Wall Street Journal – Jan 9 2016 – Mind Your P’s and Clues Crossword Solution
Wall Street Journal – Jan 9 2016 – Mind Your P’s and Clues Crossword Solution
Clues | Answers |
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‘It is,’ on Ibiza | ESTA |
‘Money’ novelist | AMIS |
‘No ___!’ (‘Sure thing!’) | PROB |
‘That’s just perfect!’ | GREAT |
‘___ Little Tenderness’ | TRYA |
1936 Bing Crosby song | SODOI |
1963 title role for Shirley | IRMA |
1979 miniseries with Robert Duvall in the title role | IKE |
1995 film set on the Hoggetts’ sheep farm | BABE |
Ambulance letters | EMS |
Angled annexes | ELLS |
Applaud | CLAPFOR |
Approaching | NIGH |
Atlas expanses | SEAS |
Back pages, often | ADS |
Banks of Chicago | ERNIE |
Big name in baked goods | SARALEE |
Big ___ outdoors | ASALL |
Brittle shale, say? | CRISPYROCK |
Capital of Tartarus? | TAU |
Caribou’s cousin | ELK |
Cascade composed of chowder? | SOUPYFALLS |
Celeb with a TV network | OPRAH |
Charisse of ‘Silk Stockings’ | CYD |
Co. designation | INC |
Colonel Bowie’s last stand | ALAMO |
Comfortable | ATHOME |
Common bruschetta ingredient | BASIL |
Complain bitterly | RAIL |
Concierge desk handout | AREAMAP |
Continental product | TIRE |
Contract content | TERMS |
Coolidge’s alma mater | AMHERST |
Copier components | SORTERS |
Corp. division | DEPT |
Curving river feature | ESS |
Dangerous fan | STALKER |
Deadly gas | SARIN |
Device with a 2015 Pro version | IPAD |
Devotion | PIETY |
Dinnertime directive | EAT |
Dirt road depressions | RUTS |
Dog that smells like cheap wine? | GRAPYHOUND |
Dotty dimwits? | DOPEYNUTS |
Drink akin to a Cape Codder | COSMO |
Drive off | SHOO |
Easy ___ | ASPIE |
Elvis’s daughter | LISAMARIE |
Enlightened exclamation | AHA |
Eventful journey | ODYSSEY |
Fair | SOSO |
Far from lush | ARID |
Finds functions for | USES |
Flashers in a club | STROBES |
For every | PER |
For every | EACH |
Future expert | SEER |
Garrisons’ places | FORTS |
Golfer Stewart | PAYNE |
Gullible type | SAP |
Half a sawbuck | FIN |
Hand component | CARD |
Hangman’s loop | NOOSE |
Horns for the Tritons | CONCHES |
Humiliate | ABASE |
Increases, as production | RAMPSUP |
Is decisive | OPTS |
It opens a lot of doors | PASSKEY |
It should stop a run on the banks | DIKE |
It’s over twice as tall as Vesuvius | ETNA |
Clues | Answers |
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John’s wife | YOKO |
Largest of the Inner Hebrides | SKYE |
Latvia or Lithuania, once: Abbr | SSR |
Letter before Bravo | ALFA |
Like balsamic vinegar | AGED |
Little varmint | IMP |
Longtime Chicago Tribune film critic | SISKEL |
Longtime Connecticut senator | DODD |
Low, extensive cloud | STRATUS |
Make applesauce, perhaps | PUREE |
Melanin cluster | FRECKLE |
Member of the oldest federal law enforcement agency | USMARSHAL |
Moviefone’s parent | AOL |
Ned Flanders’s younger son | TODD |
Nirvana song ‘___ Plain’ | ONA |
Obits, essentially | BIOS |
One might be chronic | LIAR |
One might get thrown from a horse | LASSO |
Opera commissioned by a khedive | AIDA |
Out of memory? | AMNESIC |
Philanthropist Charles for whom a Northwestern library is named | DEERING |
Plants | SOWS |
Ploy to avert bankruptcy | FIRESALE |
Poor woodcutter of fiction | ALIBABA |
Positioned | SITED |
Powerful brews | ESPRESSOS |
Precinct boss with a hoarse cough? | CROUPYCHIEF |
Pres. Davis’s side | CSA |
Processed food? | CHEWED |
Pull some strings? | TUNE |
Purpose of a UPS number | TRACKING |
Quality of a good subject | LOYALTY |
Raid target | BUG |
Rain delay sight | TARP |
Ranch animal with an uneven hide? | BUMPYSTEER |
Region of high atmospheric pressure | RIDGE |
Rent out | LET |
Road hog? | HARLEY |
Rub the wrong way | IRK |
Screwball | WACKY |
Secretary of state before Dulles | ACHESON |
Secured, as an hors d’oeuvre | SPEARED |
Server who’s short and stout? | DUMPYWAITER |
Serving that doesn’t even moisten your cornflakes? | SKIMPYMILK |
Singer born on Oahu | DONHO |
Singers Cooke and Smith | SAMS |
Solstice mo | DEC |
Some anesthetic shots | SPINALS |
Source of secretions | GLAND |
Splits | GOES |
Star of 2015’s ‘Black Mass’ | DEPP |
Start of several Keats titles | ODETO |
Stood out | SHONE |
Swift specialty | IRONY |
Taffeta feature | SHEEN |
Tankard fill | ALE |
Team booster, often | ALUM |
They may be on a roll | SEEDS |
Time spent watching tearjerkers? | WEEPYHOURS |
Treated a stain, in a way | PRESOAKED |
Treats at Pueblo parties? | HOPICAKES |
Trees that produce a light honey | TUPELOS |
Utterly humiliate, informally | OWN |
Vegetable in the mallow family | OKRA |
Vein stuff | ORE |
Win back | RECOUP |
Words from a qualified agreement | YEAHBUT |
Wrap up | END |
Zip, as a Ziploc bag | RESEAL |
___ bene | NOTA |