The Washington Post Sunday - Oct 6 2019

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Clues Answers
'Allahu ___' ('God is the greatest') AKBAR
'Becoming' writer, 2018 OBAMA
'Casino' director SCORSESE
'Frozen' character ELS
'Gimme a ___' SEC
'Gotta run' SEEYA
'In the Beginning' band, aptly GENESIS
'It's only me' IMALONE
'Leaving Las Vegas' Oscar winner, informally NICCAGE
'Survivor' sites ISLES
'The Family' director Besson LUC
'The greatest enemy that faith has,' per Martin Luther REASON
'The Mummy' beetles SCARABS
'___ cost you!' ITLL
1984 Teena Marie album STARCHILD
Agency gent ADMAN
An American in Paris TEXAN
Animated bus driver OTTO
Appears gradually FADESIN
Assembly ___ LINE
Atkins diet no-no CAR
Author Jong ERICA
Authorize, in a way SIGN
Avatar of Vishnu ... or, with a possible contestant on 115 Across, crash into an Arctic mammal? RAMA
Awakening AROUSAL
Banishes, as a college roommate during a hookup, in a modern portmanteau SEXILES
Barrett of Pink Floyd SYD
Based on deduction APRIORI
Be friendly, in a way SAYHELLO
Beast of an epic poem GRENDEL
Beech locations GROVES
Begin ___ (start over) NEW
Branch of Judaism, e.g SECT
Bus map markings TOPS
Carmela's portrayer EDIE
Charger or Colt, e.g AUTO
Civil War combatant REB
Cold drink brand ICE
Cold sore relief brand ORAJEL
College applicant's fear EJECTION
Copycat MIMI
Desired, with 'for' HOPED
Detroit River outlet ERIE
Dream state letters REM
Edges of fashion HEM
Elevator innovator TIS
Emulate Bunyan HOP
Encourage EGGO
Examined carefully SCANNED
Fat-avoiding Jack SPRAT
Fifth of fünf ... or, with a possible contestant on 115 Across, jockey straps held by a Marxist revolutionary? EINS
Fluorescent tube filler ARGON
Fool TWIT
For fear that EST
Freedom from labor EASE
Gaping hole MAW
Gas-X rival BEAN
Gay ___ (rights movement, briefly) LIB
Gray ___ REA
Hazy image ... or, with a possible contestant on 115 Across, artist Yoko when she writes a publicity notice? BLUR
Hedy of 'Boom Town' LAMARR
High school test fig APSCORE
Highland games cloth TARTAN
Home of the devils? TASMANIA
Hoops coach Auriemma GENO
Insta posting PIC
Isn't in the right? ERRS
Isn't in the rite? ELOPES
It comes after first AID
It shows several sides MENU
It's parked on a bench REAR
JFK inspection org TSA
Julia, in 'Ocean's Eleven' TESS
Kingdom in a musical SIAM
Clues Answers
Lacking skill in POORAT
Lancaster County folk AMIS
Less than 100 percent ILL
Like a comfy pillow OFT
Like contortionists AGILE
Like Garfield FELINE
Like some passages NASAL
Made of separate parts MODULAR
Make petty remarks SNIPE
Many moons AGE
Meat seller ELI
Metal fan? MINER
Most healthy HALEST
Musical trio? DOREMI
Narrow, as a rural road ONELANE
Natural fuel source PEAT
Nintendo Wii insert DISC
Not forgotten INMIND
Not yet consumed UNEATEN
Officially give up CEDE
Old firehouse fixture POLE
Operatic texts LIBRETTI
Oscar-winning Anna MAGNANI
Overhang AVE
Parking lot barrier GATE
Pass out in Vegas? DEA
Politico Buttigieg PETE
Polymeric molecule RNA
Predicament BIN
Privileged class LITE
Pro-___ (golf tourneys) AMS
Prom style, often UPDO
Publisher of the Weekly Brainwave MENSA
Rabbit relatives ARES
Ranch dude BUCKAROO
Raw, in a steakhouse TARTARE
Reality music show that's illustrated literally four times in this puzzle THEMASKEDSINGER
Remnant at a bonfire ASH
Renée Fleming offering ARI
Ridiculousness INANITY
Roo's protector KANGA
Routine practice HABIT
Sample, as a red SIP
Sass, briefly ... or, with a possible contestant on 115 Across, mournful piano piece? TUDE
Schemer of tragedy IAGO
Settle down? SAG
Simone of jazz NINA
Sitting next to ORDERING
Some deer DOES
Starts, datewise OPENSON
Stew, so to speak LOSESLEEP
Sticker on a stem THORN
Stimpy's cohort REN
Strasbourg summer ETE
Study, but not primarily MINORIN
Subject of many mid-2000s baseball articles STEROIDS
The first naturalized citizen from Africa to serve in Congress ILHANOMAR
Thrill LATE
Tissue in the throat TONSIL
Title chameleon of film RANG
Title robot of film WALL
Tom and Jerry, e.g AMES
Track figure MILER
Train in a ring SPAR
Two-tone cookies REOS
Type of truck that stretches farther than a short variety does LONGBED
Villainous look LEE
Water park fixture SLIDE
Way off AFAR
What people will ESTATES
Your location now HERE
Zapped, as with rays LASED
___ wave (curve in a calculus class) SIN