Wall Street Journal - Sep 7 2019 - Friends of Ours
Clues | Answers |
"Agree totally!" | AMEN |
"Another good suggestion!" | THATTOO |
"Because It Is Bitter, and Because It Is My Heart" author | OATES |
"Ben-Hur" writer Wallace | LEW |
"Danny and the Dinosaur" author Hoff | SYD |
"Hold On Tight" band | ELO |
"July’s People" author Gordimer | NADINE |
"Picnic" playwright | INGE |
"Yes" in Yokohama | HAI |
A pop | PER |
A pop | EACH |
A/C measure | BTU |
Abacus clacker | BEAD |
Agcy. that investigates derailments | NTSB |
American rival | UNITED |
An appropriate future moment | DUETIME |
Andean herd | ALPACAS |
Annoyingly aggressive | PUSHY |
Audible exams | ORALS |
Baudelaire’s "___ Fleurs du Mal" | LES |
Baylor base | WACO |
Being, to Britannicus | ESSE |
Bell prompting someone to get into the tub? | BATHERSIGNAL |
Beside oneself with excitement | AGOG |
Bon Jovi’s "___ on a Prayer" | LIVIN |
Boosters of bad cholesterol | TRANSFATS |
Boosts in price | HIKES |
Bounded | LOPED |
Breach | GAP |
Bread accompanying vindaloo | NAAN |
Campaign derailers | SCANDALS |
Cheats on a diet, perhaps | SNACKS |
Chest protectors | RIBS |
City in the Mohawk Valley | UTICA |
City on the Gulf of Finland | ESPOO |
Coastal recess | INLET |
Comic’s performance | ROUTINE |
Comics character who announced her pregnancy in the last strip | CATHY |
Creator of the tempest in "The Tempest" | ARIEL |
Dandifying neckwear | ASCOT |
Dangerous partner | ARMED |
Dated | OLD |
Dime, to a dollar | TENTH |
Disfigure | UGLIFY |
Drag accessories | BOAS |
Eagles album and song of 1973 | DESPERADO |
Eat off the good china, say | DINE |
Eight furlongs | MILE |
Emulates Ella | SCATS |
Entourage | POSSE |
Figure punished for looking back | LOTSWIFE |
Flouting copyright | PIRATED |
Food that’s totally tubular | PENNE |
From square one | AGAIN |
Furniture movers | CASTERS |
Grace starter | OLORD |
Green feeling | ENVY |
Green starter | ECO |
Hit the books | STUDYUP |
Hog owner | BIKER |
Home of the WNBA’s Storm | SEATTLE |
Hormone source, often | GLAND |
How a big bad wolf might storm off | INAHUFF |
Humdingers | LULUS |
Indigenous Alaskans | ALEUTS |
Isaac Newton’s yacht? | GRAVITYBOAT |
Ivies, e.g.: Abbr | SCHS |
Java additive | CREAMER |
Judge on the diamond | AARON |
Kinshasa Declaration protectee | APE |
Lab-classifying org | AKC |
Lane in Metropolis | LOIS |
Laundromat-in-disrepair complaint? | WASHERISHELL |
Leaves for a drink | TEA |
Legal postponement | STAY |
Lightning strike? | SLAPSHOT |
Like a count | TITLED |
Like some columns | FLUTED |
Made amends | ATONED |
Many a family vacation | CARTRIP |
Microwaving no-no | METAL |
Miss Piggy’s favorite water park ride? | SWINEFLUME |
Necessitates | CALLSFOR |
Noodge | PEST |
One of four rhyming letters | ETA |
One or more | ANY |
One-two punch, e.g | COMBO |
Org. supporting museums | NEA |
Org. that added a P for "Paralympic" in June 2019 | USOC |
Overhauled | REDONE |
Ozone feature | ODOR |
Parisian pop | PERE |
Parting word | ADIEU |
Pepper with facetious insults | ROAST |
PIN requesters | ATMS |
Pipe part | STEM |
Political hanger-on? | CHAD |
Pond glider | SWAN |
Posting by a LaCrosse owner’s parking spot? | THEBUICKSTOPSHERE |
Public houses | INNS |
Pump, e.g | SHOE |
Real-life counterpart of Napoleon in "Animal Farm" | STALIN |
Richmond was its cap | CSA |
Ruler-on-knuckles blow | RAP |
Russian city on the Ural | ORSK |
Samoan capital | APIA |
Sardaigne ou Sicile | ILE |
Schooner contents | ALE |
Sexist, say | UNPC |
Shield from view | SCREEN |
Sixth, in Siena | SESTO |
Snarky laugh sound | HAR |
Spa sighs | AHHS |
Stephen Colbert’s employer | CBS |
Subjugated state | SERFDOM |
Supermarket sections | AISLES |
Surgery ctrs | ORS |
Swaddle | ENWRAP |
Swoons | FAINTS |
Take wing | AVIATE |
Targets | AIMSAT |
Tony and Oscar winner as the King of Siam | BRYNNER |
Toxin mentioned in Joni Mitchell’s "Big Yellow Taxi" | DDT |
Trade org | ASSN |
Trading a wimple for a turban? | CHANGEOFHEADDRESS |
Trampoline act at a family reunion? | COUSINFLIP |
Trot-gallop go-between | CANTER |
University town near Bangor | ORONO |
Untested | RAW |
USN rank below Capt | CDR |
Violin virtuoso Hilary | HAHN |
Watch over | TEND |
Website feature often indicated by a magnifying glass | SEARCH |
Well-worn grooves | RUTS |
Whole of civilization | WORLD |
Witch’s lunch order? | COBWEBSALAD |
Words for coordinating action | ONTHREE |
Yen | URGE |
Yule libation | NOG |
___ publica (the state, legally) | RES |
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