Wall Street Journal - Sep 14 2019 - It’s a Living
Clues | Answers |
“Far out!” | RAD |
“It’s a ___,” said the accountant | NUMBERSRACKET |
“It’s a ___,” said the carnival barker | FAIRTRADE |
“It’s a ___,” said the comic strip artist | FUNNYBUSINESS |
“It’s a ___,” said the interior decorator | SPACECRAFT |
“It’s a ___,” said the newspaper reporter | DAILYGRIND |
“It’s a ___,” said the party planner | BALLFIELD |
“It’s a ___,” said the pig farmer | HOGCALLING |
“It’s a ___,” said the salsa maker | HOTPURSUIT |
“It’s a ___,” said the sawmill operator | BOARDGAME |
“Peter Pan” pooch | NANA |
“The Nutcracker” heroine | CLARA |
“Wait for It” singer in “Hamilton” | BURR |
“Yes ___?” | ORNO |
3.0, e.g | GPA |
Aconcagua’s range | ANDES |
Alfred Hunt and Andrew Carnegie | STEELMEN |
Baby foxes | KITS |
Bad habits | VICES |
Bakery worker | ICER |
Be plentiful | ABOUND |
Belt color | TAN |
Bivouac sight | ARMYTENT |
Bob Dole, for one | KANSAN |
Body shop? | SPA |
Bradley University site | PEORIA |
Brady’s bunch | PATS |
Brain scans, for short | EEGS |
Bribe | SOP |
Budget excess | FAT |
Bug | ANNOY |
Calendar abbr | TUES |
California museum that’s the current home of 73-Across | GETTY |
Character in a Beatles song | EGGMAN |
Choose | OPTFOR |
Clean up, in a way | EDIT |
Cohort | PAL |
Colorful wrap | SERAPE |
Completely captivated | RAPT |
Crude shelter | SHACK |
Cruncher’s pride | ABS |
Crunchy veggies | SNAPPEAS |
Daffy | BATS |
Deliberate | MUSE |
Did figures | SKATED |
Difficult situation | MESS |
Disorder | MUSS |
Doer, in cop show jargon | PERP |
Doubleday and others | ABNERS |
Drudges | SLOGS |
Employee of a mistrustful monarch | TASTER |
Emu’s South American cousin | RHEA |
Enjoy a run | SKI |
Esteem to the extreme | ADORE |
Examine by touch | PALPATE |
Farm butter | RAM |
Finished off | EATEN |
Fires | BOOTS |
First name in fashion | OLEG |
Fly like an eagle | SOAR |
Former California fort | ORD |
Foul | NASTY |
Free from worries | EASY |
Fundraising efforts | APPEALS |
Goes unused | SITS |
Hale-___ (comet seen in 1997) | BOPP |
Harmonious relationship | AMITY |
Having the requisite skill | ABLE |
Heart scan, for short | ECG |
Herbert Hoover, for one | IOWAN |
Herbivorous pet | IGUANA |
Holds responsible | BLAMES |
Hollywood favorite | IDOL |
Hosp. scans | MRIS |
Hush-hush | SECRET |
It’s known for its bell ringers | AVON |
Japanese noodles | SOBA |
Johnson of the Colorado Avalanche | ERIK |
Lawyer’s hurdle | STATEBAR |
Lieutenant’s subordinate | ENSIGN |
Like big sunglasses | OWLY |
Literary comparisons | SIMILES |
Long | PINE |
Lose ground? | ERODE |
Madison Avenue award | CLIO |
Magazine revenue source | ADSALES |
Mother of George, Charlotte and Louis | KATE |
Mower handle? | DEERE |
Native New Yorkers | SENECAS |
Neither improve nor decline | PLATEAU |
Not available | TAKEN |
Panhandles | BEGS |
Parsing choice | NOUN |
Pay to play | ANTE |
Picnic pest | GNAT |
Pier foundations | PILES |
Piz Bernina, e.g | ALP |
Places for props | SETS |
Plow puller | ASS |
Pops portrayer on “The Goldbergs” | SEGAL |
Pottery class needs | KILNS |
Program fixes | UPDATES |
Proposes as a price | ASKS |
Pub orders | PINTS |
Pub orders | ALES |
Reduce | PARE |
Remiss | CARELESS |
Revolutionary Guevara | CHE |
Rival of Sparta | ARGOS |
Safari runner | IMAC |
Seemingly forever | EON |
Seller of Skylake chips | INTEL |
Shone brightly | RADIATED |
Skinless chicken breasts, e.g | LEANMEAT |
Skirtlike piece of armor | TASSE |
Smoothie berry | ACAI |
Soaking sites | TUBS |
Sock pattern | ARGYLE |
Solemn ceremony | RITUAL |
Some Halloween doings | PRANKS |
Somewhat naughty | RACY |
Spare parts? | PINS |
Spongy dessert | BABA |
Spy’s org | CIA |
Start of a Whitman work | OCAPTAIN |
Stick alternative | CARROT |
Succinct | BRIEF |
Support staffs? | CANES |
Surfing mishaps | WIPEOUTS |
Taxpayers’ info | SSNS |
They’re caught in pots | EELS |
Thingy | ITEM |
Tylenol targets | ACHES |
Van Gogh painting sold for a record $53.9 million in 1987 | IRISES |
Wife of Odysseus | PENELOPE |
With it | AWARE |
With tongue in cheek | DROLLY |
Working with flour | SIFTING |
Wound | LESION |
Your and my | OUR |
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