The Washington Post - Dec 24 2017 Crossword Answer

The Washington Post - Dec 24 2017 Crossword Answer

Clues	Answers
'Be silent,' in music	TACET
'Delta of Venus' author	NIN
'My man!'	BRO
'My man!'	DUDE
'The Mary Tyler Moore Show' newsman	TED
*'Hail to thee, blithe Spirit!' poet	PERCYBYSSHESHELLEY
*1985 #1 hit for Paul Young	EVERYTIMEYOUGOAWAY
*Criminal justice supervisor	PROBATIONOFFICER
*Get worse, with no way to stop	SPINOUTOFCONTROL
*Nero Wolfe title that plays on the start of an old adage	WHERETHERESAWILL
16th-century date	MDL
1965 King arrest site	SELMA
2017 World Series champ	ASTRO
A little lower?	CALF
Adept	PRO
Agree to	GRANT
All the time	ALOT
Amber __	ALE
André Previn's adopted daughter	SOONYI
Anime cousin	MANGA
Any minute, old-style	ANON
Arles article	UNE
Arles assents	OUIS
Assist	AID
Assume as fact	POSIT
Author Martin	AMIS
Back in the bay	ASTERN
Baking supplies	YEASTS
Ballade's final stanza	ENVOI
Batted	WASUP
Bed board	SLAT
Big name in shoes	MCAN
Bit of work	ERG
Bone head?	OSTE
Boo relative	HISS
Book with a lock	DIARY
Break off	CEASE
Bury	INTER
Change the decor of	REDO
Church contribution	OFFERING
Cold War initials	USSR
Comet's path	ORBIT
Common conjunction	NOR
Company whose German pronunciation has two syllables	PORSCHE
Complete	ENTIRE
Composer of the short piano pieces 'Le Yachting' and 'Le Golf'	SATIE
Cozy corner	NOOK
Cracker topper	BRIE
Creek croaker	TOAD
Cries of support	OLES
Decked out	CLAD
Declaim	ORATE
Deeply engrossed	RAPT
Delhi wrap	SARI
Deluxe	LAVISH
Dentist's directive	FLOSS
Devotee	BUFF
Do serious damage to	SCAR
Dope	INFO
Dovetail	MESH
Drifted gently	WAFTED
Dundee disagreements	NAES
Ear specialist's science	OTOLOGY
Eats or drinks	HAS
Elementary particle	ATOM
Fling	AFFAIR
Formally approve	RATIFY
Go around in circles	EDDY
Goes up and down	YOYOS
Golf shot	STROKE

Clues	Answers
Ham it up	EMOTE
Hanker	ACHE
Hard thing to kick	HABIT
Healthful retreats	SPAS
Heat unit	THERM
Hockey's Bobby et al	ORRS
How Steven Wright jokes are spoken	DRYLY
Hwy	RTE
In the Aegean	ASEA
Inquisitive-sounding letter	WYE
Israel's Golda	MEIR
Israeli desert	NEGEV
It's usually just before dessert	ENTREE
Kept in barrels, maybe	AGED
Kind of acid in proteins	AMINO
Knighted English composer	ELGAR
Like Beethoven, late in life	DEAF
Like early Elvis albums	MONO
Long-billed wader	CURLEW
Looked like a wolf?	OGLED
Many a retired racehorse	SIRE
Massachusetts motto opener	ENSE
Maxim that applies to pairs hiding together in the answers to starred clues	OPPOSITESATTRACT
Medical center	CLINIC
Moral obligations	OUGHTS
Needle point?	NORTH
Notched, as a maple leaf	EROSE
Once uncool sort who's now sort of cool	NERD
Oral health org	ADA
Paper size: Abbr	LTR
PD ranks	SGTS
Perry of fashion	ELLIS
Piña colada garnish?	TILDE
Placing side by side	APPOSING
Poetic foot	DACTYL
Pop	SODA
Pretenses	FACADES
Quaker in the woods	ASPEN
Rail commonly found in water?	SORA
Saturn vehicles?	UFOS
See 2-Down	LINE
Sensation before a delivery	LABORPAIN
Sheltered in the Aegean	ALEE
Shortened, as a dict	ABR
Slate or Salon	EMAG
Sleep like __	ALOG
Specialty	METIER
Stop on the Turin-Genoa railway	ASTI
Suffix with Caesar	EAN
Sword handles	HILTS
Symbols of thinness	WAFERS
Tarzan's realm	APEDOM
Texter's 'seize the day'	YOLO
Thirst (for)	YEARN
Tilter's tool	LANCE
Transmute	MORPH
Trunks	TORSI
Tube, so to speak	TVSET
Upper, in Ulm	OBER
Victory symbol	LAUREL
Wages	PAY
Winding-road sign image	WAVYARROW
With 13-Across, write (to)	DROPA
Word coined by writer Capek	ROBOT
Wrinkly dog	SHARPEI
Wrinkly fruit	UGLI
Yves' ink	ENCRE
[Not a typo]	SIC
__ Dictionary	URBAN
__-up: hybrid musical piece	MASH