The Washington Post Sunday - August 9 2020 Crossword Puzzle Solutions

 The Washington Post Sunday - Aug 9 2020 Crossword Answers

Clues	Answers
'I'm here' (and a hint to two starred answers in this puzzle)	ITSME
'No worries' (and a hint to two starred answers in this puzzle)	ITSOK
'Perception' actress Rachael ___ Cook	LEIGH
'Stumptown' protagonist ___ Parios	DEX
'The Color Purple' role	CELIE
'The kick's in the air ...' (and a hint to two starred answers in this puzzle)	ITSUP
'The ___ of a living thing is not the atoms that go into it, but the way those atoms are put together': Carl Sagan	BEAUTY
'This means war!' (and a hint to two starred answers in this puzzle)	ITSON
'Unsellable Houses' airer	HGTV
'You ___ win 'em all'	CANT
'___ Frutti' (1955 classic by Little Richard)	TUTTI
*Actor Danson in rare form?	UNCOMMONTED
*Chinese cooking competition?	BATTLEOFWOKS
*Defame athletes?	SMEARPLAYERS
*Fully understand one's choppers?	GROKYOURTEETH
*Jolly Roger pirate, when he's building a home made of twigs?	NESTINGSMEE
*Loaf stuffed with cocoons stuffed with insects?	PUPABREAD
*Shindig for small horses?	PONYPARTY
*Young dogs led by a maestro?	ORCHESTRAPUPS
Actress Campbell-Martin of 'My Wife & Kids'	TISHA
Alternate-universe counterpart of Clark Kent	ULTRAMAN
Answer at the altar	IDO
Apple chip holder?	IPAD
Bret of short stories	HARTE
Burning issue?	HEAT
Captain Picard's weapon	PHASER
Cell count?	APPS
Champion shoe brand	KEDS
Colon, in an analogy	ISTO
Connecting device	MODEM
Contemptuous look	SNEER
Curse substitution	BLEEP
Declassify, as records	UNSEAL
Defender Kelley on the U.S. women's national team	OHARA
Director Lupino	IDA
Emerald or jade	HUE
Emulated models	POSED
Enters a second time	RETYPES
Fail to get the W, say	LOSE
Feel feverish	AIL
Frozen yogurt topping	OREO
Function	USE
Geld, say	CASTRATE
Glide floss brand	ORALB
Golf ball holders	TEES
Got off the sofa, say	STOOD
Grounds care brand	DEERE
Grps. concerned with testing	PTAS
Herded creature in 'Babe'	EWE
Herr lines?	GERMAN
Hidden loot, e.g	STASH
Horse family member	ASS
Hubristic king of myth	MIDAS
Incline (toward)	LEAN
Is quite perceptive	SEESALL
Jane's toon son	ELROY
Journalist Bly or Bowles	NELLIE
Latte art shade	TAN
Lhasa ___ (dog breed)	APSO
Like Genie in 'Aladdin'	BLUE
Like many a chess match	DRAWN
Like Margo Dydek, among all WNBA pros so far	TALLEST
Like rice or couscous	STARCHY
Like Washington's presidency	TWOTERM
Make less tense	SETATEASE
Manilow song setting	COPA
Material of many Etsy products	HEMP
Med. diagnostic	CTSCAN
Media revenue sources	ADS
Mining company's finds	ORES
Molokai menu tuna	AHI
Monthly with models	ELLE
Mortgage interest fig	APR
Move quickly	DASH
Move quickly	JET
Neat displays	ARRAYS
No-return service	ACE
Offshore drilling target	OIL
Overhauls	REDOES
Painters' degs	BFAS
People of First Mesa	HOPI
Performing pair's piece	DUET
Pfizer subsidiary	SEARLE
Pitching gem	SHUTOUT
Pneumovax maker	MERCK
Practice a la Pacquiao	SPAR
Prefix with perspirant	ANTI
President pro ___	TEM
Prevailing feeling at a wedding	JOY
Protective sheets	TARPS
Queen's pronoun	SHE
Queen's value, at times	TEN
Ran ___ of the law	AFOUL
Reason for storming out	IRE
Reckon, briefly	SPOSE
Reject	NIX
Ring worn at a Hawaiian wedding, perhaps	LEI
Riveter on a poster	ROSIE
Sacred flower, in Buddhism	LOTUS
Scottish aquatic locale	LOCH
Seawater discolorations caused by algal blooms	REDTIDES
See 76 Down	EYRIE
See 76 Down	END
Seep through a membrane	OSMOSE
Share stories, say	TELLLIES
Showing impudence	SASSING
Silver ___ (fish)	CARP
Soak, as in a teacup	STEEP
Some	AFEW
Something taken on a plane	SEAT
Space for quarters	SLOT
Spending outing	SPREE
Spinners on roofs	VANES
Square root of sesenta y cuatro	OCHO
Swizzle	STIR
Take control, demon-style	POSSESS
Take part in a triathlon	SWIM
Task guides	TODOLISTS
Tennis icon Arthur	ASHE
That guy's	HIS
Theological waiting point	LIMBO
Toddler's lesson	ABCS
Toon brother of 103 Across	BART
Toon sister of 79 Down	LISA
Torment with gibes	TAUNT
Torment with gibes	TEASE
Traveled by bike	RODE
Tucks away	STOWS
Turns to liquid	THAWS
Twist, as statistics	SKEW
Ultimatum conclusion	ORELSE
Univ. hall figures	RAS
Venomous reptiles	ASPS
Viaduct features	ARCHES
Virtuoso's gift	TALENT
White noise from a fan	WHIR
With 56 Across, final words ... or with 56 Down, 'Game of Thrones' castle on top of a mountain	THE
Word in a New Year's song	SYNE
Work of praise	PAEAN
Yard sale caveat	ASIS
___ cotta	TERRA
___ Fables	AESOPS
___ salts (form of magnesium sulfate)	EPSOM
___ Tots	TATER