Wall Street Journal – Sep 27 2021 – “Trailing Away” Crossword Solution
Wall Street Journal – Sep 27 2021 – Trailing Away
Clues | Answers |
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“At Last” singer James | ETTA |
“Don’t worry about me” | IMOK |
“Fancy” rapper Iggy | AZALEA |
“Get lost!” (or advice carried out by 18-, 24-, 39- and 50-Across) | TAKEAHIKE |
“Life is ___ of roses” | ABED |
“Sicko Mode” rapper Travis | SCOTT |
Agitate | STIR |
Andrea Bocelli, for one | TENOR |
Before, to Shakespeare | ERE |
Bitter brew, for short | IPA |
Black-and-white whale | ORCA |
Border | EDGE |
Brewer’s supply | MALT |
Cara who sang “Fame” | IRENE |
Cello’s cousin | VIOLA |
Chicken nugget shape for kids | DINO |
Chicken of the Sea product | TUNA |
Collie or c*ckapoo | DOG |
Comment to the audience | ASIDE |
Coyotes, on NHL scoreboards | ARI |
Declare untrue | DENY |
Deep chasm | ABYSS |
Delivery that can’t be returned to sender? | ACE |
Deplete | USEUP |
Digit repeated in a googol | ZERO |
Display of one’s very best | PEAKPERFORMANCE |
Dove call | COO |
Earning the booby prize, maybe | WORST |
Final inning, usually | NINTH |
Garr of “Tootsie” | TERI |
George Orwell or George Eliot, e.g | ALIAS |
Go off script | ADLIB |
Gossipy sort | YENTA |
Gumbo veggie | OKRA |
Historic 6,000-mile retreat by the Red Army in the 1930s | LONGMARCH |
Historical period | ERA |
Hormel product | SPAM |
Jail, in slang | POKEY |
Keen | AVID |
Clues | Answers |
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Kite attachment | TAIL |
Lodgings for wayfarers | INN |
Los ___ Unidos (neighbor of México) | ESTADOS |
Make blank | ERASE |
Many a fight for equality | UPHILLBATTLE |
Members of Sauron’s army, in “The Lord of the Rings” | ORCS |
Molecule component | ATOM |
Mont Blanc, e.g | ALP |
Neptune’s realm | OCEAN |
Old Russian ruler | TSAR |
Oscar-winning director Lee | ANG |
Paper quantity | REAM |
Peephole’s place | DOOR |
Piece of incubation equipment | HEATLAMP |
Prize | ESTEEM |
Pumping iron may inflate it | MALEEGO |
Refuse to share | HOG |
Regarding | INRE |
Resourceful TV character played by Richard Dean Anderson and Lucas Till | MACGYVER |
Retiring, say | STEPPINGDOWN |
Satyr’s celebration | ORGY |
Scale that ranges from talc to diamond | MOHS |
Sci-fi sighting | UFO |
Scout unit | TROOP |
Segregationist senator Thurmond | STROM |
Shipping method | RAIL |
Singer Marvin | GAYE |
Smoke detectors? | NOSES |
Some verbose forum posts | RANTS |
Spots | SEES |
Summer hrs. in St. Louis | CDT |
Tourist’s aid | MAP |
Tournament type | OPEN |
Trillion, in metric prefixes | TERA |
Turns sharply | VEERS |
Umpire’s call | OUT |
Walking stick | CANE |
Waterway of Louisiana | BAYOU |
Whole lot | BUNCH |