Wall Street Journal - May 8 2015 - May 8, 2015 - Mother Lode

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Clues Answers
'Ain't happening!' NOHOW
'Poems are made by fools like me' poem TREES
'Rocky III' co-star MRT
'The Charterhouse of Parma' novelist STENDHAL
'___ Around' (Beach Boys hit) IGET
'___ Like It' ASYOU
Agatha Christie title DAME
Airport fleet LIMOS
Annual event with brackets MARCHMADNESS
Attacks with relish DIGSIN
Backless sofa DIVAN
Beach bashes LUAUS
Benefit SAKE
Blood conveyor AORTA
Boarding site GATE
Bounds LEAPS
Bourbon with a red wax seal MAKERSMARK
Breaking and entering, e.g GERUNDS
Breaks, say TAMES
British submachine gun STEN
Broadway ticket abbr ORCH
Capital of Lombardy MILAN
Chickens WIMPS
Clean Air Act concern SMOG
Clearwater Mountains setting IDAHO
Clinic offering EXAM
Coastal region of southwest India MALABAR
Confession component SIN
Contracting muscle DILATOR
Counsel ADVISE
Cracked AJAR
Crops up ARISES
Cuts ruthlessly AXES
Dangles LOLLS
Date maker PALM
Deep sleeps COMAS
Destructive crime ARSON
Dollar rival ALAMO
Elite group ATEAM
Exemplary IDEAL
Exigency NEED
Fit for the upper crust POSH
Form SHAPE
George of 'Where's Poppa?' SEGAL
Gray goose genus ANSER
Grease target AXLE
Handles pressure badly WILTS
Hardly prosperous LEAN
Hawaii's state bird NENE
He was raised in Bethany LAZARUS
Hence ERGO
Hero of the Trojan War AJAX
High point of a European vacation ALP
High-end car engine HEMI
High-ranking member of a secretive organization MASTERMASON
Highly regarded ESTEEMED
Honoree of the puzzle (and the starts of the theme answer words) MAMA
Hot, in a way SEXY
Iconic riveter ROSIE
In the future AHEAD
It began as a comic book in 1952 MADMAGAZINE
It has its ups and downs YOYO
It's all the rage MANIA
Its belt consists of Alnitak, Alnilam and Mintaka ORION
Jargon suffix ESE
Juan's wife EVA
Karaoke requirements MIKES
Kenmore seller SEARS
King for whom the Labyrinth was built MINOS
Language in which 'Thank you' is 'Gura mie ayd' MANX
Lasagna ingredient RICOTTA
Clues Answers
Legal claim LIEN
Leslie Nielsen movie 'Rent-___' AKID
Like some currents OCEANIC
Mall come-on SALE
Marble block SLAB
Moon of Saturn PHOEBE
Mother of Kourtney, Kim, Khloe and Rob KRIS
Mother of Perseus DANAE
Name on the range? AMANA
Niger neighbor MALI
O'Neill specialty DRAMA
On land ASHORE
Ophelia's brother LAERTES
Opposite of niche MASSMARKET
Overture follower ACTI
Painter Degas EDGAR
Part of a process STAGE
Passage between buildings AREAWAY
Philippines coin PESO
Pigpens STIES
Poet Van Duyn and others MONAS
Poetry contests SLAMS
Prime rib order RARE
Purity measure KARAT
Put away EAT
Put one's trust in RELIEDON
Radius neighbor ULNA
Ream unit SHEET
Reggae relative SKA
Richard the Lionheart defeated him SALADIN
Ring out PEAL
Rod Stewart's first #1 hit MAGGIEMAY
Salon color HENNA
Satisfactory OKAY
Sch. in eastern Virginia NSU
Schools of thought ISMS
Shaving mishap NICK
Shortly ANON
Sing like Bing CROON
Site of many connections OHARE
Skilled craftsperson ARTISAN
Some business partners SONS
Some dictionary additions SLANG
Some pink, lavender and white flowers MALLOWS
Spelling-out words ASIN
Split seconds INSTANTS
Start a match SERVE
Start of a challenge IDARE
Starts back at page one REREADS
Storage for fodder or missiles SILOS
Strung along LEDON
Stud fees? ANTES
Submissive bunch SHEEP
Suffered from HAD
Susan's 'Thelma & Louise' co-star GEENA
Tennoji Zoo location OSAKA
Thai transportation PEDICAB
The Lone Ranger, famously MASKEDMAN
Their wives are countesses EARLS
Throws off EMITS
Took back REWON
Tools for some taggers MAGICMARKERS
Trevor of 'The Daily Show' NOAH
Turkish coins LIRAS
Turning point HINGE
Two-time Wimbledon champ Kvitova PETRA
Waiters' burdens TRAYS
Went to great heights SOARED
[Not the way I'd spell it] SIC
___ ex machina DEUS
___ Trench (Pacific feature) MARIANA