The Washington Post Sunday - Aug 15 2021 Crossword Puzzle Solution

 The Washington Post Sunday - Aug 15 2021 Crossword Answer

Clues	Answers
'Fun Home' has one	ACT
'Hacksaw Ridge' actress Palmer	TERESA
'How could you ___?'	TELL
'Nature' channel	PBS
'Per my last email ...'	ASISAID
'Platoon' war zone, briefly	NAM
'The African Queen' co-screenwriter James	AGEE
'The French Dispatch' director Anderson	WES
'Why, yes!'	INDEEDIDO
'Yes ___, Bob!'	SIREE
'___ got your back'	IVE
'___ I knew that!'	EVEN
A cappella group voice	TENOR
Abbr. on a street sign	AVE
Abound (with)	TEEM
Actor who co-created the Adult Swim show 'Robot Chicken'	SETHGREEN
Adjusted to, as the temperature level on a thermostat	SETAT
Aerodynamic force opposite the thrust	DRAG
Airport queue vehicle	TAXI
All of the survivors on the island in 'Lord of the Flies'	BOYS
Anvil brand in cartoons	ACME
Aria performers	DIVAS
Aware of, as a secret	INON
Band whose song 'Revolution 9,' when played backward, supposedly contained the message spelled out by the first letters of this puzzle's songs	BEATLES
Beginning of history?	PRE
Biden's secretary of the interior Haaland	DEB
Bones' connection site	JOINT
Brian who composed music for the video game 'Spore'	ENO
By ___ of (due to)	DINT
Castilian conqueror	ELCID
Certain campus partner	SUITEMATE
Channel showing MVPs	ESPN
Chemical that may attract others of the same species (Usher)	PHEROMONE
Co. founders, often	CEOS
Covering with a plastic layer (Def Leppard)	LAMINATING
Crazy Horse and Red Cloud's people	OGLALA
Create on-screen characters?	TYPE
Cry at the start of the last lap	ONETOGO
Crystalline collectible	GEODE
Cultural sites? (Florida Georgia Line)	PETRIDISHES
Digits on an IRS form	SSN
Diplomat Kofi	ANNAN
Double-reed woodwind	OBOE
Energy, or a drink	JUICE
Enthusiastic	KEEN
Ex-MLB commish Bud	SELIG
Existed (Interpol)	LIVED
Female 94 Down	DOE
Fields Medal field	MATH
Fight the power	REVOLT
Film director DuVernay	AVA
Filthy buildup	GRIME
Fragrant shrubs (Pink)	MYRTLES
Gala at 8 p.m., say (Duran Duran)	SOIREE
Genre for Ma Rainey and Papa Charlie McCoy	BLUES
Grossed out	NAUSEATED
Hair treatment	PERM, TINT, RINSE
Handle one may not want to be attached to	EPITHET
Hinder	DETER
Hollywood spectacles	EPICS
Home of the Statue of Unity (tallest statue in the world)	INDIA
Idol forbidden by the Ten Commandments (Taylor Swift)	GRAVENIMAGE
Illustrious	NOTED
In need of nourishment	UNFED
Injured things in slings	ARMS
Insect on a box of Honey Nut Cheerios	BEE
Insurance giant's spokeslizard (Beyoncé)	GEICOGECKO
Intriguing piece of info	TIDBIT
Italian salami variety (U2)	GENOA
Kazan of film	ELIA
Language spoken in Chiang Mai	THAI
LearnedLeague content	TRIVIA
Legal case's substance	MERITS
Like some engineers	NAVAL
Like TV shows watched by night owls	ONLATE
Make a decision	SELECT
Makes busy (the New Pornographers)	TIESUP
Male 94 Down	STAGS
Many awards for Audra McDonald	TONYS
Mixed martial artist Anderson ___	SILVA
Move like a crane	SOAR
Musical intervals also known as half steps (the Guess Who)	SEMITONES
Musician once in the Irish band Clannad	ENYA
Never, in German	NIE
New ___ (music genre)	AGE
Noise from a pigeon	COO
Nutritionists' concerns	DIETS
Obvious (Ed Sheeran)	EVIDENT
Occasion to geek out	NERDFEST
Oceanography subject	SEA
Ore something?	LODE
Oregon neighbor, briefly	CALI
Org. that represented Muhammad Ali after his draft-evasion conviction	ACLU
Otherwise	ELSE
Outside the norm (the Kooks)	DEVIANT
Penn station?	DORM
Peter Gabriel's band, once	GENESIS
Plane's landing hr	ETA
Plants bearing grapes	VINES
Precipice	EDGE
Primary fight	MAINEVENT
Pro vote	YEA
Pulitzer-winning author Forbes	ESTHER
Recurring action film role on 'The Simpsons' (the Jackson 5)	MCBAIN
Relieves (of)	RIDS
Remains undecided	PENDS
Ride or die, e.g	NOUN
Ring-tailed creature	COATI
Rocker King	ELLE
Rower's propeller	OAR
Scan in which a patient may wear headphones	MRI
Schwartz who created the podcast 'Noble Blood'	DANA
Send back, as a case (the Goo Goo Dolls)	REMAND
Service period, often?	SUNDAY
She's often associated with the 127 Across	ONO
Singer Sands	EVIE
Skater Midori who, in 1992, became the first woman to land a triple axel at the Olympics	ITO
Sleight-of-hand scam	MONTE
Soccer fan's chant	OLE
Some deciduous trees	ELMS
Some sorority letters	XIS
Spotted lanternfly, e.g	PEST
Spread, as seeds	SOW
Stuff on a Q-tip's tip	COTTON
Swimmers' competition	MEET
Tale in a tome, perhaps	SAGA
The band Phantogram, e.g	DUO
The night before	EVE
Tool placed in a bucket	MOP
Transaction of borrowed stock made in anticipation of that stock's price falling	SHORTSALE
U.K. band formed in 1970 by members of the Move	ELO
U.S. citizen-to-be's subj	ESL
Untangle, with 'out'	SORT
Vaccine research org	NIH
Vexed greatly	ATEAT
Viciously sarcastic	SNIDE
Victory lap pace	TROT
Warty pond swimmer	TOAD
Way too drawn-out	OVERLONG
What Pilates may strengthen	ABS
What TSA agents check	IDS
Wide receiver's org	NFL
Wool coat	FLEECE
___ District (area outside the Milwaukee Bucks' home arena)	DEER
___ nodes	LYMPH
___-in-law	SON