Here are the answers to The Washington Post Crossword puzzles Friday October 23, 2020.
“The Simpsons” storekeeper – APU
“What a pity” – SOSAD
Accidental – UNMEANT
Ancient wizard – MAGE
Behave – ACT
Bit the dust – ATEIT
Bivouac – ENCAMP
Bordeaux wine – CLARET
Brown shade – TAN
Caesar and others – SIDS
Chamber group – TRIO
Charlotte of “The Facts of Life” – RAE
Comet relative – BONAMI
Crater Lake locale – OREGON
Creatures of habit? – NUNS
Criticizes – RAPS
Eavesdropping org – NSA
Exuberant fan – GROUPIE
Feature of a map of Baghdad? – IRAQKEY
Fed. lending agency – GNMA
Fella – BRO
Fins – FIVES
Fish restaurant offerings – BISQUES
Focus for some collectors – ART
Genesis twin – ESAU
Grasslands around Dakar? – SENEGALLEAS
Hear (of) – LEARN
High ranges – SIERRAS
Holder of 61 NHL records – GRETZKY
Homer’s home – GREECE
Honored retirees – EMERITI
Hot spot in Al Ahmadi? – KUWAITTEA
Indiana-based sports org – NCAA
IRS agent – TMAN
Jessica of “Dark Angel” – ALBA
Laid-back attitude in Hanoi? – VIETNAMEASE
Late author whose daughter wrote, “As far as we in the family are concerned, the alphabet now ends in Y” – GRAFTON
Longing in São Paulo? – BRAZILYEN
Masterpieces – GEMS
MD treating canals – ENT
Middle of a three-part start – GETSET
Mimic – APE
Narrow inlet – RIA
Oklahoma tribe – PAWNEE
One side of a physics equivalence principle – MASS
One with no hope – GONER
Original Flashback games console designer – ATARI
Part of a late 1900s demographic – GENYER
Penn of “House” – KAL
Perceived to be – SEENAS
Petition – ASK
Present time? – XMAS
Retire – TURNIN
Round Table VIP – KNT
Serbian-born NBA center __ Jokic – NIKOLA
Slate, for one – EZINE
Smoothie fruit – ACAI
Some bank acct. charges – ATMFEES
Speck – ATOM
Storied loch – NESS
Subtly points out – INFERS
Take a shot at – RISK
Test involving gradually longer lines – EYEEXAM
Times past – ERAS
Troubles – ILLS
Twisted – BENT
Uma’s “Pulp Fiction” role – MIA
Uniform concern, maybe – HATSIZE
Unusual – RARE
Watering holes – SPAS
Wine nuance word – OAKY
Winter vacation purchase – SKIPASS
Without a clue – ATSEA
Wrong – HARM
