Wall Street Journal – Apr 23 2018 – Tuning In

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April 23, 2018

Clues	Answers
‘I need ___’ (tired comment)	ANAP
‘The Blacklist’ org	FBI
‘The King and I’ heroine	ANNA
‘Where there’s ___, there’s…’	AWILL
1950s torch song made popular by Julie London	CRYMEARIVER
A quantity of	SOME
Altar’s place	APSE
Anvil setting, and what the long song titles have in common	MIDDLEEAR
Bag-screening org	TSA
Bamboo-munching mammal	PANDA
Bar order	SHOT
Become fuzzy	BLUR
Big name in swimwear	SPEEDO
Bit of smoke	WISP
Bob Seger song heard in Chevy truck ads	LIKEAROCK
Bullring cheer	OLE
Bumpkin	YOKEL
China’s Chou ___	ENLAI
Complete failure	FIASCO
Confiscated	TOOK
Cons	SCAMS
Corn	MAIZE
Drug smuggler’s unit	KILO
Eagle’s attack	SWOOP
Exasperate	IRK
Fairly shared	PRORATA
Fashionably dated	RETRO
Foot part	INCH
Give free tickets to	COMP
High-level execs	VEEPS
Hit for Harry Belafonte	DAYO
Hit for the Spinners later covered by Hall & Oates	ILLBEAROUND
Island visited by the Bounty	TAHITI
Israeli submachine guns	UZIS
Khrushchev’s country: Abbr	USSR
Less common	RARER
Like some dental floss	WAXY
Make blank	ERASE

Clues	Answers
Milwaukee player	BREWER
Miniature racer	SLOTCAR
Modern marketplace	EBAY
Nevada city	RENO
Not fooled by	ONTO
Ocean motion	EBB
On the double	FAST
Open slightly	AJAR
Pear variety named for a region of France	ANJOU
Period of history	ERA
Pessimistic pal of Winnie-the-Pooh	EEYORE
Pint in a pub	ALE
Place to retreat	DEN
Point a finger at	ACCUSE
Points for a field goal	THREE
Praise enthusiastically	EXTOL
Ranch crew	HANDS
Really amazes	FLOORS
Relaxed	ATEASE
Responds to the alarm	WAKES
Smell	ODOR
Software buyer	USER
Song sung by Tevye in ‘Fiddler on the Roof’	IFIWEREARICHMAN
Store event	SALE
Submit, as payment	SENDIN
Sung by a group	CHORAL
Top-notch	AONE
USMC no-show	AWOL
Wallower in Africa	HIPPO
Washed out	PALE
Water, in Paris	EAU
Way off	AFAR
What many campaigners sling	MUD
Wide	BROAD
X-ray units	RADS
You can run it up and pick it up	TAB
Young fella	BUCKO
___ Lama	DALAI

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