter JACK
Bother ADO
Bottom of a boat HULL
Brazilian berry ACAI
Canine from Japan AKITA
Carpeting calculation AREA
Circumvented AVOIDED
Comedian Kondabolu who starred in the documentary 'The Problem With Apu' HARI
Concern for Poirot MOTIVE
Coral reef formation ATOLL
Country that borders Lake Victoria and the Indian Ocean KENYA
Cryptocrystalline form of quartz ONYX
Deep space? SEA
Devil's Cut bourbon brand JIMBEAM
Dirk Nowitzki's team, briefly MAVS
Disease caused by plasmodium parasites MALARIA
Displays satisfaction SMILES
Domestic employee who resides at the place of employment LIVEINNANNY
Elongated swimmer EEL
Emmy-winning Eartha KITT
ESPN.com senior sportswriter Torre PABLO
Evening, in ads NITE
Events with ice cream SOCIALS
Exclude OMIT
Exec's degree, perhaps MBA
Extract, as a splinter TWEEZE
Fire sign? ALARM
First word of many 48 Down WHO
Fish-filled shell, maybe TACO
Fly like a moth FLUTTER
Former NHL team that relocated to Colorado in 1995 QUEBECNORDIQUES
Founder of a fruit spread company SMUCKER
Genetic letters RNA
German car company's motorcycle, in slang BEEMER
Gets in a pool, in a way DIVES
Glowing sphere, maybe ORB
Gomez's sitcom cousin ITT
Having sore knees, say ACHY
High or low card ACE
Highway section LANE
His first bout as a pro was against Hunsaker ALI
Home of the Huskies UCONN
Honor for Crowe or Finch BESTACTOR
Hookup in a hospital IVTUBE
It joined OPEC in 1961 QATAR
It makes noise in a crib RATTLE
It's primarily nitrogen AIR
James of film CAAN
James of music ETTA
Jumpers from Down Under, briefly ROOS
Left, in a way MOVEDOUT
Like cues given aloud VERBAL
Like some bar drinks ONTAP
Clues Answers
Like some rebates MAILIN
Like tightrope walking RISKY
Linguistic pattern SYNTAX
Make a mend, say SEW
Maker of i-opening products? APPLE
Mocked, as at recess TEASED
Modifiers of nouns RELATIVECLAUSES
Moose kin ELK
Mousse kin GEL
Movie star Dianne who turns into movie star Mae when I ain't there? WIEST
Multinational state that dissolved at the end of World War I AUSTRIAHUNGARY
Musical Greenwich ELLIE
Muslim cleric's ruling FATWA
Nile Valley slitherers ASPS
No later than UNTIL
Not on the dot INEXACT
Numbers pronoun THOU
Oil and water sources WELLS
Org. with many programs exposed in 2013 NSA
Overly lean GAUNT
Parts ___ million PER
Pasta variety PENNE
Pastime for posers? YOGA
Peyton's little brother ELI
Piercing place EARLOBE
Poet's foot IAMB
Puzzle that spells out a quotation ACROSTIC
R&B singer Marie TEENA
Record producer Adler LOU
Red Wings great Gordie HOWE
Rice : Burroughs :: ___ : Poe ALLAN
Rolled lunch WRAP
Safe, as at 98 Across ALEE
Savings plans, briefly IRAS
Scheduled to arrive DUE
Scroll repositories ARKS
Seamstress's fastener PIN
Sent up a la Mel Brooks SPOOFED
Served as an attendant for a knight SQUIRED
Shifts slightly BUDGES
Shorn creatures EWES
Shrek creator William STEIG
Sign of a bad egg ODOR
Slender and graceful SVELTE
Small units of energy ERGS
Smartphone speaker SIRI
SNL alum Bayer VANESSA
Software giant IBM
Some Firestone products RADIALTIRES
Some job benefits PERKS
Source of fake news LIAR
Spa staffers MASSEURS
Spiff (up) GUSSY
Styling station SALON
Sulky mood SNIT
Super Floss maker ORALB
Swizzles STIRS
Talocrural joint sites ANKLES
To-do list listing TASK
Tots' parents MAMAS
Trash collectors? BINS
Tux accessories STUDS
Type of football defense ZONE
Variety ILK
Visits for a bit STOPSBY
Wales's national flower DAFFODIL
William and Mary, e.g NAMES
Work up a sweat TOIL
___ Kong HONG
___ Pistols SEX
___ pods (laundry detergent packs) TIDE
___ weevil BOLL