The Washington Post - Dec 28 2016 Crossword Answer

The Washington Post - Dec 28 2016 Crossword Answer

Clues	Answers
'Ain't that the truth!'	AMEN
'Cocoon' director Howard	RON
'Go ___' (Pet Shop Boys hit of 1993)	WEST
'Guitar Town' singer Steve	EARLE
'I've been ___!'	HAD
'___ Louise!'	GEEZ
157.5 degrees from N	SSE
AAA recommendation, at times	RTE
Bands of blacktop	ROADS
Big fuss	ADO
Brown in the sun	TAN
Bunyan's blade	AXE
Canadian coin, familiarly	LOONIE
Chicken ___ king	ALA
Complex units, perhaps	CONDOS
Conciliatory gestures	SOPS
Conservative leader?	ULTRA
Corp. honcho	CEO
Country bordering Tibet	NEPAL
Delivery doc	OBGYN
Disney's 'Little Mermaid'	ARIEL
Do away with	ABOLISH
Double helix letters	DNA
Every 24 hours	DAILY
Filberts	HAZELNUTS
Folk wisdom	LORE
Forensic science facility	LAB
Former New York City mayor Abe	BEAME
Free of four-letter words	CLEAN
French females	ELLES
Friend of Queen Elizabeth II?	BUCKINGHAMPAL
Full of smudges	SMEARY
Get-up-and-go	OOMPH
Ghosts from the first 'Star Wars' episode?	THEPHANTOMMEN
Giant fan	ADORER
Gold rush purchase	CLAIM
Hardly encouraging	DISMAL
Hems' partners	HAWS
Home of Iowa State University	AMES

Clues	Answers
Hosp. surgery sites	ORS
It may be junk or registered	MAIL
It's much sooner than later	NOW
Levels, as a building	RAZES
Lustrous flickers	GLEAMS
Mature, as a mango	RIPEN
Mix it up	STIR
Mum	SILENT
Mural depicting Kate's royal husband?	WILLIAMWALL
Neighbor of Braz	ARG
News pieces	ITEMS
Old tar's tipple	GROG
On edge	ILLATEASE
Once in a blue moon	SELDOM
Onetime Soviet propaganda source	TASS
Onetime Texaco rival	ESSO
Penn in NYC, e.g	STA
Perfect places	EDENS
Pitcher's stat	ERA
Place for a pupil	IRIS
Plow-pulling pair	OXEN
Purse parts	CLASPS
R&B artist Des'___	REE
Rand McNally book	ATLAS
Recipe meas	TSP
Role for Bert in 'The Wizard of Oz'	ZEKE
Short member of the family?	REL
Sporty Ford, to aficionados	STANG
Squeak squelcher	OIL
Stage instruction	EXIT
Theater production	SHOW
Three, in Tuscany	TRE
Topper for Che Guevara	BERET
Vardalos or Long	NIA
Wanting company	LONELY
Wheel attachment	AXLE
Where the breakers are out of this world?	MARTIANSURF
Will beneficiary	HEIR
___-American	AFRO