Wall Street Journal - Oct 10 2020 - Short Stories

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Clues Answers
“C’mon, buddy!” BEAPAL
“Clash by Night” playwright ODETS
“Glad you made it” OHHI
“Imagine” is in it KEYOFC
“Right away, boss!” IMONIT
“That was my best effort” ITRIED
“The Big Easy” NOLA
“The Wedding Feast at Cana” painter VERONESE
“What treachery is this!” EGADS
*Essay collection from a family reunion? ALLTHEKINSMEN
*How-to book for metalworkers? THEGOODSOLDER
*Memoir recalling complaints from kids at camp? THEOYSOFSUMMER
*Novel about a servant in imperial China? THEHANMAIDSTALE
*Parenting guide laying out dangers of corporal punishment? ONTHEROD
*Revealing bio of Apple’s CEO? AWRINKLEINTIM
*Sports anthology about athletes who have one career victory? GONEWITHTHEWIN
*Volume IV in a series on astrology? TOPICOFCANCER
1040 ID SSN
Activist Yoko ONO
Air mover FAN
And other things, long ago ETALIA
Autograph signer IDOL
B’way letters SRO
Bandleader Lawrence WELK
Barrel pieces STAVES
Big name in disinfectants LYSOL
Blanket material SNOW
Bolivian bud AMIGO
Book extras ADDENDA
Brooks with an EGOT MEL
Brownies, e.g SPRITES
Bye at the French Open? ADIEU
Charm AMULET
Cheerios grain OAT
Chestnut cousin TAN
City on the Loire ORLEANS
Class ILK
Clumsy lout OAF
Co., in Calais CIE
Comedian Shaffir ARI
Commotions STIRS
Company whose ads include stock footage? ETRADE
Composer Khachaturian ARAM
Crossed off the list XEDOUT
Cruel bunch SADISTS
Current NEW
Cut off END
Digital periodical EMAG
Do a little of this, a little of that DABBLE
Do some high-tech surgery LASE
Dragging tool MOUSE
Egg coddler? HEN
Emulate a raptor SWOOPIN
Face-to-face INPERSON
Fashionable in a nostalgic way RETRO
Fierce felines LIONS
Filmmaker Nora EPHRON
First name ADAM
Force under Stalin REDARMY
Ford of 1903, and again in 1927 MODELA
French bean TETE
Gap offering DENIMS
Garb DRESS
Gaye of “Ali” NONA
GE acquisition of 1986 RCA
Gendered pronoun HIM
Give a leg up AID
Give a makeover REDO
Glasgow gal LASS
God, in Hebrew texts ELOHIM
Govt. workplace watcher OSHA
Clues Answers
Grounds for a medal VALOR
Gull cousin TERN
Help for catching some waves RADIO
Herald AUGUR
Influential Zulu ruler SHAKA
Informal business BEESWAX
It’s just for show DEMO
Italy’s third-largest island ELBA
Jamal of jazz AHMAD
Kicks, so to speak FUN
Kind of license or justice POETIC
Language of Afghanistan PASHTO
Legendary rebuke ETTU
Low-water mark NADIR
Made digital music? SNAPPED
Make the cut SAW
Maker of Metropolitans and Ramblers NASH
Mantra syllables OMS
Monkey used by researchers RHESUS
More than some ALOT
Morpheus follower NEO
Nielsen count VIEWERS
Not italic ROMAN
October Revolution target TSAR
Oil source SHALE
On target APT
Outdoor trumpeter SWAN
Partner of live LEARN
Peak demarcation TREELINE
Period ERA
Periods of the p.m AFTS
Pirates STEALS
Play around? TOUR
Pub offering IPA
Put away the leftovers? ATE
R&D spot LAB
Rachel Carson concern DDT
Raiders’ grp DEA
Rain units DROPS
Ready PREPARED
Ready SET
Rebellious Turner NAT
Rime HOAR
Screwdriver part ICE
Serious pain AGONY
She’s seated between Samuel and Brett ELENA
Shortened, and the letters missing from the starred answers ABRIDGED
Sleeping INREPOSE
Some flights SOLOS
Steinbeck’s Joads, e.g OKIES
Stephen of “The Crying Game” REA
Strauss subject BLUEDANUBE
Stupendously large HUGE
Surrounding glow HALO
Tartan topper TAM
Texting format SMS
Thought out REASONED
Tiptoes, say SNEAKS
Tonic’s partner GIN
Twiddling one’s thumbs IDLE
United States Marine Band director from 1880 to 1892 SOUSA
Veep between George H.W. and Al DAN
Victoria’s Secret buy BRA
Victory symbols PALMFRONDS
Wee ITSY
Went easy on SPARED
Western tribe UTES
Winged bowman EROS
Years, in Asti ANNI
___ Carlo MONTE
___ Jiabao (China’s premier until 2013) WEN