The Washington Post - Mar 29 2020 Crossword Answer

The Washington Post - Mar 29 2020 Crossword Answer

Clues	Answers
Locker room shower, at times?	ESPN
Luthor, to Superman	FOE
Manitoba tribe	CREE
McGwire rival	SOSA
Metalworking union	WELD
Monopoly token	HAT
More irritable	TESTIER
Norse patron	OLAV
Not for kids	RRATED
Not full	UNSATED
Ode title starter	TOA
One working on a bench?	PIANIST
Orange __	PEKOE
Part of a court game name	ALAI
Parts of a pound	PENCE
Passion	ZEAL
Peak seen from Messina	ETNA
Plot again	REMAP
Political initials since 1884	GOP
Political opposition	DISSENT
Position of control	HELM
Program for future docs	PREMED
Pulitzer-winning novelist Jennifer	EGAN
Quarterback's option	PASS
Quiets	ALLAYS
Rat	SNITCH
Reddish rash	ROSEOLA
Reef dweller	POLYP
Ring at the chapel	TOLL
Rotund man in a bright suit	SANTA
Salon coloring	DYE
Same old same old	RUT
Saturn or Mercury	CAR
Sews up	ICES
Shooting marble	STEELIE
Sign up	ENLIST
Snag	GLITCH
Special __	OPS
Start to save?	ESS
Startup funds ... and a hint to what's hidden in the answers to the starred clues	SEEDCAPITAL
Strange quality	EERINESS
Street in Mason's office	DELLA
Tax pro	CPA
Teaspoon equivalents, roughly	LUMPS
Those with clout	INS
Timbuktu's land	MALI
Toledo's lake	ERIE
Tolkien race	ENTS
Track wagers	EXACTAS
Travel docs	VISAS
TV planet	ORK
Twinge	PANG
Unofficial EU leaders group	GSIX
V8 relative	CLAMATO
Valuable rocks	ORES
Varieties	ILKS
Wafer brand	NILLA
What Brits cross to get here	THEPOND
When repeated, a cautioning word	NOW
Where to find a hero	DELI
Wherewithal	MEANS
Wild plum	SLOE
Wolf down	EAT
Word derived from the underworld god Orcus	OGRE
Wrangles	SPARS
Writer Welty	EUDORA
YA fiction reader	TEEN
Yawning	AGAPE
Zap	TASE
__ ale	PALE
__ cheese	BLEU
__ wrench	ALLEN

Clues	Answers
'Ben-Hur' author Wallace	LEW
'Cone of shame' docs	VETS
'Romanian Rhapsodies' composer	ENESCO
'Streamers' playwright	RABE
'The Egg and I' woman	MAKETTLE
'The Mod Squad' role	LINC
*Alternative to a pizza oven	BAKINGSTONE
*Breakfast order usually made with ham, onion and green pepper	DENVEROMELET
*Lead singer of a group whose first two Top 40 hits reached #1	FrankieValli
*Mathematical abstraction with evenly spaced integers	NUMBERLINE
*Office group leader	TEAMMANAGER
*Online gaming attraction	VIDEOSLOTS
*Only occupant of Vostok I	YURIGAGARIN
15-Down singing style	FALSETTO
2014 World Series champs	GIANTS
90 degrees	DUEEAST
Antique shop transaction	RESALE
Apple storage place	ICLOUD
Approvals	YESSES
Beach, in Baja	PLAYA
Began to deal with	TOOKON
Being broadcast	ONTV
Birds that tell time?	CUCKOOS
Bit of mischief	LARK
Blow away	AWE
Brand created by a periodontist in the 1950s	ORALB
Calamares or caracoles	TAPAS
Cancún cash	PESO
Cause of yelling, often	IRE
Champ dethroned by Clay in 1964	LISTON
Conception	IDEA
Court figs	DAS
D-Day craft	LSTS
Daring exploit	GEST
Defeatist's words	ICANT
Designer Cassini	OLEG
Draft pick	IPA
Duel tool	EPEE
Dynamic start?	AERO
Elec., e.g	UTIL
Elevator name	OTIS
Elimination	REMOVAL
Encouraging words	OLES
Eric of 'Pulp Fiction'	STOLTZ
Fails to be	ISNT
Farriers' tools	ANVILS
Feed, as a fire	STOKE
Fluffy felines	ANGORAS
Former General Motors division	GEO
Forsaken	LORN
Futuristic toon dog	ASTRO
General on a menu	TSO
GI's address	APO
Gift-wrapping times, perhaps	EVES
Goddess with cow's horns	ISIS
Goes bad	ROTS
Gunpowder ingredient	NITER
Harsh	SEVERE
Hawaiian goose	NENE
Idle talk	GAB
In an imitative way	APISHLY
In __: as found	SITU
Incessantly	EVER
Iris aperture	PUPIL
Judging groups	PANELS
Kite user's verb	FLY
Latin being	ESSE
Like gales vis-à-vis breezes	STRONGER
Like some airports: Abbr	INTL
Like some mistakes	STUPID
Limited-term usage contract	LEASE
Line of clothing	INSEAM