Wall Street Journal - Sep 8 2018 - Alphabet Soup
| Clues | Answers |
| 'A penny saved is a penny earned,' e.g | ADAGE |
| 'As I see it...' in texts | IMO |
| 'Face/Off' director | JOHNWOO |
| 'It's a mystery' | SEARCHME |
| 'Oh, phooey!' | RATS, CRUD |
| 'Yeah, right!' | ASIF |
| '___ Fly Now' ('Rocky' theme) | GONNA |
| *2000 Jet Li film loosely based on Shakespeare | ROMEOMUSTDIE |
| *A Ward 8 is a variant of it | WHISKEYSOUR |
| *Big event for cinephiles | OSCARPARTY |
| *Hapless kite flyer and football kicker | CHARLIEBROWN |
| *Las Vegas Strip business | HOTELCASINO |
| *Musical specialty of Skip James and Robert Johnson | DELTABLUES |
| *Situation promoting confirmation bias | ECHOCHAMBER |
| 2008 compilation album that included 'Acid Queen' and 'Proud Mary' | TINA |
| 4x4 vehicle, for short | UTE |
| 95-Across used in Mexican cuisine | PEPITA |
| Add flavor to | INFUSE |
| Add to, as a bill | AMEND |
| Airport shuttle | TRAM |
| Alphabet providing the 'ingredients' of this puzzle's soup | NATO |
| Amp knob | REVERB |
| Anchor lines | NEWS |
| Andy Warhol portrait subject | MAO |
| Aquiline feature | HOOKNOSE |
| Atlantis docked with it in 1995 | MIR |
| Baker's wares | LOAVES |
| Baritone role in 'Elektra' | OREST |
| Be deceptive | PLAYGAMES |
| Big purchase of 1867 | ALASKA |
| Billboard listings | HITS |
| Birthplace of reggae | JAMAICA |
| Bring up | RAISE |
| Bugged | IRKED |
| Cameron's successor | MAY |
| Cancel | ANNUL |
| Character voiced by Bill Murray in 2016's 'The Jungle Book' | BALOO |
| Cloistered place | ABBEY |
| Component of yellow fireworks | SODIUM |
| Conciliatory gesture | SOP |
| Cookbook instruction | STIR |
| Core group | CADRE |
| Crenshaw's cousin | HONEYDEW |
| Doing | UPTO |
| Driver in 'The Last Jedi' | ADAM |
| Driving stick? | TEE |
| Early presidential battleground | IOWA |
| Educated class | LITERATI |
| Elaborately ornamental | ROCOCO |
| English horns, e.g | REEDS |
| Enthusiasm | VIM |
| Equivalent of ten Hamiltons | CNOTE |
| Father of Luke and Leia | ANAKIN |
| Fervent agreement | AMENAMEN |
| First word of 'A Visit From St. Nicholas' | TWAS |
| Flattop's antithesis | AFRO |
| Forces down | TAMPS |
| Frat greeting | BRO |
| Frost | RIME |
| Hedgerow singer | WREN |
| Heir to the family fortune | SCION |
| Home of Little Haiti | MIAMI |
| Husking target | EAR |
| Ill-tempered | SULLEN |
| Jackman's role in 'The Greatest Showman' | BARNUM |
| Junction | NODE |
| Kick ___ fuss | UPA |
| Lego and Eggo: Abbr | TMS |
| Light source | BULB |
| Light source | STAR |
| Like theaters and arenas | TIERED |
| Look to be | SEEM |
| Maggie's sister | LISA |
| Make a menu choice, say | CLICK |
| Makeup of some pie crusts | OREOS |
| Meyers of late night TV | SETH |
| Mimicry | APING |
| Move, in real estate lingo | RELO |
| Musical measure | BAR |
| Needing repair | KAPUT |
| Neruda's '___ to the Sea' | ODE |
| One in a shell | ROWER |
| Ottoman governors | BEYS |
| Outward flow | EBB |
| Paycheck padder | OVERTIME |
| People of the Plains | OMAHAS |
| Poet Levertov | DENISE |
| Point where many connections are made | HUB |
| Political leader? | GEO |
| Potential plant | SEED |
| Prepped tofu, perhaps | CUBED |
| Prime minister before Olmert | SHARON |
| Private denial | SIRNOSIR |
| Project | JUT |
| Put away | EATEN |
| Put out | EMIT |
| Result | ARISE |
| Retainers, e.g | FEES |
| River that ends at Cairo | OHIO |
| Rolled the dice, say | TOOKATURN |
| Royals manager Ned | YOST |
| Rugby formation | SCRUM |
| Ruthless ruler | DESPOT |
| Sail shaped like a right triangle | LATEEN |
| Sailor to Colchis | JASON |
| Sailor's hazard | SHOAL |
| Salves a guilty conscience | ATONES |
| Sch. overlooking the Rio Grande | UTEP |
| Second in a noble line? | NEON |
| See 112-Down | TOMATO |
| Shakespeare's shrew | KATE |
| Shot followers | CHASERS |
| Sid of 'Green Acres' | MELTON |
| Silas Marner's adopted daughter | EPPIE |
| Site of an annual Ideas Festival | ASPEN |
| Slip of the pen? | ESCAPE |
| Small inlet | RIA |
| Some commuter planes | PROPJETS |
| Some horse races | DERBIES |
| Something might hinge on it | JAMB |
| Something to beat your sword into | PLOWSHARE |
| Spot for a sand wedge | TRAP |
| Starting section | PARTA |
| Steal, in British slang | NICK |
| Student of Seneca | NERO |
| Tenderheart or Grumpy of children's TV | CAREBEAR |
| They offer deals on paper | PRINTADS |
| Threads for when you're hanging out in your crib? | ONESIE |
| Thunderous noise | CLAP |
| Trick performed on cue? | MASSE |
| Venetian magistrate | DOGE |
| Ward on a set | SELA |
| Warms up the audience | OPENS |
| Whiteboard accessory | ERASER |
| With 38-Down, marinara sauce ingredient | ROMA |
| Word-of-mouth | ORAL |
| Yaks away | RATTLESON |
| Years and years | EONS |
| ___ a March hare | MADAS |
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