Wall Street Journal – Dec 8 2018 – Going Postal
Published in Wall Street Journal Crossword. Tags: BEATEN, France, OSCARS, PER.
Clues | Answers |
‘7 Essential Leadership Lessons from Santa Claus,’ e.g | LISTICLE |
‘La Musique aux Tuileries’ painter | MANET |
‘Quiet!’ | STOWIT |
‘Symbolic Logic’ author John | VENN |
‘Taste the Feeling’ brand | COKE |
‘The Black Duchess’ painter | GOYA |
‘The Walking Dead’ network | AMC |
‘The Wand of Youth’ composer | ELGAR |
‘They made me’ | IHADTO |
‘___ midnight, but small thoughts have I of sleep’: Coleridge | TIS |
1959 hit for the Fiestas | SOFINE |
1983 title role for Woody Allen | ZELIG |
Agreement from an ensign | AYE |
Alberta hockey player | OILER |
All alternative | NONE |
Archaeological discoveries | TOMBS |
Arles affirmative | OUI |
Audiophile’s collection | LPS |
Bamboo muncher | PANDA |
Bat wood | ASH |
Bidding | BEHEST |
Bookworms, e.g | LARVAS |
Budget boarding | HOSTEL |
Calc prerequisite, often | TRIG |
Caprese salad component | BASIL |
Carthaginian queen who loved Aeneas | DIDO |
Characters in a long-running game franchise | SIMS |
Column style | IONIC |
Country music’s ___ Brown Band | ZAC |
Crime reporter | VICTIM |
Demand for a simple answer | YESORNO |
Diva delivery | ARIA |
Domenico Scarlatti works | SONATAS |
Door on a soap opera set? | SERIALPORTAL |
Drawn | EVEN, IN A TIE |
Each | APIECE, PER |
Each | PER |
Element that produces a violet gas when heated | IODINE |
Express | VOICE |
Fancy ball with no admission fee? | FREEFORMAL |
Far downfield | DEEP |
Fight site | ARENA |
First noun in the Second Amendment | MILITIA |
Foot part | INCH |
Funnel-shaped flower | AZALEA |
Get trounced | LOSE |
Gilbert of ‘The Conners’ | SARA |
Give fresh strength to | RENEW |
Got together | MET |
Great Basin National Park location | NEVADA |
Greenish songbird | VIREO |
Guitar great Eddy | DUANE |
Hang loosely | DRAPE |
Hero of ‘The Iliad’ | AJAX |
High school student, informally | TEENER |
Hotel visit | STAY |
House Beautiful focus | DECOR |
Hustle | SCAM |
Hydrocarbon suffix | ENE |
Implement, in a way | ENFORCE |
Jacob’s twin | ESAU |
Jam ingredient? | CAR |
Junk dealer? | PUSHER |
Katz’s Deli specialty | HOTPASTRAMI |
Key close to Ctrl | ALT |
Laps up | ENJOYS |
Like pie crust borders, often | CRIMPED |
Clues | Answers |
Litter setting | STY |
Longest mountain range | ANDES |
Marbling makeup | FAT |
Market figure | GROCER |
Meg of ‘The Big Chill’ | TILLY |
Middle of three black keys | AFLAT |
Most avant-garde | EDGIEST |
One of ten in an alley | PIN |
Options for the expecting | NAMES |
Pale purple paste | POI |
Part of a prof’s potpourri? | TEACHERSPETAL |
Passes | ENACTS |
Perfecta, for one | BET |
Planet of dragonriders, in books by Anne McCaffrey | PERN |
Polyhedron part | FACE |
Post position | EDITOR |
Preference between two of the chef’s entrails dishes? | BETTEROFFAL |
President Andrzej Duda’s nation | POLAND |
Quartet for Katharine Hepburn | OSCARS |
Quinceanera adornment | TIARA |
Quod ___ demonstrandum | ERAT |
Radius neighbor | ULNA |
Recess | ALCOVE |
Recipe verb | ADD |
Repressive rulers | DESPOTS |
Ruin | SPOIL |
Ruthless | CRUEL |
Safecracker’s associate | FENCE |
Sanction | PENALTY |
Seat of Utah County | PROVO |
Shelley work | ODE |
Shelley works | POEMS |
Sinister sign | OMEN |
Skating event | PAIRS |
Soldier’s temporary lodging | BILLET |
Spoke candidly | OPENEDUP |
Staff worker | AIDE |
Stage direction in ‘The French Flutist’? | EXITRAMPAL |
Staggers | REELS |
Stamina, so to speak | LEGS |
Strong trigger of memories | ODOR |
Suit to ___ | ATEE |
Sullen | INAMOOD |
Talking unicorn, on an iPhone X | ANIMOJI |
Tar | SEADOG |
Taylor Swift, for one | POPSTAR |
Tear | RIP |
The Huns, e.g | NOMADS |
The senses, e.g | PENTAD |
There’s interest in them | LOANS |
Third son | SETH |
Three-time Tour de France champion Greg | LEMOND |
Trevor on TV | NOAH |
Tricky question | POSER |
Trounced | BEATEN |
Ultraviolet absorber | OZONE |
Unhealthy appearance | PALLOR |
Union pay | SCALE |
Videorecorder from Sony | BETACAM |
VIP in the South Dakota diocese? | PIERRECARDINAL |
Waco university | BAYLOR |
Water from France | EVIAN |
Waterway polluted by dumpers? | GARBAGECANAL |
Wedding words | IDO |
Wild canine prowling a coastal city of California? | MONTEREYJACKAL |
Wing | ELL |
Wolfish | LUPINE |
Workplace boon | CAMARADERIE |
Years, to Yves | ANS |