Wall Street Journal - Sep 11 2019 - Pre Fixes
| Clues | Answers |
| “I’m five minutes away,” often | FIB |
| “Jailhouse Rock” singer, familiarly | THEKING |
| “John Brown’s Body” poet | BENET |
| Assignment given to a po’ boy? | SUBMISSION |
| Back in time | AGO |
| Bacteria growing in the kitchen? | COUNTERCULTURE |
| Belonging to those folks | THEIR |
| Birthplace of St. Clare | ASSISI |
| BOLO kin | APB |
| Boomer born in 1961 | ESIASON |
| Brand of foam-based toys | NERF |
| Bring in | NET |
| Chief justice who authored the Dred Scott ruling | TANEY |
| Chimed in | OPINED |
| Civilization whose cities included Ur and Kish | SUMER |
| Currency of 19 nations | EURO |
| Cutter initials | USCG |
| De-stressing destinations | SPAS |
| Dickens’s “___ Mutual Friend” | OUR |
| Dishwashing room at Downton Abbey | SCULLERY |
| Effective control | GRIP |
| Elects | OPTS |
| Fiddle feature | STRING |
| Fleet | RAPID |
| Focus of a player on the bench | PIANO |
| Galley implement | OAR |
| Go-getter | DOER |
| Golf course? | FOREGROUND |
| Gossip mag subjects | CELEBS |
| Hasbro toy that players twist and pull | BOPIT |
| He’s more than a master of rap | DRE |
| Hoppy brew, for short | IPA |
| Humorist Bombeck | ERMA |
| In an unfriendly manner | ICILY |
| It began as the National Gallery of British Art | TATE |
| Keanu courted her in “Dangerous Liaisons” | UMA |
| Like a wolf without a pack | LONE |
| Love of Paris | HELEN |
| Man of Milano | UOMO |
| Many a historical novel | SAGA |
| Miller’s “Elementary” co-star | LIU |
| Mountain face climbed by Alex Honnold in “Free Solo,” for short | ELCAP |
| Name written on Woody’s shoe in “Toy Story” | ANDY |
| Not just implied | SAID |
| Not suckered by | ONTO |
| Oaxaca greeting | HOLA |
| Objective | AIM |
| Pants-on-fire types | LIARS |
| Part of RSVP | VOUS |
| Paving stone | SLAB |
| Place to get wings? | COCOON |
| Revealing swimsuit | MONOKINI |
| Rush order letters | ASAP |
| Shred | RIPUP |
| Some do push-ups | BRAS |
| Source of peat | MOSS |
| Spiny lizards | IGUANAS |
| Spy who works for a Washington paper? | POSTOPERATIVE |
| Stimpy’s cartoon pal | REN |
| Strike leader? | ONEPIN |
| Submit, in the ring | TAPOUT |
| Sweeping shot | PAN |
| Swinton of “Doctor Strange” | TILDA |
| Tourist spot in the Tyrrhenian Sea | CAPRI |
| Unfair judgment, informally | BUMRAP |
| Univ. applicants, typically | SRS |
| Wearing a 9-Down, perhaps | TOPLESS |
| Wedding cake section | TIER |
| What “GIF” should be pronounced with, according to its inventor | SOFTG |
| What only three sitting sens. have become | PRES |
| Word that’s ironically a trochee | IAMB |
| Work of a full-time contortionist? | PROPOSITIONING |
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