Wall Street Journal – May 9 2018 – First Things
Published in Wall Street Journal Crossword. Tags: AFRO, CFO, HEARSE, HVAC, ILIAD, MED, OLDS, WASH.
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| Clues | Answers |
|---|---|
| ‘Bah!’ | FIE |
| ‘Heavens!’ | OHME |
| ‘It’s just a scratch!’ | IMFINE |
| ‘The Good Fight’ writer | NADER |
| ‘___ well…’ | ALLS |
| About | INRE |
| Act the loving grandparent | DOTE |
| Alley targets | PINS |
| Amazon woman? | ALEXA |
| Angelina’s ‘Mr. & Mrs. Smith’ co-star | BRAD |
| Awards for Best Play, etc | ESPYS |
| Bond bit | ATOM |
| Both hands should be on it* | STEERING |
| Cigar ender | ETTE |
| Clash causers | EGOS |
| Competes with the cacophony | YELLS |
| Conversation fillers | UMS |
| Danny’s gang in ‘Grease’ | TBIRDS |
| Der ___ (Adenauer nickname) | ALTE |
| Didn’t decide | DITHERED |
| Direct sales giant | AMWAY |
| Echolocation users | BATS |
| First female member of Congress Jeannette | RANKIN |
| Flow into | FEED |
| Free will negator | FATE |
| Gristmill turner* | WATER |
| Group of raiders* | WAR |
| Hefty dairy buy* | CHEESE |
| Hendrix style | AFRO |
| Homer work | ILIAD |
| HVAC measures | BTUS |
| In baroque style | ORNATELY |
| Intuit | FEEL |
| It helps a plane arrive early* | TAIL |
| It keeps the cytoplasm in* | CELL |
| It’s spun in a Tibetan monastery* | PRAYER |
| Kind of school | MED |
| Lacking foresight | MYOPIC |
| Loads of housework | WASH |
| Clues | Answers |
|---|---|
| Lunar plain | MARE |
| Maggie’s big sister | LISA |
| Match | BOUT |
| Memory units | BYTES |
| Mischievous chuckle | HEH |
| Mortgage abbr | APR |
| Neither Republican nor Democrat (after 23-Across and 54-Down) | THIRDPARTY |
| Network protector* | FIRE |
| New burst of energy (after 7-Down) | SECONDWIND |
| Not live | TAPED |
| On the calm side | ALEE |
| Pal of Piglet | POOH |
| Plane path | RUNWAY |
| Presenter at a shareholder mtg | CFO |
| Programming language named for the first programmer | ADA |
| Quiet and somewhat dull | SEDATE |
| Ransom of vehicles | OLDS |
| Ravages of time | WEAR |
| Ravel piece | BOLERO |
| Rescuer of crash victims | TECH |
| Roll in the pocket | WAD |
| Rush | HIE |
| Self-indulgent sulk* | PITY |
| Short notes? | IOUS |
| Silk substitute | RAYON |
| Slow-moving car | HEARSE |
| Start for sphere or skeleton | EXO |
| Stir up | RILE |
| They help elephants stay cool | EARS |
| Thing broken by Deadpool (after 13-Down, 22-Down and 51-Down) | FOURTHWALL |
| Thoroughly exhausted | BEAT |
| Unnecessary tagalong (after 1-Across, 44-Across, 46-Across and 37-Down) | FIFTHWHEEL |
| Unwrap impatiently | TEAROPEN |
| Wasn’t well | AILED |
| Wave blocker* | SEA |
| Where the Lumiere brothers invented the cinematograph | LYON |
| Wombat’s cousin | KOALA |
| Yale Bowl rooter | ELI |
| ___-de-lance | FER |