Wall Street Journal – Mar 24 2018 – Counter Parts
Published in Wall Street Journal Crossword. Tags: ABES, ADS, ASARULE, England, IST, PAR, RECAST, VESTED.
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| Clues | Answers |
|---|---|
| ’60s org. that protested the Vietnam War | SDS |
| ‘Cross my heart!’ | IDIDNTLIE |
| ‘Magnifique!’ | OOHLALA |
| ‘Malcolm X’ director | LEE |
| ‘On the double!’ | ASAP |
| ‘Pardon the interruption…’ | AHEM |
| ‘That ___ last week!’ | ISSO |
| …Easily offended | THINSKINNED |
| …Gone platinum? | LIGHTHAIRED |
| …Like basset hounds | DROOPYEARED |
| …Miserly | TIGHTFISTED |
| 1976 Gregory Peck film | THEOMEN |
| Anger | MAKEMAD |
| As a precaution | INCASE |
| Autonomous program | BOT |
| Ballerina’s aid | BARRE |
| Bay Area airport code | SFO |
| Beside oneself | UPSET |
| Bicolor snack | OREOS |
| Bilingual anthem | OCANADA |
| Biol. or chem | SCI |
| Blank | DEADPAN |
| Bremner of ‘Wonder Woman’ | EWEN |
| Bygone Seattle team | SONICS |
| Casual eatery | BISTRO |
| Cautions | WARNS |
| Centrally situated | MEDIAN |
| Chai, for one | SPICEDTEA |
| Chevy SUVs | TAHOES |
| City west of Sparks | RENO |
| Co-star of Betty, Rue and Estelle | BEA |
| Coerced payment | RANSOM |
| Comics’ routines | BITS |
| Cornerstone abbr | ESTD |
| Cruz on Capitol Hill | TED |
| Customarily | ASARULE |
| Daniel of Comedy Central | TOSH |
| Diamond side | FACET |
| Disney frames | CELS |
| Dispute decider, at times | COIN |
| Doddering | SENILE |
| Dove, e.g | SOAP |
| Driving aids | TEES |
| Druid, e.g | CELT |
| DVR remote button | REC |
| Enamored with | INTO |
| End for profit or market | EER |
| End for serpent or elephant | INE |
| Entitled to pension benefits | VESTED |
| Expressway advisory | NOUTURN |
| Filthy rich | LOADED |
| Fivers | ABES |
| Flanders Fields flowers | POPPIES |
| Follower’s suffix | IST |
| Font resembling Helvetica | ARIAL |
| Food poisoning culprit | ECOLI |
| Formed for a specific purpose | ADHOC |
| German painter Max | ERNST |
| Go all over | ROVE |
| Goal of some talks | PEACE |
| Greeted casually | SAIDHI |
| Guy from England | FAWKES |
| Habitat for herons | BAYOU |
| Hallux, in anatomy | BIGTOE |
| Hanoi holiday | TET |
| Hardly discreet.. | LOOSELIPPED |
| Hired soldier, for short | MERC |
| Hole number | PAR |
| Home on the Plains | TEPEE |
| House hold? | LIEN |
| In disagreement | ATODDS |
| Clues | Answers |
|---|---|
| Incendiary felony | ARSON |
| Introductory Italian course? | ANTIPASTO |
| Job application fig | SSN |
| Justin Trudeau, by birth | OTTAWAN |
| L.A. winter hours | PST |
| Lament | BEMOAN |
| LAX posting | ARR |
| Leander’s love | HERO |
| Like a sultry-eyed temptress.. | HEAVYLIDDED |
| Lions’ prey | GNUS |
| Literary twists | IRONIES |
| Longtime Doubleday editor Talese | NAN |
| Maj.’s subordinate | CAPT |
| Mark Twain’s New York burial place | ELMIRA |
| Mark up, musically | NOTATE |
| Mass parking spots? | PEWS |
| MBA hopeful’s hurdle | GMAT |
| Meet contenders | MILERS |
| Mesh | FIT |
| Mother of Elizabeth I or daughter of Elizabeth II | ANNE |
| Mtge. units | PTS |
| Mucky ground | MIRE |
| No-no for some dieters | CARB |
| Obstinate.. | STIFFNECKED |
| Ominous ending, at times | ELSE |
| Org. for Ducks and Penguins | NHL |
| Oscar winner for ‘Milk’ | PENN |
| Outhouse | PRIVY |
| Paid spots | ADS |
| Palooka | OAF |
| Petite pixie | ELF |
| Plays in plays | ACTS |
| Poet Day-Lewis | CECIL |
| Powerful pair | ACES |
| Quantum physics pioneer | BOHR |
| Queequeg’s boss | AHAB |
| Recipe direction | STIR |
| Regard highly | ESTEEM |
| Rene of ‘Thor’ | RUSSO |
| Repeated slogan | MANTRA |
| Replace some players | RECAST |
| Ricotta-filled dessert | CANNOLI |
| Rubs the wrong way | RANKLES |
| Scatters | STREWS |
| Slow on the uptake.. | THICKHEADED |
| Small denomination | SECT |
| Small songbird | LARK |
| Snide remark | GIBE |
| Societal proscriptions | TABOOS |
| Some toy dogs | POMS |
| Somewhat, informally | SORTA |
| Spruce up, perhaps | REDO |
| Stationery unit | SHEET |
| Sticky-footed lizard | GECKO |
| Store with iconic blue boxes | TIFFANY |
| Submit a return with a click | EFILE |
| Surrealism precursor | DADA |
| Thought | IDEA |
| Tourist destination in the Aegean | SANTORINI |
| Tracking chip | RFID |
| Typesetter’s arc | PAREN |
| University of Maryland athletes | TERRAPINS |
| Waits on stage | TOM |
| Wall unit? | STUD |
| Was first | LED |
| Whole number | INTEGER |
| Woodworking tool | LATHE |
| Works in a gallery | ART |
| Writer Rand | AYN |
| ___ Sticks (drain deodorizer) | SANI |
| ___ up (come clean) | FESS |