The Washington Post - Nov 27 2015 Crossword Puzzle Answer

The Washington Post Crossword Puzzle Solution - Nov 27 2015

Clues	Answers
'Girls' creator Dunham	LENA
'The Silver State' (abbr.)	NEV
2004 movie set in California's wine country	SIDEWAYS
Adam and Eve on a ___ (poached eggs on toast, in dinerspeak)	RAFT
Amazes, in a good way	AWES
Annoying little biter	NOSEEUM
Au courant	UPTOTHEMINUTE
Befuddlement	DAZE
Big name in peanut butter cups	REESE
Bugle melody to signal day's end	TAPS
Bygone anesthetic	ETHER
Byproduct of deception, according to Sir Walter Scott	TANGLEDWEB
Classic fairy tale bad guy	OGRE
Clementine or kumquat	CITRUS
Cobblers' tools	AWLS
Contents of the chilliest supermarket aisle, usually	FROZENFOOD
Coup d'___	ETAT
Danger	PERIL
Dealer's device	SHOE
Destitute ones	PAUPERS
Dieter's salad dressing specification, perhaps	NOOIL
Discreet auction bid	NOD
Dystopian Huxley novel with a title from Shakespeare's 'The Tempest'	BRAVENEWWORLD
Evening event	SOIREE
Federal narcs' org	DEA
Formerly, formerly	ERST
Goalie's structure	CAGE
Graven image	IDOL
Heed	OBEY
In progress	AFOOT
In the past	AGO
Israeli weaponry	UZIS
It enables one to focus	LENS
It's cracked by a cryptographer	CODE
It's not enough, per Jacqueline Susann	ONCE
Judgmental sound	TSK
Kerfuffle	ADO
Lead-in to plant or hitter	POWER

Clues	Answers
Levels	TIERS
Linguist's concern	USAGE
Mamie's predecessor in the White House	BESS
Modify	AMEND
Musician Scaggs	BOZ
Natural do	AFRO
Newbie cop's mentor, in police slang	RABBI
One-fifth of a fin	SINGLE
Parcel out	ALLOT
Park with great care, perhaps	EASEIN
Permission	LEAVE
Pert	SASSY
Pitiful	PATHETIC
Plenty	ALOT
Political gp. headquartered in Ramallah	PLO
Pouffe's relative	TUFFET
Prompt's prompt	CUE
Red ink	DEBT
Refer to as authority	CITE
Repeat	ITERATE
Richard who bared it all in 'American Gigolo'	GERE
Ropes, as a dogie	LASSOS
Rug rat	TOT
Seemingly bottomless pit	ABYSS
Snakelike fishes	EELS
Some national laureates	POETS
Sums	TOTALS
Unattractive-sounding hybrid fruit	UGLI
Utters	SAYS
Wall St. acquisition	LBO
Wander about	ROVE
Wardrobe staple in many a period piece	CORSET
Wee swallow	NIP
Westley's portrayer in 'The Princess Bride'	CARYELWES
What a ball represents in a ball-and-stick molecular model	ATOM
Worker whose stock-in-trade is spit and polish	BOOTBLACK
Zebra seen on fields, for short	REF
Zero, to Manchester United	NIL