Wall Street Journal – Sep 29 2018 – Frequent Stops
Published in Wall Street Journal Crossword. Tags: ITEM, RUN, TASTY, YEW.
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 |