The Washington Post Sunday - Feb 27 2022

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Clues Answers
'50/50' actor Rogen SETH
'And we'll tak' a cup o' kindness yet / For auld lang ___' SYNE
'Don't worry, it'll be OK' RELAX
'Feel Good' star ___ Martin MAE
'Good Times ___ Times' (opening track on Led Zeppelin's debut album) BAD
'Lonely' singer whose name is 65 Across minus its middle letter AKON
'Love Really ___ Without You' (Billy Ocean song) HURTS
'Positions' singer Grande, informally ARI
'The Brady ___' BUNCH
'You're distracting me!' SHH
'___ your engines!' START
'___-la-la!' OOH
80 Across image ICON
Able to think quickly AGILE
Anchor's place SHIP
Ancient period YORE
Ancient scroll character RUNE
Animal kingdom partner MATE
Anonymous Jane DOE
Artistic Rockwell NORMAN
Barely beat EDGED
Base levels RANKS
Batted around, kitten-style PAWEDAT
Being from Orgrimmar in 'World of Warcraft' ORC
Bennett on records TONY
Bird appearing in a 'Whatever Froots Your Loops' ad campaign TOUCANSAM
Bits of glue DABS
Captain Hook's bosun SMEE
Cause collisions at a concert MOSH
Charles Dickens book about the residence where actress Lively, NBA star Griffin, pianist Eubie and poet William have all lived? BLAKEHOUSE
Circular saw, e.g TOOL
Classic work involving much travel, and what's spelled out by ten traveling letters in this puzzle THEODYSSEY
Collect, as a fortune AMASS
Commotion from promotion HYPE
Countryside measures ACRES
Cuyahoga River city AKRON
Dance class instruction STEP
Dashboard initialism MPH
Data figs NOS
Defeated the final boss, say WON
Didn't just believe KNEW
Disingenuous INSINCERE
Divulges LETSON
Do some thievery ROB
Dozer developer DEERE
Drive back REPEL
E.M. Forster book about director Ron's TV room? HOWARDSDEN
Enjoy a water park SWIM
Filly's male counterpart COLT
Foreigner frontman Lou GRAMM
Freedom to maneuver LEEWAY
Frequency RATE
Geometric knitting pattern ARGYLE
Glittering accessory TIARA
Gollum's original name in Tolkien stories SMEAGOL
Grub CHOW
Her 1966 doctoral thesis was titled 'Behaviour of Free-Living Chimpanzees' GOODALL
Herman Melville book about a friend who handles the bar tab? BILLBUDDY
Horseshoes relative RINGTOSS
How World Cup Final matches never end INATIE
Ignored a driving limit SPED
Indicates agreement NODS
Ingredient in some sriracha sauces HONEY
Item for fixing locks? BRUSH
Its bases make up the genome DNA
Jack Kerouac book about how musician Yoko is totally gnarly? ONOTHERAD
John Steinbeck book about afternoon parties in paradise? TEASOFEDEN
Keelung's country TAIWAN
Kitchen nightmare, maybe MESS
Krusty the Clown's greeting HEYHEY
Kurt Vonnegut book about a bed for jazz-singing babies? SCATCRADLE
Clues Answers
Last word of IPA ALE
Leopardus genus feline OCELOT
Like intricate artwork DETAILED
Like one whose gender identity matches their sex assigned at birth CIS
Manage, with 'out' EKE
Megalomaniac's issue EGO
Metal bar, perhaps ROD
Michael Lewis book about the only formal dance he ever attended? MYONEBALL
Muse of lyric poetry ERATO
Narrow crest of a hill RIDGE
NASCAR circuits LAPS
Necessities MUSTS
Neither partner NOR
Nevertheless, briefly THO
Nickname of Kaitlin Olson's character on 'It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia' SWEETDEE
Nora Ephron book about a heat-related injury sustained on this planet? EARTHBURN
Oaf, in Canadian slang HOSER
Oboes, clarinets, etc WINDS
One in a fairy tale duo GRETEL
One with seniority ELDER
Oral defamation SLANDER
Oratorio tune ARIA
Oscar winner David NIVEN
Packed with parsley, say HERBY
Palindrome meaning 'small' LIL
Particularly persnickety FUSSY
Phi Beta ___ KAPPA
Playwright Burrows ABE
Poet paying homage ODIST
Powerful Pokémon with a rhyming name MEWTWO
Preschooler's vehicle TRIKE
Publisher of the game 'Shining Force' SEGA
Quincy Jones, to Rashida Jones FATHER
Rain delay sheet TARP
Resource that may be used to make jewelry ORE
Rise above the water line to look around, as a whale does SPYHOP
Risk analyst's subjects? PERILS
Settled on, with 'for' OPTED
Shares a story with, as before bedtime READSTO
Shedding friend, maybe PET
Short opening? INTRO
Sibling nickname SIS
Silence, as on Zoom MUTE
Silverstein music genre EMO
Simoleons DINERO
Sirloin specification RARE
Spot in an auditorium SEAT
Stephen King book about parking places in Oregon's capital? SALEMLOTS
Summer or winter gourds SQUASHES
Sword fight injury GASH
Sword fight selection SABER
Synonym of 34 Down DAD
Tablet program APP
Take in the newspaper OPEDPIECE
Tater ___ TOT
The 'Iron Chancellor' ___ von Bismarck OTTO
Theater production STAGESHOW
They provide a view EYES
Troubled VEXED
TV critic's posting RECAP
Unable to think quickly DAZED
Uno card color RED
Until UPTO
Wash with water RINSE
Winged harpist ANGEL
WNBA star Cambage LIZ
Wood used in expensive chess sets EBONY
Word following status QUO
Zadie Smith book about boxers who specialize in punching people in the mouth? WEHITTEETH
Zebra seen near Lions REF
___ victory (gain in spite of a loss) MORAL