The Washington Post Sunday - February 18 2018 Crossword Puzzle Answers

The Washington Post Sunday Crossword Puzzle Solutions - Feb 18 2018 

Clues	Answers
'A Wrinkle in Time' director DuVernay	AVA
'Fire' stones	OPALS
'Right away!'	NOW
'The Beverly Hillbillies' patriarch	JED
'The Lost World' beast	RAPTOR
'True Life' channel	MTV
'Well, I never!'	WHATNERVE
'___ That I Love You' (Rihanna song)	HATE
1975 film that Pauline Kael said 'may be the most cheerfully perverse scare movie ever made'	JAWS
Academic octet	IVIES
Amazon's brand of smart speakers	ECHO
Aquafina rival	EVIAN
Author E.L. James's real first name	ERIKA
Avalanche, to a mountain climber, e.g	PERIL
Bandleader Pérez Prado's sobriquet	KINGOFTHEMAMBO
Berkshire school	ETON
Betray a sulky mood	POUT
Beverage sponsoring many a Super Bowl halftime show	PEPSI
Binary code digits	ONES
Body shop lifter	JACK
Bother	ADO
Bottom of a boat	HULL
Brazilian berry	ACAI
Canine from Japan	AKITA
Carpeting calculation	AREA
Circumvented	AVOIDED
Comedian Kondabolu who starred in the documentary 'The Problem With Apu'	HARI
Concern for Poirot	MOTIVE
Coral reef formation	ATOLL
Country that borders Lake Victoria and the Indian Ocean	KENYA
Cryptocrystalline form of quartz	ONYX
Deep space?	SEA
Devil's Cut bourbon brand	JIMBEAM
Dirk Nowitzki's team, briefly	MAVS
Disease caused by plasmodium parasites	MALARIA
Displays satisfaction	SMILES
Domestic employee who resides at the place of employment	LIVEINNANNY
Elongated swimmer	EEL
Emmy-winning Eartha	KITT
ESPN.com senior sportswriter Torre	PABLO
Evening, in ads	NITE
Events with ice cream	SOCIALS
Exclude	OMIT
Exec's degree, perhaps	MBA
Extract, as a splinter	TWEEZE
Fire sign?	ALARM
First word of many 48 Down	WHO
Fish-filled shell, maybe	TACO
Fly like a moth	FLUTTER
Former NHL team that relocated to Colorado in 1995	QUEBECNORDIQUES
Founder of a fruit spread company	SMUCKER
Genetic letters	RNA
German car company's motorcycle, in slang	BEEMER
Gets in a pool, in a way	DIVES
Glowing sphere, maybe	ORB
Gomez's sitcom cousin	ITT
Having sore knees, say	ACHY
High or low card	ACE
Highway section	LANE
His first bout as a pro was against Hunsaker	ALI
Home of the Huskies	UCONN
Honor for Crowe or Finch	BESTACTOR
Hookup in a hospital	IVTUBE
It joined OPEC in 1961	QATAR
It makes noise in a crib	RATTLE
It's primarily nitrogen	AIR
James of film	CAAN
James of music	ETTA
Jumpers from Down Under, briefly	ROOS
Left, in a way	MOVEDOUT
Like cues given aloud	VERBAL
Like some bar drinks	ONTAP
Like some rebates	MAILIN
Like tightrope walking	RISKY
Linguistic pattern	SYNTAX
Make a mend, say	SEW
Maker of i-opening products?	APPLE
Mocked, as at recess	TEASED
Modifiers of nouns	RELATIVECLAUSES
Moose kin	ELK
Mousse kin	GEL
Movie star Dianne who turns into movie star Mae when I ain't there?	WIEST
Multinational state that dissolved at the end of World War I	AUSTRIAHUNGARY
Musical Greenwich	ELLIE
Muslim cleric's ruling	FATWA
Nile Valley slitherers	ASPS
No later than	UNTIL
Not on the dot	INEXACT
Numbers pronoun	THOU
Oil and water sources	WELLS
Org. with many programs exposed in 2013	NSA
Overly lean	GAUNT
Parts ___ million	PER
Pasta variety	PENNE
Pastime for posers?	YOGA
Peyton's little brother	ELI
Piercing place	EARLOBE
Poet's foot	IAMB
Puzzle that spells out a quotation	ACROSTIC
R&B singer Marie	TEENA
Record producer Adler	LOU
Red Wings great Gordie	HOWE
Rice : Burroughs :: ___ : Poe	ALLAN
Rolled lunch	WRAP
Safe, as at 98 Across	ALEE
Savings plans, briefly	IRAS
Scheduled to arrive	DUE
Scroll repositories	ARKS
Seamstress's fastener	PIN
Sent up a la Mel Brooks	SPOOFED
Served as an attendant for a knight	SQUIRED
Shifts slightly	BUDGES
Shorn creatures	EWES
Shrek creator William	STEIG
Sign of a bad egg	ODOR
Slender and graceful	SVELTE
Small units of energy	ERGS
Smartphone speaker	SIRI
SNL alum Bayer	VANESSA
Software giant	IBM
Some Firestone products	RADIALTIRES
Some job benefits	PERKS
Source of fake news	LIAR
Spa staffers	MASSEURS
Spiff (up)	GUSSY
Styling station	SALON
Sulky mood	SNIT
Super Floss maker	ORALB
Swizzles	STIRS
Talocrural joint sites	ANKLES
To-do list listing	TASK
Tots' parents	MAMAS
Trash collectors?	BINS
Tux accessories	STUDS
Type of football defense	ZONE
Variety	ILK
Visits for a bit	STOPSBY
Wales's national flower	DAFFODIL
William and Mary, e.g	NAMES
Work up a sweat	TOIL
___ Kong	HONG
___ Pistols	SEX
___ pods (laundry detergent packs)	TIDE
___ weevil	BOLL