Wall Street Journal - Dec 7 2019 - Body Blows
| Clues | Answers |
| “Come again?” | WHAT |
| “Imagine that!” | HUH |
| “Insecure” creator/star | ISSARAE |
| Admonition to a badly behaving child | NOTNICE |
| Alaskan vacation destination | DENALI |
| Alternative to home cooking | TAKEOUT |
| Amendment first proposed in 1923 | THEERA |
| Anti-arms slogan | NONUKES |
| As found | INSITU |
| Babysitter’s bane | IMP |
| Bar fight? | TRIAL |
| Baseball scoreboard letters | RHE |
| Bee’s young relative | OPIE |
| Big bird of fable | ROC |
| Big club | ACE |
| Big D player | MAV |
| Big name in combines | DEERE |
| Bisected | INTWO |
| Blew up | SWELLED |
| Bookie’s charge | VIG |
| Brain wave chart, for short | EEG |
| Brief affair | FLING |
| Button to move a message to the inbox | NOTSPAM |
| Call out to | HAIL |
| Candle count | AGE |
| Challenging H.S. sci. class | APBIO |
| Colorful dogwood | REDOSIER |
| Copying | ALA |
| Corner key | ESC |
| Cries of comprehension | AHAS |
| Criminal code | OMERTA |
| Crosses | SPANS |
| Cyndi Lauper hit | SHEBOP |
| Desk phone part | HANDSET |
| Do one’s part | PITCHIN |
| Double space? | DIAMOND |
| Drainage ditch | SUMP |
| Dutch financial giant | ING |
| Experiment | TEST |
| Extremely troubling | GUTWRENCHING |
| Facilitation | EASING |
| Field makeup | SOD |
| Fish sticks fish | COD |
| Flight finish | ARRIVAL |
| Follower of Fannie, Sallie or Ginnie | MAE |
| Fresh talk | SASS |
| From that place | THENCE |
| George’s sitar mentor | RAVI |
| Get in the game | ANTEUP |
| Girl, condescendingly | MISSY |
| Golf instructor | PRO |
| Gonna soon | ABOUTTO |
| Grammatical case in Latin and German | DATIVE |
| Grammy category since 1989 | RAP |
| Guinness Book suffix | EST |
| Hard to explain | HEADSCRATCHING |
| Have dog breath? | PANT |
| Helper of Heracles | ATHENA |
| High regard | ESTEEM |
| Iberian river | EBRO |
| Immediately | ATONCE |
| Important evidence | DNA |
| Inside track | EDGE |
| Intimidation | BROWBEATING |
| Jan. honoree | MLK |
| Johnny Depp’s Pistol and Boo, e.g | YORKIES |
| King called “Hammer of the Scots” | EDWARDI |
| Knighted Irish rocker | BONO |
| Lacking common sense | DIPPY |
| Let off steam | VENT |
| Like some patches | IRONON |
| Loos | WCS |
| Make scarves, say | KNIT |
| Must | NEEDSTO |
| Nasty office gossip | BACKBITING |
| NBC foreign correspondent Richard | ENGEL |
| Not as kind | CRUELER |
| NYC’s original subway operator | IRT |
| Online deal site | GROUPON |
| Opposite of FF | REW |
| Oscar winner for “Green Book” | ALI |
| Over the moon | ELATED |
| Overly picky | HAIRSPLITTING |
| Pal | BUD |
| Pancreas production | INSULIN |
| Pass | ELAPSE |
| Petri dish gel | AGAR |
| Plow creation | FURROW |
| Pres. Mandela’s nation | RSA |
| Prom or party ending | GOER |
| Promise | VOW |
| Puritanical person | PRIG |
| QB successes | TDS |
| Reaction to terrible business news | IMRUINED |
| Refuter’s words | ITISNT |
| Reluctance to act | FOOTDRAGGING |
| Revolting | STOMACHTURNING |
| Ring doings | BOUTS |
| Rogue on the road, e.g | CAR |
| Scrap | SETTO |
| Scuba attachment | AIRHOSE |
| Seeing as | BECAUSE |
| Semicircular letter | CEE |
| Shot stoppers | GOALIES |
| Show of confidence | SWAGGER |
| Sir Paul, familiarly | MACCA |
| Small shot | BBS |
| Smash into | RAM |
| So sad | HEARTBREAKING |
| Some NFL linemen | RGS |
| Some restaurant work | PREP |
| Sound of a sock | OOF |
| Sounds from Egypt and Ethiopia | LONGES |
| South of France | SUD |
| Sphere starter | HEMI |
| Square | EVEN |
| Start of MGM’s motto | ARS |
| Start, electronically | POWERON |
| Strikingly impressive | EYEPOPPING |
| Swamp growths | SEDGES |
| T size letters | SML |
| Tarot suit | SWORDS |
| They’re run by three-year-olds | DERBIES |
| Third degrees | PHDS |
| Told the cops everything | SANG |
| Touched down | ALIT |
| Uncle Vanya’s niece | SONYA |
| Unflappable to a fault | TOOCOOL |
| Very tasty | LIPSMACKING |
| Villain, at times | SNEERER |
| Well-built | STURDY |
| Where gurus gather | ASHRAM |
| Winding road shape | ESS |
| With consequences | ATACOST |
| Words after pour or pass | ITON |
| Work parties | CREWS |
| Works in a museum | ART |
| ___ generis | SUI |
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