Here are the answers to The Washington Post Crossword puzzles Monday September 14, 2020.

“… to __ it mildly” – PUT
“Delish!” – YUM
“If you ask me,” to a texter – IMO
“Not a __ out of you!” – PEEP
“Siddhartha” author – HESSE
“The Frog and the Fox” fabulist – AESOP
“The Raven” poet – POE
*Mr. Lube service jobs – TUNEUPS
*Sample set of buyers used in market research – FOCUSGROUP
*Sheet for plotting – GRAPHPAPER
*Smartphone download – MOBILEAPP
B and B’s first B – BED
Barbecued pork snack – SPARERIB
Barbershop quartet voice – TENOR
Basil-and-pine-nuts sauce – PESTO
Biblical “your” – THY
Bricklayer – MASON
Chris of “The Avengers” – EVANS
Close friends – PALS
Computer giant whose motto is “THINK” – IBM
CPR pros – EMTS
Deduce – INFER
Deep cut – GASH
Dug in, at dinner – ATE
Eagle or evil organ – EYE
Ewe’s beau – RAM
Expert – GURU
Exterminator’s target – ROACH
Feudal worker – SERF
Flinch or gasp, say – REACT
Game with x’s and o’s – TICTACTOE
Gave in – CAVED
Go-to crew – ATEAM
Harness strap – REIN
Has too much, briefly – ODS
Hooded winter coat – PARKA
Humiliate – EMBARRASS
Ideal wheels – DREAMCAR
Igneous rock, once – MAGMA
Increase the intensity of – AMPUP
Irish actor Stephen – REA
Jeans label – LEE
Learns (of) – HEARS
Leaves in hot water? – TEA
Like dive bars – SEEDY
Nebraska city near Boys Town – OMAHA
Nurse, as a drink – SIP
Observe – SEE
Old Hollywood sex symbol West – MAE
Omelet ingredient – EGG
One-named “Hello” singer – ADELE
Overhead – ABOVE
Pakistani language – URDU
Part of USNA – NAVAL
Performers often “trapped” in imaginary boxes – MIMES
Persian Gulf sultanate – OMAN
Phi Beta __ – KAPPA
Platform for Siri – IOS
Prefix meaning “one” – MONO
Presidential rejections – VETOES
Rain more gently – LETUP
Recurring motif – THEME
Replicate genetically – CLONE
Reproductive cell – OVULE
Rid of vermin – DERAT
Roast host – EMCEE
Roman and Comic Sans – FONTS
Rowboat rower – OAR
Soccer shoe gripper – CLEAT
Star that’s also a source of radio waves – PULSAR
Statehouse VIP – GOV
Streamlines, as a factory … or, when read as two words, what the beginnings of the answers to starred clues are – AUTOMATES
Sushi soybean side dish – EDAMAME
Thurman of “The Avengers” – UMA
Tidal wave cousin – TSUNAMI
Variety show – REVUE
__ favor – POR
__ Hawkins Day – SADIE