Wall Street Journal - Aug 10 2012 - August 10, 2012 - Dog Days

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'Government, even in its best state, is but a necessary evil' writer PAINE
'Gracious!' OHDEAR
'I drive the sea!' crier AHAB
'The Exorcist' star BURSTYN
'The Muppet Show' dog ROWLF
'Who cares?' WHATEVS
'___ thou not hear a noise?': Macbeth DIDST
1940 screwball comedy based on 'The Front Page' HISGIRLSHIHTZU
1940s USSR secret police NKGB
1967 #1 hit with the lyric 'Who could hang a name on you?' RUBYBULLMASTIFF
1975 ZZ Top hit TUSH
1999 Pacino film directed by Oliver Stone ANYGIVENBOSTONTERRIER
401(k) cousin IRA
Airline that doesn't fly on the Sabbath ELAL
Airport schedule abbr ETD
Allot METE
Alternative to plastic CASH
Anjou divider LOIRE
Army address SIR
As recently as ONLY
Astor's wares FURS
Auto graph? MAP
Bean counter's book LEDGER
Big bash SHINDIG
Bind with a cord LASH
Bird with a powerful kick EMU
Black tea variety PEKOE
Blue Note Records' parent company EMI
Boys in blue? SMURFS
Brando's practice METHOD
Burlap source HEMP
Business with staying power? INN
Calvary letters INRI
Caribbean vacation spot TOBAGO
Cat also known as the dwarf leopard OCELOT
Cheeky PERT
Chefs' hats TOQUES
Clarinet's cousin OBOE
Collect dust SIT
Columbus Day birthstone OPAL
Comic-Con panel's place DAIS
Commotion STIR
Commuting options: Abbr RRS
Composer Rorem NED
Compressed, informally SMUSHED
Conan O'Brien and Larry David wrote for it BEAGLENIGHTLIVE
Consequently ERGO
Continental coin EURO
Corp. money man CFO
Critic who offers opinions after the fact PUGMORNINGQUARTERBACK
Da ___ (port of Vietnam) NANG
Dashboard display DIALS
Day camp rentals KAYAKS
Dog's cover RELISH
Dude (up) TOG
Emblem of Wales LEEK
Facebook event of May 2012: Abbr IPO
Finish off EAT
Fodder for an opponent's campaign ad FLIPFLOP
Fret SWEATIT
Gave the once-over EYED
Get a move on, quaintly HIE
Golfer Ballesteros SEVE
Hibernation site DEN
Honorarium, for example FEE
Hour's start SILENTH
If-___ (computer routines) THENS
Insurance matter CLAIM
Intense anger IRE
Internal audit? XRAY
International coalition of finance ministers GSEVEN
Clues Answers
It may raise the roof CRANE
It's three days before Easter MAUNDYGOLDENRETRIEVER
Italian city known for sparkling wines ASTI
Lawless UNRULY
Layer that filters out UV rays OZONE
Leases out RENTS
Leave the band GOSOLO
Less alert SLEEPIER
Like some volleyball teams COED
Line part: Abbr SEG
Lose ground? ERODE
Mach 1 beater SST
Massachusetts cape ANN
Miles of music DAVIS
Minuscule ITTY
Morticia's daughter PINSCHERADDAMS
Most common word in English THE
Muckraker Tarbell IDA
Northernmost country in Africa TUNISIA
One at the end of the line? HEIR
One putting on a cap LIMITER
Org. whose cruelty-free rabbit logo appears on beauty products PETA
Painter who saw spots SEURAT
Pitch pipe part REED
Publishing house worker READER
Rankles FESTERS
Rap sheet list ALIASES
Real INESSE
Real estate ad listing AREA
Rests atop LIESON
Retired, in a way ABED
Ripped off HOT
Ripped off SOAKED
Salt, in chem lab NACL
San Jose Sharks color TEAL
Sch. in Troy, N.Y RPI
Sch. whose motto is 'Ex Scientia Tridens' USNA
Seaplane attachment HYDROSKI
Seventh of 24 letters ETA
SFO-to-LAX heading SSE
Silver-tongued GLIB
Sixth of an inch PICA
Skip Day participants: Abbr SRS
Smiled for the camera BEAMED
So-and-so JERK
Some old Dodges OMNIS
Sound heard at the start? EEK
Souvenir shop buy TEE
Still, to Shakespeare EEN
Store at 611 Fifth Avenue SAKS
Surrealism's Tanguy YVES
Time it seemingly takes to get a tax refund EON
Tiny nuisance GNAT
Tire-changing opportunities PITSTOPS
Tree of life setting EDEN
Trojan War hero AJAX
Tybalt kills him MERCUTIO
Uncooked fish dish SASHIMI
Unicellular creature AMOEBA
Untrained RAW
Valuable deposit ORE
Warehouse pallet SKID
When rights may be outlawed ONRED
Where the Blue Nile begins ETHIOPIA
Woman, in pulp fiction DAME
Word said while wringing one's hands ALAS
Words of denial IDONOT
XIII times XXXI CDIII
Yellow journalist's paper RAG
Zip DART
___ polloi HOI