The Washington Post - Dec 30 2016 Crossword Answer

The Washington Post - Dec 30 2016 Crossword Answer

Clues	Answers
'Alas and alack!'	WOEISME
'Hud' costar Patricia	NEAL
'Slammin' Sammy' of golf	SNEAD
'The Crimson Tide'	BAMA
1950-2016 Dodger announcer Scully	VIN
Aberdeen negative	NAE
Alligator shirt brand	IZOD
Assayed	TRIED
Barrel component	STAVE
Batters' cold streaks	SLUMPS
Bela's 'Son of Frankenstein' role	YGOR
BIG ___ (NCAA conference)	EAST
Britannica's range	ATOZ
Buoyed up	ELATED
Christens	DUBS
Cocktail crustacean	SHRIMP
Compassion	EMPATHY
Cranberry-growing site	BOG
Designer of the JFK Library	PEI
Digs of twigs	NEST
Disaster film director Allen	IRWIN
Empty words of support	LIPSERVICE
Far from sophisticates	HICKS
Female friend, in Lyon	AMIE
First shot at a corp.'s stock	IPO
Foundation for something	BASIS
French 'thank you'	MERCI
Gofer on the Hill	SENATEPAGE
Greets casually	SAYSHI
Hagen of the stage	UTA
Hebrew letter	ALEPH
In ___ (incubating)	UTERO
Indian boy of film	SABU
Indian mentor	GURU
Israeli-invented gun	UZI
Jack's fairy-tale foe	GIANT
Largest city in Africa	CAIRO
Left the coop?	FLEW
Letter between rho and tau	SIGMA

Clues	Answers
Long-eared critter	HARE
Lugubrious	SAD
Made-up monicker	ALIAS
Maker of the Rodeo and Trooper	ISUZU
Memorable WWII gesture	VSIGN
Nostradamus, e.g	SEER
Old-time horror villain	VINCENTPRICE
Orbiting outpost	SPACESTATION
Pension law acronym	ERISA
Philatelist's concern	STAMP
Post-peseta currency	EURO
Present, for one	TENSE
Problem on the turnpike	FLAT
Qatari bigwig	EMIR
Radical '60s org	SDS
Rap artist's entourage	POSSE
Rather risky	DICEY
Rocky outcrop	CRAG
Secondary field of study	MINOR
Shoot the breeze	GAS
Silly in a bearable way	DIPPY
Small battery	AAA
Some skirts	MINIS
Special event rental	LIMO
Squirreled away	HID
Supplied medicine to	DOSED
Sweet or split	PEA
Swine sounds	OINKS
Take a ___ to (fancy)	SHINE
Tan who wrote 'The Joy Luck Club'	AMY
Test choice, sometimes	TRUE
That is, for Ovid	IDEST
The Citadel rival, briefly	VMI
They were once bummed a lot, but now not so much	CIGS
Tight end Gronkowski	ROB
Tony or Hugo	AWARD
Venomous snakes	ADDERS
Walk falteringly	LIMP
Whole	ENTIRE