The Washington Post Sunday - Sep 5 2021 Crossword Puzzle Solution

 The Washington Post Sunday - Sep 5 2021 Crossword Answer

Clues	Answers
'At First Sight' actress Sorvino	MIRA
'Check, please'?	IPASS
'Enter if you ___!'	DARE
'Gotcha'	ISEE
'I get to go now'	MYTURN
'Please finish quickly,' in an office email	NEEDASAP
'The function of freedom is to free someone else' speaker Morrison	TONI
'The Queen's Gambit' actress Taylor-Joy	ANYA
'Tiny Dancer' rocker John	ELTON
'Up Late' singer Lennox	ARI
'Weird' author Khazan	OLGA
'Woe is me!'	ALAS
'___ deal!'	BIG
'___ the long face?'	WHY
23rd Greek letter	PSI
50 percent of diez	CINCO
A, in a deck of cards	ACE
Aardvark's facial feature	SNOUT
Actor Tom providing cuts of holiday bird?	HANKSGIVINGTURKEY
Advantages	PROS
All alternative	ERA
Ambulance apparatus	STRETCHER
Amiss	AWRY
Animal with pants?	DOG
Appreciative works	ODES
Approach zero percent battery power, say	RUNLOW
Bambi, for one	DEER
Bert's buddy on TV	ERNIE
Best for apple-picking	RIPEST
Bestla's son in Norse myth	ODIN
Biz abbr	INC
Capital of Ghana?	HARDG
Carb-rich side that may be cut, and what's spelled out by the letters cut from the starts of this puzzle's foods	POTATOES
Catherine who played Moira on 'Schitt's Creek'	OHARA
Cathy who wrote 'Weapons of Math Destruction'	ONEIL
Chef's toque, e.g	HAT
Chestnut-colored horse	ROAN
Chloe Fineman's sketch show, briefly	SNL
Combines in math class	ADDS
Confuse	ADDLE
Consistent with	TRUETO
CPR-certified worker	EMT
Crafted	MADE
Cut of meat from Mork's home planet?	ORKROAST
Dairy product from a hydroelectric facility?	DAMCHEESE
DC reporter Clark	KENT
Delivery in a hospital?	DOSE
Descriptivists' topics	USAGES
Desert vegetation areas	OASES
Detroit-born DJ Casey	KASEM
Develops survival methods, say	ADAPTS
Elevated crest	RIDGE
Emulates interrogators	ASKS
Enjoyed a snack	ATE
Essentials of learning	ABCS
European capital where part of 'Tenet' was filmed	OSLO
Events at swim meets	RELAYS
Expanse above	SKY
Fast-food sandwiches grilled by actress Grier?	PAMBURGERS
Five-armed invertebrate	SEASTAR
Formal promise	PLEDGE
Former Italian money	LIRA
Gas brand owned by Marathon	ARCO
Gilpin who played Roz Doyle on 'Frasier'	PERI
Gobble up, with 'down'	SNARF
Grammy winner Hayes	ISAAC
Greeting to a group of seared fish dishes?	HITUNASTEAKS
Group's core beliefs	ETHOS
Guys on boards	CHAIRMEN
Have some down time during the day?	TAKEANAP
He called competitive eating 'the only sport where marijuana is considered a performance-enhancing drug'	LENO
Highly scrutinized TV episode, often	FINALE
Hope for the best, say	PRAY
Hostel bed, perhaps	BUNK
Jagged part of a cliff	CRAG
Joint seen while wearing flip-flops	ANKLE
Latin footnote word abbreviated by deleting its last two letters	IBIDEM
Like lemonade	ACIDIC
Lost deliberately	TANKED
Maidenform product	BRA
Making a comeback, say	RETRO
Midwestern home of the World-Herald	OMAHA
Military band, maybe?	RIBBON
Model-building box	KIT
Non-biological parent	STEPDAD
Novelist Charles	READE
Numbers on census forms	AGES
Obnoxious jerk, in British slang	TOSSER
Oct. 31 exclamation	BOO
Olympic team for Simone Biles and Suni Lee	USA
Opposite of clumsy	ADEPT
Ordered, with 'around'	BOSSED
Organize, as a playlist	CURATE
Organizes into a row	ALIGNS
Ortiz of 'Love, Victor'	ANA
Out of control	AMOK
Overfastidious	ANAL
Oxygen producer	TREE
Phenomenon similar to a fog	MIST
Piano string adjuster	TUNER
Piece of a certain floral crown	ROSEPETAL
Polynesian Disney character voiced by Auli'i Cravalho	MOANA
Pool-testing digit	TOE
Poultry served in the mountains?	RANGECHICKEN
Pre-U.S.S.R. leader	TSAR
Problem for a comb	TANGLE
Problem treated by a urologist	HERNIA
Realm ruled by Xerxes	PERSIA
Reason to get well wishes from Facebook friends, briefly	BDAY
Red fruit that's painted or sculpted?	ARTCHERRY
Remain, as at a job	STAYON
Scotty's portrayer James on 'Star Trek'	DOOHAN
See 43 Down	SINS
See 9 Down	IQUOTE
Sends on a detour	REROUTES
Shade of a Tibetan Buddhist monk's robe	MAROON
Shots posted on Insta	PICS
Singaraja's island home	BALI
Sit alongside	ABUT
Something you may forget in the morning	DREAM
Source of danger	PERIL
Spanish word for 'mother'	MADRE
Spirits from Smirnoff	VODKAS
Sports org. shown in 'The Last Dance'	NBA
State Farm alternative	GEICO
To the ___ degree (as much as possible)	NTH
Treat as exactly alike	EQUATE
Treats baked by a classic auto company?	REOCOOKIES
Ultimatum word	ELSE
Ultrasound or X-ray, e.g	SCAN
Vehicle in a chop shop	HOTCAR
Vehicle in the president's motorcade	LIMO
Verbal ___	TIC
What Reuters provides	NEWS
Whitlock Jr. who played Clay Davis on 'The Wire'	ISIAH
Whiz ___ (prodigy)	KID
With 111 Down, septet of vices	DEADLY
With 14 Down, 'Their exact words were ...'	AND
Xerox machine bundle	REAM
___ Aviv, Israel	TEL
___ Bora (rhyming region of Afghanistan)	TORA
___ Hannon, Ellie Kemper's role on 'The Office'	ERIN
___ Mesa, Calif	COSTA
___-Missouria (people of Red Rock, Okla.)	OTOE