Wall Street Journal - March 16 2019 - Drawing the Shades
Clues | Answers |
'Easy to Be Hard' musical | HAIR |
'That Old Feeling' lyricist Brown | LEW |
*Another name for the devilwood | WILDOLIVE |
*Brand with a mermaid mascot | CHICKENOFTHESEA |
*Calcium hydroxide powder | SLAKEDLIME |
*Fifteenth Hercule Poirot novel | DEATHONTHENILE |
*Marine algae also called carrageen | IRISHMOSS |
*Nickname of gangster George K. Barnes | MACHINEGUNKELLY |
*Recruitment pro | HEADHUNTER |
*Tongass in Alaska is the largest one | NATIONALFOREST |
Article | ITEM |
Aspen attire | SKISUIT |
Attacked | RANAT |
Back of the neck | SCRUFF |
Bad thing for a cop to be on | THETAKE |
Benefits | AVAILS |
Betrays nervousness | FIDGETS |
Better business? | CASINO |
Brother put in a cage | HANSEL |
Busybodies | YENTAS |
Buy lines? | PITCH |
Canary snack | SEED |
Career soldier | LIFER |
Carne ___ (Mexican steak dish) | ASADA |
Catherine who had a cow | OLEARY |
Cel mates? | TOONS |
Color, a shade of which ends each of the starred answers | GREEN |
Composer's creation | SCORE |
Country estate | VILLA |
Country music? | ANTHEMS |
Cruel sort | OGRE |
Cruz in the Senate | TED |
Dangerous dog | BITER |
Deck application | STAIN |
Dell output | PCS |
Dizzying designs | OPART |
Eager to listen | ALLEARS |
Eminent | NOTED |
Eroded | ATEINTO |
Fanny pack part | STRAP |
Fumbled, as a football | LOOSE |
Get things wrong | ERR |
Gothenburg group | SWEDES |
Grind together | GNASH |
Grown-up fille | FEMME |
Half of hex- | TRI |
Hammer in Hollywood | ARMIE |
He was awarded the title of Marquis of the Valley of Oaxaca | CORTES |
Hindu god of compassion | KRISHNA |
Hollow | DALE |
Houston ballplayer, for short | STRO |
Illuminating comment | APERCU |
In the future | HENCE |
Iron | PRESS |
It was once yours | THINE |
It's at home on the range | SKILLET |
Kick around | DISCUSS |
Kidney-based | RENAL |
Leaves flabbergasted | STUNS |
Leb. neighbor | SYR |
Like some condors | ANDEAN |
Like some lemons | USED |
Lou Hoover or Mamie Eisenhower, e.g | IOWAN |
Lover of Lancelot | ELAINE |
Lowly worker | SERF |
Mag. staffers | EDS |
Make out | DETECT |
Many, many years | EON |
Mean: Abbr | AVG |
Melon | NOODLE |
Messy spot | STY |
More ticked off | SORER |
Mute salute | NOD |
Netflix series set in Colombia | NARCOS |
Nickname of Thomas Wright Waller | FATS |
No longer going on | OVER |
Old frosh topper | BEANIE |
Olfactory stimulus | ODOR |
On the button | RIGHT |
On this page, perhaps | HEREIN |
One of 12 in astrology | SUNSIGN |
One spotted in Africa | GIRAFFE |
One who might have a guest for dinner? | CANNIBAL |
Pal of Tarzan | CHEETA |
Peppery powder | CAYENNE |
Physicist Rutherford | ERNEST |
Pickup part | BED |
Pillow cover | SHAM |
Play with, cat-style | PAWAT |
Point out | INDICATE |
Pool player's request | RERACK |
Poor sap | SCHMO |
Prez on pennies | ABE |
Primitive primate | APEMAN |
Props for Willy Wonka and Mr. Peanut | CANES |
Rathskeller vessel | STEIN |
Recoiled | SHIED |
Reds hurler Roark | TANNER |
Reiteration lead-in | ISAID |
Sails force? | FLEET |
Schnitzel base | VEAL |
Shakespearean sprite | ARIEL |
Shark offering | LOAN |
Shoot sprouting from a plant's base | RATOON |
Showed contempt | SNEERED |
Shuts down, to prevent a meltdown | SCRAMS |
Site of a 13-day siege | ALAMO |
Smelter input | ORE |
Some Ivy Leaguers | ELIS |
Spiced drink | CHAI |
Spoil | ROT |
Sporting contests | MEETS |
Sprint winner | FASTEST |
Start for tourism or system | ECO |
Stick together | COHERE |
Storage site | BIN |
Study | PERUSE |
Subject to double jeopardy | RETRY |
Swimmer Thorpe | IAN |
Swiss resort popular with jet-setters | GSTAAD |
Title for Lancelot | SIR |
Tolkien's Legolas, e.g | ELF |
Totally worthless | NOHELP |
Transmitted | SENT |
Tuition reducer | AID |
Twisty shape | ESS |
UFO crew | ETS |
Undercover agent's wear | WIRE |
Viscount's superior | EARL |
Wall in Manhattan, e.g | STREET |
Water, whirled | EDDY |
West Bank grp | PLO |
Whenever ready | ATWILL |
Whodunit discovery | CORPSE |
Wooden rod | DOWEL |
Words to the audience | ASIDE |
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