Wall Street Journal – Oct 23 2018 – Strong Suits
Published in Wall Street Journal Crossword. Tags: AFRO, ANNIE, HAVANA, MIDTERM.
Clues | Answers |
‘Like that’ll ever happen!’ | ASIF |
‘Rats!’ | DANG |
‘Rose ___ rose…’ | ISA |
‘Rumble in the Jungle’ champion | ALI |
‘Tomorrow’ musical | ANNIE |
‘Weekend Edition’ network | NPR |
‘Whatever you want’ | NAMEIT |
‘___ Rock ‘n’ Roll’ (Joan Jett & the Blackhearts song) | ILOVE |
*It might bear down | PILLOW |
*One nettled by you and I? | GRAMMARIAN |
*Performer who takes a bow? | VIOLINIST |
*Place devoted to good works? | MUSEUM |
*Port authority? | WINEDEALER |
*They make you look better | GLASSES |
Acid type | AMINO |
Atlas section | ASIA |
Auto introduced in the fall of 1957 | EDSEL |
Auto introduced in the summer of 1928 | DESOTO |
Baseball bat wood | ASH |
Be justified in pressing a suit, and what the starred answers all do | HAVEACASE |
Blueprint number | SPEC |
Bowler, for one | HAT |
Box office buys, informally | TIX |
Britain’s first prime minister | WALPOLE |
British singer Ora | RITA |
Builder’s wing | ELL |
Burglar deterrent | ALARM |
Checking out | EYEING |
Church topper | SPIRE |
City section | WARD |
Clarifying words | IMEAN |
Cotton pods | BOLLS |
Cultural Revolution chairman | MAO |
Door-holding words | LETME |
Doves despise it | WAR |
End for pay or plug | OLA |
Exam halfway through a course | MIDTERM |
Fabric colorers | DYERS |
Failure of judgment | LAPSE |
First game of a series | OPENER |
Genuine | REAL |
Henry VIII and Elizabeth I, e.g | TUDORS |
Israel’s Abba | EBAN |
Kilauea output | LAVA |
Leave flabbergasted | STUN |
Linden of ‘Barney Miller’ | HAL |
Master, in Madras | SAHIB |
Noncommittal reply to ‘Will you?’ | IMAY |
Opposed to | ANTI |
Pacific island nation | PALAU |
Personable | NICE |
Place for a facial | DAYSPA |
Places where land meets sea | SHORELINES |
Playwright Ensler | EVE |
Presides over, as a trial | HEARS |
Protracted | LONG |
Quarterback Manning | ELI |
Raul Castro’s capital | HAVANA |
Response: Abbr | ANS |
Rotating neutron star | PULSAR |
San Antonio landmark | ALAMO |
School paper | ESSAY |
Shampooing spot | SHOWERBATH |
Sixth sense, initially | ESP |
Sporty Chevy, familiarly | VETTE |
Spotted | SEEN |
Sprawl out | LOLL |
Swindle | CON |
Thick do | AFRO |
Track athlete | RACER |
Vigor | ENERGY |
Waiting room call | NEXT |
Warhol specialty | POPART |
Was nervously active, in a way | PACED |
Whoop it up | REVEL |
___ Cruces, New Mexico | LAS |