The Washington Post - Jan 23 2016 Crossword Answer

The Washington Post - Jan 23 2016 Crossword Answer

Clues	Answers
'Sad to say ...'	ALAS
Abbreviation on a cornerstone	ESTD
Accord maker	HONDA
Actress Zellweger	RENEE
Ad ___ per aspera (Kansas's motto)	ASTRA
Affected, in a way	STILTED
Animation's romantic skunk	PEPE
Aquanaut's milieu	SEALAB
Argon and krypton, at room temperature	GASES
Baba ___ (Gilda Radner character that parodied a certain journalist)	WAWA
Battlefield souvenir	SCAR
Become expert at	MASTER
Belle Époque and Edwardian	ERAS
Blew a gasket	SAWRED
Boodle	LOOT
Claudius's successor as Roman emperor	NERO
County center	SEAT
Cuba libre ingredient	COLA
Currier's partner	IVES
Dean's list honorees, often	ASTUDENTS
Defunct music-sharing service	NAPSTER
Depend (on)	RELY
Device that might be deployed after an angiogram	STENT
Director Frank of classic film	CAPRA
Econ. indicator	GDP
Elitist	SNOB
Flower with a name that means 'rainbow' in Greek	IRIS
Follows the path of a fly ball	ARCS
Gainsay	DENY
Galileo or Genesis	PROBE
Garbed	CLAD
Gridiron two-pointer	SAFETY
Grifter's game	SCAM
Hermetically closed	SEALEDSHUT
It might be made on a fallen eyelash	WISH
It's lower in skim milk than in whole milk	FATCONTENT
Like some bleached jeans	ACIDWASHED

Clues	Answers
List-ending abbreviation	ETAL
Mary-Kate Olsen, to Ashley	TWIN
Minnetonka shoe style, for short	MOC
Muscateers?	OMANIS
Organization whose publications have the highest US circulation numbers	AARP
Ovine sign	ARIES
Panache	ELAN
Part of a play?	ROLE
Patisserie offering	TARTE
Pet food brand for which Garfield was a spokescat	ALPO
Place of refuge, crude forms of which can be found at the ends of 20- and 50-Across and 11- and 28-Down	SHELTER
Popular pastry for dunkin'	DONUT
Publish's alternative, in academia	PERISH
Ragtime great Blake	EUBIE
Sanctimony minus the hypocrisy	PIETY
Senatorial affirmative	YEA
Skillful	ADEPT
Some computer input	DATASET
Sound	HALE
Span under which a gondoliere might row	PONTE
Speak hyperbolically about	OVERSTATE
Sprang up	AROSE
Stops up, as a Syrah	CORKS
Stories that shouldn't be believed	CANARDS
Sudden death periods (abbr.)	OTS
The A-Team's mode of transportation	VAN
The Wife of Bath has one	TALE
They might be dark or liberal	ARTS
They preceded the Taylors as First Family	POLKS
To the extreme	WILDLY
Tool that comes in handy in a blizzard	SNOWSHOVEL
Twelve Oaks neighbor	TARA
Vessels seen on angiograms	AORTAS
View provider on a U-boat	PERISCOPE
Wedding cake layer	TIER
Well-suited	APT
Words of total despair	ALLISLOST