Wall Street Journal – Jan 16 2016 – Double-O-Eight Crossword Solution
| Clues |
Answers |
| ‘A Death in the Family’ writer |
AGEE |
| ‘Childhood’s End’ author |
CLARKE |
| ‘I’m sorry, Dave’ speaker |
HAL |
| ‘King David’ star |
GERE |
| ‘Well, well!’ |
ISAY |
| 25-Across, for one |
TOREADOR |
| AARP fights it |
AGEISM |
| Addition column |
TENS |
| Anthem contraction |
OER |
| Ballot mailer |
ABSENTEE |
| Banjoist Fleck |
BELA |
| Biases |
SKEWS |
| Blotto |
OILED |
| Brachial artery setting |
ARM |
| Burden |
ONUS |
| Cardiac event |
CORONARY |
| Cause for a medal |
VALOR |
| Cause for an emergency meeting |
CRISIS |
| Checked for fit |
TRIEDON |
| Clinch |
ENSURE |
| Contest with clowns |
RODEO |
| Cost as much as |
RUNTO |
| Course clod |
DIVOT |
| Crude assn |
OPEC |
| Crunch targets |
ABS |
| Decree |
RULE |
| Deleterious |
ADVERSE |
| Desirous sort |
CRAVER |
| Difficult to call |
CLOSE |
| Domino’s fixtures |
OVENS |
| Dress |
APPAREL |
| Drive ___ bargain |
AHARD |
| Dry and crumbly |
MEALY |
| Eerie ability, for short |
ESP |
| Equitable offering |
COVERAGE |
| Fashionably quaint |
RETRO |
| Feathery accessories |
BOAS |
| Features of 1950s Coupe de Villes |
FINS |
| Features of some rock shows |
LASERS |
| Field worker |
REF |
| Fishing line holder |
REEL |
| Follow-up to ‘Angela’s Ashes’ |
TIS |
| Forking diagram |
TREE |
| Forum figure |
SENATOR |
| Frank’s co-sponsor of a 2010 Wall Street reform act |
DODD |
| Game stopper |
RAIN |
| Gang territory |
TURF |
| Gift from the parents |
GENE |
| Go over in one’s imagination |
RELIVE |
| Greedy desire |
ALL |
| Guess the word in Hangman? |
WINBYANOOSE |
| Hairdressers’ gizmos |
STYLERS |
| Hawks’ havens |
AERIES |
| Helpful card in shooting the moon |
ACEOFHEARTS |
| Historian’s study |
PAST |
| Identified |
NAMED |
| In-box stack |
MEMOS |
| Inasmuch as |
SINCE |
| Its residents were ‘wicked and sinners before the Lord’ |
SODOM |
| Its Yankee Clipper service began in 1939 |
PANAM |
| Jackson and Smith |
KATES |
| Jacob’s twin |
ESAU |
| James Brown’s ‘___ Greedy Man’ |
IMA |
| James Dean’s ‘East of Eden’ role |
CAL |
| Jean-Pierre of ‘Lili’ |
AUMONT |
| Kitchen fixture |
COUNTER |
| Languished |
SATIDLE |
| Like crab apples |
SOUR |
| Like sold-out theaters |
PACKED |
| Clues |
Answers |
| Longtime FBI head’s scrapbooking, e.g.? |
HOOVERCRAFT |
| Lovingly, to musicians |
AMOROSO |
| Maker of Aspire laptops |
ACER |
| Mammoth hunters’ weapons |
SPEARS |
| Massages |
KNEADS |
| Mechanic’s concern |
MOTOR |
| Member of a c*ckfighting squad? |
TEAMROOSTER |
| Network: Abbr |
SYS |
| New Testament travelers |
MAGI |
| Not as precise |
LOOSER |
| Number theory number |
INTEGER |
| On the other side of the page |
OVERLEAF |
| One easily taken advantage of |
DOORMAT |
| One of those ‘Far Side’ drawings with cows? |
MILKCARTOON |
| One, for Juan |
UNO |
| Painter’s count |
COATS |
| Pitching pro |
MARKETER |
| Pitching pro |
SALESPERSON |
| Pizza part |
CRUST |
| Place for les poissons |
MER |
| Playlist player |
IPOD |
| Plodding |
SLOW |
| Post antonym |
PRE |
| Poultry pen employed for smuggling drugs? |
TRAFFICCOOP |
| President overthrown in 1955 |
PERON |
| Proclamation of innocence |
NOTI |
| Profits at a pricey garage? |
PARKINGLOOT |
| Put away |
STOW |
| Put in the game |
USE |
| Queens neighborhood |
ASTORIA |
| Raleigh-to-D.C. heading |
NNE |
| Range orphan |
DOGIE |
| Reading and others: Abbr |
RRS |
| Relaxed |
ATHOME |
| Rock salt |
HALITE |
| Rover’s reward |
TREAT |
| Sawyer on TV |
DIANE |
| Sch. with six Heisman recipients |
OSU |
| Schweppes offering |
TONIC |
| Servings for those serving |
MESS |
| Shooting sites |
SETS |
| Show evidence of having had a difficult day? |
DRAGANDDROOP |
| Skilled |
ABLE |
| Some cheap hotels: Abbr |
SROS |
| Sonora snacks |
TAMALES |
| Space bar’s neighbor |
ALTKEY |
| Spaniard whose death was followed by three days of national mourning |
MANOLETE |
| Speedway event |
RACE |
| Springbok’s habitat |
VELDT |
| Start of a Caesar quote |
VENI |
| Stock holder |
FARM |
| Stretch of history |
ERA |
| Suddenly understand |
TUMBLETO |
| Sweeping |
VAST |
| Synonym compiler |
ROGET |
| Talking point |
TOPIC |
| Tannin-rich nut |
ACORN |
| Tearful, perhaps |
MOVED |
| The Police, e.g |
TRIO |
| They fly on New Year’s Eve |
CORKS |
| Too much, to musicians |
TROPPO |
| Travels through a canyon, perhaps |
RAFTS |
| Truck part |
CAB |
| Turner Field players |
BRAVES |
| Turning tooth |
COG |
| Watering hole frequented by knockouts? |
BEAUTYSALOON |
| Whopper topper |
ONION |
| Wish undone |
RUE |
| Yard pests |
MOLES |