Wall Street Journal – Jan 26 2016 – Clarification At Last! Crossword Solution
| Clues |
Answers |
| 40-Across, e.g |
YANKEE |
| Amusement park attraction |
RIDE |
| Animation frame |
CEL |
| Arctic hazard |
BERG |
| Back of the neck |
NAPE |
| Bad for dieters |
FATTY |
| Beach creature |
CRAB |
| Biogenesis baseball scandal nickname |
AROD |
| By way of, informally |
THRU |
| Cabinet div |
DEPT |
| Case for a dermatologist |
ACNE |
| Caterer’s coffee dispenser |
URN |
| Complete reversal |
UTURN |
| Cops who catch AWOLs |
MPS |
| Counter’s beginning |
ONE |
| Dizzying designs |
OPART |
| Dullsville |
NOFUN |
| Earthling, in sci-fi |
TERRAN |
| Executive’s staff |
AIDES |
| Film ___ (hard-boiled genre) |
NOIR |
| Forbidden |
TABOO |
| Former Georgia senator Sam |
NUNN |
| Frittata ingredients |
EGGS |
| Gas brand absorbed by BP |
AMOCO |
| Gaucho’s rope |
RIATA |
| Give a benediction to |
BLESS |
| Harvey of ‘Reservoir Dogs’ |
KEITEL |
| Host of ‘Sexually Speaking,’ familiarly |
DRRUTH |
| Italian wine region |
ASTI |
| Jokester who likes to take bets? |
COMICBOOKIE |
| Kauai greeting |
ALOHA |
| Language that gives us ‘enigma’ and ‘acrostic’ |
GREEK |
| Language that gives us ‘ransack’ and ‘berserk’ |
NORSE |
| Largest tributary of the Mississippi |
OHIO |
| Like many floors |
TILED |
| Like the first leg of a triathlon |
SWUM |
| Clues |
Answers |
| Lingerie that makes no rustling sound? |
SILENTNIGHTIE |
| Main, for example |
WATERPIPE |
| March 17 honoree, for short |
STPAT |
| Mimicked |
APED |
| Muttonheads |
IDIOTS |
| O in a love letter |
HUG |
| Old TV character who liked oats |
MRED |
| Old West lawman Wyatt |
EARP |
| Only somewhat built up |
SEMIRURAL |
| Open, in a way |
UNCAP |
| Painful pang |
THROE |
| Paltry |
MERE |
| Par-beating score in threatening weather? |
THUNDERBIRDIE |
| Partridge’s place |
PEARTREE |
| Pays attention to |
HEEDS |
| Performed really badly |
STUNK |
| Person waiting by the stage door after a show? |
PLAYGROUPIE |
| Pile |
STACK |
| Piles |
ALOT |
| Place setting setting |
TABLETOP |
| Plain ___ (obvious) |
TOSEE |
| Puts a stop to |
ENDS |
| Quart, for short? |
RHYME |
| Reads for a part |
Auditions |
| Requirements |
NEEDS |
| S. Amer.’s Andes, for example |
MTNS |
| Salon offerings |
PERMS |
| Season to be jolly |
YULE |
| Showing potential |
PROMISING |
| Simple type of question |
YESNO |
| Ski slope lift |
TBAR |
| Stadium crowd |
FANS |
| Standard |
NORM |
| Staple of vegetarian cooking |
TOFU |
| Wind off of a spool |
UNREEL |
| ___ volente (God willing) |
DEO |