Wall Street Journal - Aug 22 2008 - August 22, 2008 - Alternative Rock

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'A Writer's Life' writer TALESE
'But of course!' AHA
'Cheerio!' SEEYA
'I'll take that bet!' YOUREON
'Krazy' comics character KAT
'Natural Affection' playwright INGE
'On the Street Where You Live' singer DAMONE
'People' person BARBRA
'The Age of Bronze' sculptor RODIN
'The Gods Love Nubia' musical AIDA
'Thy hour and thy harpoon are at hand!' crier AHAB
1992 presidential contender TSONGAS
Add to a shell collection, say BEACHCOMB
After the hour PAST
Airline launched in 1948 ELAL
Archipelago units ISLES
Art deco great ERTE
Bakery advertisements AROMAS
Bambino watcher MAMMA
Bar room? COURT
Be over by ENDAT
Bearer of a cost TAG
Become waiters QUEUEUP
Beginning of cajolery? THEBLARNEYONSET
Benchwarmers SECONDTEAM
Beta tester, e.g. USER
Bill in a till ONE
Build up ACCRUE
Butting heads ATODDS
Cab Calloway forte SCAT
Cabinet dept. since 1965 HUD
Caesar's conquest GAUL
Cardinals may flock here STPETERS
Catholic governing body CURIA
Celestial bear URSA
Clearheaded SANE
Cockpit predictions ETAS
Contractor's concern CODE
Cosmetics applicator QTIP
Dance instruction? STEPPINGNOTES
Dancer's manager? SANTA
Didn't just pass ACED
Difficult to endure HARSH
Dikes protect it LOWLAND
Dipstick wipers RAGS
Dolphin's cousin ORCA
Duds GARB
Easy dupe LAMB
Environs AREA
ERA and the like AVGS
Falco of 'The Sopranos' EDIE
Fidel's friend CHE
First word of MGM's motto ARS
Flunky AIDE
Following NEXT
Freeway byproduct SMOG
Game leader EMCEE
Gets down pat NAILS
He hits low pitches BASS
Hint of hue TINGE
Hit list CHART
Hold forth ORATE
Hoops players CAGERS
How to shoot dice in the office pool? LIKEAROLLINGSTENO
Hurler Hershiser OREL
Hurler Ryan NOLAN
In jeopardy ATRISK
Jazz flutist Herbie MANN
Jet stream's heading EAST
Clues Answers
Kind of sweater ANGORA
Kitchen gadget CANOPENER
Lane of Broadway NATHAN
Least of litters RUNTS
Leave the country? SECEDE
Lethal agent TOXIN
Like many candles SCENTED
Like some keys MINOR
Listing ATANANGLE
Locks in the lion cage MANE
Lose the dry eyes TEARUP
Mathematical comparison RATIO
Miserly MEAN
Neeson of 'Kinsey' LIAM
Nobelist Wiesel ELIE
Norse mythology's Yggdrasil, e.g. ASHTREE
Novel makeup PROSE
Official proclamation EDICT
Oscar-nominated role for Sigourney DIAN
Overplay HAMUP
Paper purchase REAM
Pearl Buck heroine OLAN
Petty clashes SPATS
Poignant wind OBOE
Ponder MULL
Power CLOUT
Pretty valuable jackets? SEMIPRECIOUSETONS
Pull apart REND
Pulling a quarter out of the ear, e.g. MAGICTRICK
Razor targets HAIRS
Reporter's worries DEADLINES
Ricky's portrayer DESI
RR stop STA
Rub out SLAY
Salon offerings TANS
Sandra's 'Speed' co-star KEANU
Sawbuck TRESTLE
Sawbuck TENSPOT
Scope out, before a heist CASE
Seaweed product AGAR
Sharif and Epps OMARS
Shoulder BERM
Slim swimmers EELS
Small hill KNOLL
Sounds of singers warming up? SHARPENINGTONES
Space-going chimp of 1961 ENOS
Sticks together COHERES
Stretched figures OBLONGS
Surfer's need BOARD
Swamp MIRE
Swift device IRONY
Temperamental sort DIVA
They move to Citi Field in 2009 METS
Thinks out loud OPINES
Threesome TRIUNE
Tiny criticism NIT
Tomfoolery ANTICS
Top stories ATTICS
Trunk growth MOSS
Unaccompanied STAG
What Janis Joplin's friends drive, in song PORSCHES
Wine cask TUN
Word shouted at church AMEN
Word shouted at church BINGO
Writes badly SCRAWLS
XXX CHIS
Yellow-skinned fruit PAPAYAS
Zapata's zip NADA
___ snag (experience difficulty) HITA