The Washington Post - May 21 2022

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Clues Answers
'I don't mind __ / Except as meals. / And the way they feels': Nash EELS
'Mine! Mine! Mine!' criers in 'Finding Nemo' GULLS
'Toodles!' TATA
'Wrong hand, silly' YOUROTHERRIGHT
Academic term SCHOOLYEAR
Active front? RETRO
Actress Thurman UMA
Animal in Aboriginal cave paintings DINGO
Bag SNARE
Bags TRAPS
Brandon __: Hilary Swank's 'Boys Don't Cry' role TEENA
Breeding grounds HOTBEDS
Clipped TERSE
Derived from gold AURIC
Dessert with a high point SOFTSERVE
Device that requires spin control LATHE
Earthenware vessel CROCK
Eyelid issue STYE
Fox holes DENS
Get set PREP
Grace period? AMEN
GRE org ETS
Heterogenous union ALLOY
Inoculation fluids SERA
Instruments in some Gershwin works ALTOSAXES
Joie de vivre ELAN
Lacks options HASGOTTO
Latin law LEX
Leaves in a pot TEA
Like a fly ball to the warning track DEEP
Line on a handwriting test NEATNESSCOUNTS
Literary alter ego HYDE
Make dough or bread EARN
Many times o'er OFT
Clues Answers
Nice parent MERE
Not well-done in the least EXTRARARE
One having a cow? MEATEATER
One of two tarot card groups ARCANA
One working with a dictator STENO
Pair sharing a <3 necklace, probably BFFS
Perfectly TOATURN
Place to get high and pass out? TOPBUNK
Poetic contraction TWERE
Polished SUAVE
Postulant NOVICE
Role, metaphorically HAT
Rose up on stage AXL
Rowing implement? HOE
Rx writers, often DRS
Safari runners MACS
Self-consoling sigh ITRIED
Small pouches SACS
Son of Hera ARES
Sources of fleeting joy? YACHTS
State whose road signs feature 8-Downs UTAH
Study aid FLASHCARD
Support that's often rigged MAST
Susan who wrote, 'The writer's first job is not to have opinions but to tell the truth' SONTAG
Sweet HONEYED
Symbol of 53-Across BEEHIVE
Tabula rasa CLEANSLATE
Three-part fig SSN
Tiny tech powering Iron Man and Black Panther's suits NANOBOTS
Tours of duty HITCHES
Tree on the Lebanese flag CEDAR
Was awash in euphoria FELTGIDDY
Went viral BLEWUP
Wiped out ALLIN