Wall Street Journal – February 16 2019 – Doing Backflips
Published in Wall Street Journal Crossword. Tags: ENIGMA, FLEA, France, TRAUMA.
| Clues | Answers |
| ‘Beam ___, Scotty’ | MEUP |
| ‘Ginger Pye’ author Eleanor | ESTES |
| ‘I’ problem | EGO |
| ‘Lucky Man’ band, for short | ELP |
| ‘My!’ | OHDEAR |
| ‘Well, ___-di-dah!’ | LAH |
| 1937 Eleanor Powell musical | ROSALIE |
| 1963 Kingston Trio hit | NEERGDOLLAR |
| Admission of inability | ICANNOT |
| Angling equipment | REELS |
| Arranged | INORDER |
| Aussie dasher | EMU |
| Bar opening? | ISO |
| Bean town? | LIMA |
| Before, before | ERE |
| Bloke | GUY |
| Boba ___ (‘Star Wars’ bounty hunter) | FETT |
| Brain freeze triggerer | SLUSHIE |
| British label | EMI |
| Bud | BRO |
| Burning desire? | ARSON |
| Carpal bones location | WRIST |
| Cease communications | GODARK |
| Champagne name from France | MUMM |
| Circus performer | FLEA |
| Co. abbr | INC |
| Compliment to a vacation returnee | NICETAN |
| Curvy letter | ESS |
| Cuts corners? | MITERS |
| Dancer Charisse | CYD |
| Describe | LIMN |
| Distressing experience | TRAUMA |
| Dracula’s castle is there | ROMANIA |
| Dude ranch recreation | ESROHRIDING |
| Dust-up | MELEE |
| Eccentric fellow | COOT |
| Emperor Meiji’s capital | TOKYO |
| EMT specialty | CPR |
| Equivalent of 20 quires | REAM |
| Exhilarating feeling | RUSH |
| Extinguisher | DOUSER |
| Extreme | SEVERE |
| Family chart | TREE |
| Fearful feeling | DREAD |
| Former name of 7-Down | EDO |
| Former press secretary Fleischer | ARI |
| Former protection org. for depositors | FSLIC |
| Found | DUGUP |
| G.I. time off, informally | RNR |
| Galley tool | OAR |
| Gas company with a ‘trimark’ logo | CITGO |
| Gives rise to | SPAWNS |
| Grow tiresome | GETOLD |
| Gulf of Mexico sight | RIG |
| Hankering | URGE |
| Heavy metal | URANIUM |
| Heinz Field player | STEELER |
| Home of the Bloomin’ Onion | TUOSTEAKHOUSE |
| Hosp. staffers | RNS |
| Inside opening? | ENTO |
| Island ring | LEI |
| It may gain a yard | RETRAUQSNEAK |
| It might have an updated epilogue | REPAPEDITION |
| John of Fox News | STOSSEL |
| Kerfuffle | ADO |
| Lacking purpose | ADRIFT |
| Lieutenant to Othello | CASSIO |
| Like Kools | MENTHOL |
| Like many a crossword | THEMED |
| Like the presidential suite, perhaps | POSH |
| Lock in a salon | TRESS |
| Look for truffles | ROOTLE |
| Looks good on | BECOMES |
| Loose tunic | CAMISE |
| Lots | PLENTY |
| Make calls | REF |
| Matter in law | RES |
| Mom and pop org | PTA |
| More than fast | STARVE |
| Museum shop purchase | ARTBOOK |
| Mystery | ENIGMA |
| Narrow-minded | INSULAR |
| Nonpro sports org | AAU |
| Number of stripes on the flag of Italia | TRE |
| Oklahoma athlete | SOONER |
| Oscar-nominated Ang Lee film | EKORBMOUNTAIN |
| Part of a purchasing decision | COST |
| Part of many California place names | SAN |
| Persistent critics | RAILERS |
| Pines | LONGS |
| Prior to today | AGO |
| Pump option | DIESEL |
| Quails | COWERS |
| Racketeers’ worry | THEFEDS |
| Rebus pronoun | EYE |
| Reduces over time | ERODES |
| Rent out | LET |
| Restoration actress Gwyn | NELL |
| Right on the map | EAST |
| RMN’s opponent in 1968 | HHH |
| Routine bit | GAG |
| Run-on sentence? | LIFE |
| Run-___ | DMC |
| Salesman’s offer | YENOMGUARANTEE |
| Senior and junior | YEARS |
| She sang ‘FourFive-Seconds’ with Kanye and Macca | RIRI |
| Shook hands on | AGREEDTO |
| Sicilian hot spot | ETNA |
| Smelter intake | IRONORE |
| Soeurs d’un parent | TANTES |
| Solitaire jumping-peg brand | HIQ |
| Sought absolution | ATONED |
| Store that sells meatballs | IKEA |
| Switzerland’s Dom, e.g | ALP |
| Take charge of | HEAD |
| Taking after | ALA |
| Tale of redemption | EMOCSTORY |
| They’re worn to the Oscars | DIORS |
| Took, as a test | SATFOR |
| Umlaut, essentially | TWODOTS |
| Unconventional | ODD |
| Undersea singer | PMUHWHALE |
| Unhealthy-looking | SALLOW |
| Vance Air Force Base location | ENID |
| Venomous viper | DNOMAIDRATTLER |
| Viral phenomenon | MEME |
| Virtuoso | ACE |
| Visibly shocked | AGAPE |
| Warned a weaver, perhaps | HONKED |
| West end? | ERN |
| What poli sci majors study | GOVT |
| What principled people take | ASTAND |
| Whodunit element | MOTIVE |
| Wishful thinking | DREAMS |
| With acumen | ASTUTELY |
| Without cash changing hands | INTRADE |
| Word in an octagon | STOP |
| Writer Rand | AYN |
| Xbox fan | GAMER |
| ___ about (approximately) | ONOR |