The Washington Post Sunday - Sep 30 2018 Crossword Puzzle Answers

Clues	Answers
'A Descent Into the Maelstrom' author	POE
'Ain't that interesting!'	GEE
'Before I forget' letters	BTW
'Black Ice' rockers	ACDC
'Dodged a bullet there!'	PHEW
'Highlander' weapon	SWORD
'I should hit the hay'	ITSLATE
'I'll get these drinks'	ONME
'It ___ to be'	HAS
'It's ___ game!'	ANYONES
'My goodness!'	MAN
'Song of the Broad-___' (Whitman poem about a wood-cutting tool)	AXE
'That's not ___'	ALL
'Ulysses' poet Stephen	DEDALUS
'You believe it's true?'	THINKSO
1985 hit by Phil Collins and Marilyn Martin about a breakup / 1983 hit by Journey about a breakup, familiarly	SEPARATE
Amanda of 'Brockmire'	PEET
Apple Store array	TABLETS
Apt rhyme of 'bow'	PROW
Attempt to conquer	INVADE
Backup singer for a couple of Turners	IKETTE
Bandleader Jaffe	MOE
Barking creature	SEAL
Bewitch	ENAMOR
Bill born in D.C	NYE
Bills on tables, maybe	TIPS
Bit of rodeo equipment	LARIAT
Blaine's idol	HOUDINI
Bocce player's asset	AIM
Burgundy, e.g	RED
Burn a bit	SINGE
Bygone Topps rival	FLEER
Captain Hoseason, to David Balfour, in 'Kidnapped'	CAPTOR
CNN journalist Cabrera	ANA
Completely surrounds	ENVELOPS
Construction worker in 'The Lego Movie'	EMMET
Contacting via WhatsApp, say	IMING
Contents of a non-alcoholic shot	ESPRESSO
Covert ops collection	INTEL
Current name of the late 19th century?	TESLA
Daisy visitor	BEE
Demolition aftermath	DEBRIS
Didn't deviate from	KEPTTO
Diesel of action flicks	VIN
Disturb	ROIL
Dry cleaning item?	NAPKIN
Eczema symptom	RASH
Elevated station	EMINENCE
Elevator at a construction site / Rare pitch that's similar in grip to a splitter	FORK
Eponym on American Chinese food menus	TSO
Fantasy league offer	TRADE
Feature of an iguana's neck	DEWLAP
Figures depicted as wax figures, perhaps	STARS
Film you've got to catch	MUSTSEE
Final form for the tree in 'The Giving Tree'	STUMP
Formal affair	GALA
French body of water that anagrams to a type of ship	LOIRE
Garden eel relative	CONGER
Give up / Like many positions for students	PART
Ground cover?	RUG
Hero to many Philadelphians?	HOAGIE
Hookup at a concert	AMP
Human chicken	WIMP
Human rights activist Kennedy	ETHEL
In the heart of	AMIDST
Instrument from the French for 'heavenly'	CELESTA
Instruments replaced by ordinary objects in 'Stomp'	DRUMS
Internalize information	LEARN
Is successful	THRIVES
It's covered in kernels	COB
Jazz keyboardist Saunders	MERL
Juvenile sort	LAD
Key finder, e.g	LOCATOR
Knuckleheads	DODOS
Landline phone piece	HANDSET
Lays (on) thickly	SLATHERS
Least significant	MEREST
Less significant	TINIER
Like 'Twilight' vampires, despite appearances	OLD
Lines on which you will find the ends of this puzzle's theme entries	DIAGONALS
Lite food descriptor	NOFAT
Lose firmness	SAG
Makes use of a galleon	SAILS
Many Impressionist works at the National Gallery of Art	RENOIRS
McDonald's character who, despite his name, is often shown smiling	GRIMACE
Merited a scolding	ACTEDUP
Mythical story teller?	LIAR
Nautically sheltered	ALEE
No longer exists	ISNT
Note-book reader?	MAESTRO
Numerical term for a shooting guard	TWO
Opposite of draconian	LAX
Ordered the return of	RECALLED
Pain-in-the-neck solutions	MASSAGES
Palm setting, maybe	ISLE
Pentathletes' items	EPEES
Pictures from the 1920s	SILENTS
Pitcher's favorite bar food?	SLIDERS
Poison singer Michaels	BRET
Portion of land	LOT
Prepared briefs, say	WROTE
Razor brand since 1977	ATRA
Rite reply	IDO
Santoro's portrayer in 'Casino'	PESCI
Savings acronym	IRA
See 27 Across	IDLE
She was on the cover of Vogue in October 1998	OPRAH
Shell fixtures	GASPUMPS
Show that featured Debbie Downer, briefly	SNL
Shower with acclaim	EXTOL
Site of many vessels	SEAPORT
Slanting	ASLOPE
Sleep study subject	REM
Some barn babies	OWLETS
Some cereal box units	GRAMS
Sound effect at a brawl	POW
Sound of a slam	WHAM
Spiked wheel by a heel	SPUR
Stackable Livestock animals, in 'The Far Side'	COWS
Stan's 'Utopia' sidekick	OLLIE
Start of a radio code	ALFA
Stealth action video game franchise bearing Tom Clancy's name / Breakaway organization	SPLINTER
Stiller's comedy partner	MEARA
Story by a box score	RECAP
Sub-Saharan predators	LEOPARDS
Suffer	AIL
Surrealist Jean	ARP
Terminate	ABOLISH
Those in a V formation	GEESE
Thrones, so to speak	TOILETS
Took orders?	ATE
Training ___	BRA
Tughrul Tower's nation	IRAN
U. of Maryland athlete	TERP
Uriah ___ (heavy metal band that shares its name with a Dickens villain)	HEEP
Vinegar containers	CRUETS
Vintage auto horns	KLAXONS
Visual ___	AID
Warns a la an Akita	SNARLS
What a mullet covers	NAPE
Whitman of 'Scott Pilgrim vs. the World'	MAE
Wings accompaniment	DIP
With 114 Down, comedic co-author of 'Not the Messiah (He's a Very Naughty Boy)'	ERIC
___ lamp	OIL