Wall Street Journal – March 30 2019 – Breaking U Up
Published in Wall Street Journal Crossword. Tags: LAIRS, OCULAR, REO, TUTTI.
| Clues | Answers |
| ‘Harrumph!’ | BAH |
| ‘I forgot to mention,’ online | BTW |
| ‘I hate it!’ | UGH |
| ‘It’s ___-win situation’ | ANO |
| ‘My man!’ | BRO |
| 1968 Top 10 hit for the Turtles | ELENORE |
| A little butter? | KID |
| Abound (with) | TEEM |
| Alien weaponry, perhaps | RAYGUNS |
| Archetype | EXEMPLAR |
| Arid capital that ironically means ‘gardens’ | RIYADH |
| Beat the odds | GETLUCKY |
| Best conditions | OPTIMA |
| Brown who succeeded Tony Blair | GORDON |
| Business tycoon | BARON |
| Cerebral | BRAINY |
| Chairman’s list | AGENDA |
| City on Guanabara Bay | RIO |
| Closest star to Earth | SUN |
| Construction girders | IBEAMS |
| Corp. milestone | IPO |
| Dens | LAIRS |
| Dilettante | DABBLER |
| Dion from Quebec | CELINE |
| Display a subtle reaction | BATANEYE |
| Does documentary work | NARRATES |
| Downwind | ALEE |
| Dozen for your dearest | ROSES |
| Drain cleaner ingredient | LYE |
| El Capitan climbing route that resembles a human feature | THENOSE |
| Fairground pen | STY |
| Figurehead’s place | PROW |
| Flub | ERR |
| Gala for fashionistas? | GLITTERBALL |
| Genre for Little Richard on a toy piano? | PLINKROCK |
| Glad offering | BAG |
| Green manager?: Abbr | CFO |
| Green wrapper at a sushi bar | NORI |
| Groundbreaking tool | HOE |
| Head rap? | BONK |
| Headed up | RAN |
| Healthy drink | TONIC |
| Helpers who don’t really help | ENABLERS |
| Historic auto | REO |
| Home of Gonzaga University | SPOKANE |
| Honk | BEEP |
| Horseplay from newborn puppies? | LITTERNONSENSE |
| Hot hrs. in Hartford | EDT |
| Hurricane Katrina documentarian | LEE |
| If-looks-could-kill looks | GLARES |
| Illegal hiring practice | AGEISM |
| Invoice | BILL |
| It can help you find your balance | ATM |
| It leads to home | BASEPATH |
| Jack of ’24’ | BAUER |
| Kennedy in D.C., e.g | CTR |
| L’Adriatique, e.g | MER |
| Language closely related to Thai | LAO |
| Lemon or lime drink | ADE |
| Lesage’s ‘Gil ___’ | BLAS |
| Lifted | STOLE |
| Like mobiles | KINETIC |
| Like some dog bones | BURIED |
| Lived | DWELT |
| Loosey-goosey | LAX |
| Manfred von Richthofen and Eddie Rickenbacker, e.g | WWIACES |
| Mass communications? | LITANIES |
| Memphis goddess | ISIS |
| Microscope part | OCULAR |
| Moody music | EMO |
| Morgan le ___ (Arthurian sorceress) | FAY |
| Most AARP members | SRS |
| Mountain whose name means ‘high one’ | DENALI |
| Muse often portrayed playing a lyre | ERATO |
| NASA’s Mars InSight, for one | LANDER |
| Not so nice | CRUELER |
| Not voiced | ASONANT |
| Occupational hazards for phantoms? | GHOSTBLISTERS |
| Oft-injured knee part, briefly | ACL |
| One might end up in a tie | NECK |
| Parfait part | LAYER |
| Paul Rudd’s physique, e.g | DADBOD |
| Peace Prize winner Wiesel | ELIE |
| Pelvis bone | ILIUM |
| Plot device in the Cinderella story? | THELASTSLIPPER |
| Possible reaction to a flatterer | AWGEE |
| Possible reaction to a flatterer | REDFACE |
| Prefix with functional | DYS |
| Prepare for the Mr. Olympia competition | OILUP |
| Put up | ERECT |
| Ready for print | EDIT |
| Regarding | ASFOR |
| Relative of Inc. and Ltd | LLC |
| Revue components | SKITS |
| Round-the-clock raincoat? | ALLDAYSLICKER |
| Ruling party | INS |
| Satisfied | MET |
| Sawmill input | PINELOG |
| Scaled-down airship? | BABYBLIMP |
| Sch. subject | SCI |
| Secretly includes, in brief | BCCS |
| See 67-Across | OUT |
| See 9-Down | ACTE |
| See things the same way | AGREE |
| Sees if one can | TRIESTO |
| Set to simmer | ONLOW |
| Sister | NUN |
| Soccer attire | SHORTS |
| Solon, for one | LAWMAKER |
| Some support payers | EXES |
| Something to cut and paste | TEXT |
| Spot for high hatchlings | AERIE |
| Staggering | AREEL |
| Suppliers of ambiguous answers | ORACLES |
| Supreme Diana | ROSS |
| Tart berry | ACAI |
| Terrific, to Teddy | BULLY |
| Terrifying Hannibal | LECTER |
| Thailand, once | SIAM |
| The U-2, for example | SPYPLANE |
| Took a shot | GUESSED |
| Tool with a bucket | ICETONGS |
| Transport | ELATE |
| Uber-techies | DIGERATI |
| Under-construction areas? | CELLARS |
| Upbraided | YELLEDAT |
| Utopian future for dieters? | SLIMMERTIME |
| Whence U2 | EIRE |
| Wins approval for | SELLS |
| With 44-Across, intermission | ENTR |
| With 73-Across, scrape together | EKE |
| With everyone playing, in scores | TUTTI |
| With no doubt | CLEARLY |
| You might take part in one after you dye | EGGHUNT |
| ___ Lama | DALAI |
| ___-a-porter | PRET |