A new technique for determining accurate abundances in distant giants - Washington CCD photometry - has been applied to the intermediate-age LMC globular cluster NGC 2213. An abundance of −0.40 ± 0.15 was found from the analysis of 42 giants with V < 20, using data obtained with the 1.5 m telescope. Combined with published main-sequence photometry, the derived abundance indicates a true LMC distance modulus of 18.2 ± 0.2. A likely CN strong giant near the tip of the giant branch is identified. Abundances are also derived for a sample of 27 field giants. Results indicate that one could determine both the age and abundance of Magellanic Cloud clusters with high accuracy from Washington photometry using the 4 m in less than one hour of observing time per cluster.