The Washington Post Sunday - Aug 23 2020 Crossword Puzzle Solutions

 The Washington Post Sunday - Aug 23 2020 Crossword Answers

Clues	Answers
'Bewitched' witch	ENDORA
'Children Power' musician	ONO
'Couldn't agree more'	YES
'Down' singer ___ Sean	JAY
'Le Grand Canal' painter	MONET
'Lola' actress Anouk	AIMEE
'Make it make ___'	SENSE
'Mandela: Long Walk to Freedom,' e.g	BIOPIC
'Mario Is Missing!' hero	LUIGI
'Shaun of the Dead' actor Simon	PEGG
'That's all'	IMDONE
'The Vampire Diaries' actress Dobrev	NINA
'Tucker and Dale vs. Evil' director ___ Craig	ELI
'___ No Secret' (Kylie Minogue song)	ITS
*Confusing situations	MASSES
*Empathetic comment	IRE
*Inning before extra innings	NTH
*More bizarre	ODER
*Removing the wrong letters, say	EASING
*Spurs	GADS
*___ the system (exploited the rules)	GED
1500	THREEPM
Auto decoration	DECAL
Battery pack letters	AAA
Behind, on a ship	ASTERN
Bested	OUTDID
Bird hunted by a dingo	EMU
Body made of plasma	SUN
Brand with 'Scooping since 1928' on its cartons	EDYS
Bug	RILE
Bulb-shaped fruit	PEAR
Carol's time	NOEL
Ceremony bestowal	AWARD
Challenges presented by children	DARES
Cherry ___ (tree)	PLUM
Co-star of Sissy in 'The Long Walk Home'	WHOOPI
Columns in cabins, maybe	LOGS
Contemptible character	CUR
Cool ___ (creamy pie topping brand)	WHIP
Coricancha constructor	INCA
Course surface	SOD
Crowded, noisy party	RAGER
Cultural interests	ARTS
Dance studio railing	BARRE
Destroyer sometimes used at sea	TNT
Direct courses	BEELINES
Djokovic's former tennis coach	AGASSI
Doreen Shaffer's genre	SKA
Durable deck material	CEDAR
Electric Company card, e.g	DEED
Equitable	FAIR
Extract from poppies	OPIUM
Fabric made from wool	TWEED
Father's attire	ALB
FBI a(gents)	GMEN
Fire-tipped missile, at times	ARROW
Firm name abbr	INC
Flat-bladed tool	HOE
Food rhyming with 59 Across	EGG
Frequent faller in a Rube Goldberg machine	DOMINO
Frightening responses	SHRIEKS
Funny wedding pic?	ROMCOM
Garment sold by Spanx	BRA
Got 100 percent on	NAILED
Gradually disintegrate	ERODE
Group in wage talks	UNION
Has a cold one	IMBIBES
Has doubts	ISNTSURE
Hulking fantasy beast	OGRE
Inept sort	DOOFUS
Largest of the dolphins	ORCA
Leave No Doubt but still perform, say	GOSOLO
Legless larva	MAGGOT
Like the author Francine Prose's surname	APT
Lip of a cup	RIM
Make a home (in)	RESIDE
Make a second offer	REBID
Make great progress	GETFAR
Mathematical group	SUBSET
Maxim Brewery's Double Maxim, e.g	ALE
Missing groom-to-be in 'The Hangover'	DOUG
Move away	RECEDE
Musical subgenre of psychedelia	ACIDROCK
Nautical mapping tool	SONAR
Neverland hand	SMEE
Nickname in 1950s politics	IKE
Nickname in 1960s politics	CHE
Noisemaker in a jam	HORN
Non-public relations?	LOVELIFE
Not suitable	UNFIT
Obtain energy from	FEEDON
Old painting site	CAVE
One may wear a dastar	SIKH
Orbital extreme	APOGEE
Org. that painted the phrase 'Black Lives Matter' on its courts in 2020	NBA
Outing on a sound, e.g	BOATRIDE
Parts of crossword grids	ROWS
Party spirit, maybe	GIN
Prepare for horse racing	SADDLEUP
Press, as an accelerator	STEPON
Pride parade month, often	JUNE
Problems for crops	PESTS
Promote, as lies	PEDDLE
Protein-producing molecule	RNA
Radio host Flatow, or radio host Shapiro backward	IRA
Rainbow Falls locale	HILO
Reason to fix a radiator	LEAK
Recently introduced	NEW
Recipe phrase	ALA
Regal title	SIRE
Relayed	SENT
Reporter's viewpoint	ANGLE
Represent	ACTAS
Risking base discipline	AWOL
Root	ORIGIN
Routinely	ALOT
Ruminant in a meadow	EWE
Save the Children provision	AID
Sch. that receives more applications than any other college in the U.S	UCLA
Sci-fi judge working in the year 2139	DREDD
Sharpen	HONE
Sit ___ by	IDLY
Small toys?	RUNTS
Some characters in Jesmyn Ward's book 'Sing, Unburied, Sing'	GHOSTS
Sport with a hall of fame at the National Cowboy & Western Heritage Museum	RODEO
Stars may signify them	RANKS
Stats for National Pro Fastpitch players	RBIS
Stunned	INAWE
Surge protector?	SODACAN
Symbol of efficiency	ETA
Takes advantage of, as privileges	ABUSES
The castaways on 'Gilligan's Island,' e.g	SEPTET
The Fray singer Slade	ISAAC
Theater section?	SCENE
Things cracked by spies	CODES
Time when an early riser is awake	FIRSTLIGHT
Time when an early riser is awake	BREAKOFDAY
Tony winner Kelli	OHARA
Unlike pro bono work	PAID
Vowel value in Scrabble	ONE
What an early riser may watch ... and, reading bottom to top, what's spelled out by this puzzle's 'early risers'	GOODMORNINGAMERICA
Why some players need an extra quarter	TIE
___ Nakken, first woman to be a full-time coach in Major League Baseball history	ALYSSA