Wall Street Journal – Mar 8 2016 – Poker Party Crossword Solution
| Clues |
Answers |
| ‘Bali ___’ (‘South Pacific’ song) |
HAI |
| ‘Imagine’ singer |
LENNON |
| ‘Let’s Stay Together’ singer |
ALGREEN |
| ‘The Audacity of Hope’ writer |
OBAMA |
| ‘You bet!’ |
YES |
| ‘You’ve got that right!’ |
AMEN |
| ‘___ Baby’ (song from ‘Hair’) |
ABIE |
| 1992 David Mamet play |
OLEANNA |
| A little more than 907 kilograms |
TON |
| Aboard |
ONTO |
| Agreeable |
NICE |
| Agreeable |
PLEASING |
| Amorphous mass |
BLOB |
| Ancient manual of divination |
ICHING |
| Arizona native |
HOPI |
| Author Ferber |
EDNA |
| Bach composition |
SONATA |
| Bloke |
CHAP |
| C.S. Lewis’s Aslan, for one |
LION |
| Caiman’s cousin |
CROC |
| Capital of South Australia |
ADELAIDE |
| Citta del Vaticano setting |
ROMA |
| Clothing, informally |
DUDS |
| Cry like a baby |
BAWL |
| Egyptian serpent |
ASP |
| Fine distinction |
NUANCE |
| Geometric expanse |
PLANE |
| Humiliated |
ABASED |
| Hunger signal |
PANG |
| Hypnotic state |
TRANCE |
| Ingredient of some piecrusts |
LARD |
| Its moons include Titan and Rhea |
SATURN |
| King Kong, for one |
APE |
| Love, along the Loire |
AMOUR |
| Make-up artist? |
LIAR |
| Much of the Earth’s core |
IRON |
| Noggin |
BEAN |
| Clues |
Answers |
| Nuisance at the bank |
LINE |
| Objective |
END |
| Of inferior quality |
POOR |
| Originally |
ATFIRST |
| Painter of Picassos, say |
FORGER |
| Patrick in the Basketball Hall of Fame |
EWING |
| Philadelphia university founded by a minister |
TEMPLE |
| Physicist Hans who studied radiation |
GEIGER |
| Poker activity for a kidnapper? |
BLINDFOLDING |
| Poker activity for a nasty person? |
NAMECALLING |
| Poker activity for an Amish man? |
BARNRAISING |
| Poker activity for an architect? |
SCALEDRAWING |
| Poker payment |
ANTE |
| Poker player’s ‘bullet’ |
ACE |
| Pork cut |
LOIN |
| Pre-med course |
BIO |
| Professional poet |
BARD |
| Proof of fallibility |
ERASURE |
| Prove one’s fallibility |
ERR |
| Puck serves him |
OBERON |
| Put back together |
MEND |
| Scrambled wd |
ANAG |
| Sharif of ‘Funny Girl’ |
OMAR |
| Sights at malls on Black Friday |
CROWDS |
| Sign on a store door |
OPEN |
| Signal at Sotheby’s |
NOD |
| Signal to go on |
CUE |
| Smidgen |
IOTA |
| Spot for care instructions |
LABEL |
| StubHub’s parent company |
EBAY |
| The going rate? |
AIRFARE |
| Tips of wingtips |
TOES |
| Top bond rating |
AAA |
| U.S. painter John Singer ___ |
SARGENT |
| Woes for drug kingpins |
RAIDS |
| ___ & Young (auditing firm) |
ERNST |
| ___ Aviv |
TEL |