Wall Street Journal – Feb 11 2016 – Period Pieces Crossword Solution
Clues |
Solutions |
‘Are You Smarter Than a 5th Grader?’ host |
FOXWORTHY |
‘On the Floor’ performer, familiarly |
JLO |
‘Star Wars’ scavenger |
JAWA |
‘Walking on ___ Line’ (Huey Lewis and the News hit) |
ATHIN |
‘Your point being?’ |
AND |
1966 Broadway role for Angela Lansbury |
MAME |
Apt subject in Comp Sci 101 |
BINARY |
Audition |
READ |
Back then |
ATTHETIME |
Bill collector |
TIPJAR |
Boiler room worker |
STOKER |
Camp uniform? |
DRAG |
Chat online with some ol’ chatterbox? |
IMARAMBLINMAN |
Consider |
VIEWAS |
Construction supports |
IBARS |
Coveted guests |
ALIST |
Crank (up) |
AMP |
Deco legend |
ERTE |
Delivery cart |
DRAY |
Dismiss the whole computer support department? |
LETITGO |
Draper’s portrayer |
HAMM |
Eagerly excited |
AFIRE |
Electronic repository |
DATABANK |
Face in a hand |
KING |
Famed terrier |
ASTA |
Figs. on mountains |
ELEVS |
Frenzied |
MANIC |
George Harrison’s ‘Isn’t ___ Pity’ |
ITA |
Hardly relaxed |
TENSE |
Headquarters of Celebrity Cruises |
MIAMI |
Hip-hop duo ___ Sremmurd |
RAE |
Historic caravel |
PINTA |
Homer’s course |
ARC |
Indian address |
SAHIB |
Interest group with over 37 million members |
AARP |
Isle of Man location |
IRISHSEA |
Clues |
Solutions |
It has a lot of moving pieces |
CHESSSET |
It may be grand |
FINALE |
Juicer, perhaps |
GYMRAT |
KLM competitor |
SAS |
Led Zeppelin guitarist |
JIMMYPAGE |
Letters on a police jacket |
SWAT |
Like some paperless books |
ONTAPE |
Like some threats |
VEILED |
Money guru Suze |
ORMAN |
More pretentious |
ARTIER |
More scatterbrained |
DITZIER |
Moved furtively |
EDGED |
Nickname for a peddler of fake passports? |
THEWIZARDOFID |
Not altered |
ASIS |
Of part of the small intestine |
ILEAC |
One might have two sides |
ENTREE |
Paul’s ‘Exodus’ co-star |
SAL |
Planning office sight |
WALLMAP |
Quirks |
TICS |
Rental car extra |
GPS |
Result of some bargaining |
PLEA |
Saw things |
TEETH |
Scheme of Frost’s ‘Neither Out Far Nor In Deep’ |
ABAB |
Shapiro of NPR |
ARI |
She played Marlon’s daughter in ‘The Godfather’ |
TALIA |
Shepard of ‘Parenthood’ |
DAX |
Smallest nation in the European Union |
MALTA |
Storage unit |
MEGABYTE |
Switzerland’s Weisshorn, e.g |
ALP |
Three-roll frame |
TENTH |
Told all |
SANG |
Tumultuous hookup in intensive care? |
ROCKYIV |
Unsubstantial |
AIRY |
Urban irritant |
SMOG |
When savings are spent, metaphorically |
RAINYDAYS |
Winner of nine French Opens |
NADAL |