The Washington Post Sunday - Sep 27 2020 Crossword Puzzle Solutions

 The Washington Post Sunday Puzzle - Sep 27 2020 Crossword Answers

Clues	Answers
'Battlestar Galactica' actress Helfer	TRICIA
'Citizen ___'	KANE
'Crazy Rich Asians' director Jon M. ___	CHU
'Help me,' e.g	PLEA
'Inconceivable!'	CANTBE
'It Takes Two' twins	OLSENS
'Later,' in Le Havre	ADIEU
'Married ... With Children' and 'Sons of Anarchy' co-star	KATEYSAGAL
'Stormy Weather' singer Waters	ETHEL
'Why not ___?'	BOTH
'You've Got Mail' director	NORAEPHRON
'___ diem!'	CARPE
'___ to the Thief' (2003 Radiohead album)	HAIL
'___ ___ Baby' (hit for Vanilla ___)	ICE
100 percent accurate	EXACT
1973 National Women's Hall of Fame inductee Keller	HELEN
Address for a Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtle	DUDE
Admirer's exclamation	OOH
Ancient nomadic warrior	HUN
Apple's G5 desktop, e.g	IMAC
Arcade machine insert	TOKEN
Atoms that have an unequal number of protons and electrons	IONS
Basilica table	ALTAR
Beneficial quality	ASSET
Bent out of shape	CROOKED
Bio section of a newspaper	OBITPAGE
Black ___ (hip-hop duo featuring string instruments)	VIOLIN
Boas and such	NECKWEAR
Boatloads	TONS
Box full of breakers	PANEL
Brand of dressings and marinades	KENS
Brownish pear	BOSC
Business card abbr	TEL
Bustle	HOOPLA
Cable giant offering Xfinity packages	COMCAST
Calorie, e.g	UNIT
Cardinals legend Brock	LOU
Chrysanthemum containers	VASES
Competitive advantage	EDGE
Contribute	ADDIN
Cosmetics brand acquired by Natura &Co in 2020	AVON
Decline, in influence	WANE
Due-in hrs	ETAS
Easily irritated	PRICKLY
Ellipsoidal	OVAL
Emulate pirates	MARAUD
Enclosure for shark divers	CAGE
Enjoying REM, say	ASLEEP
Explorer Hendrickson for whom the Field Museum's Tyrannosaurus rex is named	SUE
Explosion from the surface of a white dwarf	NOVA
Fate for some granted political asylum	EXILE
Flaky mineral that's an anagram of 15 Down	MICA
Food, water, etc	NEEDS
Gained financially	profited
Gandhi who serves as the president of the Indian National Congress	SONIA
Garam ___ (Indian spice blend)	MASALA
Good to go	AOK
Guys carrying clubs	BATBOYS
Handle on an app	USERID
Heir space?	ESTATE
Home of the French aquarium Océanopolis	BREST
How some cinematic sword fights are fought	TOTHEDEATH
Hydrologist's subject	SEA
Infomercial phrase	ASSEENONTV
It shelters in a shell	HERMITCRAB
Jazz singer Cassidy	EVA
Just barely	ATAD
Key hit when starting a new paragraph	ENTER
Lasik surgery targets	EYES
Like azaleas, to cats and dogs	TOXIC
Like many adopted pets	RESCUED
Link up with	TIETO
Liquid bead source	PORE
Lisa Kudrow and Meryl Streep's alma mater	VASSAR
Longtime 'liberal lion' of the Senate	TEDKENNEDY
Main mode of travel?	CRUISE
Massage parlor option	OILRUB
Meaningless	INANE
Met unexpectedly, with 'upon'	CHANCED
Metaphor for initial romantic chemistry	SPARK
Necromancer's haunt	CRYPT
Next-in-command after the ship's first officer	SECONDMATE
NL West pro	PADRE
Not just like	ADORE
Note-taking implement	PEN
Note-taking implements	PADS
Notice about a snow day cancellation, e.g	ALERT
Nuclear reactor items	RODS
Offering from Santa	TOY
Old-school yet trendy	RETRO
On a horse, in a way	ASTRIDE
One of two in the U.N.?	DOT
One-year contract, maybe	LEASE
Opened a smidge	AJAR
Org. administering the GRE	ETS
Overbite correctors	BRACES
Parliament's lavatory	LOO
Piano mover, at times?	VAN
Pin count	TEN
Potential results of rap battles?	DISSTRACKS
Propelled, as a pigskin	THREW
Protagonist of 'The Last of Us' video games	ELLIE
Pursued a seat	RAN
Recipients of fan mail	IDOLS
Routine component	BIT
Safe, as crackers	EDIBLE
See 117 Across	PARTS
See 19 Across	VERA
Seek treasure, in a way	DIG
Shape whose number of sides is equal to this answer's clue number	HEPTAGON
Showers	RAINS
Slight trace of color	TINGE
Smoked bagel topper	LOX
Smoothie seller	JUICEBAR
Solemn declaration	VOW
Some supplies used in body painting	DYES
Something read by a fortuneteller	TEALEAF
Spreadshirt products	TEES
Starling's structure	NEST
State where Marilynne Robinson's book 'Gilead' is set	IOWA
Steel fixture at a skate park	RAIL
Streaming annoyances	ADS
Subsequently	THEN
Sugar apple, by another name	SWEETSOP
Surround	HEMIN
Tapped, so to speak	CHOSE
Taqueria tortilla	TOSTADA
Tartan garments	KILTS
Tips of missiles	NOSECONES
Toss, as a water balloon	LOB
Varieties	ILKS
Very	OHSO
Very	TOO
Warn, as on the road	HONKAT
Wearying routine	RUT
What 5 might signify	MAY
Wild gathering	ORGY
Willow family quaker	ASPEN
With 119 Across, divisions in a chorus, and a description of how a choral section has been divided across black squares in five rows in this puzzle	VOICE
With 8 Down, moisturizer substance	ALOE
Work of art?	COMIC
Work over	REDO
___ Hirobumi, first prime minister of Japan	ITO
___ smear	PAP
___-out (poor excuse)	COP