Wall Street Journal – May 5 2018 – Tennis, Anyone?
Published in Wall Street Journal Crossword. Tags: ABSENTEE, EARN, FAIR, GREENS, OAT, OBOE, OLD, Steve Urkel.
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| Clues | Answers |
|---|---|
| ‘Aw, heck!’ | DARN |
| ‘Sprechen ___ Deutsch?’ | SIE |
| ‘Was ___ los?’ | IST |
| ‘___ Rhythm’ | IGOT |
| Achieved success | MADEIT |
| Act the snitch | TATTLE |
| Activity for an intern | ERRAND |
| Admiral’s Cup sport | YACHTING |
| Adopt enthusiastically | LATCHONTO |
| Alternative to Pampers | LUVS |
| Autobiographical Guenter Grass book | THEBOX |
| Bakery come-on | AROMA |
| Battery part | TEST |
| Bible bits | VERSES |
| Bizarro | WEIRD |
| Bring in | EARN |
| Buffalo icer | SABRE |
| Cast material | PLASTER |
| Casting director, during auditions? | LINEJUDGE |
| Cheapens | DEMEANS |
| Clarinetist Shaw | ARTIE |
| Clear clutter | NEATENUP |
| Cocky | BRASH |
| Collections of strong poker hands? | STRAIGHTSETS |
| College tennis tourney champ, e.g | NONPRO |
| Complain about | BEWAIL |
| Complaint in many presidential tweets | FAKENEWS |
| Confession count | SINS |
| Cornea backdrop | IRIS |
| CPR expert | EMT |
| Dachshund docs | VETS |
| Dance club VIPs | MCS |
| Dark films | NOIRS |
| Deck quartet | SUITS |
| Dedicatee of a Beethoven piece | ELISE |
| Deposer of Montezuma | CORTES |
| Discomfits | ABASHES |
| Disparaging expressions | SNEERS |
| Dispensary unit | PILL |
| Does a summer chore | MOWS |
| Dupe | STOOGE |
| Essen utterance | ACH |
| Events for masters of hounds | FOXHUNTS |
| Exasperated feeling | IRE |
| Extra-large cocktails? | MIXEDDOUBLES |
| Farm pioneer Jethro | TULL |
| Female recruits beginning in 1948 | WAFS |
| Fence feature | GATEPOST |
| Fetched | RAKEDIN |
| Few and far between | SPARSE |
| Flour variety | OAT |
| Form of despair? | TAXRETURN |
| Freud topic | EGO |
| Geometry calculation | AREA |
| George of the Jungle’s mate | URSULA |
| Gibson of the ‘Transformers’ movies | TYRESE |
| Gill openings | SLITS |
| Great-grandmother of David | RUTH |
| Greek consonants | MUS |
| Grooms, e.g | MEN |
| Hardly fresh | OLD |
| High hit | LOB |
| High Sierra runner | IMAC |
| Himalayan foot | PAW |
| Hold out | LAST |
| Hot pepper used in pico de gallo | SERRANO |
| Hullabaloo | STIR |
| Intentionally inoffensive | ANODYNE |
| Jai ___ | ALAI |
| Clues | Answers |
|---|---|
| Japan’s prime minister | ABE |
| Job for a bartender? | PASSINGSHOTS |
| Jules Verne’s birthplace | NANTES |
| Kindles | AROUSES |
| Kinsey topic | SEX |
| Labyrinth location | EAR |
| Larynx neighbor | THYROID |
| Leisurely | EASY |
| Leisurely pursuits | PASTIMES |
| Lemon in the outfield | CHET |
| Letter before Zulu | YANKEE |
| Letter projection | SERIF |
| Lose | MISLAY |
| Lose weight | TRIMDOWN |
| Loud closing of a piano’s keyboard cover? | GRANDSLAM |
| Lustful | RANDY |
| Magnate whose middle name was Socrates | ONASSIS |
| Market analyst’s determination | TREND |
| Melancholy | SADNESS |
| Most reasonable | SANEST |
| Much of Mali | SAHARA |
| Neither Rep. nor Dem | IND |
| Numbers game | LOTTO |
| Observe Ramadan | FAST |
| Others, to Augustus | ALIA |
| Pedestal part | DADO |
| Pester, puppy-style | YAPAT |
| Poignant instrument | OBOE |
| Polling place no-show | ABSENTEE |
| Pres. Davis’s org | CSA |
| Pretense | SHAM |
| Producer of Astra autos | OPEL |
| Project | JUT |
| Purge | RID |
| Request from an editor | REWRITE |
| Risked a ticket | SPED |
| Rude act | STARING |
| Salad start | GREENS |
| Sale stipulation | ASIS |
| See to it | ENSURE |
| Shore leave? | SERVICEBREAK |
| Side by side | ABREAST |
| Sires | BEGETS |
| Snowboarding jump | AIR |
| Sporter of dreads | RASTA |
| Stand-up specialty | WIT |
| Stat for an ace | ERA |
| Steve Urkel’s pursuer | MYRA |
| Stinky | RANK |
| Stream spirits | NAIADS |
| Sturgeon yield | ROE |
| Takes out | DELETES |
| Target of a surgeon’s clamp | BLEEDER |
| Tea from young leaves | PEKOE |
| Technician for a John Wayne movie? | WESTERNGRIP |
| Tennis star nicknamed ‘The Punisher’ | AGASSI |
| Their unis are red, white and blue | NATS |
| They each have two hemispheres | CEREBRA |
| Top number on many clocks | XII |
| Tough plant fiber | RAMIE |
| Twisty letter | ESS |
| Ukr. or Lith., before the 1990s | SSR |
| Unbiased | FAIR |
| Uncle ___ (rice brand) | BENS |
| Useful feature | PLUS |
| Ways of operating | MODES |
| Where It. is | EUR |
| Where moderates are prosecuted? | CENTERCOURT |
| York Peppermint ___ | PATTIE |