Here are the answers to The Washington Post Crossword puzzles Wednesday December 30, 2020.
“Because You Loved Me” singer – DION
“C’mon, we’re in a hurry!” – STEPONIT
“Glee” cheerleader – QUINN
“We’ll let you know,” on skeds – TBA
18-Across jr. officer – ENS
1938 Physics Nobelist – FERMI
1979 exile – SHAH
Academy attended by James T. Kirk – STARFLEET
Artist with a record 32 American Music Awards – TAYLORSWIFT
Bandleader’s exhortation – HITIT
Battle zone journalist – EMBED
Big shots with big balances – FATCATS
Brooklyn Coll. is part of it – CUNY
Claw into – TEARAT
Common ointment ingredient – ALOE
Convent leader – ABBESS
Criteria: Abbr – STDS
Deeply hurt – CUTTOTHEQUICK
Disagreeing – ATODDS
Double duty? – STUNT
Editorial “let it stand” – STET
Egyptian life symbol – ANKH
Exciting, as an atmosphere – ELECTRIC
Eyelid ailment – STYE
Feuding – ATIT
Fire truck alert – SIREN
Folk singer Miriam known as “Mama Africa” – MAKEBA
Frugality – THRIFT
Gal Gadot’s birthplace – ISRAEL
Giraffe relative – OKAPI
Hall of Fame knuckleballer Phil – NIEKRO
Honor in a big way – FETE
Impartial – UNBIASED
Inouye Airport arrival gift – LEI
Invents, as a word – COINS
Investment inits – IRA
Inviolable, as a rule – HARDANDFAST
Islamic leaders – CALIPHS
Late-summer orientation mtg. holders – RAS
Laugh-a-minute sort – RIOT
Like many trailers – INTOW
Lucas of “Raising Hope” – NEFF
Mayberry lad – OPIE
Men working on a network, informally – ITGUYS
NBA’s Heat, on scoreboards – MIA
Not yet corrected for publication – UNEDITED
One Direction’s “cute one” __ Horan – NIALL
Org. in much recent news – CDC
Patriots’ org – NFL
Pest on a pooch – FLEA
Prop for the Tin Man – OILCAN
Racy message – SEXT
Red-tide contents – ALGAE
Rehab program – DETOX
Riveting icon – ROSIE
Rotary phone features – DIALS
Shape, as clay – SCULPT
Shoelace, e.g – TIE
Six-pt. scores – TDS
Smart students’ org – NHS
Soup followers – SALADS
Step – TREAD
Sundance’s sweetie – ETTA
Survey info – FEEDBACK
Threaded fastener – NUT
Tolkien’s Treebeard, e.g – ENT
Tourette syndrome symptoms – TICS
Town near Provincetown – TRURO
Two, to eight, e.g – CUBEROOT
Unsullied – CHASTE
With immediacy, or a hint to the four other longest puzzle answers – POSTHASTE
Worked in a garden – HOED
