The Washington Post - Dec 25 2015 Crossword Answer

The Washington Post - Dec 25 2015 Crossword Answer

Clues	Answers
#2 on a dentist's chart	MOLAR
'Buddenbrooks' author Thomas	MANN
'Gnarly, dude!'	RAD
'Home' key for a beginning piano student	MIDDLEC
'Skyfall' singer	ADELE
'That's ___-brainer!'	ANO
Airline whose name means 'To the Skies'	ELAL
Alaskan products that must be cracked to be enjoyed	KINGCRABCLAWS
Andean pack animals	LLAMAS
Athlete who's not contractually bound to a team	FREEAGENT
Character in 'I, Claudius'?	COMMA
Collegian whose school mascot is Handsome Dan	YALIE
Communication form that's eaten into Postal Service revenues	EMAIL
Confrère of Porthos and Aramis	ATHOS
Cookie that debuted a 'Thins' line in 2015	OREO
Couleur of the glaze atop a traditional éclair au chocolat	BRUN
Deluge	TORRENT
Dictatorship, e.g	AUTOCRACY
Draft-eligible	ONEA
Engaged in some ecotourism, maybe	SNORKELED
Famed Roman censor	CATO
Favor-asker's ingratiating lead-in	BEADEAR
Filleted	BONED
Follows a lob's path	ARCS
Frittata cousins	OMELETS
Garbage hauler	SCOW
Garfield's slobbering canine pal	ODIE
Gentle persuasion	SOFTSELL
Happy hour locale	BAR
Hard work, metaphorically	SWEAT
Hushed 'hey!'	PSST
Hyper	MANIC
Indecisive syllables	ERS
It's lifted to 'burp' Tupperware	LID
Ivan of '80s tennis	LENDL
Lang. that's a popular night school subject	ENG
Largest of the US Virgin Islands	STCROIX

Clues	Answers
Moe, Larry, Curly, and Shemp	STOOGES
Move, in a real estate ad	RELO
One of Captain Hook's band	SMEE
Organize, as laundry	SORT
Pick up, in a way	SENSE
Piece of animation art	CEL
Placid	CALM
Plied commodity	WARE
Priestly vestment	ALB
Proceeding per expectations	ONTHEBEAM
Put forth	EXERT
Pyschoanalytically speaking, it may be just what it is	CIGAR
React to something unpleasant, perhaps	WINCE
Richard Gere's title role in a 2000 rom-com	DRT
Sci-fi show that costarred Hayden Panettiere and Zachary Quinto	HEROES
See 36-Across	CLAUS
Shakespearean character who laments the pain of having a thankless child	LEAR
Singer with the album 'Unrepentant Geraldines'	TORIAMOS
Snoozer's interruption	ALARM
Some HP purchases	PCS
Speed-of-sound ratio	MACH
Splinter group	SECT
Sports contract provision abolished in 1975	RESERVECLAUSE
Standoffish	ALOOF
Takes in holy matrimony	WEDS
Telephonic 6	MNO
The entirety	ALL
They're often exchanged at an Italian swap meet	CIAOS
Tiger-in-your-tank company	ESSO
TiVo precursor	VCR
Ugandan city where a daring hostage rescue occurred	ENTEBBE
Unit of work (abbr.)	FTLB
Watchful awareness	TABS
Way to describe some old dates (abbr.)	BCE
Wine-based beverages also called alcopops	COOLERS
With 38-Across, fellow who dropped by last night	SANTA
Word that can follow shooting or gas	RANGE