Wall Street Journal - Nov 9 2019 - Metamorphosis
| Clues | Answers |
| “Ain’t never gonna happen!” | NOHOW |
| “American Gods” author | NEILGAIMAN |
| “Chicago” actor | GERE |
| “Diana” singer | ANKA |
| “Grisham’s a hack! He’ll never write a book as good as ‘Presumed Innocent’!” e.g.? | TUROWSHADE |
| “Indeed!” | YES |
| “Midsommar” director Aster | ARI |
| “Noir Alley” network | TCM |
| “Turn! Turn! Turn!” songwriter | SEEGER |
| 1958’s Corsair, e.g | EDSEL |
| 1990s sitcom on the Beeb | ABFAB |
| 2020 candidate Bullock | STEVE |
| @BigBird messages, e.g | TWEETS |
| Accomplished people | DOERS |
| Affordable copy of “The Lake Isle of Innisfree”? | CHEAPYEATS |
| Aldrich Ames, e.g | CIASPY |
| Amazon Fire rival | IPAD |
| Articles of faith | TENETS |
| Battleship? | BOATOFARMS |
| Beef | GRIPE |
| Bewildered | LOST |
| Big name in haute couture | DIOR |
| Biological encoder | DNA |
| Bleakly cold | RAW |
| Boardroom bigwig | CEO |
| Bonny miss | LASS |
| Brian’s replacement on “NBC Nightly News” | LESTER |
| Broccoli ___ (turnip relative) | RABE |
| Brother of Adam and Little Joe | HOSS |
| Buster | MAC |
| Chargeless particles | NEUTRINOS |
| Church doctrines | CANONS |
| Clairvoyant types | SEERS |
| Cocktail also called a blanc-cassis | KIR |
| Colony raider | ANTEATER |
| Comic bit | GAG |
| Components of some KFC orders | PEPSIS |
| Concord, e.g | GRAPE |
| Crawl like a crab | SIDLE |
| Crew team | OARS |
| Crushed the midterm | ACEDIT |
| Curl target, informally | BICEP |
| Distinctive smell | ODOR |
| Down-home | FOLKSY |
| Emmy-winning role for Valerie | RHODA |
| Executive at Lipton? | TEAOFFICER |
| Fantasy novel by Christopher Paolini | ERAGON |
| Field unit | ACRE |
| Flavoring in Cedilla liqueur | ACAI |
| Flight feature | STEP |
| Flip out, and then some | GOBERSERK |
| Frank, Dean, Sammy, Peter and Joey | THERATPACK |
| Frequent Kwik-E-Mart customer | HOMER |
| Fully fulfill | SATE |
| Future cop | CADET |
| Gallaudet Univ. course | ASL |
| Gamblers’ notes | CHITS |
| Gentle touch | PAT |
| Glum drop | TEAR |
| Gobs | ALOT |
| Grueling motorcycle race | ENDURO |
| Hangzhou “hello” | NIHAO |
| Hartsfield-Jackson’s airport code | ATL |
| Herculean effort? | LABORS |
| High points | ACMES |
| Hog holders | STIES |
| Itinerary word | VIA |
| Jah follower | RASTA |
| Job for a gob | BOSUN |
| Jordans, e.g | NIKES |
| Kanye, to Chicago | DAD |
| Knee injury site, often | ACL |
| Knights’ titles | SIRS |
| LBJ’s first attorney general | RFK |
| Life stage originally represented by the circled letters, prior to metamorphosis | PUPA |
| Like some flares | SOLAR |
| Like some sprays | NASAL |
| Lunches and brunches | REPASTS |
| Man without manners | CHURL |
| Max Scherzer’s team | NATS |
| McConaughey’s co-star in “The Dark Tower” | ELBA |
| Memoir bits | ANECDOTES |
| Mint plant | CHIA |
| Mississippi Delta fish | MUDCAT |
| Mortgage, e.g | LOAN |
| Negotiation pro | AGENT |
| New York governor | CUOMO |
| Not glossy | MATTE |
| Oatmeal kin | BEIGE |
| One might be framed in a painter’s studio | ARTDEGREE |
| One might be lent or bent | EAR |
| Opposite of effective? | CAUSAL |
| Painters of “Water Lilies” forgeries? | MONETMAKERS |
| Patron of Venice | STMARK |
| Pet sound | ARF |
| Post-traumatic stress from spending all day assembling IKEA furniture? | SHELFSHOCK |
| Prankster’s projectile | EGG |
| Present | GIFT |
| Prix fixe feature, by definition | SETRATE |
| Professional shooters | SLRS |
| Prohibition, e.g | ERA |
| Publisher’s insert | ERRATAPAGE |
| Rapper Lil ___ X | NAS |
| Release vapors into the air | OUTGAS |
| Resulted in | LEDTO |
| Ritz crackers alternatives | HIHOS |
| Sch. in Charlottesville | UVA |
| Serengeti stalker | LION |
| Shiners first sold in 1979 | MAGLITES |
| Sign of balance? | LIBRA |
| Sinbad’s milieu | SEVENSEAS |
| Singer Stefani | GWEN |
| Slender probe | STYLET |
| Slight sound | PEEP |
| Snoopy’s alter ego Joe Cool, et al.? | CHILLDOGS |
| Sound heard when hell freezes over? | MIRACLEBRR |
| Structured plan | SCHEMA |
| Sultanate on the Arabian Peninsula | OMAN |
| Talking the talk without walking the walk | LIPSERVICE |
| Tattooist’s target | SKIN |
| Televised coin tosser, often | REF |
| Terrarium growth | MOSS |
| The ’rents and the rest | FAM |
| Tijuana tavern | CANTINA |
| Tilted text, briefly | ITAL |
| Titular ship in a sci-fi series | GALACTICA |
| Tropical sorbet choice | GUAVA |
| Troubled times | CRISES |
| Tubes in trunks | AORTAE |
| TV monitor | FCC |
| Two-time Wimbledon champ Murray | ANDY |
| Visionary? | OPTIC |
| Where Venus Flytrap deejayed | WKRP |
| Whitney who graduated from Yale, appropriately | ELI |
| With eyes wide open | ALERT |
| Word on many mall maps | HERE |
| Writer actively avoiding synonyms? | ROGETDODGER |
| Wyoming county that includes Jackson Hole | TETON |
| ___ Gatos | LOS |
| ___ Lanka | SRI |
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