The Washington Post Sunday - Dec 26 2021

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Clues Answers
'Archer' voice actress Judy GREER
'Citizen Kane' locale XANADU
'Home ___' ALONE
'I Want to Come Home for Christmas' singer Gaye MARVIN
'I'll be home for Christmas / If ___ in my dreams' ONLY
'Night' author Wiesel ELIE
'Open the door, human!' MEOW
'Sun's out, guns out' muscles BICEPS
'The Café-Concert' painter, 1879 MANET
'The Nutcracker and the Mouse King,' e.g TALE
'Things ___ looking up!' ARE
'We did it!' YEAH
'We ___ a miracle!' NEED
'Welcome to Hell World' author Luke ONEIL
'Who wants to take a crack at it?' ANYBODY
'Wintersong' musician McLachlan SARAH
'Zing!' HIYO
'___ the kraken!' RELEASE
*'Doesn't affect me' ITSNOSWEATOFFMYBACK
*1979 film whose final line is a quotation from 'Heart of Darkness' APOCALYPSENOW
*Card game that's a gambling variant of a simpler card game CASINOWAR
*Phrase used to emphasize the truth of something GOODNESSKNOWS
*Scandinavian city that's home to the Science Factory SANDNESNORWAY
Abbr. on office mail STE
Adjusts, as shoelaces RETIES
Allstate competitor AFLAC
Atlas box INSET
Attach ADJOIN
Attempts to connect with another plane? SEANCES
Avoid EVADE
Band around a joint ANKLET
Band or toy preceder BOY
Bathroom cleaner SOAP
Be abundant TEEM
Bistro reading MENU
Bolt SKEDADDLE
C feature CURVE
Chem class charges LABFEES
Christmas feast, e.g REPAST
Christmas song lyric that serves as a hint to this puzzle's meta DASHINGTHROUGHTHESNOW
Closefitting head cover DURAG
Common Christmas ornament ORB
Completely absorbed ENRAPT
Considered to be SEENAS
Crime drama genre NOIR
Cute source of pants? DOG
Delegate from Can. or Mex., e.g., who assembles in NYC UNREP
Discreet email initials BCC
Dodgeball balls, essentially AMMO
Downcast SAD
Eagle ___ (source of nest broadcasts) CAM
Emulated crows CAWED
Faked out, in hockey DEKED
False fronts GUISES
Far from terse WORDY
Farmer's site, in a song DELL
Feature of rotten eggs ODOR
Fiddles' kin VIOLAS
Figure skater Brian who performed in 'Carmen on Ice' ORSER
Flavor enhancer inits MSG
Form of sunscreen GEL
Former Firebird maker PONTIAC
Gave, as a hand LENT
Get into a pizza, say BITE
Glazed Christmas dish, perhaps HAM
Go swiftly SPEED
Gold medal-winning runner Sebastian COE
Grant with the album 'Home for Christmas' AMY
Greek series finale? OMEGA
Greek symbol of density RHO
Hack with an ax HEW
Having a cold, say ILL
Hearing order ALLRISE
Held for questioning DETAINED
Homering Sammy SOSA
How bills may be paid INCASH
How some bread tastes YEASTY
Clues Answers
Hustle RUSH
Idiomatically reinvented device WHEEL
Inaugural statements OATHS
Instrument heard in the 'Schitt's Creek' theme TUBA
Jewelry fastener CLASP
Joined forces with horses, say? RHYMED
Like blizzards, in part WINDY
Lines of celebration ODE
Links starting point TEE
Little, informally ITSY
Lupino of 'Devotion' IDA
Magazine that's headquartered in Paris ELLE
Make a sincere appeal PLEAD
Make tracks HURRY
Maker of 4K Ultra HD TVs RCA
Many ousted leaders EXILES
Membranous structure attached to an embryo YOLKSAC
Minimal amount LEAST
Molly of an Irish folk song MALONE
Move like Shelly-Ann Fraser-Pryce SPRINT
National Film Award winner Kapoor RAJ
Neat assortments ARRAYS
Not as easily solved HARDER
Not joking SERIOUS
Number two? DUO
Off-limits thing NONO
OkCupid users' activity DATING
One checking text messages? EDITOR
Ornamental lace mat DOILY
Parts of feet TOES
Patronize, as for lunch DINEAT
Poli ___ SCI
Power-ful scientist? WATT
Prefix with freeze ANTI
Protozoan on a slide AMOEBA
Puppeteer Baird BIL
Reference showing local attractions AREAMAP
Repeated bit of music LOOP
River vortexes EDDIES
Roller coaster track RAIL
See 118 Across LEE
Serpents on pharaohs' headdresses ASPS
Setting of the game 'Subnautica' SEA
Shelters securely ENSCONCES
Silken net WEB
Small unit of vol TSP
Sonic, e.g HEDGEHOG
Spanish city where the Alhambra is located GRANADA
Standing by, as a doctor ONCALL
Star pitcher's low no ERA
Storied gift wrapper ELF
Summer Games blade EPEE
Sunbathing goal, often TAN
Supervised reentry into society PAROLE
Swamp hopper TOAD
Synonym of 7 Across ARC
The fourth ___ (journalists, as a group) ESTATE
Train unit that carries crude material OILCAR
Two, in poker DEUCE
Unfair preference, maybe BIAS
Uses falsetto, in a way YODELS
Vain one's big thing EGO
Wassailing drink ALE
Wet floor cleaner MOP
What many apps run on IOS
Wicked spirit FIEND
Willie of Giants fame MAYS
Wine ___ (one scoffing at another's merlot, say) SNOB
Winged ___ (tree) ELM
Winter wraps SHAWLS
With 29 Down, 'The Ice Storm' director ANG
With a clean slate ANEW
Without the means UNABLE
Work period STINT
World records, e.g BESTS
___ grass OAT
___ pressure PEER