The Washington Post - Dec 5 2015 Crossword Answer

The Washington Post - Dec 5 2015 Crossword Answer

Clues	Answers
'Adoration of the Magi' figure	MARY
'Mighty' shade givers	OAKS
'Wow!'	BOY
Actress Jessica of 'Tootsie'	LANGE
Ang Lee or Seiji Ozawa	ASIAN
Ascended	SCALED
Badger	HARASS
Bangladeshi capital	DHAKA
Basic precept	TENET
Blobby being	AMOEBA
Blots on a pitcher's record	EARNEDRUNS
Campus returnee, familiarly	ALUM
Capital with a Viking Ship Museum	OSLO
Colony member on the march	ANT
Complaints from the former Confederacy after Reconstruction?	NEWSOUTHWAILS
Country that includes Dubai (abbr.)	UAE
Cut down to size, in a way	MOW
Den denizen	LION
Department of Labor agcy	OSHA
Deserves	MERITS
Dry and crumbly	MEALY
Effortless	EASY
Enormous	VAST
Film director Kazan	ELIA
Food	EATS
Future D.A.'s exam	LSAT
Get going	BEGIN
Grump	CRAB
Hair or carpet option	SHAG
Ham sandwich choices	RYES
Having a single part	UNARY
In a bit	SOON
Instrument whose name comes from the French 'hautbois' (high wood)	OBOE
Lake Titicaca contents	AGUA
Light beam	RAY
Like an accomplished sand sculptor?	BEYONDTHEPAIL
Like Farmer MacDonald	OLD
Liver secretion	BILE

Clues	Answers
Lovers' rendezvous	TRYST
Major blood supplier	AORTA
Misfortunes at the America's Cup?	SHORTSAILS
Moves to a jazzy beat	BOPS
Mr. Tuck's appendage at a costume party?	FRIARSTAIL
One do-si-doing	GAL
One of a matched pair	MATE
Outmoded	OBSOLETE
Pixar employee	ANIMATOR
Playful humor	WHIMSY
Porker's pen	STY
Presidential wannabe Huckabee	MIKE
Pricey theater section	LOGE
Quartet with its own Stockholm museum	ABBA
River through western Russia	VOLGA
Saharan	ARID
Sardine holders	TINS
Scary storybook figure	OGRE
Seeks	LOOKSFOR
Sierra Club founder John	MUIR
Sound of a communication failure	BUSYSIGNAL
Sound system components	AMPS
Source of inside info?	MRI
Speedway areas	PITS
Starch from a same-named palm	SAGO
Subj. covered from head to toe	ANAT
Those like Amy in 'Gone Girl'	LIARS
Those seen in a mess	SLOBS
Those seen in a mess, briefly	GIS
Throat-clearing sound	AHEM
Venetian blind strip	SLAT
Vibratory sound	WHIR
Victory	WIN
Was compliant	OBEYED
Watched the kids	SAT
Waterspout at Notre Dame Cathedral, notably	GARGOYLE
Youngest player to hit 500 homers, to fans	AROD
Zesty taste	TANG