Wall Street Journal - May 14 2004 - May 14, 2004 - From Bad to Verse

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Clues Answers
'And a Voice to Sing With' writer BAEZ
'And ___ thou slain the Jabberwock?' HAST
'Bambi' aunt ENA
'Oedipus der Tyrann' composer ORFF
'Put a sock ___!' INIT
'Scratch a lover and find ___': Dorothy Parker AFOE
'What ___ care?' DOI
'___ le feste' ('Rigoletto' aria) TUTTE
'___ little!' ('Have some fun!') LIVEA
11-time NBA All-Star EWING
1977 American League MVP RODCAREW
Address for a ship SHE
Alliance dissolved in 1977 SEATO
Anchored fastener TNUT
Approximately ORSO
Attention EAR
Ball clubs? BATS
Beer buy CASE
Bites one's nails STEWS
Bludgeon, in Britain COSH
Born earlier OLDER
Bouquet garni component HERB
Carte start ALA
Cat's cradle makeup STRING
Cause consternation ALARM
Char a steak SEAR
Chorus member ALTO
Church recesses APSES
Circumvented EVADED
Clay, today ALI
Common COARSE
Contribution of ideas, e.g. INPUT
Coon's kin COATI
Crunch cousin SITUP
Deplete USEUP
Dispatched SENT
Dunderhead MORON
Easy of the Chiefs OMAR
Edge SHARPNESS
Edible pocket PITA
Employee's request RAISE
Encouraging cries VIVAS
Endorses OKS
Enthusiasm ZEAL
Fade away DIE
Final line of the limerick INCURSESICANNOTREPEAT
First Arabic letter ALIF
First line of a limerick AFIERYFARMERFROMCRETE
First woman elected governor GRASSO
Flooring wood FIR
Fly high SOAR
Foil cousin EPEE
Fourth line of the limerick HEEXPRESSEDHISDISGUST
French 101 verb ETRE
Gave a tongue-lashing to REAMEDOUT
Go the distance LAST
Goal of a race, perhaps SEAT
He wears very little clothing KEN
High dudgeon IRE
Hoity-___ TOITY
However, briefly THO
In want NEEDY
Inconstant FICKLE
It's Mongolian for 'ocean' DALAI
Kilmer of 'The Doors' VAL
Kitchen addition ETTE
Landlord's income RENTS
Like ocean depths INKY
Line on a map of dialects ISOGRAPH
Lorna of literature DOONE
Love token ROSE
Clues Answers
Martini garnish OLIVE
Mayflower competitor ATLAS
Mechanical learning ROTE
Minneapolis suburb EDINA
Monk's music BOP
Newspaper section ARTS
NFL pioneer George HALAS
Nincompoop ASS
Old five-centime coin SOU
One with the hives? BEEKEEPER
One-time Japanese capital EDO
Paltry MEASLY
Parisian pal AMI
Pesci's co-star in 'My Cousin Vinny' TOMEI
Pole star? SANTA
Pound of poems EZRA
Proofreader's marking DELE
Protein production aid RNA
Raise the lights back to regular level UNDIM
Range ROAM
Real INESSE
River of Bosnia and Herzegovina DRINA
Rock singer Patty SMYTH
Ruler at Karnak RAMSES
Rummy SOUSE
Runner Zatopek EMIL
Sandy soil LOAM
Scrollwork shape ESS
Seal hunter ALEUT
Second line of the limerick INVESTEDHUGELYINWHEAT
Silenced the tube MUTED
Site of a 1965 Beatles concert SHEA
Skier Tommy MOE
Soapy mineral TALC
Someone who makes a lot? PAVER
Son of Aphrodite EROS
Speaker of many languages POLYGLOT
Speck MOTE
Spooky-sounding lake ERIE
Sport refereed by a gyoji SUMO
Stagger REEL
Starbuck's boss AHAB
Start ONSET
Stayed in hiding LAYLOW
Sweep's target SOOT
Sweet treat since 1912 OREO
Symbol ICON
Tag abbr. LGE
Take care of SEETO
Take ___ (be democratic) AVOTE
Tennyson's '___ Arden' ENOCH
That fellow HIM
The Ramones' music PUNK
Third line of the limerick WHENTHEMARKETWENTBUST
Title of respect HONORIFIC
Top item on a to-do list PRIORITY
Train line to NYC LIRR
Truck capacity, perhaps ONETON
Twiddling one's thumbs IDLE
Typographical runover WIDOW
Up in the air ALOFT
Velázquez's 'The Lady With ___' AFAN
Watered down WEAK
Way up STAIR
Web-footed mammal OTTER
When DST ends OCT
White Sands Natl. Monument setting NMEX
Winner of four consecutive U.S. Open titles EVERT
Wood-shaping tool ADZE
Worst possible market share NONE
___ canto BEL