Wall Street Journal - Aug 12 2017 - Would-Be Writers

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'Ars gratia ___' (MGM motto) ARTIS
'Elegies' poet John DONNE
'Finally!' ATLAST
'It's a deal!' AGREED
'Mayor' author KOCH
'Shut your trap!' CANIT
'The Time Machine' race ELOI
'The ___ Baltimore' (Lanford Wilson play) HOTL
'There's rosemary, that's for remembrance' speaker OPHELIA
A black one may signify mourning ARMLET
Abby's sister ANN
Advance furtively SIDLE
Al Kaline, e.g TIGER
Aleutian apparel PARKAS
Algerian seaport ORAN
Angelic adornment HALO
Aspiring MD's hurdle MCAT
Astronomer's dist LTYR
Bachelors' sexist counterparts SPINSTERS
Be left INHERIT
Belle of the Wild West STARR
Bender TOOT
Big bang maker TNT
Bighorn's perch CRAG
Boyer of baseball CLETE
Bridge positions? NOSES
Brought order to TIDIED
Bum CADGE
Canadian singer Michael BUBLE
Company men GIS
Company with a reptilian mascot GEICO
Conducted LED
Criticized mercilessly SKEWERED
Deadens NUMBS
Dorothy, to Em NIECE
Dr. Scholl's product INSOLE
Electric shaver brand NORELCO
Evening dress NIGHTGOWN
Fangorn Forest dweller ENT
Filthy digs STY
First course option SOUP
Flair KNACK
Flawlessly TOAT
Foremost PREMIER
Fourth wall breaker ASIDE
Frequent HAUNT
From Turkey's capital ANKARAN
Fruity desserts TARTS
George Burns trademark CIGAR
Gloomy Gus SOURPUSS
God celebrated on Janmashtami KRISHNA
Gold buy OUNCE
Groundskeeper's tool EDGER
Grueling tasks SLOGS
Hammermill buy REAM
Heart of France COEUR
Highland hill BRAE
Hollow VALE
Home of a lion killed by Hercules NEMEA
Home-shopping opportunity TAGSALE
Honorary Oscar recipient in 1955 GARBO
Humorist Bombeck ERMA
Incenses RILESUP
Ink smudges BLOTS
John's 'Pulp Fiction' dance partner UMA
Join forces UNITE
Kachina doll carvers HOPI
Lamarr of 'Boom Town' HEDY
Little shaver TOT
Lunchbox item THERMOS
Mace, e.g SPICE
Clues Answers
Magazine contents AMMO
Major mix-up SNAFU
Mare's munchies OATS
Mastermind PLAN
Melanie's 'Working Girl' role TESS
Muckraker Tarbell IDA
Muscat native OMANI
Must HASTO
NAFTA signatory USA
Narrative lesson MORAL
Nation at 0 degrees latitude ECUADOR
Necessitate ENTAIL
Nonstick cookware brand TFAL
Not fooled by ONTO
Notions IDEAS
One avoiding charges TORERO
Opera division ACT
Organ parts STOPS
Orioles relief pitcher Darren ODAY
Outer: Prefix ECTO
Paltry MERE
Peppy ANIMATED
Places where people wear masks: Abbr ORS
Poker player's declaration IMOUT
Poker player's declaration ALLIN
Pricey STEEP
Princess from Alderaan LEIA
Proceed besottedly REEL
Pulpit topic SIN
Purina brand ALPO
Ready for business OPEN
Recipe amt TBSP
Refinery stuff ORE
Resembling ALA
Right place at the rite time ALTAR
Run of luck STREAK
See 76-Across DALY
Seraglio section ODA
Shifts shape MORPHS
Slender fish GARS
Solution strength: Abbr CONC
Soothing stuff ALOE
Spotted SEEN
Static problem CLING
Straight, in combinations ORTH
Stress symptoms TICS
Subject of some limits TERM
Supply, as elevator music PIPEIN
Taken advantage of PUTUPON
Tee size lineup, initially SML
The broker always seemed to create ___ STOCKCHARACTERS
The chef wanted to publish his ___ STIRRINGPROSE
The chiropractor's strong suit was a good ___ BACKSTORY
The judge favored ___ LONGSENTENCES
The NBA pro penned ___ TALLTALES
The real estate mogul's forte was ___ PLOTDEVELOPMENT
The U-Haul rental agent gave a ___ MOVINGACCOUNT
Toronto paper STAR
Tournament favorites SEEDS
Two-deck card game CANASTA
Un-PC toy nowadays CAPGUN
Until, in Acapulco HASTA
Uppity types SNOBS
Urban fleet BUSES
Uruguay's Punta del ___ ESTE
Wee bites NIPS
Widespread destruction HAVOC
With 66-Across, Tea Leoni's 'Madam Secretary' husband TIM
Yodeler's perch ALP
Zero GOOSEEGG
___ Sketch (classic drawing toy) ETCHA