Wall Street Journal - Nov 13 2019 - Only One Rite Answer
Clues | Answers |
“The Optimist’s Daughter” author | WELTY |
“The Teflon Don” | GOTTI |
Argentine aunt | TIA |
Auto info company with a vulpine mascot | CARFAX |
Bankruptcy | RUIN |
Big name in swimwear | SPEEDO |
Bowl over | WOW |
Bring up | REAR |
Broody genre | EMO |
Capital of New Zealand? | KIWIDOLLAR |
Certain moral lapse, and a hint to what’s hidden in this puzzle’s theme answers | BROKENPROMISE |
Chuck Norris’s slayer in “Return of the Dragon” | BRUCELEE |
City near Dayton | XENIA |
Company whose products appear in many stories | OTIS |
Consequently | ERGO |
Dancer’s colleague | CUPID |
Digs for pigs | STY |
Eagle’s home | AERIE |
Early settlers of Iceland | NORSE |
Exemplars of industry | ANTS |
Expire | RUNOUT |
FDR, JFK or LBJ | DEM |
Ferret, maybe | PET |
First name of the first man in space | YURI |
First-rate | ACES |
Floored, briefly | KOD |
Force followers | JEDI |
Gather | AMASS |
Good news for the economy | BOOM |
Greer in the Basketball Hall of Fame | HAL |
Helter-skelter | AMOK |
Indian title of respect | SRI |
Inventor’s spark | IDEA |
Jami of “The Neighbors” | GERTZ |
Like some football kicks | ONSIDE |
Longtime Yankees announcer Allen | MEL |
Many a John Wayne flick | OATER |
Meditative practice | YOGA |
Mil. no-show | AWOL |
More embarrassed, maybe | REDDER |
Most current TVs | HDS |
Mountain top? | SKIHAT |
Na+, e.g | ION |
Negating link | NOR |
Not shut up | YAK |
Olden times | YORE |
One of the Four Horsemen | DEATH |
One whose home is Homs | SYRIAN |
Only Super Bowl won by the Jets | III |
Part of an ancient inscription | RUNE |
Pasture call | MOO |
Peels off | SHEDS |
Planner page | DAY |
Provocative remark | TAUNT |
Request to a barber | TRIM |
Sarcastic “Great!” | OHJOY |
Savannah summer hrs | EDT |
Sedatives, casually | TRANQS |
Sign of a hit | SRO |
Site of desk accumulation | INTRAY |
Site of the French ministry of foreign affairs | QUAIDORSAY |
Soccer great Lionel | MESSI |
Soldier under Stonewall | REB |
Study the heavens | STARGAZE |
Took way too much | ODED |
Totally lost it | SNAPPED |
Tournament won five times by countryman Rafael Nadal | MADRIDOPEN |
Trees with poisonous leaves and seeds | YEWS |
Tug of war hazard | ROPEBURN |
Turbine part | ROTOR |
Turning tooth | COG |
Two tablespoons | FLUIDOUNCE |
Vienna divider | DANUBE |
Virgin ___ (record label) | EMI |
What it takes, so they say | ALLSORTS |
When repeated, “Hungry Like the Wolf” band | DURAN |
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