Black or white signal at the Vatican Crossword Clue
Looking for the answer to “Black or white signal at the Vatican” from the Washington Post Sunday crossword of August 23, 2026? It has 5 letters. Flip the tiles one at a time, try a hint first, or look through the rest of that puzzle.
Crossword answer
WASHINGTON POST SUNDAY, AUGUST 23, 2026
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SMOKE is the answer to “Black or white signal at the Vatican”. It means to emit the gaseous product of burning materials.
Hints
Three clues to the answer, gentle first. Open one at a time.
Hint 1 Meaning
To emit the gaseous product of burning materials.
Hint 2 Anagram
Its letters, scrambled: MEOSK.
Hint 3 Another clue
It has also been clued as “Burning issue?”.
More clues from the Washington Post Sunday (August 23, 2026)
Across
- 1. Put on an unhappy face4 letters, starts with SSULK
- 5. React to drinking a soft drink quickly, perhaps5 letters, starts with BBELCH
- 10. Move like a crab5 letters, starts with SSIDLE
- 15. Erymanthian pig of a Herculean labor4 letters, starts with BBOAR
- 19. Kabul's continent4 letters, starts with AASIA
- 20. Overnight shift hr.5 letters, starts with OONEAM
- 21. "Freeze the Feeling" drinks5 letters, starts with IICEES
- 22. Swenson of "Benson"4 letters, starts with IINGA
- 23. Sunlit room where socialists gather?10 letters, starts with LLEFTATRIUM
- 25. Underground room occupied by an old sailor?10 letters, starts with SSALTCELLAR
- 27. Articulate5 letters, starts with UUTTER
- 28. Animal like 26 Down3 letters, starts with AASS
- 29. Brit ___ (English novels, informally)3 letters, starts with LLIT
- 30. Make ecstatic5 letters, starts with EELATE
- 31. Greek symbol for torque3 letters, starts with TTAU
- 32. Art exhibition room for rascals?13 letters, starts with RROGUESGALLERY
- 38. Org. that may feature the Jets battling the Sharks3 letters, starts with NNHL
- 39. Search party8 letters, starts with EEXPLORER
- 41. Furry friend's foot3 letters, starts with PPAW
- 42. Time to plant a tree8 letters, starts with AARBORDAY
- 44. Be in a financial hole3 letters, starts with OOWE
- 45. Dead lines?7 letters, starts with EEPITAPH
- 48. Livid experience3 letters, starts with IIRE
- 49. Bygone Mauritian birds5 letters, starts with DDODOS
- 52. "All This, and Heaven Too" Oscar nominee Barbara5 letters, starts with OONEIL
- 53. The avian Muppet Sam, e.g.5 letters, starts with EEAGLE
- 57. Ocular ring4 letters, starts with IIRIS
- 58. Black or white signal at the Vatican5 letters, starts with SSMOKE
- 61. Bottom-line number5 letters, starts with TTOTAL
- 65. Spring, e.g.4 letters, starts with CCOIL
- 66. Reading room where you store a box of beer?9 letters, starts with CCASESTUDY
- 68. Lecture room for actress Hannah?9 letters, starts with DDARYLHALL
- 70. National ___ Refuge (Wyoming wildlife area for large deer)3 letters, starts with EELK
- 71. El ___, Tex.4 letters, starts with PPASO
- 72. U-Haul vehicle3 letters, starts with VVAN
- 75. Writer Princiotti who covers the NFL and culture for the Ringer4 letters, starts with NNORA
- 76. Soapmaking chemical3 letters, starts with LLYE
- 77. Set of hotel rooms where people break open pecans and pistachios?15 letters, starts with NNUTCRACKERSUITE
- 81. What's going on?7 letters, starts with AAPPAREL
- 84. Grill frame5 letters, starts with GGRATE
- 85. Like some candles and markers7 letters, starts with SSCENTED
- 89. SIMPLE financial plans4 letters, starts with IIRAS
- 90. Oracle4 letters, starts with SSEER
- 92. House of ___ (term for a situation that's built on deception)4 letters, starts with LLIES
- 94. Frightening noise to hear on a safari4 letters, starts with RROAR
- 95. English automobile designer Henry5 letters, starts with RROYCE
- 97. Drink enjoyed near the ceiling in a "Mary Poppins" scene3 letters, starts with TTEA
- 99. Offer to an auctioneer3 letters, starts with BBID
- 100. "The Tale of Peter Rabbit" rabbit5 letters, starts with MMOPSY
- 101. Large room by the entrance designated for taking medication?19 letters, starts with PPHARMACEUTICALLOBBY
- 107. Many of Queen Elizabeth II's pet dogs6 letters, starts with CCORGIS
- 108. "I used to do ___. I still do, but I used to, too.": Mitch Hedberg5 letters, starts with DDRUGS
- 109. Take the cake at a hot dog contest?6 letters, starts with OOUTEAT
- 110. Male cat3 letters, starts with TTOM
- 111. Norse pantheon ruler4 letters, starts with OODIN
- 113. Ideology3 letters, starts with IISM
- 114. Curved entryway4 letters, starts with AARCH
- 115. Small issue to "pick"3 letters, starts with NNIT
- 117. "Inferno" actor Sy4 letters, starts with OOMAR
- 119. VIP room?11 letters, starts with SSTARCHAMBER
- 122. Like wise counsel4 letters, starts with SSAGE
- 123. Fashion model Hadid4 letters, starts with GGIGI
- 124. Like some basins, pools and waves5 letters, starts with TTIDAL
- 125. Quebec neighbor5 letters, starts with MMAINE
- 126. Brace place, at times4 letters, starts with KKNEE
- 127. Completely crushed, as a test4 letters, starts with AACED
- 128. "I'm right there with you"4 letters, starts with SSAME
- 129. "___ girl!"4 letters, starts with AATTA
- 130. Knitting club material4 letters, starts with YYARN
Down
- 1. Base acknowledgment6 letters, starts with SSALUTE
- 2. Levy on some online purchases6 letters, starts with UUSETAX
- 3. Boost6 letters, starts with LLIFTUP
- 4. Fashion icon Spade4 letters, starts with KKATE
- 5. Data-scraping program3 letters, starts with BBOT
- 6. Make furious6 letters, starts with EENRAGE
- 7. Relaxation period7 letters, starts with LLEISURE
- 8. Peace for anti-war activists, e.g.5 letters, starts with CCAUSE
- 9. "Lemme think about that"3 letters, starts with HHMM
- 10. Palindromic nickname for a sibling3 letters, starts with SSIS
- 11. "Let me see you"?5 letters, starts with IICALL
- 12. "Samson and ___" (1949 biblical film)7 letters, starts with DDELILAH
- 13. Quarter of four?6 letters, starts with LLETTER
- 14. Canceling button on a keyboard3 letters, starts with EESC
- 15. Legislative proposal introduced in Congress4 letters, starts with BBILL
- 16. Ashore6 letters, starts with OONLAND
- 17. Christie nicknamed the Queen of Crime6 letters, starts with AAGATHA
- 18. How often a No. 16 seed upsets a No. 1 seed in the NCAA tournament6 letters, starts with RRARELY
- 24. Quiver items6 letters, starts with AARROWS
- 26. Milne's morose donkey6 letters, starts with EEEYORE
- 33. Catan resource symbolized by rocks3 letters, starts with OORE
- 34. Backbone that a hen or a rooster has but a "chicken" does not5 letters, starts with SSPINE
- 35. Boarding pass info4 letters, starts with GGATE
- 36. Be in store for5 letters, starts with AAWAIT
- 37. A's or O's stat3 letters, starts with RRBI
- 40. Not taut5 letters, starts with LLOOSE
- 43. Achieve5 letters, starts with RREACH
- 46. Annoyingly slow4 letters, starts with PPOKY
- 47. Proceed slowly (along)4 letters, starts with PPLOD
- 49. Blocks that many adults play with4 letters, starts with DDICE
- 50. Like some grad school exams4 letters, starts with OORAL
- 51. Floppy ___ (computer storage medium of the 1980s and 1990s)4 letters, starts with DDISK
- 54. Soccer match highlight4 letters, starts with GGOAL
- 55. Fire ___ (flower)4 letters, starts with LLILY
- 56. "Legally Blonde" lawyer Woods4 letters, starts with EELLE
- 58. Country club?6 letters, starts with SSTATES
- 59. Something to flex6 letters, starts with MMUSCLE
- 60. Sign of spoiled food4 letters, starts with OODOR
- 62. Gets a new coat during the summer, maybe?4 letters, starts with TTANS
- 63. Stir up, as passions6 letters, starts with AAROUSE
- 64. Musical phrases?6 letters, starts with LLYRICS
- 67. Goad4 letters, starts with SSPUR
- 69. Behind schedule4 letters, starts with LLATE
- 72. Device for watching an old copy of "E.T.," say3 letters, starts with VVCR
- 73. Lead-in to an alias3 letters, starts with AAKA
- 74. Meshy fish trap3 letters, starts with NNET
- 77. O'Reilly Auto Parts Series org.6 letters, starts with NNASCAR
- 78. "We've got a deal"6 letters, starts with AAGREED
- 79. Collectibles in the Tomb Raider games6 letters, starts with RRELICS
- 80. Dress like a judge6 letters, starts with EENROBE
- 81. "Let me clear the ___"3 letters, starts with AAIR
- 82. Person who gets you to laugh at things?9 letters, starts with PPROPCOMIC
- 83. Show respect (to)9 letters, starts with PPAYHOMAGE
- 86. High muckety-muck9 letters, starts with TTOPBANANA
- 87. "Cool your jets, buddy"9 letters, starts with EEASYTIGER
- 88. Unlike sweet wines3 letters, starts with DDRY
- 91. "... stuff like that"3 letters, starts with EETC
- 93. Painter Kerkovius3 letters, starts with IIDA
- 96. "By that logic ..."4 letters, starts with EERGO
- 98. External part of the ear7 letters, starts with AAURICLE
- 99. Nickname of the blues singer born Willie Mae Thornton7 letters, starts with BBIGMAMA
- 100. One taking flight and delight by a night light4 letters, starts with MMOTH
- 102. "There's a stranger in our ___"5 letters, starts with MMIDST
- 103. "The way things stand now ..."6 letters, starts with AASITIS
- 104. ___ push (rhyming football play alternatively named the "brotherly shove")4 letters, starts with TTUSH
- 105. Golf great Ochoa6 letters, starts with LLORENA
- 106. Ill-gotten gains5 letters, starts with LLUCRE
- 110. Frat party garment4 letters, starts with TTOGA
- 112. Zilch, in Zapopan4 letters, starts with NNADA
- 114. Just slightly4 letters, starts with AABIT
- 116. Typical YA fiction reader4 letters, starts with TTEEN
- 118. Get ___ of (ditch)3 letters, starts with RRID
- 120. Animal form of Aries3 letters, starts with RRAM
- 121. Yoga class surface3 letters, starts with MMAT
- 122. Where to see the stars3 letters, starts with SSKY
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Questions
What is the answer to “Black or white signal at the Vatican”?
SMOKE, 5 letters: to emit the gaseous product of burning materials.
When was “Black or white signal at the Vatican” last seen in a crossword?
In the Washington Post Sunday crossword of August 23, 2026.
How many letters does the answer have?
5 letters, starting with S.