Wall Street Journal - Dec 11 2019 - Trickery
| Clues | Answers |
| “That’s my cue!” | IMON |
| Accompanying, in Avignon | AVEC |
| Acoustic guitar genre | FOLK |
| Andean camelid | LLAMA |
| Asimov’s Cutie, e.g | ROBOT |
| Austen heroine | EMMA |
| Badly | ILL |
| Baton Rouge sch | LSU |
| Boulevard liners, often | ELMS |
| Box at the box office | LOGE |
| Burn a bit | SINGE |
| Center of activity | HUB |
| Cheat, of a sort | ADULTERER |
| Choir voice | ALTO |
| Commuter’s banter? | RAILRAILLERY |
| Cooker with a basket | FRYER |
| Critics’ concern | ARTS |
| Damage | MAR |
| Emit effluvium | REEK |
| Fix, as text | EMEND |
| Flowing rock | LAVA |
| Foil alternative | SABER |
| Food in an edible shell | TACO |
| Give the slip to | LOSE |
| Golfer’s case of the nerves | YIPS |
| Green feature | HOLE |
| Head honcho | BOSS |
| Hug providers | ARMS |
| Inadequate adulation? | FLATFLATTERY |
| Initiate cordial conversation, metaphorically | BREAKTHEICE |
| It takes turns in a shop | LATHE |
| Just one of those things | THAT |
| Kin | RELATIVES |
| Language with Sanskrit borrowings | THAI |
| Letter that looks like a flipped y | LAMBDA |
| Lurch | REEL |
| Many a Moroccan | ARAB |
| Mark on a graph | PLOT |
| Methane’s lack | ODOR |
| Milk source | UDDER |
| Mustang mother | MARE |
| Nashville-to-New York dir | ENE |
| Nostalgic topic | GOODOLDDAYS |
| Notion | IDEA |
| Number of vowels in “Deutschland” | DREI |
| Object of adoration | IDOL |
| Parisian passion | AMOUR |
| Peak | ACME |
| Period in history | ERA |
| Periods in history | AGES |
| Play group | TEAM |
| Plumbing problem | LEAK |
| Pop | DAD |
| Posh party | GALA |
| Remove from office | OUST |
| Representative | AGENT |
| Riverbed residue | SILT |
| Runner’s stop | BASE |
| Runs while standing still | IDLES |
| Sci-fi film set aboard the Nostromo | ALIEN |
| Setting for portraits of square dance women? | GALGALLERY |
| Setting of the sun | SKY |
| Shoreline structure | PIER |
| Sister brand of KitchenAid and Maytag | AMANA |
| Sitarist Shankar | RAVI |
| Stick your nose where it doesn’t belong | PRY |
| Strongly felt | DEEP |
| Summer cooler | FAN |
| Sunk in a slough | MIRED |
| Symbolic animal | TOTEM |
| T choice | LARGE |
| Tag | LABEL |
| Tick off | MIFF |
| Top | LID |
| Urban oases | PARKS |
| What powers Robin’s flashlight? | BATBATTERY |
| Yak it up | GAB |
| Yours truly | MYSELF |
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