The Washington Post Sunday - Dec 26 2021 Crossword Puzzle Solution

 The Washington Post Sunday - Dec 26 2021 Crossword Answer

Clues	Answers
'Archer' voice actress Judy	GREER
'Citizen Kane' locale	XANADU
'Home ___'	ALONE
'I Want to Come Home for Christmas' singer Gaye	MARVIN
'I'll be home for Christmas / If ___ in my dreams'	ONLY
'Night' author Wiesel	ELIE
'Open the door, human!'	MEOW
'Sun's out, guns out' muscles	BICEPS
'The Café-Concert' painter, 1879	MANET
'The Nutcracker and the Mouse King,' e.g	TALE
'Things ___ looking up!'	ARE
'We did it!'	YEAH
'We ___ a miracle!'	NEED
'Welcome to Hell World' author Luke	ONEIL
'Who wants to take a crack at it?'	ANYBODY
'Wintersong' musician McLachlan	SARAH
'Zing!'	HIYO
'___ the kraken!'	RELEASE
*'Doesn't affect me'	ITSNOSWEATOFFMYBACK
*1979 film whose final line is a quotation from 'Heart of Darkness'	APOCALYPSENOW
*Card game that's a gambling variant of a simpler card game	CASINOWAR
*Phrase used to emphasize the truth of something	GOODNESSKNOWS
*Scandinavian city that's home to the Science Factory	SANDNESNORWAY
Abbr. on office mail	STE
Adjusts, as shoelaces	RETIES
Allstate competitor	AFLAC
Atlas box	INSET
Attach	ADJOIN
Attempts to connect with another plane?	SEANCES
Avoid	EVADE
Band around a joint	ANKLET
Band or toy preceder	BOY
Bathroom cleaner	SOAP
Be abundant	TEEM
Bistro reading	MENU
Bolt	SKEDADDLE
C feature	CURVE
Chem class charges	LABFEES
Christmas feast, e.g	REPAST
Christmas song lyric that serves as a hint to this puzzle's meta	DASHINGTHROUGHTHESNOW
Closefitting head cover	DURAG
Common Christmas ornament	ORB
Completely absorbed	ENRAPT
Considered to be	SEENAS
Crime drama genre	NOIR
Cute source of pants?	DOG
Delegate from Can. or Mex., e.g., who assembles in NYC	UNREP
Discreet email initials	BCC
Dodgeball balls, essentially	AMMO
Downcast	SAD
Eagle ___ (source of nest broadcasts)	CAM
Emulated crows	CAWED
Faked out, in hockey	DEKED
False fronts	GUISES
Far from terse	WORDY
Farmer's site, in a song	DELL
Feature of rotten eggs	ODOR
Fiddles' kin	VIOLAS
Figure skater Brian who performed in 'Carmen on Ice'	ORSER
Flavor enhancer inits	MSG
Form of sunscreen	GEL
Former Firebird maker	PONTIAC
Gave, as a hand	LENT
Get into a pizza, say	BITE
Glazed Christmas dish, perhaps	HAM
Go swiftly	SPEED
Gold medal-winning runner Sebastian	COE
Grant with the album 'Home for Christmas'	AMY
Greek series finale?	OMEGA
Greek symbol of density	RHO
Hack with an ax	HEW
Having a cold, say	ILL
Hearing order	ALLRISE
Held for questioning	DETAINED
Homering Sammy	SOSA
How bills may be paid	INCASH
How some bread tastes	YEASTY
Hustle	RUSH
Idiomatically reinvented device	WHEEL
Inaugural statements	OATHS
Instrument heard in the 'Schitt's Creek' theme	TUBA
Jewelry fastener	CLASP
Joined forces with horses, say?	RHYMED
Like blizzards, in part	WINDY
Lines of celebration	ODE
Links starting point	TEE
Little, informally	ITSY
Lupino of 'Devotion'	IDA
Magazine that's headquartered in Paris	ELLE
Make a sincere appeal	PLEAD
Make tracks	HURRY
Maker of 4K Ultra HD TVs	RCA
Many ousted leaders	EXILES
Membranous structure attached to an embryo	YOLKSAC
Minimal amount	LEAST
Molly of an Irish folk song	MALONE
Move like Shelly-Ann Fraser-Pryce	SPRINT
National Film Award winner Kapoor	RAJ
Neat assortments	ARRAYS
Not as easily solved	HARDER
Not joking	SERIOUS
Number two?	DUO
Off-limits thing	NONO
OkCupid users' activity	DATING
One checking text messages?	EDITOR
Ornamental lace mat	DOILY
Parts of feet	TOES
Patronize, as for lunch	DINEAT
Poli ___	SCI
Power-ful scientist?	WATT
Prefix with freeze	ANTI
Protozoan on a slide	AMOEBA
Puppeteer Baird	BIL
Reference showing local attractions	AREAMAP
Repeated bit of music	LOOP
River vortexes	EDDIES
Roller coaster track	RAIL
See 118 Across	LEE
Serpents on pharaohs' headdresses	ASPS
Setting of the game 'Subnautica'	SEA
Shelters securely	ENSCONCES
Silken net	WEB
Small unit of vol	TSP
Sonic, e.g	HEDGEHOG
Spanish city where the Alhambra is located	GRANADA
Standing by, as a doctor	ONCALL
Star pitcher's low no	ERA
Storied gift wrapper	ELF
Summer Games blade	EPEE
Sunbathing goal, often	TAN
Supervised reentry into society	PAROLE
Swamp hopper	TOAD
Synonym of 7 Across	ARC
The fourth ___ (journalists, as a group)	ESTATE
Train unit that carries crude material	OILCAR
Two, in poker	DEUCE
Unfair preference, maybe	BIAS
Uses falsetto, in a way	YODELS
Vain one's big thing	EGO
Wassailing drink	ALE
Wet floor cleaner	MOP
What many apps run on	IOS
Wicked spirit	FIEND
Willie of Giants fame	MAYS
Wine ___ (one scoffing at another's merlot, say)	SNOB
Winged ___ (tree)	ELM
Winter wraps	SHAWLS
With 29 Down, 'The Ice Storm' director	ANG
With a clean slate	ANEW
Without the means	UNABLE
Work period	STINT
World records, e.g	BESTS
___ grass	OAT
___ pressure	PEER