Wall Street Journal – Mar 17 2018 – Little Green Men
Published in Wall Street Journal Crossword. Tags: FACADES, Japan, Joaquin Phoenix, RITA.
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| Clues | Answers |
|---|---|
| ‘Around the Horn’ network | ESPN |
| ‘Delta Dawn’ singer Tucker | TANYA |
| ‘Imagine that!’ | ILLBE |
| ‘O, I am fortune’s fool!’ speaker | ROMEO |
| ‘Old Blood and Guts,’ before his growth spurt? | SHORTPATTON |
| ‘The Lord had prepared a great fish to swallow’ him | JONAH |
| 100-year-old architect | PEI |
| 2013 Joaquin Phoenix film | HER |
| Admit | LETIN |
| Airport areas | GATES |
| All the rage | HOT |
| Auction buy | LOT |
| Back muscle, briefly | LAT |
| Badger | PESTER |
| Badgers | NAGS |
| Bee follower | CEE |
| Beehive State athlete | UTE |
| Bete ___ | NOIRE |
| Bleeped word | OATH |
| Bolivian bud | AMIGO |
| Break in the action | LULL |
| Brew, in a way | PERCOLATE |
| Bridal destination | ALTAR |
| Buff | TONED |
| Burgers served in the dining car? | RAILROADPATTIES |
| Call center staff | AGENTS |
| Camera type, initially | SLR |
| Charlemagne’s realm: Abbr | HRE |
| Check the price of, in a way | SCAN |
| Chuck, e.g | MEAT |
| Clarifying words | IMEAN |
| Classic Chevy | VETTE |
| Colombian cowboy | LLANERO |
| Colonel Sanders feature | GOATEE |
| Compacted mass | CLUMP |
| Composed | SERENE |
| Conclusion lead-in | ERGO |
| Copland ballet | RODEO |
| Court sport | HOOPS |
| Curving path | ARC |
| Deceptive appearances | FACADES |
| Deep gully | ARROYO |
| Dewy quality | WETNESS |
| Discoverers’ cries | OHOS |
| Donald’s veep | MIKE |
| Drain | EMPTY |
| Dudley often rescued her from Snidely | NELL |
| Easing of tensions | DETENTE |
| Expert with IRS rules | CPA |
| Fair | SOSO |
| Fantasy flyer | ROC |
| Far from demure | BRASSY |
| Fetch at auction | BRING |
| Figure of speech | TROPE |
| Fit to serve | ONEA |
| Flight board posting, briefly | ETD |
| Forwards, say | RESENDS |
| Freeloader | SPONGER |
| Furious feeling | IRE |
| Futuristic Capek play | RUR |
| Galoots | BIGAPES |
| Gambler’s strategy | SYSTEM |
| Geneticist Mendel | GREGOR |
| Get a pool workout | DOLAPS |
| Get in | ARRIVE |
| Got back | RECOUPED |
| Grand Tour setting | EUROPE |
| Grilled sandwich | PANINI |
| Handsome hunks | APOLLOS |
| Hatching spot | NEST |
| Clues | Answers |
|---|---|
| He has pipes and horns | PAN |
| Hi-fi platters | LPS |
| Historian’s focus | ERA |
| Homer’s neighbor | NED |
| Illusory oasis, e.g | MIRAGE |
| Imminent danger | PERIL |
| Insect in a column | ARMYANT |
| Iron production | STEAM |
| It comes with a Magic Mouse | IMAC |
| It’s on the school board | CHALK |
| Japan’s prime minister | ABE |
| Language in which ‘success’ is ‘Qapla” | KLINGON |
| Languish | SITIDLE |
| Long times | EONS |
| Made a case | PLED |
| Man o’ War, to War Admiral | SIRE |
| March 17 honoree, as well as this puzzle’s honoree | STPAT |
| Mascara target | LASHES |
| Model of polar weather? | ARCTICPATTERN |
| Monopoly deed number | RENT |
| More frilly | LACIER |
| New grandparent, often | DOTER |
| No longer in active serv | RET |
| Northern neighbor of Mich | ONT |
| Odometer increment | TENTH |
| Opener of an inventor’s documentation lockbox? | PATENTERKEY |
| Outlaw | BAN |
| Paid for a hand | ANTED |
| Part of QED | ERAT |
| Pertness | LIP |
| Pipe part | STEM |
| Plants | FLORAE |
| Pledge drive prize | TOTE |
| Polite denial | NOSIR |
| Pre-Pythagorean belief | FLATEARTH |
| Prettify | ADORN |
| Put a spot on, say | LIT |
| Rat | STOOLIE |
| Regretted thirds, perhaps | OVERATE |
| Roe source | SHAD |
| Run | OPERATE |
| Savory pastry | SAMOSA |
| Scheming | ARTFUL |
| Singer Ora | RITA |
| Sometime in the past | ONCE |
| Spirited horses | STEEDS |
| Stadium guards in Foxborough? | PATRIOTPOLICE |
| Starter follower | ENTREE |
| Stoner beat cop? | HIGHPATROLLER |
| Stratoliner flyer, in the past | TWA |
| Sullen | POUTY |
| Supporters’ calls | AYES |
| Swimmer Kristin who won six gold medals in the Seoul Olympics | OTTO |
| Tart fruits | SLOES |
| Tense time for an astronaut | REENTRY |
| Text enhancements | EMOJIS |
| They never pass the bar | SOTS |
| Thoroughly | INDETAIL |
| Toyota sedans | AVALONS |
| Turn in | GOTOBED |
| Undeserved accusations | BADRAPS |
| Unmatched | ODD |
| Vegetable garden in Savannah? | GEORGIAPEAPATCH |
| Vote predictor | POLL |
| War room aids | MAPS |
| Washington-to-Boston speedster | ACELA |
| Waxes eloquent | ORATES |
| Went fast | TORE |
| Zero longitude standard: Abbr | GMT |
| ___ Park, New Jersey | MENLO |