| Clues | Answers |
| 'Boy' or 'girl' preceder | ATTA |
| 'Captain's Peril' co-author William | SHATNER |
| 'Good ___' | POINT |
| 'Haste makes ___' | ASTEW |
| 'Hold ___ your butts' ('Jurassic Park' line) | ONTO |
| 'I urge you all ... to love each other without restraint. Unless you're into leather. Then by all means, use restraints' speaker Margaret | CHO |
| 'I'd be glad to help!' | NOPROB |
| 'Impetuous young boy' of 'Monster Mash' | IGOR |
| 'It burns!' | YEOW |
| 'Move it, varmint!' | GIT |
| 'Nightswimming' rockers | REM |
| 'Of course!' | ISURECAN |
| 'The Night Circus' writer Morgenstern | ERIN |
| 'The wonder of all things,' per some translations of Lao Tzu | TAO |
| 16th letter of the NATO phonetic alphabet | PAPA |
| Absorbent implement | MOP |
| Accept eagerly | EMBRACE |
| Acting Ken or Lena | LION |
| Akita agreement | HAI |
| Animal collective | HERD |
| Attempt to persuade | COAX |
| Between, pour moi | ENTRE |
| Blood of the gods | CHOIR |
| Botanical wall art plant | MOSS |
| Box of bocks, say | CASE |
| Bridge materials? | CARDS |
| Certain tank descriptor | SEPTIC |
| Cleared for departure? | EXCUSED |
| Concern for the Union of Concerned Scientists | CLIMATE |
| Concerning element of home inspections | ADORN |
| Cooing creature | DOVE |
| Curly style | PERM |
| Dance music style popularized by Pérez Prado | THEMAMBO |
| Disappearing lakes, e.g | MIRAGES |
| Dollar : United States :: kip : ___ | LAOS |
| Dozed for a bit | APPEND |
| Drying cloth | DISHRAG |
| Eponym of the Sports Scholar Awards from Diverse: Issues in Higher Education | ASHE |
| Equidae family member | ASS |
| Except | SAVE |
| Experiences decay | ROTS |
| Fall behind, say | OWE |
| Fill in un océano | AGUA |
| Flower with a 'Fragrant Cloud' cultivar | TEAROSE |
| Focus of one's enmity | FOE |
| Food brand named for two neighboring states | OREIDA |
| For each one | APIECE |
| Force wielders of film | SITH |
| Frank | HONEST |
| From this point on ... and a phrase that explains (and is spelled out by) the 12 shifted first letters in this puzzle | GOINGFORWARD |
| Gambling game | AFRO |
| Getaway | LAM |
| Gets by observation | SENSES |
| GhostCircus Apparel designer ___ James | ELI |
| Gives a pass to, say | COMPS |
| Glossy curtain fabric | SATIN |
| Gmail folder heading | SENT |
| Golden ___ (Temple Run treasure) | IDOL |
| GPS approximation | ETA |
| Guided | LED |
| Guy who directed the 2019 'Aladdin' remake | ITCHIER |
| Has high hopes | SPIREAS |
| High bridge | VIADUCT |
| Holed up? | POROUS |
| Home of the Dez Dam | IRAN |
| How aliens may come, per some sci-fi tropes | INPEACE |
| Hyundai model that mixes up the letters of 112 Down and 66 Across | ELANTRA |
| Idris who played Macavity the Mystery Cat in 'Cats' | ELBA |
| In a bit, in an ode | ANON |
| Journey respites | STOPS |
| Kunis of 'Black Swan' | MILA |
| Like flagged football formations | ILLEGAL |
| Like life granted by the Holy Grail | ETERNAL |
| Like old astronomical models positing that the sun revolves around Earth | EGOCENTRIC |
| Like salmon | OILY |
| Loud speakers on stage, perhaps | HAMS |
| Louisa May Alcott character portrayed in an Oscar-nominated role by Florence Pugh | AMYMARCH |
| Malicious look | LEER |
| Many a millennial in the early 2000s | TEEN |
| Many athletes' barriers | NETS |
| Med. care sites | ERS |
| Moves stealthily | CREEPS |
| NBA Hall of Famer Pippen | SCOTTIE |
| Negation word | NOR |
| Obsequious employee | YESMAN |
| One earning strike pay? | PITCHER |
| One of the Fourteen Holy Helpers of Cath. tradition | STELMO |
| Opposite of busy | IDLE |
| Order to an Akita | SIT |
| Oval section | ARC |
| Pandora-based film | AVATAR |
| Passion personified | EROS |
| Pavement hazard | POTHOLE |
| People person? | STAR |
| Post cereal advertised as 'the stuff breakfast dreams are made of' | OREOOS |
| Punching gadget | AWL |
| Range orphan | DOGIE |
| Rap battle VIPs | MCS |
| Reform? | MUTATE |
| Refuse to give up? | TRASH |
| Requiring recovery | HURT |
| Scatters about | STREWS |
| See 112 Down | LATE |
| See 5 Down | CREAM |
| Served a sentence | ONETIMED |
| She played Barbara in 1990s SNL sketches | CHERI |
| Ship's crew | TARS |
| Shredded, as cheese | RATEDG |
| Single-___ plastics | USE |
| Site for frequent fliers? | AVIARY |
| Slammed in tribute | ROASTED |
| Smashing success? | ACE |
| Snatch | NAB |
| Soap actress Davidson | EILEEN |
| Sound in a field | MOO |
| Source of a drumroll | SNARE |
| Stone found in the Australian mining town of Lightning Ridge | OPAL |
| Stuffs | SATES |
| Subject of an early 2000s collapse | ENRON |
| Sunken place | CRATER |
| Sweat spot | BROW |
| Taj Mahotsav festival city | AGRA |
| Temporary | INTERIM |
| That, in poetry | YON |
| The state of 'State Fair' | IOWA |
| Theater honors | OBIES |
| They move around | ORBITERS |
| Tunes out | IGNORES |
| Undiluted, in mixology | NEAT |
| Unlocks | PEONS |
| Utilize a theoretical cloaking device, say | VANISH |
| Ward of 'The Guardian' | SELA |
| Weapon in film noir | GAT |
| Western show business? | SALOON |
| What a shredder shreds | SHEET |
| With 66 Across, fell behind | RAN |
| With 79 Down, shake stuff | ICE |
| Work in a theater | DRAMA |
| World of Warcraft being | ELF |
The Washington Post Sunday - May 24 2020 Crossword Puzzle Solutions
The Washington Post Sunday Puzzle - May 24 2020 Crossword Answers
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