Wall Street Journal - Aug 3 2019 - Escape Clause

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Clues Answers
'...and to ___ good night' ALLA
'A diller, a dollar, a ___'clock scholar' TENO
'Casablanca' heroine ILSA
'Certainement!' OUI
'Forget it!' NOPE
'Forget it!' NODEAL
'Happy Motoring' company ESSO
'That Lucky Old Sun' singer Frankie LAINE
'The Bells' writer POE
:-( IMSAD
Aerobatics feat LOOP
Air Force NCO SSGT
AirPods output STEREO
Athletic supporter? TEE
Atkins taboo CARB
Atlas enlargement INSET
Back's opposite FORTH
Baja bread PESO
Balkan native SERB
Blacken CHAR
Bond player MOORE
Boozehound SOT
Brad's kin NAIL
Bread remnant CRUMB
Broadway opening ACTI
Bush-league MINOR
Capital 700 miles north of Ho Chi Minh City HANOI
Carefree episode IDYL
Carson's successor LENO
Cassiterite yield TIN
Catalog ASSORT
Catch a glimpse of ESPY
Citrus drink suffix ADE
Clamorous NOISY
Clockwork part COG
Colbert's predecessor LETTERMAN
Cold shower? SLEET
Common ID SSN
Commotion STIR
Composer Schubert FRANZ
Compressed video format MPEG
Control, symbolically REINS
Corporeal woe ACHE
Corrida critter TORO
Criticize severely TRASH
Do the Thanksgiving honors CARVE
Dodge SUV NITRO
Drag BORE
Eastern title AGA
Edmonton player OILER
Est. and Lat., once SSRS
Evening affair SOIREE
Exhilaratingly energetic SLAMBANG
Eye affliction STYE
Failures LAPSES
Fidgety ANTSY
Fiesta fare TACOS
Figure skater Dmitriev ARTUR
First commercially successful video game PONG
Fitting APT
Flip response? TAILS
Follower ADHERENT
Fraction of a newton DYNE
Gaffe SLIP
Garden spot ARBOR
Get ATTAIN
Goddess of fertility ISIS
Half asleep DOZY
Halifax clock setting: Abbr AST
Handling a low stock situation REORDERING
Clues Answers
Hard-to-hit pitches? HIGHCS
Health agcy. in Atlanta CDC
Hematite yield IRON
Hibachi part GRATE
Hodgepodge OLIO
Holding one's piece? ARMED
Honey hue AMBER
In the past AGO
In utero UNBORN
Isle of Man man, for example GAEL
It flows into the Tyrrhenian Sea ARNO
Its cap. was Richmond CSA
June 6, 1944 DDAY
King of France ROI
Like a sprint winner FASTEST
Like some basins TIDAL
Like some pond life ALGAL
Lord's Prayer start OUR
Louisville Slugger wood ASH
LXIV times L MMMCC
Melted cheese dish RAREBIT
Moderate pace TROT
More chic TONIER
Movie theater reprimand SHH
Oakland team RAIDERS
Open fighting HOTWAR
Particular places LOCI
Perch part FIN
Periscope part MIRROR
Pic to click ICON
Programmer's creation LINEUP
Pub purchase ALE
Pub purchases BREWS
Qualm PANG
Removed abruptly YANKED
Rock and Roll Hall of Fame architect PEI
See 103-Down EDER
Set of signs ZODIAC
Site of Nelson's most famous victory TRAFALGAR
Skateboarder's leap OLLIE
Skater Midori ITO
Some deer ROES
Some stadium features DOMES
Sound asleep? SNORE
Stalk HUNT
Steep-sided gully ARROYO
Studio effect REVERB
Tango need TWO
The AWOL soldier's favorite hobby was ___ BASEJUMPING
The blackjack dealer's favorite hobby was ___ CARDCOLLECTING
The Boston Celtics fan's favorite hobby was ___ BIRDWATCHING
The boxing promoter's favorite hobby was ___ SCRAPBOOKING
The civil engineering department lawyer's favorite hobby was ___ CONTRACTBRIDGE
The paparazzo's favorite hobby was ___ STARGAZING
The telenovela director's favorite hobby was ___ SOAPMAKING
They provide limited coverage MINISKIRTS
Traumatized SCARRED
Treebeard, Beechbone, Leaflock and kin ENTS
Trudge along PLOD
Truth be told INFACT
Underlying motives AGENDA
Understands GRASPS
Victor at Thermopylae PERSIA
Virginia Woolf's '___ of One's Own' AROOM
W. Coast gridder LARAM
Where the Derby and Oaks horse races are held EPSOM
Wine from northern Spain RIOJA
Wine list section REDS
With 99-Across, Lucy's portrayer in Broadway's 'Jekyll & Hyde' LINDA
___ Capital (Mitt Romney's investment company) BAIN