Wall Street Journal - Apr 18 2008 - April 18, 2008 - Company Acquisitions

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Clues Answers
'Buffalo ___' GALS
'Good Luck Charm' singer PRESLEY
'Heavens!' OHGOSH
'I Hated, Hated, Hated This Movie' writer EBERT
'Misery' director REINER
'Saturday Night Live' skit SPOOF
'Take a Chance on Me' band ABBA
'Zip it!' SHUTUP
'___ Loser' (Beatles song) IMA
3 Musketeers filling NOUGAT
All-inclusive word EVERY
Anna of 'Scary Movie' FARIS
Answering machine button ERASE
Aphrodite's boy EROS
Atlantic catch COD
Balkan capital SOFIA
Banco de México currency PESO
Barnes & Noble fig. ISBN
Barracks bosses SARGES
Barrel slat STAVE
Basilica end APSE
Bluish-gray SLATY
Bold folks DARERS
Bond holdings? ATOMS
Brushed aside REBUFFED
Campaign worker AIDE
Ceiling fixture FAN
Chorus of dissent NAYS
Chorus of dissent NOS
Club's cousin BLT
Comfortable ATHOME
Company that caters to bombastic city planners? BLOCKBLUSTER
Company that cultivates art appreciation? STATUEFARM
Company that pays Indian musicians? SITARBUCKS
Company that promotes the nonvegetarian lifestyle? MEATLIFE
Company that runs zoo auctions? BEASTBUY
Company that sells outboard engines to Vikings? FJORDMOTORS
Company that sets costs for masons? TROWELPRICE
Company that tackles global poverty? INTERNATIONALPAUPER
Company that targets iron-fisted bosses? OFFICEDESPOT
Concert star SOLOIST
Costner's 'Tin Cup' co-star RUSSO
Cover INSURE
Creature on the Australian coat of arms EMU
Crowning point ACME
Deliberately hurts SPITES
Desires YENS
Development unit ACRE
Did an imitation of APED
Division politique ETAT
DNA source, often SALIVA
Does in OFFS
Downright dirty LEWD
Driver's warning FORE
Drops OMITS
East, in Essen OST
Ephemeral sculpting medium ICE
Farmer Hoggett's prize pig BABE
Feet, informally DOGS
Finished OVER
Fire remnants EMBERS
First name in advice ABBY
Fixes, in a way RIGS
Flea market deals RESALES
Former first family of Egypt SADATS
Gives a bad name to TAINTS
Gizmos DOODADS
Golfer's nervousness YIPS
Hardens SETS
Heaps ALOT
Hold hands? TARS
Clues Answers
In ___ (where found) SITU
It's held by London banks THAMES
It's just over a foot SHIN
iTunes Store categories GENRES
Janitor's jinglers KEYS
Laces into ASSAILS
Lairs for bears DENS
Laotian currency unit KIP
Leander's love HERO
Leaves speechless FLOORS
Like Berg's 'Wozzeck' ATONAL
Lot measurement AREA
Magic charm MOJO
Makeup artist? LIAR
Male delivery SON
Manx, for one CAT
Marshals ROUNDSUP
Merchant in a nursery rhyme PIEMAN
Meteorite component IRON
Monopoly, e.g. GAME
Narrow valley GLEN
Nashville venue OPRY
Neither masc. nor fem. NEUT
Nobel, for one SWEDE
Nosy people SNOOPS
Odysseus' faithful dog ARGOS
One of the U.N.'s official languages ARABIC
One unhappy with a call BOOER
Open mike night participants AMATEURS
Organ knob STOP
Pay stub amount NET
Pitcher's pride ARM
Place with a wet floor SEA
Playhouse part STAGE
Port vessel DECANTER
Quail with a distinctive call BOBWHITE
Quarrel TIFF
Reliever's stat SAVES
Research rooms LABS
Retirement spots BEDS
Reunion group ALUMS
Ristorante drink VINO
Rx amount DOSE
School of the future ROE
Shortstop Vizquel OMAR
Shows BARES
Silhouette SHAPE
Simple animal AMOEBA
Singer Josh GROBAN
Stood out SHONE
Surrey sip TEA
Take in CON
Target of some notes SELF
Targets of currycombs MANES
Temperamental types DIVAS
The Big Ten's Fighting ___ ILLINI
Their business is picking up BUSES
They help you get a grip PLIERS
Tie up the phone YAK
Tight group PALS
Tiny protest PEEP
Toledo toast SALUD
Transmission devices RADIOS
Travel guide listing INN
Troubadour's instrument LUTE
United's are friendly SKIES
Upfront legal fee RETAINER
Without slack TAUTLY
Woolly, maybe OVINE
Words before pickle or jam INA
___ Sci POLI