Wall Street Journal - Nov 12 2019 - Do Some Pull-Ups
Clues | Answers |
“Awesome!” | SWEET |
“Golly!” | WELLILLBE |
“That feels so good!” | AAH |
“That’s unbelievable,” to a texter | OMG |
“To be opened in 50 years” cache | TIMECAPSULE |
“Waiting for Godot,” for one | TRAGICOMEDY |
“Yipe, a mouse!” | EEK |
1950s White House nickname | IKE |
Address from a lectern | ORATE |
African lifeline | NILE |
Belgian battle site of World War I | YPRES |
Big fuss | ADO |
Brain-freezing drinks | ICEES |
Breakfast option containing ham and green pepper | WESTERNOMELETTE |
Breath mints brand | CERTS |
Broad inlet | BAY |
Buffalo hockey player | SABRE |
Capital of Italia | ROMA |
Carolina birds | WRENS |
Chocolate-coated frozen treat | ESKIMOPIE |
Clog-clearing brand | DRANO |
Coastal birds | TERNS |
Confronted | FACED |
Correspondent’s cost | POSTAGE |
Counter in a debate | REBUT |
Crew member | ROWER |
Crew member’s need | OAR |
Deep South resident, generally speaking | REDSTATER |
Dessert with a meringue covering | BAKEDALASKA |
Done at once | IMMEDIATE |
Emerge victorious | WIN |
Genesis setting | EDEN |
Guy, slangily | FELLA |
Hatch in the Senate until 2019 | ORRIN |
Hotel’s availability | ROOMS |
In the manner of | ALA |
Ivy in Phila | UPENN |
J. Edgar Hoover Building org | FBI |
Jack’s value in blackjack | TEN |
Light and graceful | AIRY |
Luster | SHEEN |
Mammal with a fly-by-night operation? | BAT |
Manage | COPE |
Managed care grp | HMO |
Monte Rosa, for one | ALP |
Musician’s semibreve | WHOLENOTE |
No longer asleep | WOKEN |
Nosy sort | SNOOP |
Okla. before 1907, e.g | TERR |
Outmoded AOL communications | IMS |
Owner of a Springfield tavern | MOE |
Plopped down | SAT |
Pore output | SWEAT |
PowerPoint production | SLIDESHOW |
Prefix with sphere or conscious | ECO |
Punk rock offshoot | EMO |
Rehearsal direction | AGAIN |
Reserved | TAKEN |
Revered tribe member | ELDER |
Rob of “Parks and Recreation” | LOWE |
Scissor cut | SNIP |
Set a new standard, and a hint to the circled letters | RAISETHEBAR |
Shiite prayer leaders | IMAMS |
Some IRA investments | CDS |
Sound at a cat shelter | MEW |
Spoon or spatula | UTENSIL |
Subjects of modern mapping | GENOMES |
Titleist holder | TEE |
Tourney round, informally | ELIM |
Toward the rudder | AFT |
Truckloads | ALOT |
Velcro alternative | SNAPS |
Wear down | ERODE |
Witness | SEE |
Yellowstone grazer | ELK |
Yuletide quaff | NOG |
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