The Washington Post Sunday - May 23 2021

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Clues Answers
$20 bill producers ATMS
'Ali ___ and the Forty Thieves' BABA
'Amazing!' SOCOOL
'Crikey!' YIPE
'Don't You ___ 'Bout a Thing' (Stevie Wonder hit) WORRY
'Funny stuff' HEH
'Help us!' SOS
'If I could jump in ...' AHEM
'Letter From Birmingham Jail' author, initially MLK
'Men in Black' alias for Kevin Brown AGENTK
'Shoulda listened to me!' TOLDYASO
'Stop dillydallying!' DOIT
'Sure can!' YEP
'Vive le ___!' (cry in monarchist France) ROI
'We had nothing to do with this!' NOTUS
'___ do, pig. ___ do.' (final line of dialogue from 'Babe') THATLL
'___ that' (radio call) COPY
*Author of the 1989 techno-thriller 'The Ransom of Black Stealth One' DEANING
*Certain navel piercing BELLYBUTTONRING
*Filipina media personality who created a self-titled podcast about adulting JOYCEPRING
*Get involved with, as other people's business STICKYOURNOSEIN
*Musical for which Yul Brynner won a Tony Award THEKINGANDI
*Series of uprisings in the early 2010s that began in Tunisia ARABSPRING
1960s Egyptian leader Gamal ___ Nasser ABDEL
24 hours in the past ADAYAGO
68 Down + cinco OCHO
73 Down - cinco TRES
A-lister, e.g IDOL
Alkaline substance LYE
Analogous (to) AKIN
Animated character who finds the magical river Ahtohallan ELSA
App full of pics INSTA
Apply USE
Approximate landing hr ETA
Attila the ___ HUN
Backs, in a campaign ENDORSES
Baker's garment APRON
Bejeweled accessory TIARA
Boeuf ___ mode (French meat dish) ALA
British prep school students ETONIANS
Business with saunas SPA
Cancel, as a space mission ABORT
Candy bar morsel NUT
Caught a bug, say FELTILL
Chancellor and older cousin of 21 Across ESTEBAN
Cheetah's spot ZOO
Coastal hawks OSPREYS
Comedian Delaney ROB
Cost of driving TOLL
Couch potato's room DEN
Creative designs made from toy blocks LEGOART
Currently elsewhere AWAY
Cynical from life experience JADED
Dark Knight's attire BATSUIT
Disney princess who became queen of Avalor ELENA
Drop ___ (drop one's pants) TROU
Emitted, as rays of light LASED
Enterprise counselor TROI
Examine VIEW
Exchange SWAP
Expensive meat VENISON
Female ostrich HEN
Fluid from a pine SAP
Geometric figure formed by two rays ANGLE
Great service in tennis ACE
Guest on SNL, ironically HOST
Help get settled, as a trainee ORIENT
Hieroglyphics symbol ANKH
Hieroglyphics symbol EYE
Higher than expected, for a singer SHARP
Hit lightly, as a smartphone screen TAPON
How ham sandwiches might be served ONRYE
Clues Answers
Hunky-dory PEACHYKEEN
Improves in quality ENHANCES
Indian monarch's title RAJAH
Juicy piece of info TIDBIT
Legislatively approve PASS
Like some human dogs SLY
Little Rock resident ARKANSAN
Locale of the Experience Children's Museum (Hint: It's hidden in the name) ERIE
Look for clothes, say SHOP
Mailed SENTTO
Make clear in writing? ERASE
Metro ___ (region that includes a city) AREA
Musical with Munkustrap and Old Deuteronomy CATS
Mystic or Wizard, e.g ATHLETE
Nearly closed AJAR
Nickname that drops its preceding 'An' DRE
No, in Aberdeen NAE
Nothing at all NADA
Nun who reformed the Carmelite Order STTERESA
NYC-based ISP AOL
Oft-donated gametes OVA
Opposite of 'defy' OBEY
Original-sounding animal? GNU
Palindromic food in Indian cuisine NAAN
Papers delivered each morning DAILIES
Party plans? AGENDAS
People in a crowd? TRIO
Period of agricultural development, and a hint to the progression seen in the starred answers' last words GROWINGSEASON
Pizza dough raiser YEAST
Places to go? TOILETS
Poet's preposition ERE
Progress through without much effort SLIDEBY
Prone to being pushy BOSSY
Quid pro ___ QUO
Quit dreaming WAKE
Quite sentimental GUSHY
Rapper Yasiin Bey's former stage name MOSDEF
Rays of light BEAMS
Real deal? STEAL
Relaxes, as restrictions EASES
Repli-Kate in the 2002 National Lampoon film 'Repli-Kate,' e.g CLONE
Residential deliveries? HOMEBIRTHS
Response before a judge PLEA
River by Parliament THAMES
Room service venue INN
Sch. no GPA
Sensation of guilt or hunger PANG
Sense tangibly TOUCH
Sets in sports bars TVS
Similar ALIKE
Skiing setting SLOPE
Small opening SLIT
Some clocks' batteries AAS
Space one moved into recently, informally NEWDIGS
Stallion's pace, maybe TROT
Strong, mutual loathing ENMITY
Sunoco rival CITGO
Take advantage of in an enthusiastic way SEIZEON
The B of WB BROS
Things protected by goalies NETS
Time out on a couch NAP
Travel instantaneously, in some video games WARP
Trims, with 'down' PARES
Very small amount, or a Greek vowel IOTA
Weapons similar to scimitars SABERS
Whom Homer once referred to as 'stupid sexy Flanders' NED
Word after bowl or game OVER
Work created by Louise Erdrich or Susan Abulhawa, e.g NOVEL
Your parent's sister AUNT
___ Island RHODE
___ Ruess, frontman for the band fun NATE
___ Zumba (exercise program in a pool) AQUA