The Washington Post Sunday - April 29 2018 Crossword Puzzle Answers

The Washington Post Sunday Crossword Puzzle Solutions - Apr 29 2018 

Clues	Answers
'A Thousand Miles' singer Carlton	VANESSA
'A Woman Called Golda' role	MEIR
'Be My Love' lyricist	CAHN
'Dallas' or 'Nashville,' e.g	SHOW
'House' parties?	NURSES
'Kite Stories' composer Brian	ENO
'Not gonna happen!'	YOUWISH
'Rubyfruit Jungle' writer ___ Mae Brown	RITA
'Sounds like fun to me'	IMGAME
'The Four Seasons' star	ALANALDA
'The Shock Doctrine' author Naomi	KLEIN
'___ What I Like' (Grammy-winning song by Bruno Mars)	THATS
1986 rock memoir	ITINA
Actress Cooke who played Art3mis in 'Ready Player One'	OLIVIA
Aggravated	VEXED
AL MVP in 1927 and 1936	GEHRIG
Alamo rival	AVIS
Ancient temple builders	MAYA
Anecdotal knowledge	LORE
Apt to pull a ruse	SLY
Artists' workplaces	ATELIERS
Athletic center org.?	NBA
Auto club job	TOW
Back	REAR
Barbecue receptacle	AS{HP}IT
Barber's offering	OPERA
Barber's offering	TRIM
Big island in the Malay Archipelago	SUMATRA
Big river swimmers	HIPPOS
Blue- or green-winged duck	TEAL
Blunder	FLUB
Bolt providing electricity at the Olympics, once	USAIN
Bone seen in X-rays	RIB
Books on electronic devices?	MANUALS
Bush's opponent, once	REAGAN
Cake number, at times	AGE
Candied side item	YAM
Capital of the ___ (nickname of Innsbruck, Austria)	ALPS
Carried	BORNE
Cartesian plane line	AXIS
Castle wall attachment	TURRET
Causing cynicism in	JADING
Certain military strike	SORTIE
Character shipwrecked on what he called the 'Island of Despair'	CRUSOE
Chess player's friend?	MATE
Clubbing weapons	MACES
Co. ending	INC
Code-breaking govt. org	NSA
Coin ___	SLOT
Coniferous evergreens	YEWS
Contents of 56 Down	ICE
Convinced with flattery	CAJOLED
Daily Planet surname	KENT
Deep cut, perhaps	L{ACER}ATION
Don, as pajamas	SLIPINTO
Erupts	HASAFIT
Excavation site	RUIN
Expected landing hr	ETA
Extensive school assignment	RESEARC{HP}ROJECT
Features of the Mars landscape	MESAS
Form 2555-EZ publisher	IRS
Former SNL star Kristen	WIIG
Former Swedish imports	SAABS
German auto pioneer	BENZ
Goes under the bar	LIMBOS
Gold or platinum, e.g	HUE
Got comfy	SAT
GPA maximums, maybe	FIVES
Gradually remove (from)	WEAN
Greet the queen, say	RISE
Group get-together	MEETUP
Growing concerns	CROPS
Have a blue face, say	MOPE
He slew the Cyclopes, in some myths	APOLLO
Interactive programs on some websites	JAVA{APPLE}TS
Interest	BEHALF
Jennifer of 'Ferris Bueller's Day Off'	GREY
Jerry's sitcom ex	ELAINE
Jet-skiing spot	LAKE
Land line?	BORDER
Large lager holders	KEGS
Like bulls and bucks	MALE
Like Columbus	GENOESE
Like Eid al-Fitr traditions	ISLAMIC
Like life in Death Valley	IRONIC
Load, as old settings on a desktop	RESTORE
Long-necked bird	EMU
Longtime Colts QB	UNITAS
Marvel mutant who can absorb other mutants' superpowers	ROGUE
Metaphorical durability	LEGS
Mineo of 'Exodus'	SAL
Modern battle cry	ITSON
Night ___	SHIFT
Nursery rhyme character	FARMERINTHE{DELL}
Offbeat and innovative	EDGY
Old term for desktops and laptops, and a hint to this puzzle's theme	MICROCOMPUTERS
One way to sway	FRO
Palomino's gait, maybe	LOPE
Part of a voltaic cell	ANODE
Part of the rial world?	OMAN
Party staples	DIPS
Passed, as a race car	LAPPED
Peking duck additive, maybe	MSG
Permanently marked	SCARRED
Preposition in directions	VIA
Required one's words to be bowdlerized, maybe	CUSSED
Returns pro, briefly	CPA
Sammy seen in many ESPN highlights in 1998	SOSA
Scattered about	STREWN
See 48 Down	BEER
Shut (up)	PENT
Sigmatism, by another name	LISP
Sign of inflammation	ABSCESS
Singer on the 1950s album 'The Story of the Blues'	{DELL}AREESE
Single-stranded chain	RNA
Soda container	CAN
Soda containers	COOLERS
Some metal bands	DUOS
Sonneteer's preposition	ERE
Space where a heating appliance is installed	FURN{ACER}OOM
Steeping item	TEABALL
Storyteller's tale	LIE
Strange, a la an alternate universe in Superman comics	BIZARRO
Subs' pulse emitters	SONARS
Sunlit spaces	SOLARIA
Suppose to be true	ASSUME
Surface area?	SEALEVEL
The continuation of the status quo	BUSINESS{ASUS}UAL
This clue number divided by nove	TRE
Top off	FRESHEN
Trains seen at the end of tunnels?	ELS
Trapeze supporter	ROPE
Tries to understand, as a problem	GR{APPLE}SWITH
Trough locale	STY
Unloads, in a way	SELLS
Weapon for d'Artagnan	RAPIER
What Gandhi once practiced	LAW
Winged creature in the TriStar Pictures logo	PEG{ASUS}
With 62 Across, product from a small brewery	CRAFT
Yonder people	THEM
Youngster in a den	BEARCUB
[This was their mistake]	SIC
___ Grady ('Jurassic World' protagonist)	OWEN
___ USA	MISS