Here are the answers to The Washington Post Crossword puzzles Monday February 24, 2020.

“Electric” fish – EELS
“Picnic” dramatist – INGE
“Today” weather anchor – ROKER
Aerospace giant __ & Whitney – PRATT
Airer of old films – TCM
And others: Abbr – ETAL
Authorize someone to represent you at the shareholder meeting – DESIGNATEAPROXY
Brown ermine – STOAT
Bruins star Phil, to fans – ESPO
Cantina snack – TAPA
Capital of Italia – ROMA
Carrying a weapon – ARMED
Column that aptly includes the letters BIO – OBIT
Command to bypass a recap of prior episodes … and what the puzzle circles do – SKIPINTRO
Crock-Pot dinner – STEW
Deuce topper – TREY
Eye surgery acronym – LASIK
Fellows – MEN
Financed like many fleet cars – ONLEASE
Frigid zone ice formation – POLARCAP
Future therapist’s maj – PSY
Go off-script – ADLIB
Had lunch – ATE
Hardly worldly – NAIVE
Hogwarts librarian __ Pince – IRMA
Indian royal – RAJA
Intl. oil group – OPEC
It’s forbidden – TABOO
Jeans – DENIMS
Keyboard chamber work – PIANOTRIO
Kindle download – APP
Knightley of “Love, Actually” – KEIRA
Land in l’eau – ILE
Largest living antelopes – ELANDS
Like a bad breakup – MESSY
Magazines with Alfred E. Neuman – MADS
Make sure not to see – AVOID
Mideast bigwig – EMIR
Muslim religion – ISLAM
N.Y. tech school – RPI
Norse royal name – OLAV
Oklahoma city – ENID
On a peg, as a golf ball – TEED
Panda Express kitchen items – WOKS
Pending state – LIMBO
Personal unrest – INNERTURMOIL
Pontiac muscle car – GTO
Pre-deal payment – ANTE
Prefix with card or count – DIS
Prepare (for) – GETREADY
Product preview – DEMO
Quipster – WIT
Rapper/actor with a cool name? – ICET
Relative via marriage – INLAW
Sank, with “down” – WENT
Screwball – KOOK
Shih Tzu or Chihuahua – MINIATUREDOG
Sign gas – NEON
Singer Ronstadt – LINDA
Skimpy swimsuit – THONG
Smoochy love letter letters – SWAK
Snake’s poison – VENOM
Stick (out) – JUT
Talk show host in the National Women’s Hall of Fame – OPRAH
Taylor of “Mystic Pizza” – LILI
Tea biscuit – SCONE
Tense NBA periods – OTS
Text digitization meth – OCR
They aren’t together anymore – EXES
They’re forbidden – NONOS
Unexpected win – UPSET
Unit of force – DYNE
Very long time – EON
Was shown on TV – AIRED
Wet just a bit – MOISTEN
__ extra cost – ATNO
__ facto – IPSO
__ Paulo – SAO