Wall Street Journal – Sep 15 2018 – Past Imperfect
Published in Wall Street Journal Crossword. Tags: ASSAM, ASTRIDE, ENAMEL, EPEE, LOOFA, New York, STONES.
Clues | Answers |
‘Kidnapped’ monogram | RLS |
‘Listen!’ | HARK |
‘Oh, What a Beautiful ___’ (‘Oklahoma!’ song) | MORNIN |
‘The Sorrows of Young Werther’ author | GOETHE |
About | ASTO |
Adjust, as traffic lights | RETIME |
Amaze | STUN |
Annoyed French person? | GALLEDGAUL |
Annulment | REPEAL |
Arms in slings? | STONES |
Assemble | MASS |
Atty.’s add-on | ESQ |
Auditioner’s goal | PART |
Autocrat’s issuance | DECREE |
Baby doll’s cry | MAMA |
Backsplash bit | TILE |
Baja bull | TORO |
Bambino | CHILD |
Bath scrubber | LOOFA |
Besmirched chicken? | FOULEDFOWL |
Big brass | TUBA |
Body of water once dotted by 1,000 islands | ARAL |
Bouquet | ODOR |
Bouquets | SMELLS |
Checked out | EYED |
Chief Buffalo Hump’s people | COMANCHES |
Christopher Buckley specialty | SATIRE |
Cinephile’s collection | DVDS |
City once nicknamed ‘Oil Capital of the World’ | TULSA |
Compete with a kick | SWIM |
Confuse | ADDLE |
Cousin of Dora the Explorer | DIEGO |
Dance attire | TUTU |
Dash, e.g | RACE |
Destination for Turner fans | TATE |
Ditches | LOSES |
Divisive creature | AMOEBA |
Do a judicial job | RULE |
Do school work | TEACH |
Dojo study | KARATE |
Epiphany indicator | AHA |
Epoch characterized by the rise of mammals | EOCENE |
Even | TIED |
Examined with criminal intent | CASED |
Expressions of Iberian enthusiasm | OLES |
Fling | HURL |
Flock responses | AMENS |
Foil alternative | EPEE |
Fruit served with the right wine? | PAIREDPEAR |
Gift-wrapping need | TAPE |
Glossy coating | ENAMEL |
Go by | ELAPSE |
Got nourishment from | FEDON |
Grafton’s ‘___ for Silence’ | SIS |
Greenest around the gills | QUEASIEST |
Grist for pollsters | DATA |
Groan preceder | PUN |
Gun grp | NRA |
Home to early newsgroups | USENET |
Hydroelectric project from hell? | DAMNEDDAM |
Immature salamander | EFT |
Inclined | ASLOPE |
Invader of Italy in 452 | ATTILA |
Involved account | SAGA |
Iridescent gem | OPAL |
Is relative? | ARE |
It takes light about one to travel one ft. in a vacuum | NSEC |
Justice Kagan | ELENA |
Key note source | PIANO |
Knight in shining armor? | MAILEDMALE |
Lack of anxiety | EASE |
Largest city in Yorkshire | LEEDS |
Like a spiderweb | SPUN |
Like idols | ADORED |
Like many signers | DEAF |
Like some parking spots | METERED |
Litigious fellow | SUER |
Look down on | SCORN |
Look to be | SEEM |
Made a choice, perhaps | XED |
Many Nickelodeon viewers | TWEENS |
Melatonin producer | PINEAL |
Mennen men’s brand | AFTA |
Mimicked mockingly | APED |
National name on Neymar’s World Cup jersey | BRASIL |
NYC bus letters | MTA |
Org. with a New York adoption center | ASPCA |
Over | ENDED |
Paper option | GRAPH, LEGAL |
Peloponnesian War victor | SPARTA |
Person who deals with deals | AGENT |
Personally leaves with | HANDSTO |
Pivot | SLUE |
Place for lurking | LAIR |
Plants | SOWS |
Pleasant breeze | ZEPHYR |
Port Huron Statement org | SDS |
Prayer call source | MINARET |
Pretense | GUISE |
Ready to pedal, perhaps | ASTRIDE |
Render orderly | NEATEN |
Result of a naval battle? | SEIZEDSEAS |
Rip Torn’s ‘Men in Black’ role | ZED |
Sanctuary sight | ALTAR |
Say bad words | CUSS |
Semolina strip | NOODLE |
Senate minority leader before Schumer | REID |
Senior’s grievance | AGEISM |
Shorebird who’s become a spy for the other side? | TURNEDTERN |
Sign up | ENROLL |
Sisterly | SORORAL |
Slam competitors | POETS |
Slender pet | FERRET |
Some Ravel works | VALSES |
Sound, e.g | INLET |
Star in westerns? | BADGE |
Stark-naked stock dumper? | BAREDBEAR |
State known for its tea production | ASSAM |
Stock option | SOUP |
Success for a podiatrist? | HEALEDHEEL |
Sunburned prophet? | SEAREDSEER |
Surgeon/author Gawande | ATUL |
Took notice | SATUP |
Top | APEX |
Translating challenge | SLANG |
Unsavory inspection | LEER |
Unsmiling | DOUR |
Valley in Ventura County | SIMI |
Verso’s opposite | RECTO |
Veteran | OLDPRO |
Victoria, for one | EMPRESS |
Wage a Civil War battle, perhaps | REENACT |
Weighs down | LADES |
When contrasted with | THAN |
Where the lava-lava is worn | SAMOA |
William of Orange’s successor | ANNE |
Wolf Blitzer’s employer | CNN |
Yam yield | STARCH |
Zeus’s capital? | ZETA |