Wall Street Journal – Feb 18 2017 – Heading South Crossword Solution
Wall Street Journal – Feb 18 2017 – Heading South Crossword Solution
Clues | Answers |
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‘Allegory of the Cave’ philosopher | PLATO |
‘Carmina Burana’ composer | ORFF |
‘Didn’t I tell you?’ | SEE |
‘Independence Day’ visitors | ETS |
‘It’s on me!’ | MYTREAT |
‘Jazz Profiles’ station | NPR |
‘Queen’ megahit | OHEMANHAPSOYBIRD |
‘Same here!’ | SODOI |
‘Skedaddle!’ | AMSCRAY |
‘Sweet ___’ (barbershop quartet standard) | ADELINE |
‘The king of knots’ | BOWLINE |
Accomplishing an NFL bettor’s goal | EATNGTHESPEABIRD |
Action followed by a ‘Safe!’ call | LATETAG |
Ali with a perfect record in the ring | LAILA |
Armored beast of old | ANKYLOSAUR |
Attraction displaying diverse flora | OTANCALGAENBIRD |
Awaits a verdict, maybe | STEWS |
Baking byproduct | AROMA |
Ballpark fig | EST |
Basketball Hall of Famer Thomas | ISIAH |
Basque Country metropolis | BILBAO |
Beginning | ONSET |
Black Widow portrayer, in tabloids | SCARJO |
Brought forth, biblically | BEGOT |
Butter unit | PAT |
Butter? | RAM |
Canal sight | BARGE |
Capone foes | TMEN |
Check out | EYE |
Chronic critic | NAG |
Chronicler of the Dreyfus Affair | ZOLA |
Chuck Yeager, notably | TESTPILOT |
Civil rights activist King | YOLANDA |
Company with a Supercharger network | TESLA |
Component of many a presidential candidate’s platform | TAXPLAN |
Computing pioneer Lovelace | ADA |
Container made of two-by-twos? | ARK |
Cost in total | COMETO |
Crone | HAG |
Deets | SKINNY |
Delight | ELATE |
Did a little of this, a little of that | DABBLED |
Dissolute fellow | ROUE |
Entertaining sort | HOOT |
Exchanges pleasantries | CHATS |
Exclamation from a real ass | HEEHAW |
Faith espoused by Voltaire | DEISM |
Fit for a queen | REGAL |
Flowers that yield saffron | CROCI |
Flying annoyance | GNAT |
Free-fall experience | ZEROG |
French pop | PERE |
Fromagerie choice | BRIE |
Full of holes | POROUS |
Game aim | WIN |
Gave a real shock? | TASED |
Gets bent? | WARPS |
Give, but stubbornly | BUDGE |
Grammy’s 2002 Best New Artist Jones | NORAH |
Grams | NANA |
Growler, e.g | JUG |
Had some face time, in a way | SKYPED |
Having the hot hand, in basketball lingo | ENFUEGO |
Head for the hangar | TAXI |
Heist haul | LOOT |
History book nos | YRS |
Home of the Shinsaibashi shopping area | OSAKA |
Hydrotherapy setting | SPA |
In | CHIC |
Informal greeting | HIYA |
Clues | Answers |
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Insurance co. bailed out in 2008 | AIG |
It might facilitate personal growth | ROGAINE |
It occurs in Q3 | AUG |
It often follows ‘Goodnight Moon’ | BEDDYBYE |
Join the bulls | BUY |
Josh | KID |
Keystone site | ARCH |
Kramer’s first name on ‘Seinfeld’ | COSMO |
Leader of seven animals migrating south in V formation | BIRD |
Light a fire under | SPURON |
Literary reflection, from the French for ‘thought’ | PENSEE |
Loafing | UMMNGAOUNBIRD |
Male delivery | SON |
Mantle’s cover | CRUST |
May honorees | MOMS |
Mission founder Junipero | SERRA |
Monogram on some designer clothes | YSL |
Mug shaped like a stout fellow | TOBY |
Nature Valley offering | GRANOLA |
Needle point | NORTH |
New Year’s events | BOWLS |
Official currency of Vatican City | EURO |
One of the three small ear bones | STIRRUP |
Optional Medicare coverage | PARTB |
Org. for people who like packing | NRA |
Outfit you’re not likely to wear out | PJS |
Padma’s date to the Hogwarts Yule Ball | RON |
Palette contents | OILS |
Perfect Sleeper seller | SERTA |
Photographer Goldin | NAN |
Piece in many an organist’s repertoire | HYMN |
Pinkett Smith of TV’s ‘Gotham’ | JADA |
Plant | MOLE |
Portrayer of the Clampett patriarch | EBSEN |
PR person’s forte | SPIN |
Pranksters | CUTUPS |
Priest’s robe | ALB |
Provide with a generous sum, perhaps | ENDOW |
Queasy feeling | NAUSEA |
Ramirez of ‘Grey’s Anatomy’ | SARA |
Revolutionary act | TWIRL |
Ric of the Cars | OCASEK |
Room in Clue with a secret passage to the Conservatory | LOUNGE |
Rustic lodgings | INN |
Sagacious | WISE |
Sales rep’s handouts | USNESSCASBIRD |
Say ‘What could you possibly be talking about?’ | PLAYDUMB |
Senior’s blotch | AGESPOT |
Shakespearean fairy queen | MAB |
Show honors | TONYAWARDS |
Showing a profit when others are losing money, say | UCKNGTHETENBIRD |
Sinks, as a short putt | TAPSIN |
Some Core i7 runners | PCS |
Stat resulting from a solo shot | RBI |
Submission move in mixed martial arts | ARMBAR |
Teems | ABOUNDS |
The Dow, for one | INDEX |
Tool for a razor’s edge | STROP |
Track star Devers | GAIL |
Unable to sit still | ANTSY |
Uncanny ability | ESP |
Verizon forerunner | NYNEX |
Waterlogged region | FEN |
Weapon tended to by a squire | LANCE |
Went awry | ERRED |
Woman with trouble opening up? | PANDORA |
Work together | LIAISE |
Wrath | IRE |
Yank’s foe | REB |
___ chi | TAI |