Wall Street Journal – Jul 21 2018 – Ender’s Game
Published in Wall Street Journal Crossword. Tags: ABACUS, HAG, LOFTY, LOG, ROAR, SWIM, TIRE.
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| Clues | Answers |
|---|---|
| ‘Behold!’ to Brutus | ECCE |
| ‘Dancing With the Stars’ judge Goodman | LEN |
| ‘Don’t look ___!’ | ATME |
| ‘Let’s not and say ___’ | WEDID |
| ‘Psycho’ setting | MOTEL |
| ‘Revenge is ___ best served cold’ | ADISH |
| ‘Sad to say…’ | ALAS |
| ‘The Miracle Worker’ family | KELLERS |
| ‘Twilight’ heroine | BELLA |
| ‘Well done!’ | BRAVO |
| ‘You’re nothing but a pack of cards!’ speaker | ALICE |
| Aimless stroll through the halls of Hogwarts? | MAGICWANDER |
| Alert akin to a BOLO | APB |
| Angsty music | EMO |
| Angular measures | RADIANS |
| Ardennes article | LES |
| Arithmetic class device | ABACUS |
| At any time | EVER |
| Baked potato? | HOTTUBER |
| Bank job after closing time? | NIGHTCAPER |
| Bar in a Transylvania tavern? | BLOODCOUNTER |
| Barbers’ targets | STUBBLES |
| Bear | ABIDE |
| Beautiful people | ELITE |
| Become smitten with | FALLFOR |
| Bezos of Amazon | JEFF |
| Book of Concord reader | LUTHERAN |
| BP buy of 2000 | ARCO |
| Brand with an iComfort line | SERTA |
| Brief time | SEC |
| Bunch of chips | POT |
| Buy eagerly | SNAPUP |
| Catastrophic, as a mistake | FATAL |
| Catch ___ (mistime an oar stroke) | ACRAB |
| Cath. prelate’s title | MSGR |
| Civil wrongs | TORTS |
| Classics, for short | LIT |
| Cow chow | FEED |
| Crowd cacophony | ROAR |
| Cut off | SHEAR |
| Deadlock | TIE |
| Deep black beer? | JETLAGER |
| Delaware city near Rehoboth Beach | LEWES |
| Dictators’ underlings | STENOS |
| Direct a ship’s steering | CONN |
| Doone of fiction | LORNA |
| Draw | ATTRACTION |
| Eccentric oldsters | COOTS |
| Equivalent of 3600 joules | WATTHOUR |
| Facing difficulty | INABIND |
| Familiar with | USEDTO |
| Feathery plant | FERN |
| Few and far between | SPARSE |
| Fictional home 25 miles south of Atlanta | TARA |
| Flat, geometrically | PLANAR |
| Flyers | LEAFLETS |
| Gate attendant in many cartoons | STPETER |
| Gracefully thin | LITHE |
| Hardly hidden | OVERT |
| Helo-to-hospital rescue | MEDEVAC |
| High boot that’s sized too small? | TIGHTWADER |
| High-minded | LOFTY |
| Hogan component | LOG |
| Hosp. workers | RNS |
| Humble | ABASE |
| Implore | BEGOF |
| In shorts, say | BARELEGGED |
| Interject | PIPEUP |
| Jimmies, e.g | LEVERS |
| Joan who played Miss Marple | HICKSON |
| Clues | Answers |
|---|---|
| Joint tenants? | BONES |
| Karate skill level | DAN |
| Key above tilde | ESC |
| King of pop | CAROLE |
| Lender’s offering | BAGEL |
| Let go | FIRED |
| Light sparkling wine | ASTI |
| Light-sensitive retinal cell | CONE |
| Like household electricity | METERED |
| Lose interest | TIRE |
| Louisiana’s ___ Cajuns | RAGIN |
| Make jubilant | ELATE |
| Marketable orchid, say? | CASHFLOWER |
| Material for some flutes | GLASS |
| Mechanical procedures | ROTES |
| Minute amount | DRIB |
| Mountain man? | SIERRAMISTER |
| New York Times publisher Adolph | OCHS |
| Nutritious root | BEET |
| Old crone | HAG |
| On the go | ACTIVE |
| One might cause a holdup | OUTLAW |
| Org. that compiles a Most Popular Baby Names list | SSA |
| Org. whose insignia depicts an eagle grasping a key | NSA |
| Oscar winner Brody | ADRIEN |
| Outburst cause | ANGER |
| Phila.-to-Miami direction | SSW |
| Pigeon perch | LEDGE |
| Pit visitor | RACER |
| Plant period | SHIFT |
| Played with, as a ball of yarn | PAWED |
| Pollen collector | BEE |
| Prerequisite for calc | ALG |
| Prey for dingoes | EMUS |
| Priam’s kingdom | TROY |
| Prolonged attacks | SIEGES |
| Puts back on the payroll | REHIRES |
| Queen of the Jungle in comic books | SHEENA |
| Rain on a sunny day? | FREAKSHOWER |
| Ramble | ROVE |
| Round-topped fastener | MAPTACK |
| RSVP card, e.g | ENC |
| Sad state | WOE |
| See 99-Down | TEA |
| She was awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom by Barack | OPRAH |
| Site of a noted 1-Down | PANAMA |
| Sleek, in product names | AERO |
| Some fast food outlets | KFCS |
| Spa offering, for short | PEDI |
| Spa town on the shores of Lake Geneva | EVIAN |
| Spot for locks | CANAL |
| Star in Virgo | SPICA |
| Start a triathlon | SWIM |
| Starting lineup | ATEAM |
| Stoolie | RAT |
| Suntan lotion brand for bald men? | HEADBUTTER |
| Superabundance | GLUT |
| Talks tediously | PROSES |
| Tithing fraction | TENTH |
| To help | INAIDOF |
| Tribe of Sudan’s Nile basin | DINKA |
| Tricky turns | LEFTS |
| Trunk | TORSO |
| Univ. or acad | SCH |
| Wane | RECEDE |
| Winter bug | FLU |
| With 85-Down, summer sip | ICED |
| Word’s last syllable | ULTIMA |
| Yellow raisin | SULTANA |
| ___ avis | RARA |