Here are the answers to The Washington Post Crossword puzzles Thursday February 25, 2021.
1977 Steely Dan album – AJA
Anti-DUI org – MADD
Argentine aunt – TIA
Arthur Ashe Courage Award, e.g – ESPY
Bears or Lions – TEAM
Buddy – KIDDO
Caffè __: chocolate-flavored drink – MOCHA
Caffeine-rich seed – KOLA
Campaigned – RAN
Capture, in Westerns – LASSO
Certain partner – WIFE
Chaps – GENTS
Circuit – LOOP
Come again? – REECHO
Common carry-on item – LAPTOP
Day named for a satellite: Abbr – MON
Diamond authority – UMP
Diamond tool – BAT
Distressed cry – YOWL
Dog holder – BUN
Dot follower, at times – COM
Earthenware pot – OLLA
Elastic fish? – RUBBERSOLE
Entrance area – FOYER
Fed. workplace monitor – OSHA
Fires – SACKS
Flute feature – STEM
Force out – EVICT
Fragrance – ODOR
Frees, with “out” – LETS
Goes along with – ACCEPTS
Graph lines – AXES
Jim of “Wide World of Sports” – MCKAY
Keyboard goofs – TYPOS
Kind of folder – SPAM
Latin law – LEX
Longtime “American Top 40″ host – KASEM
Management opening – MICRO
Many RSVP responses, hopefully – YESES
Massive fish? – COSMICRAYS
Medium – PSYCHIC
Much more than a mere fan – ZEALOT
Noble fish? – LOFTYPERCH
Not farmed out – INHOUSE
Notices – SEES
Oldest Musketeer – ATHOS
Oliver Twist, for one – ORPHAN
Online site whose reviews are reviewed – YELP
Pharmacy item – DRUG
Piglet’s pal – ROO
Play a joke on – PRANK
Pond film – SCUM
Possibly will – MAY
Protest, in a way – FAST
Pub order – ALE
Pure – CHASTE
Radio tuning shortcut – PRESET
Raises – HOISTS
Rap sheet entry – ALIAS
Reach via jet – FLYTO
Scout rider – TONTO
Sets as a price – ASKS
Short item on many a tee – SLEEVE
Singer Brickell – EDIE
Singer with The Blackhearts – JETT
Spruce up the lawn – RESOD
Stingy fish? – CHEAPSKATE
They’re sold in bars – SOAPS
Top story – ATTIC
Touchpad alternative – MOUSE
Tycoon who is an Oregon city namesake – ASTOR
Typical – USUAL
Variable eye colors – HAZELS
What Marcie calls Peppermint Patty – SIR
What you have on – ATTIRE
Winter bug – FLU
Word of lament – ALAS
__ Linda, Calif – LOMA
”. . . Cuckoo’s Nest” author – KESEY
”Family Guy” mom – LOIS
”Likewise!” – SODOI
AL East team – BOS
At any point – EVER
Bank take-back – REPO
Batmobile passenger – ROBIN
Be tangent to – ABUT
Becomes inedible – ROTS
Bright and bouncy – PERKY
Brunch fish – LOX
Captain Pierce portrayer – ALDA
Carried by freighter, say – SEABORNE
Certain stadium successes – TDS
Certain undergrad – SOPH
City near Pasadena – AZUSA
Coating for 29 Across – WAX
Convention center show – EXPO
Creativity hurdle – MENTALBLOCK
Crude cartel – OPEC
Danish toast – SKOAL
Dim sum and buffalo wings – APPS
Erie Canal city – UTICA
First Lady before Mamie – BESS
First school for some – PREK
Frat letter – TAU
Function properly – WORK
Get fast cash for – HOCK
Goldfinger’s idol, possibly – MIDAS
Grill’s partner – BAR
Hike preventer – PRICEFREEZE
Hygienic thread – FLOSS
Into ruin – BELLYUP
Keen on – INTO
MASH personnel: Abbr – DRS
Metro map notation – SUBWAYSTOP
Microwave sound – BEEP
Minor misstep – SLIP
Move furtively – SIDLE
Name on jeans labels – LEVI
Overhead expanse – SKY
Page for pundits – OPED
Paper mill material – PULP
Playwright O’Casey – SEAN
Poet’s planet – ORB
Pop singer Bareilles – SARA
Proclaim – STATE
Reinvest, with ”back” – PLOW
Rival of Athens – SPARTA
River of Spain – EBRO
Rotisserie rod – SPIT
Secures a ship – MOORS
Shell out – PAY
Short on words – TERSE
Soap opera, for instance – DRAMA
Son of Eve – SETH
Sorrow – DOLOR
Sound from a deep guitar – BASSNOTE
Sound of coins dropping – CLINK
Speaker on some phones – SIRI
Special Forces topper – BERET
Start to awaken – STIR
Stitch’s Disney film pal – LILO
Surrealist Chagall – MARC
Sweeping cut – SLASH
Things sniffed – ODORS
Time off from cramming – STUDYBREAK
Time-honored ceremony – RITUAL
Train’s sleeping compartment – ROOMETTE
Venues for darts – PUBS
Walk heavily – TRAMP
Wallpapering need – PASTE
What a unicycle has one of – AXLE
Whenever it’s convenient – ANYTIME
Will Smith biopic – ALI
Wrestling maneuver – DROPKICK
