Wall Street Journal – Sep 29 2018 – Frequent Stops
Published in Wall Street Journal Crossword. Tags: ITEM, RUN, TASTY, YEW.
Spread the love
| Clues | Answers |
| ‘Nothing but net’ sound | SWISH |
| ‘The Government Inspector’ writer | GOGOL |
| ‘The Yeomen of the Guard’ heroine | ELSIE |
| ‘Yer lyin’!’ | AINTSO |
| 13-string Japanese instrument | KOTO |
| 78-card deck | TAROT |
| Amount owed in a primitive barter system? | SHELLTOPAY |
| Annoy | PESTER |
| Architect’s detail | SPEC |
| Arson investigation evidence | ASHES |
| Aspiring painters’ degs | MFAS |
| Bagel topping | LOX |
| Baker with the #3 hit ‘Giving You the Best That I Got’ | ANITA |
| Banking pro? | PILOT |
| Brownie, for one | ELF |
| Burden | ONUS |
| Capital about 315 miles northwest of Boston | OTTAWA |
| Capital whose patron saint is Hallvard | OSLO |
| Casually referred | ALLUDED |
| Chilly dessert | SORBET |
| Clarifying words | THATIS |
| Coniferous tree with red berries | YEW |
| Crooked deli offering? | SHAMSANDWICH |
| Crucially influential | SEMINAL |
| Cut down | HEW |
| Deg. requiring many oral exams | DDS |
| Dress | TOGS |
| Dueling sword | EPEE |
| Easy to understand | LUCID |
| Eat plentifully of | FEASTON |
| Empire that kept records with knotted strings | INCA |
| Fail to notice | MISS |
| Fast Amtrak train | ACELA |
| Fastball, in slang | HEAT |
| Favorable votes | AYES |
| Fixes boots, e.g | RESOLES |
| Found icy, perhaps | SLIDON |
| Friend’s address | THOU |
| German city nicknamed the ‘Nice of the North’ | WIESBADEN |
| Gift-bearing trio | MAGI |
| Glad rival | HEFTY |
| Goof off | LOAF |
| Haggard classic | SHE |
| Hand holder | ARM |
| Harm | SCATHE |
| Haunted house? | SCAREFACILITY |
| Hood on a Bentley | BONNET |
| In favor of | FOR |
| In the manner of | ALA |
| Insist on a gluten-free diet? | SCORNBREAD |
| Kin of crepes | BLINI |
| Large book size | FOLIO |
| Letters after CD- | ROM |
| Like many a Hollywood romance | OFFSCREEN |
| Like some diets | NOCARB |
| Like some flaws | FATAL |
| Like Ymir and Yggdrasil | NORSE |
| Lip-curling expression | SNEER |
| Lip-smacking | TASTY |
| List unit | ITEM |
| Little pianos | SPINETS |
| Londoner’s cuppa, slangily | CHA |
| Lower in the country | COW |
| Lowly workers | PEONS |
| Magic Kingdom neighbor | EPCOT |
| Mammal with a highly flexible nose | TAPIR |
| Man from Manchester | BRITON |
| Message via thumbs | TEXT |
| Mid-11th-century year | MLI |
| Moist at sunrise | DEWED |
| Move with stealth | PROWL |
| Muscular sextet | ABS |
| Must | NEEDTO |
| Neck part | NAPE |
| Nicht alt | NEU |
| Nixon visited him in 1972 | MAO |
| Nocturnal nestling | OWLET |
| Not 8-Down | AWAKE |
| Not 97-Across | OUT |
| Number | SONG |
| Ouzo flavoring | ANISE |
| Over there, to bards | YON |
| Overthrow, e.g | ERROR |
| Pants measures | INSEAMS |
| Paper pieces | OPEDS |
| Pasty dish | POI |
| Pirouette pivots | TOES |
| Pitched well | INTUNE |
| Polish nobleman who led the American cavalry | PULASKI |
| Pom or Peke | LAPDOG |
| Pool prizes | KITTIES |
| Proceed with dispatch | RUN |
| Produce | CREATE |
| Proposed replacement for Jackson on the twenty | TUBMAN |
| Purveyors of pampering | SPAS |
| Put into words | SAID |
| Raised ridge | WELT |
| Rallies for rascals? | SCAMPMEETINGS |
| Reacts to a hammered thumb | SWEARS |
| Ready to eat | RIPE |
| Really wanna, more formally | YEARNTO |
| Ref’s ruling | TKO |
| Road with a no | RTE |
| Sail’s support | MAST |
| School since 1440 | ETON |
| Serengeti stalker | LION |
| Showing stress | ITALIC |
| Sister of Charlotte and Emily | ANNE |
| Slow-cooked meal | STEW |
| Sneeze sound | ACHOO |
| Source of ‘mongoose’ and ‘mynah’ | HINDI |
| Sprawls out | LOLLS |
| Starbucks or Heinz plugger? | SHILLOFBEANS |
| Stare stupidly | GAPE |
| State fundraiser | LOTTO |
| Stepped | TROD |
| Stock holder | PEN |
| Sty mud? | SWINECOOLER |
| Sun spot | SKY |
| Tank fill | FUEL |
| Thousand Island dressing ingredient | CATSUP |
| Threaten | MENACE |
| Totally lose it | SNAP |
| Town on Long Island’s South Shore | ISLIP |
| Traffic jam report? | STALLTALE |
| Unwanted growths | WEEDS |
| Votes in | ELECTS |
| Walk with confidence | STRIDE |
| Was ungenerous | STINTED |
| Wear the crown | REIGN |
| Where it was found | INSITU |
| Wig out | FLIP |
| Willing to eat a diner side? | SLAWABIDING |
| Window part | SASH |
| Windows to the soul, proverbially | EYES |
| Works in the fashion business | SEWS |
| Wraps up | ENDS |
| You can draw it or hold it | THELINE |
| ___ fortuna (good luck) | BUENA |