The Washington Post Sunday - Mar 6 2022

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Clues Answers
'An appalling waste of energy,' per Katherine Mansfield / Exploring deeply RESEARCHING
'Atlanta,' 'Dallas' or 'Nashville,' e.g SERIES
'Be on your guard' STAYALERT
'Dig in!' EAT
'Earthquake' actress Gardner AVA
'Eloquent Rage: A Black Feminist Discovers Her Superpower' author Brittney COOPER
'Elysium' actor Matt DAMON
'God ...!' SONOFA
'Heat' actor Kilmer VAL
'I like ___' (1950s presidential campaign slogan) IKE
'I'm here' ITSME
'Is this thing on?' strike TAP
'L-O-V-E' singer ___ King Cole NAT
'Let's get ready to rumble!' GAMEON
'Little Trip to Heaven (On the Wings of Your Love)' singer, 1973 TOMWAITS
'No ___ traffic' THRU
'Score!' GOAL
'That goes for me, too' SOAMI
'Warlords' maker ATARI
'Way to get yourself out of trouble there' NICESAVE
'___ made up my mind' IVE
105 Across that's spelled out by the first letters of this puzzle's unclued Down answers GREBE
55 Down blades GRASS
BUNTING
RAVEN
EAGLE
GOOSE
EGRET
Supreme Court ruling reaffirmed in City of Akron v. Akron Center for Reproductive Health (1983), informally ROE
Aces of Aces and kings of Kings, e.g ALLSTARS
Also-ran in 1988 DUKAKIS
Alter ___ (superhero's second self) EGO
AOC : Ocasio :: RBG : ___ BADER
Attorney's document BRIEF
Away at the moment NOTIN
Barbecue portion SPARERIB
Be highly successful THRIVE
Big part of Chad SAHARA
Bran source OAT
Bring about GENERATE
Burns' remedies BALMS
Change color slightly TINT
Commencement ONSET
Contraction eliding 'un' TIL
Cookware brand based in France STAUB
Cowardly / Sellers of fabric and knitting supplies CRAFTSTORES
Crew locale SHIP
Depletes SAPS
Dish that may be filled with salsa and chipotle peppers CHALUPA
Dishonorable fellows CADS
Ears full of sugar SWEETCORN
Egyptian god of war and chaos SET
Enter undetected SNEAKIN
Envision with divination FORESEE
Everyday explosions SNEEZES
Exam prep expert TUTOR
Extract, in metallurgy SMELT
Extremely EVERSO
Fabric often worn torn DENIM
Flabbergasts STUNS
Food from the French for 'saucepan' CASSEROLE
Fried ring thing ONION
Galway's country: Abbr IRE
Ganesha or Krishna, in Hinduism DEITY
Give credit, with 'to' ASCRIBE
Go through '1984' again, say REREAD
Had been WERE
Have a banquet meal DINE
Infant's hooded garment / One born during the 1950s, maybe BABYBOOMER
Laudatory stanzas ODE
Clues Answers
Law of ___ (trigonometry equation) SINES
Lead-in to a big event EVE
Like bulls from the Vatican PAPAL
Like fans during a triple-overtime thriller TENSE
Like one going on a tirade IRATE
Like vintage Gouda AGED
Linguistics topic SLANG
Lost son of the clownfish Marlin NEMO
Made an offer that one couldn't refuse, say LURED
Make at the workplace EARN
May day event, usually PROM
Meal the begins with reciting the kiddush SEDER
Medical procedures that aren't closed OPENMRIS
Midwest city where the first Gibson guitars were manufactured KALAMAZOO
Negation of 'dele,' in editing STET
Nurturing man DAD
Objective of pollution reduction CLEANAIR
One making a swift descent, illustrated by each unclued Down answer in this puzzle DIVINGBIRD
One with love interests EROS
Org. profiled in James Bamford's book 'Body of Secrets' NSA
Painting perimeter FRAME
Performance check TESTRUN
Person who is hard-working and successful while 'high' ACHIEVER
Peter, Ray and Winston's fellow Ghostbuster EGON
Place where caddies hold bags TEAROOM
Preposition in a sonnet ERE
Prized flower in 'The Little Prince' ROSE
Proposition accepted as true AXIOM
Qatar royal EMIR
Reason for tripping LSD
Received by the ears AURAL
Record label found in 'remixes' EMI
Relative of a meerkat / Citizens of Ulaanbaatar MONGOLIANS
Reluctant (to) AVERSE
Reminds over and over NAGS
Restriction at some apartments NOPETS
Rock bottom moment? BASSSOLO
Role model EXEMPLAR
Sandra Bullock film involving Web surfing THENET
Sch. application nos GPAS
Science educator Bill NYE
Section of a building opposite the front REARAREA
Seizes the attention of GRABS
Sheep noise BLEAT
Shouts CRIESOUT
Sly summons PSST
Snoopy, e.g. / Stout vessel BEERBARREL
Stage during an insect's metamorphosis LARVA
Subject for Dian Fossey APE
Sufficiently skilled ABLE
The 5th Dimension member Florence LARUE
The F of AFAIK FAR
The Red Bear Brewing Co. drink Skookum, e.g ALE
Tiger noises ROARS
Tool for making piles RAKE
Tornado warning noisemaker SIREN
Tree used to build King David's house CEDAR
Try out a bouquet SMELL
Unique ALONE
Verb used in cooking STIR
What this puzzle's featured creatures build NESTS
Where disc golfers make their first throws TEEPADS
Where Maria sings 'The Hills Are Alive' in 'The Sound of Music' MEADOW
Wish list recipient? GENIE
Word before Major or Minor, in astronomy URSA
Works really hard TOILS
Writer Umberto ECO
Wrong letter in a crossword, e.g ERROR
www.gallaudet.___ EDU
___ stateswoman ELDER