Wall Street Journal - August 24 2019 - Crossword Puzzle Solutions

Wall Street Journal - Aug 24 2019 - What’s Cool?  

Clues	Answers
“30 Rock” star	FEY
“Columbo” org	LAPD
“Cool beginnings!” said the ’90s rapper	FRESHSTARTS
“Cool blanks!” said the Gen Xer	SWEETNOTHINGS
“Cool departure!” said the millennial	SICKLEAVE
“Cool monster!” said the yuppie	NEATFREAK
“Cool reflex!” said the skateboarder	KILLERINSTINCT
“Cool sonnet!” said the gamer	EPICVERSE
“Cool substitute!” said the 1960s bohemian	HIPREPLACEMENT
“Cool turn!” said the surfer	RADICALLEFT
“Cool wool!” said the beatnik	BOSSTWEED
“Hero” hero	JETLI
“I don’t want to look at that!”	GROSS
“I went here” marker	PUSHPIN
“Puppy Love” artist	ANKA
“Quiet!”	SHH
“Reflektor” band	ARCADEFIRE
“Secrets of the Dead” network	PBS
“Tess of the d’Urbervilles” libertine	ALEC
“When Can I See You” singer	BABYFACE
1987 role for De Niro	CAPONE
34-Across, e.g	POET
8-Down who wrote “The Flea”	DONNE
Accusatory words	ETTU
Airport abbr	ETD
Andy Taylor or Ben Cartwright, e.g	TVDAD
Argentine article	LOS
Ashcan School painter John French ___	SLOAN
Austrian article	DAS
Available, as a London taxi	ONHIRE
Backup option	PLANB
Balinese complaint	MEOW
Bear	ABIDE
Begins a turn	ROLLS
Birds with coastal colonies	AUKS
Black Sea port	ODESSA
Botox may be used on them	JOWLS
Bulldog backer	YALIE
Bygone Mauritius dwellers	DODOS
Capital or charm, for example	ASSET
Carby tubes	ZITI
Civil rights leader Baker	ELLA
Classic nightclub, familiarly	COPA
Collectible strings	STRAD
Cologne water	RHINE
Comic Harvey	STEVE
Community spirit	ETHOS
Cookie container	JAR
Cooking herb	BASIL
Corpse, to cop show cops	VIC
Critical	KEY
Delta-Foxtrot go-between	ECHO
Devoted spouse’s words	IMHERS
Eager (to go)	RARIN
Elphaba sings “Defying Gravity” at the end of it	ACTI
Expect from	ASKOF
Extoller of “the bare necessities”	BALOO
Flag supporter	POLE
Friends who aren’t close	PENPALS
Gamboling	ATPLAY
Gaming allotment	LIVES
Ghostly spirit	SHADE
Gibson feature	ONION
Go straight to the courthouse, perhaps	ELOPE
Going by in the past	NEE
Grammer of “Frasier”	KELSEY
Grazing region	RANGE
Harsh review	PAN
Haydn sobriquet	PAPA
Heaters	GATS
Honeyed drink	MEAD
Hoover, e.g	DAM
Howling winds	GALES
In shape	TRIM
In-crowd outsider	NERD
Included indirectly	CCED
Infallible authority	ORACLE
Insensitive, in a way	NOTPC
It may be topped by a tie	DRESSSHIRT
It stuffs you up	HEADCOLD
It’s easy, so they say	PIE
It’s set nightly	ALARM
Item torn out of a book	MATCH
Language in which Gandalf is called Mithrandir	ELVISH
Largest New Deal agcy	WPA
Leith lass, e.g	SCOT
Letter addition	SERIF
Like a basic bike	TWOSPEED
Like Eric Rohmer movies	TALKY
Like Lenin	GOATEED
Like students at the end of the semester	TESTED
Like windows and sheets of stamps	PANED
Literary personification of British class issues	TINYTIM
Lucy Ricardo’s sidekick	ETHELMERTZ
Makeup for Dick Van Dyke in “Mary Poppins”	SOOT
Monopoly card	DEED
N. modifier	ADJ
Notorious motel name	BATES
Off-roader, briefly	ATV
Official messenger	HERALD
Old markets	AGORAE
One of the deadly sins	WRATH
Org. with many boomers	AARP
Overuses a mailing list, say	SPAMS
Party registration?	RSVP
Period	EPOCH
Period between cause and effect	TIMELAG
Pithecanthropus, literally	APEMAN
Primary choices	SLATE
Protection rating	SPF
Put together	GROUP
Qatar exited it in 2019	OPEC
Rachel Weisz’s role in “The Mummy”	EVIE
Rap duo ___ Sremmurd	RAE
Recurring theme	MOTIF
Redmayne of “The Theory of Everything”	EDDIE
Repository	DEPOT
Reproach oneself for	RUE
Rowdy crowds	MOBS
Sanctions target	OLIGARCH
School on the street	HARDKNOCKS
Settings of some morning art	LATTES
Shake alternative	FLOAT
St. ___ Girl (German beer)	PAULI
Supermarket section	DELI
Swamps	MIRES
The smallest change?	ONECENT
These words	CLUE
Ticked off	IRKED
Took some courses	DINED
Transformative king	MIDAS
Uncouth	RUDE
Vegetarian’s request	NOMEAT
Wheeling’s river	OHIO
Wood strip	LATH
Wool source	EWE
Word before Leppard or Jam	DEF
Writer Wiesel	ELIE
Yemen port	ADEN
___ rampage	ONA