Wall Street Journal - Nov 2 2019 - Learning to Be a Politician
Clues | Answers |
“A Writer’s Life” memoirist | TALESE |
“Bleeding Love” singer Lewis | LEONA |
“Hamilton” writer, to his friends | LIN |
“Let me think about that...” | HMM |
“Mack the Knife” composer | WEILL |
“Picnic” playwright | INGE |
“The Fog of War” subject | MCNAMARA |
Absolute idealism proponent | HEGEL |
Affordability factor | COST |
Aguilera, to her fans | XTINA |
Airwaves, informally | ETHER |
Asks too many questions | PRIES |
Bad beginning | MAL |
Bad party guests | BOORS |
Barber’s blunder | NICK |
Below, to bards | NEATH |
Bet with a big payoff | TRIFECTA |
Big lugs | OAFS |
Bio. and chem | SCIS |
Blacked out | UNLIT |
Burrito’s brother | TAMALE |
Calls on | USES |
Capital of Canada? | CEE |
Caramel candies | ROLOS |
Central part | CORE |
Chicago exchange, for short | MERC |
Curriculum for a left-leaning politician? | LIBERALEDUCATION |
Dances done with castanets | BOLEROS |
Dean’s world | ACADEME |
Decides | OPTS |
Did an impression of | APED |
Does some museum work | RESTORES |
Dolby system | STEREO |
Dot of color | FLECK |
Dugout fixtures | BENCHES |
Feature of many Homer paintings | SEA |
Food fight noises | SPLATS |
Forward | PERT |
Frank McCourt book | TIS |
Gives a break | SPELLS |
Good memories | UPTIMES |
GPS heading | ENE |
Green shade | LIME |
Gregg Allman’s brother | DUANE |
Gretzky of the NHL or Moon of the NFL | EXOILER |
Heavenly strings | HARP |
Hirsch of “Into the Wild” | EMILE |
Home of Iowa State | AMES |
Home runs, in slang | TATERS |
Hound handle | FIDO |
Hounds’ quarries | HARES |
Included in the email chain | CCED |
Instruction for a future congressperson? | HOUSETRAINING |
Intention | AIM |
It’s a long story | SAGA |
It’s broken by the hungry | FAST |
JFK guess | ETA |
Kitchen injuries | BURNS |
Lawn mower brand | TORO |
Leading | ONTOP |
Lessons for budget management? | ECONOMYCLASS |
Lessons on managing a financial crisis? | CRASHCOURSE |
Like a better bet | SURER |
Like city real estate | ZONED |
Lose one’s temper | YELL |
Lucifer epithet | EVILONE |
Mail deliverer in the wizarding world | OWL |
Many university profs | PHDS |
McCartney mate | STARR |
Monologuist Mort | SAHL |
Muddled along | FARED |
Myanmar, before | BURMA |
National competition | AVIS |
Noggins | BEANS |
Not much, in terms of color | ATINGE |
Now, in Nicaragua | AHORA |
Oktoberfest toast | PROSIT |
Ooze | SEEP |
Orchestral gong | TAMTAM |
Pamphlet | FLYER |
Pea stabber | TINE |
Periodic table fig | ATNO |
Perjury confession | ILIED |
Pilgrim’s destination | SHRINE |
Plow into | RAM |
Practice exercises on being in charge? | POWERDRILLS |
Prefix with suppression | IMMUNO |
Prize for Reba, for short | CMA |
Promise breaker | RENEGER |
Pub contest fodder | TRIVIA |
Raccoon feature | MASK |
Rear-___ (auto accident) | ENDER |
Reduce to rags | TATTER |
Regretted the last trip to the buffet | OVERATE |
Rug rat | TOT |
Run-down | SEEDY |
Seminar for politicians who want to appear humble? | MODESTYPANEL |
Shady card dealer’s maneuver | FALSECUT |
Shake awake | ROUSE |
Shoulder muscles, for short | DELTS |
Show runners, often | CREATORS |
Skating category | PAIRS |
Slip away from | ELUDE |
Smacking sound | MWAH |
Souvenir stand purchase | TSHIRT |
Spies may wear them | WIRES |
Spiral-horned ruminant | ELAND |
Sports Illustrated’s 1984 Sportswoman of the Year | RETTON |
Statement of beliefs | CREDO |
Studied before breaking into | CASED |
Successful without assistance | SELFMADE |
Surveying unit | ACRE |
The Hadean, the Archean and the Proterozoic, e.g | EONS |
The Hill, for Congress, and Foggy Bottom, for the State Department | METONYMS |
The Horsehead, the Boomerang and the Tarantula, e.g | NEBULAE |
Their tails point away from the sun | COMETS |
They might be hosed | RIOTERS |
Tie up | TRUSS |
Toss out | CHUCK |
Tubular sandwich | WRAP |
Turkish general | AGA |
Two-way, as a door | INOUT |
Veers suddenly | ZAGS |
Veil material | TULLE |
Weapon for an Olympian | EPEE |
Went like the dickens | TORE |
What hot dogs do | PANT |
Where a politician can learn how to win the presidency? | ELECTORALCOLLEGE |
Where to learn how to be nominated? | PRIMARYSCHOOL |
Whirl of water | EDDY |
Winery visitors | TASTERS |
Winter Olympics event | SLALOM |
With the fewest flaws | PUREST |
Woman with a title | PEERESS |
Words accompanying a lightbulb going on | OHIGETIT |
Words after most, best or first | OFALL |
Words with binge or budget | ONA |
___-Locka, Florida | OPA |
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