The Washington Post - Jan 6 2022

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Clues Answers
'Invisible Man' author ELLISON
'Kidnapped' monogram RLS
'Medical' sports nickname DRJ
'The spring is __ when green geese are a-breeding': Shak NEAR
'__ we on for tonight?' ARE
2013 Alice McDermott novel that was a National Book Award finalist SOMEONE
2013 Mandela portrayer ELBA
Always raring to fight WARLIKE
Bach wrote one about coffee CANTATA
Ballet motion PLIE
Bed for an unexpected guest, maybe COT
Bring (out) TROT
Buzz WORDONTHESTREET
Buzz MILITARYHAIRCUT
Buzz NOISEMADEBYBEES
Buzz ASTRONAUTALDRIN
Bygone employees of cautious royalty TASTERS
Calculated intake DOSE
Calculated intake RATIONS
Comic Rudner RITA
CSI stuff DNA
Cuisine including jambalaya CREOLE
Developing INUTERO
Diamond flaw? ERROR
Dowel ROD
Dubious ability ESP
Engraver Albrecht DURER
Enhanced the recipe with ADDEDIN
Evoke an 'ooh' from, maybe AWE
Food regimen DIET
Get testy with SNAPAT
Hornet home NEST
Increase, with 'up' STEP
Intuitively grasp, in slang GROK
Like a country at the bottom of a rainfall chart DRYEST
Like gossip worth spreading JUICY
Clues Answers
Likely to scald TOOHOT
Lowered DEBASED
Marathon Petroleum brand ARCO
Memento TOKEN
Org. monitoring insecticides EPA
Persisted noisily, as a storm RAGED
Place to put your feet up OTTOMAN
Plenty ALOT
Puts out, in a way TAGS
Repeated contraction in the '50s TV 'Superman' intro ITS
Rock box AMP
RR sched. components STNS
Russian retreat DACHA
Santa Fe-to-Dallas dir ESE
See 49-Down CLUB
Sideline advisers COACHES
Small application DAB
Snitch RAT
Speaks formally ORATES
Star-crossed HAPLESS
Struggle with scissors? LISP
Swedish superstore IKEA
Sykes of 'black-ish' WANDA
Tickle AROUSE
Toothless farm denizens HENS
Top ACME
Treats with embossed surfaces OREOS
Trig. function COS
USDA concern ECOLI
Verbal pause HEM
Vex EATAT
West African capital ACCRA
With 50-Down, group for movie enthusiasts CINE
Within AMID
__ beast: holiday dinner in a Seuss classic ROAST
__ gum: common thickening agent GUAR