The Washington Post Sunday - Mar 6 2022 Crossword Puzzle Solutions

 The Washington Post Sunday - Mar 6 2022 Crossword Answers

Clues	Answers
'An appalling waste of energy,' per Katherine Mansfield / Exploring deeply	RESEARCHING
'Atlanta,' 'Dallas' or 'Nashville,' e.g	SERIES
'Be on your guard'	STAYALERT
'Dig in!'	EAT
'Earthquake' actress Gardner	AVA
'Eloquent Rage: A Black Feminist Discovers Her Superpower' author Brittney	COOPER
'Elysium' actor Matt	DAMON
'God ...!'	SONOFA
'Heat' actor Kilmer	VAL
'I like ___' (1950s presidential campaign slogan)	IKE
'I'm here'	ITSME
'Is this thing on?' strike	TAP
'L-O-V-E' singer ___ King Cole	NAT
'Let's get ready to rumble!'	GAMEON
'Little Trip to Heaven (On the Wings of Your Love)' singer, 1973	TOMWAITS
'No ___ traffic'	THRU
'Score!'	GOAL
'That goes for me, too'	SOAMI
'Warlords' maker	ATARI
'Way to get yourself out of trouble there'	NICESAVE
'___ made up my mind'	IVE
105 Across that's spelled out by the first letters of this puzzle's unclued Down answers	GREBE
55 Down blades	GRASS
Supreme Court ruling reaffirmed in City of Akron v. Akron Center for Reproductive Health (1983), informally	ROE
Aces of Aces and kings of Kings, e.g	ALLSTARS
Also-ran in 1988	DUKAKIS
Alter ___ (superhero's second self)	EGO
AOC : Ocasio :: RBG : ___	BADER
Attorney's document	BRIEF
Away at the moment	NOTIN
Barbecue portion	SPARERIB
Be highly successful	THRIVE
Big part of Chad	SAHARA
Bran source	OAT
Bring about	GENERATE
Burns' remedies	BALMS
Change color slightly	TINT
Commencement	ONSET
Contraction eliding 'un'	TIL
Cookware brand based in France	STAUB
Cowardly / Sellers of fabric and knitting supplies	CRAFTSTORES
Crew locale	SHIP
Depletes	SAPS
Dish that may be filled with salsa and chipotle peppers	CHALUPA
Dishonorable fellows	CADS
Ears full of sugar	SWEETCORN
Egyptian god of war and chaos	SET
Enter undetected	SNEAKIN
Envision with divination	FORESEE
Everyday explosions	SNEEZES
Exam prep expert	TUTOR
Extract, in metallurgy	SMELT
Extremely	EVERSO
Fabric often worn torn	DENIM
Flabbergasts	STUNS
Food from the French for 'saucepan'	CASSEROLE
Fried ring thing	ONION
Galway's country: Abbr	IRE
Ganesha or Krishna, in Hinduism	DEITY
Give credit, with 'to'	ASCRIBE
Go through '1984' again, say	REREAD
Had been	WERE
Have a banquet meal	DINE
Infant's hooded garment / One born during the 1950s, maybe	BABYBOOMER
Laudatory stanzas	ODE
Law of ___ (trigonometry equation)	SINES
Lead-in to a big event	EVE
Like bulls from the Vatican	PAPAL
Like fans during a triple-overtime thriller	TENSE
Like one going on a tirade	IRATE
Like vintage Gouda	AGED
Linguistics topic	SLANG
Lost son of the clownfish Marlin	NEMO
Made an offer that one couldn't refuse, say	LURED
Make at the workplace	EARN
May day event, usually	PROM
Meal the begins with reciting the kiddush	SEDER
Medical procedures that aren't closed	OPENMRIS
Midwest city where the first Gibson guitars were manufactured	KALAMAZOO
Negation of 'dele,' in editing	STET
Nurturing man	DAD
Objective of pollution reduction	CLEANAIR
One making a swift descent, illustrated by each unclued Down answer in this puzzle	DIVINGBIRD
One with love interests	EROS
Org. profiled in James Bamford's book 'Body of Secrets'	NSA
Painting perimeter	FRAME
Performance check	TESTRUN
Person who is hard-working and successful while 'high'	ACHIEVER
Peter, Ray and Winston's fellow Ghostbuster	EGON
Place where caddies hold bags	TEAROOM
Preposition in a sonnet	ERE
Prized flower in 'The Little Prince'	ROSE
Proposition accepted as true	AXIOM
Qatar royal	EMIR
Reason for tripping	LSD
Received by the ears	AURAL
Record label found in 'remixes'	EMI
Relative of a meerkat / Citizens of Ulaanbaatar	MONGOLIANS
Reluctant (to)	AVERSE
Reminds over and over	NAGS
Restriction at some apartments	NOPETS
Rock bottom moment?	BASSSOLO
Role model	EXEMPLAR
Sandra Bullock film involving Web surfing	THENET
Sch. application nos	GPAS
Science educator Bill	NYE
Section of a building opposite the front	REARAREA
Seizes the attention of	GRABS
Sheep noise	BLEAT
Shouts	CRIESOUT
Sly summons	PSST
Snoopy, e.g. / Stout vessel	BEERBARREL
Stage during an insect's metamorphosis	LARVA
Subject for Dian Fossey	APE
Sufficiently skilled	ABLE
The 5th Dimension member Florence	LARUE
The F of AFAIK	FAR
The Red Bear Brewing Co. drink Skookum, e.g	ALE
Tiger noises	ROARS
Tool for making piles	RAKE
Tornado warning noisemaker	SIREN
Tree used to build King David's house	CEDAR
Try out a bouquet	SMELL
Unique	ALONE
Verb used in cooking	STIR
What this puzzle's featured creatures build	NESTS
Where disc golfers make their first throws	TEEPADS
Where Maria sings 'The Hills Are Alive' in 'The Sound of Music'	MEADOW
Wish list recipient?	GENIE
Word before Major or Minor, in astronomy	URSA
Works really hard	TOILS
Writer Umberto	ECO
Wrong letter in a crossword, e.g	ERROR
www.gallaudet.___	EDU
___ stateswoman	ELDER