Wall Street Journal - Dec 3 2019 - Stages of Change
| Clues | Answers |
| "I take it that's ___" | ANO |
| "Invisible Cities" author Calvino | ITALO |
| "Well, looky here!" | OHO |
| "___ Miserables" | LES |
| *"Well, that's unsurprising" | SOWHATELSEISNEW |
| *Cradle of civilization | FERTILECRESCENT |
| *Irritatingly confident of one's own intelligence | TOOCLEVERBYHALF |
| *Request on a bill | PLEASEPAYINFULL |
| Advice for a young man | GOWEST |
| Alternatively, to a texter | OTOH |
| And others, in ancient Rome | ETALII |
| Army officers below Capt | LTS |
| Beehive State tribe | UTES |
| Before, before | ERE |
| Best Buy buys | TVS |
| Big hit in the ballpark | TRIPLE |
| Break a vow, say | CHEAT |
| Bro or sis | SIB |
| Bygone iPods | NANOS |
| Christopher who authored a controversial 2016 dossier | STEELE |
| Cocoa container | MUG |
| Comic Mort | SAHL |
| Corp. money minder | CFO |
| Cover with concrete | PAVE |
| Desert mound | DUNE |
| Design detail | SPEC |
| Drawer for dollars | TILL |
| Entourage | POSSE |
| Fabrication | LIE |
| Felt a longing | YENNED |
| Fort-capturing operations | SIEGES |
| From Russ., before 1991 | SOV |
| Gene messenger | RNA |
| Get by | MANAGE |
| Go for a run? | SKI |
| Guinea pig or goldfish, say | PET |
| Harmed | SCATHED |
| Highlight from a diva | SOLO |
| IT staffers maintain them | PCS |
| Jazzy instruments | SAXES |
| Kemper of "Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt" | ELLIE |
| Kingly name in Norway | OLAV |
| Least modern | OLDEST |
| Lopsided | UNEVEN |
| MacGraw of "Love Story" | ALI |
| Makeup of a bath-time beard | SOAPSUDS |
| Many a time | OFT |
| Marks, as a box | XES |
| Measures of medicine | DOSES |
| Narrow strip of land: Abbr | ISTH |
| Naval officer below Capt | CDR |
| Ooze | SEEP |
| Palindromic fashion magazine | ELLE |
| Parental comment about a teen's rebelliousness, and a hint to the last words of the starred answers | ITSJUSTAPHASE |
| Point ___ return | OFNO |
| Seeds-to-be | OVULES |
| Send a Dear John letter | ENDIT |
| Shake one's booty | TWERK |
| Shoemaker's tool | AWL |
| Sites for campers | RVLOTS |
| Societal problems | ILLS |
| Some contraception choices, for short | IUDS |
| Spot to get corned beef on rye | DELI |
| Subterranean scurrier | SEWERRAT |
| Superlative suffix | EST |
| Tough, straight-grained wood | ASH |
| Vowel that looks like an H | ETA |
| Washroom fixture | BASIN |
| What a double shot of espresso might provide | JOLT |
| Work without ___ (take risks) | ANET |
| Writer Damon | RUNYON |
| ___ B'rith | BNAI |
| ___ de deux | PAS |
| ___ Nostra | COSA |
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