Dining in D.C. Crossword

This month in our crossword we take a tour of popular D.C. restaurants and foods. You’ll receive a mouth-watering selection of clues that will appeal to your mind as well as your tastes. It’s been created by a top crossword writer, Myles Mellor, who specializes in writing crosswords on themes. Bon appetit! See the answers here.

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ACROSS

1. Searching widely for food

7. Got together

10. Songs that “Say So Much” to Sir Elton

11. “I am woman, hear me ___!”
Helen Reddy

12. D.C.’s restaurant awards

14. Not cooked

16. Jungfrau or Weisshorn

18. Large deer for a stew

19. Part of a cry from Scrooge

20. ____ Kitchen, a D.C. food incubator
in Ivy City

21. Corn section

22. Arrange

23. Popular Korean American
supermarket chain

26. Check

27. Start!

28. D.C.’s condiment and a Latin
American dance, two words

30. Pumpkin ____

33. Avocado ____

36. Screeners at Dulles, abbr.

37. U street restaurant institution,
three words

DOWN

2. Pizzazz

3. D.C.’s newest LGBTQ cafe/bar/dance boutique, four words

4. ____light district

5. It’s checked at club doors

6. Salad bar stuff

7. Union ____, a D.C. food hall with 40+ vendors

8. Stat for Patrick Corbin

9. Chesapeake blues

13. Peruvian pollo ___ brasa

15. ____ Central Kitchen, a nonprofit dedicated to providing meals in the wake of natural disasters

17. Dry martini ingredient

23. Western omelet ingredient

24. Biz degree, abbr.

25. U.S. Senate ____ soup

27. Dolcezza serving

29. Pretty flowery topping for some
desserts and salads

31. Big coffee pot

32. Derisive cry

33. ___ tip at a BBQ

34. Blue Plains in relation to D.C. (compass point)

35. Dieter’s concern, abbr.

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Myles Mellor