Wall Street Journal – Mar 19 2016 – Capital Punishment Crossword Solution
Wall Street Journal – Mar 19 2016 – Capital Punishment Crossword Solution
Clues | Answers |
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‘All the world is sad and dreary, everywhere ___’: Stephen Foster | IROAM |
‘Animal House’ costume | TOGA |
‘Chicago Hope’ sets, for short | ORS |
‘Dead men tell no tales,’ e.g | TRUISM |
‘Is that possible?’ | CANITBE |
‘___-daisy!’ | UPSA |
1973 #1 hit for the Rolling Stones | ANGIE |
1990s Labor secretary Robert | REICH |
Address | SPEAKTO |
Aerie infant | EAGLET |
Agency hired to track Jesse James and Butch Cassidy | PINKERTON |
Analyst’s comment | ISEE |
Angry rebuke | EARFUL |
Arcade game pioneer | ATARI |
Basalt, once | MAGMA |
Becomes imminent | NEARS |
Beinecke Library setting | YALE |
Birthplace of Robert Burns | AYR |
Bit before ‘di’ or ‘da’ in a Beatles song | OBLA |
Brand that used ‘short shorts’ ads | NAIR |
Brightest star in a constellation | ALPHA |
Burns prop | CIGAR |
Caused a merlot spill in New Delhi? | HELDWINECLUMSILY |
Charles’s wife | CAMILLA |
Christie creation | WHODUNIT |
Clinton Defense head Aspin | LES |
Coastal flier | ERNE |
Code makeup | LAWS |
Coffee-growing region of Hawaii | KONA |
Commotion in a La Paz square? | PLAZADISTURBANCE |
Comparable to hen’s teeth | ASRARE |
Concrete-strengthening piece | REBAR |
Cunning | WILY |
Daredevil | RISKER |
Debonair neckwear | ASCOT |
Deceive | LIETO |
Do chasers | REMI |
Dry spell at the plate | SLUMP |
Dull routines | RUTS |
Edict | DECREE |
Eliel Saarinen’s son | EERO |
Emerald City visitor | TOTO |
Encourages | EGGSON |
EPA concern | ECOL |
Feels at home | FITSIN |
Fitch who partnered with David Abercrombie | EZRA |
Fling | HURL |
Flub | MISDO |
Former Obama policy adviser Sutphen | MONA |
Frame on a farm wagon | HAYRIG |
Fundamental principle of the universe | TAO |
Gallery opening time, perhaps | TENAM |
Game with Skip and Reverse cards | UNO |
German painter Nolde | EMIL |
Gist | MAINIDEA |
Gives a gentler massage to, in Brussels? | RUBSLESSROUGHLY |
Goethe’s ‘The ___-King’ | ERL |
Graceful grazers | IMPALAS |
Grate expectations | ASHES |
Group that originally went by the name Festfolk | ABBA |
In a fog | ADDLED |
Kingdom where Moses died | MOAB |
Krypton descriptor | INERT |
Legal, in a way | OFAGE |
Letters once on 30 Rock | RCA |
Like traffic that may not be permitted | THRU |
Lorry driver, e.g | BRIT |
Low-digit treatment, for short | PEDI |
Make, but barely | EKEOUT |
Maker of the pioneering Mobira Cityman phone | NOKIA |
Clues | Answers |
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Making a Lima catalog purchase? | MAILORDERING |
Malfunctioning Nassau gym facilities? | BROKENSAUNAS |
Mall rats, often | TEENS |
Mrs. Gorbachev | RAISA |
Musical adaptation for an Oslo diva? | SOLOARRANGEMENT |
Nonsense | BILGE |
Not as forthright | SLYER |
One of Bob Cratchit’s brood | TIM |
One on the opposite side | ENEMY |
One working for a dictator | STENO |
Online helpers | TECHIES |
Org. whose original trustees included Peck, Poitier and Coppola | AFI |
Overly sentimental | SOPPY |
Paneling fastener | BRAD |
Pop’s pop | GRAMPA |
Prepare lessons | PLAN |
QB’s pickup | YDS |
Rainforest prowler | OCELOT |
Reason for a furrier’s sale in Minsk? | DAMAGEDMINKS |
Reputation, on the street | CRED |
Rice-A-___ | RONI |
River with a sturgeon population | URAL |
Salt scrub offerer | DAYSPA |
Sandra’s co-star in ‘The Lake House’ | KEANU |
Sandwich style | WRAP |
Saw blade material | STEEL |
Schooner fill | ALE |
Scoped out | EYED |
Scout’s rider | TONTO |
Secure, as a job | LAND |
Shape-shifting animal | AMOEBA |
Ship stabilizer | BALLAST |
Shortens, in a way | HEMS |
Sics on | LETSAT |
Singer Tori | AMOS |
Skier’s spot | RUN |
Some RPI grads | ENGRS |
Sorts | ILKS |
Sound like 20-Down | BLEAT |
Special quality | AURA |
Spitting sound | PTUI |
Splatter catcher | APRON |
Spreadsheet contents | DATA |
Spring mo | APR |
Spring mo | MAR |
Stern with a bow | ISAAC |
Stranger in Rome? | MOREPECULIAR |
Strings along | LEADSON |
Surprise one’s co-stars | ADLIB |
Susan of ‘Blume in Love’ | ANSPACH |
Synagogue cabinets | ARKS |
Synthesizer inventor Robert | MOOG |
Take off the books | REPEAL |
Talbot of ‘Hogan’s Heroes’ | NITA |
Tart fruits | SLOES |
Three-time A.L. MVP | AROD |
Time of Nick? | NITE |
Tiny bits | IOTAS |
Tool for obtaining products made with logs | SLIDERULE |
Totally absorbed | ENRAPT |
Travis Tritt song ‘Tell ___ Was Dreaming’ | MEI |
Tries to get picked up, in a way | THUMBS |
Tyke’s speedster | GOCART |
Uneasy | ONEDGE |
Unit symbolized by an omega | OHM |
UPS delivery | PKGS |
Was sorry for | RUED |
Wee she on a lea | EWELAMB |
With no markup | ATCOST |
Woody’s boy | ARLO |