Wall Street Journal – Jan 29 2016 – Here on the Map Crossword Solution
| Clues |
Answers |
| ‘H-E-double-hockey-sticks!’ |
DARN |
| ‘___ magnifique!’ |
CEST |
| 1,000 kilograms (example #3) |
TONNE |
| 15th-stanza subject of Ogden Nash’s ‘ABC of Baseball Immortals’ |
OTT |
| Act the advocate |
PLEAD |
| Act the shark (example #2) |
LEND |
| Baptisms and bar mitzvahs |
RITES |
| Big name in sauce mixes (example #3) |
KNORR |
| Blueprint detail |
SPEC |
| Breather (example #2) |
LUNG |
| Brooklyn cagers |
NETS |
| Bush portrayer in ‘W.’ |
BROLIN |
| Caddie’s offering |
IRON |
| CBS procedural spinoff, familiarly |
NCISLA |
| CBS procedural with three spinoffs |
CSI |
| CCLI quadrupled |
MIV |
| Civil rights leader Medgar |
EVERS |
| Congressional divider (example #2) |
AISLE |
| D.C. insider |
POL |
| Deco luminary |
ERTE |
| Desire |
WISH |
| Dieter’s problems |
URGES |
| Disturbances |
ADOS |
| Emergency exit device |
PANICBAR |
| Fed. auditors |
GAO |
| FEMA operation |
EVAC |
| Field of knowledge |
AREA |
| Function |
ROLE |
| Gangster Meyer played by Ben Kingsley in ‘Bugsy’ |
LANSKY |
| Gaucho’s feathered prey |
RHEA |
| Giraffe cousin |
OKAPI |
| Goes downhill fast |
SCHUSSES |
| Image of Pluto, perhaps |
CEL |
| Indiana rival |
PURDUE |
| It declared its independence from Serbia in 2008 |
KOSOVO |
| It’s destroyed in ‘Gravity’: Abbr |
ISS |
| Its stock symbol is CAR |
AVIS |
| Jack of ‘The Great Dictator’ |
OAKIE |
| Clues |
Answers |
| Kyrgyzstan mountain range |
ALAI |
| Lewis Black routine |
RANT |
| Like maxed-out credit cards, often |
DENIED |
| Lip balm additive |
ALOE |
| Location of example #1 |
WASHINGTONSTATE |
| Location of example #2 |
EASTERNSEABOARD |
| Location of example #3 |
SEWARDPENINSULA |
| Mention honorably |
CITE |
| Moo ___ pork |
SHU |
| Moral authority? |
AESOP |
| Moves defensively |
DODGES |
| Nasal laugh |
SNORT |
| Pachelbel work |
CANON |
| Permits |
OKS |
| Relax, informally |
HANG |
| Requiring an ID, perhaps |
RRATED |
| Scoring out |
SACFLY |
| Scrap |
MELEE |
| Seahawks coach Carroll |
PETE |
| Service seat (example #1) |
PEW |
| Speedy transport (example #1) |
JET |
| Sun tea brewing spot |
SILL |
| Swamp flora |
REEDS |
| Tense situation |
SCARE |
| The U.K. is in it |
NATO |
| They help a boxer’s stance |
PAWS |
| Tolkien character who marries Aragorn |
ARWEN |
| Total |
RUNTO |
| Tourney surprise |
UPSET |
| Trio of myth |
FATES |
| University catalog listing |
COURSE |
| Vainglorious |
PROUD |
| Wagner heroine |
ISOLDE |
| Winnebago tribe |
OTOE |
| ___ corda (piano direction) |
UNA |
| ___ Khalifa (world’s tallest skyscraper) |
BURJ |
| ___ Laredo (city on the Rio Grande) |
NUEVO |
| ___ up (confined) |
COOPED |