Washington Post Crossword Puzzle Solutions December 8th 2016



Slender
Part of the PTA (abbr.)
Postings at LAX
Grandchild of Eve
Nonsense syllables preceding '-di' or '-da' in a Beatles song
Teenage infatuation
Man-to-man alternative defensively
Marx Malone or Malden
Fido's collar attachment briefly
From ___ (running the gamut)
Skate for example
Defamatory remark
'The Equalizer' star Washington
Unlawfully pressured
Very little
'Frasier' character played by Moose
City of song where Dionne Warwick hoped 'to find some peace of mind'
Later maybe
Skeletons in one's closet
Sporty '60s Pontiac
Millennium Falcon pilot
Bacterium that gets bad PR during some food recalls
Fifth book of the New Testament
'Shop ___ you drop!'
Staying power
Bum
Exposes in a way
Bones parallel to radii
Tinseltown industry
Feature of a mallard's foot
Taoism founder
Las Vegas casino magnate Steve
Poetic words of praise
Blood's sworn enemy
Taj ___
Mischievous Norse god
New Agey glow
Budget alternative
'Great' body of water responsible for much New York lake-effect snow
Eat away at
Kingpin
Big Ben for one
Org. for RVers
'___ & the Women' (2000 Richard Gere movie)
Secretariat in retirement
Taboo
Public school that's an eponym for a collar style
Befuddlement
Music icon Bob who wrote the song suggested by the starts of this puzzle's theme entries
Counts' British equivalents
Popular Mercedes-Benz line
Livens (up)
Smelly-sounding Central European river
Shower attention (on)
Affect emotionally
Believability on the street
Biblical figure with a salty wife
Tetra- times two
Captures
Decelerate
Drug smuggler's unit
Crustaceans prized for their claws
Stoke
Crunchy diner sandwiches familiarly
Charity
Thunderbird fancier perhaps
Kids' alphabetic clapping game
Scruffy part of the body?
Greek goddess of the rainbow
Injured
City on Puget Sound
Flush and then some
Professional org. that supported the passage of Obamacare
Former TV news anchor Paula
Trolley sounds in 'Meet Me in St. Louis'
Island chain?
Facebook endorsement mechanism
Underneath

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