Wall Street Journal – Apr 3 2018 – Touchy Topic
Published in Wall Street Journal Crossword. Tags: ADAMANT, IVAN, JFK, NUB, Rio Grande, SKIT, VERSE.
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| Clues | Answers |
|---|---|
| ‘Blech!’ | UGH |
| ‘Bull’s-eye!’ | DIRECTHIT |
| ‘Fathers and Sons’ novelist Turgenev | IVAN |
| ‘For ___ a jolly good fellow’ | HES |
| ‘Gather your belongings!’ | PACKUP |
| ‘Platoon’ setting | VIETNAM |
| ‘That’s it for me’ | IMDONE |
| ‘Well, now…’ | LETSSEE |
| ‘You’re ___ one, Mr. Grinch’ | AMEAN |
| *Counterpart of a guy-cry film | CHICKFLICK |
| *Make like a miser | PENNYPINCH |
| *Mockumentary rock band | SPINALTAP |
| *Scrape against, as a parked car | SIDESWIPE |
| 41-Down downloads | APPS |
| Airfare add-on | FEE |
| Babe, for one | PIG |
| Bigger butte | MESA |
| Cafe con ___ | LECHE |
| Campaign creator | ADAGENCY |
| Cardinals, on scoreboards | STL |
| Compliment on the court | NICESHOT |
| Dandy dude | FOP |
| Data throughput measure | BITRATE |
| Device used with the actions at the ends of the starred answers | IPHONE |
| Drink with omakase | SAKE |
| Fashion designer Raf | SIMONS |
| Fleur-de-___ | LYS |
| Frank McCourt’s follow-up to ‘Angela’s Ashes’ | TIS |
| George Eliot’s ‘Adam ___’ | BEDE |
| Japanese horseradish | WASABI |
| Jeff Sessions and his predecessors: Abbr | AGS |
| JFK guesses | ETAS |
| Jim who played Gomer Pyle | NABORS |
| John Steed’s partner on ‘The Avengers’ | EMMAPEEL |
| Like Colorforms pieces | DIECUT |
| Literary ‘before’ | ERE |
| Long-odds bet | TRIFECTA |
| Clues | Answers |
|---|---|
| Long-plumed waders | EGRETS |
| Lose it | SNAP |
| Make more balanced | EVENUP |
| Med. school course | ANAT |
| Mouth, in slang | TRAP |
| One in the red | DEBTOR |
| Parts of hearts | ATRIA |
| Potential weapon for Professor Plum | ROPE |
| Puts in stitches | SEWS |
| Radiate | EMIT |
| Refusals | NOS |
| Revue segment | SKIT |
| River to the Rio Grande | PECOS |
| Roughly equal | ONAPAR |
| Set of tools | KIT |
| Site of a famous Indian sight | AGRA |
| Small protuberance | NUB |
| Song section | VERSE |
| Stockyard sights | PENS |
| Stone and Stallone | SLYS |
| Stylish | SMART |
| Test taken lying down | MRISCAN |
| The Golden State, familiarly | CALI |
| Theft from a temple, say | SACRILEGE |
| They get into hot water | TEABAGS |
| Tie up | TETHER |
| Tin that inspired the Frisbee | PIEPAN |
| Torah language | HEBREW |
| Toward the rudder | AFT |
| Train stops: Abbr | STNS |
| Uncouth fellow | APE |
| Uncouth fellow | LOUT |
| Unwilling to budge | ADAMANT |
| Warm sweater material | FLEECE |
| Water channel with a gate | SLUICE |
| Water-collecting pit | SUMP |
| XXXVIth prime number | CLI |