Wall Street Journal - Dec 7 2019 - Body Blows

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Clues Answers
“Come again?” WHAT
“Imagine that!” HUH
“Insecure” creator/star ISSARAE
Admonition to a badly behaving child NOTNICE
Alaskan vacation destination DENALI
Alternative to home cooking TAKEOUT
Amendment first proposed in 1923 THEERA
Anti-arms slogan NONUKES
As found INSITU
Babysitter’s bane IMP
Bar fight? TRIAL
Baseball scoreboard letters RHE
Bee’s young relative OPIE
Big bird of fable ROC
Big club ACE
Big D player MAV
Big name in combines DEERE
Bisected INTWO
Blew up SWELLED
Bookie’s charge VIG
Brain wave chart, for short EEG
Brief affair FLING
Button to move a message to the inbox NOTSPAM
Call out to HAIL
Candle count AGE
Challenging H.S. sci. class APBIO
Colorful dogwood REDOSIER
Copying ALA
Corner key ESC
Cries of comprehension AHAS
Criminal code OMERTA
Crosses SPANS
Cyndi Lauper hit SHEBOP
Desk phone part HANDSET
Do one’s part PITCHIN
Double space? DIAMOND
Drainage ditch SUMP
Dutch financial giant ING
Experiment TEST
Extremely troubling GUTWRENCHING
Facilitation EASING
Field makeup SOD
Fish sticks fish COD
Flight finish ARRIVAL
Follower of Fannie, Sallie or Ginnie MAE
Fresh talk SASS
From that place THENCE
George’s sitar mentor RAVI
Get in the game ANTEUP
Girl, condescendingly MISSY
Golf instructor PRO
Gonna soon ABOUTTO
Grammatical case in Latin and German DATIVE
Grammy category since 1989 RAP
Guinness Book suffix EST
Hard to explain HEADSCRATCHING
Have dog breath? PANT
Helper of Heracles ATHENA
High regard ESTEEM
Iberian river EBRO
Immediately ATONCE
Important evidence DNA
Inside track EDGE
Intimidation BROWBEATING
Jan. honoree MLK
Johnny Depp’s Pistol and Boo, e.g YORKIES
King called “Hammer of the Scots” EDWARDI
Knighted Irish rocker BONO
Lacking common sense DIPPY
Clues Answers
Let off steam VENT
Like some patches IRONON
Loos WCS
Make scarves, say KNIT
Must NEEDSTO
Nasty office gossip BACKBITING
NBC foreign correspondent Richard ENGEL
Not as kind CRUELER
NYC’s original subway operator IRT
Online deal site GROUPON
Opposite of FF REW
Oscar winner for “Green Book” ALI
Over the moon ELATED
Overly picky HAIRSPLITTING
Pal BUD
Pancreas production INSULIN
Pass ELAPSE
Petri dish gel AGAR
Plow creation FURROW
Pres. Mandela’s nation RSA
Prom or party ending GOER
Promise VOW
Puritanical person PRIG
QB successes TDS
Reaction to terrible business news IMRUINED
Refuter’s words ITISNT
Reluctance to act FOOTDRAGGING
Revolting STOMACHTURNING
Ring doings BOUTS
Rogue on the road, e.g CAR
Scrap SETTO
Scuba attachment AIRHOSE
Seeing as BECAUSE
Semicircular letter CEE
Shot stoppers GOALIES
Show of confidence SWAGGER
Sir Paul, familiarly MACCA
Small shot BBS
Smash into RAM
So sad HEARTBREAKING
Some NFL linemen RGS
Some restaurant work PREP
Sound of a sock OOF
Sounds from Egypt and Ethiopia LONGES
South of France SUD
Sphere starter HEMI
Square EVEN
Start of MGM’s motto ARS
Start, electronically POWERON
Strikingly impressive EYEPOPPING
Swamp growths SEDGES
T size letters SML
Tarot suit SWORDS
They’re run by three-year-olds DERBIES
Third degrees PHDS
Told the cops everything SANG
Touched down ALIT
Uncle Vanya’s niece SONYA
Unflappable to a fault TOOCOOL
Very tasty LIPSMACKING
Villain, at times SNEERER
Well-built STURDY
Where gurus gather ASHRAM
Winding road shape ESS
With consequences ATACOST
Words after pour or pass ITON
Work parties CREWS
Works in a museum ART
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