The Washington Post Sunday June 6 2021 Crossword Solutions

 The Washington Post Sunday - Jun 6 2021 Crossword Answers

Clues	Answers
'Birdman' actress Riseborough	ANDREA
'Borders' singer	MIA
'It follows that ...'	THUS
'Like that'll ever happen!'	OHSURE
'Straight up ...'	REALTALK
'The Legend of Zelda: A Link to the ___' (video game prequel)	PAST
'The Tempest' spirit	ARIEL
'The Unremembered Girl' author Maxwell	ELIZA
'The ___ Holmes Mysteries' (series of detective novels by Nancy Springer)	ENOLA
'Who's next?' reply from whoever is next	IAM
*Got somewhere during a task	MADEPRO{GRE}SS
*Gymnastics surfaces	TUMBLIN{GMAT}S
*Messes with	PLAY{SAT}RICKON
*Moon, e.g	NATURA{LSAT}ELLITE
*Native American talismans suspended over cradles and beds	DREA{MCAT}CHERS
*Semis	TR{ACT}ORTRAILERS
1997 Mattel acquisition	TYCO
Acquiesce (to)	ASSENT
Actress Issa, and a homophone of 39 Down	RAE
Astatine, e.g	HALOGEN
Avian nickname given to the Creek warrior William Weatherford	REDEAGLE
Band whose name is a potential answer to its song title 'Why Can't We Be Friends?'	WAR
Bedeviled	PESTERED
Biblical figure referred to in the phrase 'Am I my brother's keeper?'	ABEL
Big part of a big personality's personality, perhaps	EGO
Big picture	POSTER
Bit of company attire?	TUTU
Bombard with laser beams	ZAP
Bonus	PLUS
Brief bit of brightness	GLINT
Buildup from pressure	STRESS
Burglar in the Quest of Erebor of high fantasy	BILBO
Burn, at a barbecue	CHAR
Burton whose fans petitioned for him to become the host of 'Jeopardy!'	LEVAR
Bust figure, informally	NARCO
Capital near Paradise Island	NASSAU
Cardinal numbers?	STATS
Character in Lilith Saintcrow's book 'To Hell and Back'	{SAT}AN
Circled by	AMID
Civic's test developer?	HONDA
Company seeking hits	LABEL
Conservative in the House of Commons	TORY
Debate presentations	IDEAS
Delivery from a herald	MESSAGE
Demand	NEED
Did some interrogating	ASKED
Disappeared gradually	DIEDAWAY
Disconfirm	DENY
Disney Junior's royal detective	MIRA
Distort, as polling data	SKEW
Duds at the Oscars	TUX
Earlier, in a sonnet	ERENOW
Either one of the duettists on 'Somethin' Stupid'	SINATRA
End up behind	LOSE
European site of a contemporary music festival called Ultima	OSLO
Exfoliating spa offering	PEEL
Export from Bordeaux	CLARET
Express scorn visually	SNEER
Feeling after a series of unfortunate events, often	RE{GRE}T
Fill to capacity	SATE
Focus of a newspaper's culture beat	THEARTS
Folks in the forces, briefly	GIS
Fourth-grader voiced by Nancy Cartwright	BART
Going through texts	READING
Hairy hollow, perhaps	ARMPIT
Hard to figure out, like some puzzles	ENI{GMAT}IC
Have aches and pains	AIL
HDTV brand	RCA
Honeydew, e.g	MELON
Hot body	STAR
Husked grain	OAT
Indigenous performers of the Bear Dance	UTES
Its flooding was the work of the god Hapi, in ancient myth	NILE
Join privately?	ENLIST
Lansbury of 'Bedknobs and Broomsticks'	ANGELA
Large, hairy beast	YAK
Large, hairy beast	APE
Letters on some Duracell packs	AAA
Like an online 90 Down	EMAILED
Like medals and prizes	AWARDED
Like some writing devices	IRONIC
Lily pad visitor	FROG
Load-bearing creatures	OXEN
Mag discussing CEOs	INC
Magical D&D foe	HAG
Male that meows	TO{MCAT}
Mama heard on the radio	CASS
March Madness locale	ARENA
Marsupial hunted by a Tasmanian devil	WOMBAT
Melody with the notes vadi and samvadi	RAGA
Mineral sources	ORES
Mohawk Island's lake	ERIE
Most alert	READIEST
Mountain evergreen	FIR
Nautical weapon	SEAMINE
Not amateurish	ADEPT
Ocean snapper?	LOBSTER
One watching a race	VOTER
Org. with a STEM + Families program	PTA
Ottawa-born crooner	ANKA
Particles generated from heterolytic fission	IONS
Patronizes, as a hotel	STAYSAT
Perceptible by touch	T{ACT}ILE
Pledge to an officiant	IDO
Political mover?	EMIGRE
Ran, as in a laundromat	BLED
Reach	ATTAIN
Reflected line in optics	RAY
Roll-call refusal	NAY
Round rim surrounder	TIRE
Scrub	ABORT
Semiaquatic creature	SEAL
Series with a fourth-season premiere titled 'Welcome to Korea'	MASH
Sharp-ended fastener	NAIL
Shirk work	LAZE
Some distillery products	GINS
Some govt. issuances	IDS
Split up	APART
Stern rebuke	EARFUL
Superlatively snarky	SNIDEST
Take a closer look in a book, say	PARSE
Tank's contents	OIL
Tank's contents	AIR
Temporary plunge	DIP
Tennis pro Vesnina	ELENA
Terra ___	FIRMA
The Bard's kerfuffle	ADO
Things one can check on Eventbrite	RSVPS
Things revealed after taking an exam, and what's spelled out by the letters immediately following six special squares in this puzzle	SCORES
Throb rhythmically	PU{LSAT}E
Traps, as in a web	ENMESHES
Use flawed reasoning, say	ERR
Verification of a businessman's statements?	AUDIT
Vocal	OUTSPOKEN
Watched	EYED
Wet one's thistle?	IRRIGATE
What Facebook's thumbs-up icon means	LIKE
With euphoria	ELATEDLY
Word before your words	EAT
Written communication	MISSIVE
Z as in Zografou	ZETA
___ Emhoff, member of the second family beginning in 2021	ELLA
___ forces	ENEMY
___ hygiene (dental concern)	ORAL
___ Yuanzi, activist during China's Cultural Revolution	NIE