The Washington Post Sunday - Jan 23 2022 Crossword Puzzle Solution

 The Washington Post Sunday - Jan 23 2022 Crossword Answer

Clues	Answers
'AC360' broadcaster	CNN
'Black on Both Sides: A ___ History of Trans Identity' (2017 book by C. Riley Snorton)	RACIAL
'Concrete Cowboy' actor Idris	ELBA
'Finding Nemo' giant	WHALE
'Horrible Bosses' director ___ Gordon	SETH
'I'm downstairs,' to a friend living in a high-rise apartment	ITSME
'Keep your balance!'	STEADY
'The most astonishing activity of mankind born out of struggle between wisdom and madness,' per Magdalena Abakanowicz	ART
'Up Late' singer Lennox	ARI
'___ Land' (2010 film about a vampire hunter)	STAKE
'___ looking at you, kid'	HEROES
2024 Summer Games city	PARIS
Aardwolves' kin	HYENAS
Annoyance for Elmer, aptly	BUGS
Apple ___	CIDER
Appointed leader?	SELF
Approached rapidly	RANAT
Artificial radioactivity co-discoverer Joliot-Curie	IRENE
Awards show sounds	CLAPS
Be down in competition	TRAIL
Believing, so to speak	BUOYING
Below zero (Hint: The complete answer is an alternate title for this puzzle suggesting a letter that can fit in 10 squares, but has been dropped each time)	ONEGATIVE
Black-and-white photoengraving	LINECUT
Blended brews, maybe	TEAS
Bocas del Toro nation	PANAMA
Brought under control	TAMED
Cartoon chihuahua	RENO
Cause delays, maybe	HINDER
Causes of irritation	PEEVES
Co. leader's deg., often	MBA
Cousin of the Rachel sandwich	REUBEN
Credibility, as for an argument	HEFT
Deposits, as to an account	PAYSIN
Developed choppers	TEETHED
Developer's creation	APOP
Diamond experts?	SKIERS
Dick inducted into the Basketball Hall of Fame in 2008	VITALE
Disc mower maker	DEERE
Discern visually	SEE
Distracting noise	ODIN
Do some pickpocketing	THIEVE
Educational basics	ABCS
Emmy winner Shore	DINAH
Emulate a kangaroo rat	LEAP
Ethics class concept	EVIL
Event for everyone	BIRTH
Expressionist Nolde	EMIL
Extraordinary success	EPICWIN
Fanning on a film set	ELLE
Fired off, as a text	SENT
Flight of the Conchords comedian McKenzie	BRET
Fronded green specimen	FERN
Game with a blitz variety	CHESS
Get things in order	TIDYUP
Grasslike growth	SEDGE
Green field?	FINANCE
Group of cells with similar structure and function	TISSUE
Harold who played Egon in 'Ghostbusters'	RAMIS
Harpsichord family instruments	SPINETS
High point of real estate?	ATTIC
Highly urgent	DIRE
Honey-colored resin	AMBER
Improv comedy tenet	YESAND
Indiana director?	STEVEN
Interlace	ENTWINE
Invent a 62 Across, say	LIE
Items stuck in cakes	CANOODLES
Joining	LIONKING
Jorts makeup	DENIM
Key that often has a left-facing arrow	ENTER
Knowing what's going on	AWARE
Lake by Lorain, Ohio	ERIE
Language family for Sotho and Swazi speakers	BANTU
Late actress, animal welfare advocate and self-described 'avid crossword puzzle addict' White	BETTY
Light source traditionally given to a first-year student at Bryn Mawr College	LANTERN
Like a pangolin's skin	SCALY
Like an expert	ADEPT
Like many fitness trainers	INSHAPE
Like some shots at 19th-century saloons?	SEPIA
Liturgical book	MISSAL
Low euchre cards	TENS
Maker of LCD projectors	RCA
Maki or uramaki dish	SUSHI
Mare : filly :: ___ : pullet	HEN
Marine formation	REEF
Marsh plants with an animal in their name	COATTAILS
Masked athlete's tool	EPEE
Michael who played bass for the Bangles	STEELE
Mimicking passerine bird	MYNA
Minister's assistant	BEADLE
Nautical charts	SEAMAPS
Not in right now	AWAY
Not in right now	PASSE
Not uniform	UNEVEN
Objectives	AIMS
Obliterate	ERASE
Observable truth	FACT
Offshore platform	RIG
One who might drop the ball	KLUTZ
One-man show about Capote	TROU
Org. opposing dealers ... or leading 'dealers'?	DEA
Owner's record	DEED
Pair in a Double Quarter Pounder	PATOOTIES
Paleontologists' workplaces	DIGSITES
Phil, to Will, on 'The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air'	UNCLE
Polyhedron feature	EDGE
Posting insulting messages online	FLAMINGO
Procedure used in a search for one's genetic ancestors	DONATESTO
Promising quality	UPSIDE
Promo profession	ADBIZ
Protective gear	PADS
Reactions to a series of unfortunate events, say	TIRADES
Resist	DEFY
Ring out, like a bell	PEAL
Roam, with 'about'	GOAD
Sale signifier	REDTAG
See 24 Down	EAR
Slop(py) space	STY
Soda bottle measurements	LOITERS
Some pub drinks	ALOES
Spot for a wet blanket	DRYER
Standards of decorum	MANNERS
Start of an encouraging phrase	ATTA
Study manuals, say	READ
Sweater ___ (knit garments)	VESTS
Tabernacle table	ALTAR
Tack on	ADD
Taking down, in a forest	FELLING
Target of many a fan's complaints	REF
Tastes, as 3 Down	SIPS
Tax Day sign	ARIES
Tennessee NFL pro	TITAN
Tibias' spots	SHINS
Tight people	PALS
Unbleached linen hue	ECRU
Vigoda of 'North'	ABE
Walking aids	CANOES
What SPF 50 sunscreen blocks	UVRAYS
What YouTube tracks	VIEWS
Where an epilogue appears	ATTHEEND
With 85 Down, liability for an a cappella singer	TIN
[What's this?!]	GASP
___ down (subsided)	DIED
___ punch (devastating blow)	GUT