Wall Street Journal - Apr 24 2023 - Slippery Language

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Clues Answers
“Beauty and the Beast” beauty BELLE
“For Pete’s ___!” SAKE
“Over There” composer George M COHAN
“___ 17” (1953 Billy Wilder movie) STALAG
“___ Boots Are Made for Walkin’” THESE
“___ while they’re hot!” GETEM
Afflicts suffering upon TORMENTS
Aromatic dried chili pepper ANCHO
Big name in food court pizza SBARRO
Candy that’s pulled while being made TAFFY
Cards that may be high or low ACES
Cat with no tail MANX
Chief source of income, metaphorically BREADANDBUTTER
Chunk in Arctic waters FLOE
Columbus’s birthplace GENOA
Common response to “Who’s there?” ITSME
Conclude END
Depletes, as strength SAPS
Depressingly bleak, in poetry DREAR
Designer Cassini OLEG
Director Kazan ELIA
Don PUTON
Doubloon metal GOLD
Edit EMEND
Effort, metaphorically ELBOWGREASE
Eight-sided OCTAGONAL
Encircle, as with smoke WREATHE
Endorses online ESIGNS
Entire thing, metaphorically WHOLEBALLOFWAX
Fern, flower or factory PLANT
Five-dollar bill, slangily ABE
Gravelly-voiced singer in the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame TOMWAITS
Greek yogurt brand CHOBANI
Handle SEETO
Hyundai model with a musical name SONATA
In conflict ATWAR
Clues Answers
Informal affirmatives YEPS
Iron or wood CLUB
Island in a well-known palindrome ELBA
Letter-shaped building beam IBAR
Letter-shaped fastener TNUT
Liquefy MELT
Loser to the tortoise HARE
Made blunders ERRED
Merit RATE
Military might FIREPOWER
Naval construction group SEABEES
Not at all interesting BLAH
Paid for a poker hand ANTED
Place for Cleopatra’s barge NILE
Places in the luggage bin, say STOWS
Plummet DROP
Pony-playing business, for short OTB
Really go for EATUP
Relaxed ATEASE
River of Russia URAL
Shoe brand named for a Greek goddess NIKE
Shout at a soccer game GOAL
Singer Del Rey LANA
Sit on a frozen lake, maybe ICEFISH
Smell ODOR
Snappy reply RETORT
Snow day conveyance SLED
Students often burn it, metaphorically MIDNIGHTOIL
Tabby or terrier, say PET
Third planet from the sun EARTH
Tulip starter BULB
Uncommon RARE
Walked on TROD
Was ahead LED
Zealous following CULT
___ Stadium (former home of the Mets) SHEA