Wall Street Journal - May 4 2023 - Letter Rip!

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Clues Answers
“Didn’t I warn you?” SEE
“Heavens!” YIPES
“My word!” GEE
*Gin cocktail SCALPING
*Humiliating defeat CRAPOUT
*It forks into two branches upstream of Arles CARPHONE
*Lease signer CARPENTER
*Nonet of myth CAMPUSES
*Unescorted ALCAPONE
Add up to TOTAL
Anchor’s offering NEWS
Army of the Potomac commander during the Civil War MEADE
Avoid a pothole, maybe SWERVE
Battlefield cry MEDIC
Bernardo’s girl, in “West Side Story” ANITA
Bess’s predecessor ELEANOR
Bird that makes resonant booming sounds EMU
Blood pressure raiser, maybe IRE
Checkout count ITEMS
Conqueror of Valencia ELCID
Country great Haggard MERLE
Court call LET
Covent Garden offering OPERA
Destination for a pilgrim SHRINE
Eyes unpleasantly OGLES
Feathered flier ARROW
Flies off the handle SNAPS
Food processors, at times MINCERS
Fragrant shrub RUE
Galling IRKSOME
Grave SEVERE
Handel cantata “___ e Leandro” ERO
Having less experience GREENER
High-maintenance sort DIVA
Home for hibernation DEN
Ice Bucket Challenge cause: Abbr ALS
Industry with projected results CINEMA
Clues Answers
Inhabitants of ancient Scotland PICTS
Kicks in STARTS
Large letter at the beginning of a paragraph, and what you must do to make sense of each starred answer DROPCAP
Latv. or Lith., once SSR
Like Lexington Avenue ONEWAY
Maryland governor Moore WES
MLB team leader MGR
Off the plate, perhaps OUTSIDE
Ooze through the cracks SEEP
Pass ENACT
Pastel hue LILAC
Possessive on orange packages REESES
Pressing person URGER
Prussian blue, for thallium poisoning ANTIDOTE
Readies for a round SPARS
Red-ink amounts LOSSES
Resort on the Roaring Fork River ASPEN
Scrolling strip on a sportscast CRAWL
Servant of Sauron ORC
Server of a six-yr. term SEN
She “took of the fruit thereof, and did eat” EVE
Show of disdain SNEER
Spelunking aficionado CAVER
Stage array SET
Staircase post NEWEL
Step, to une ballerine PAS
Stubbornly follow DOG
Think alike AGREE
Trident, e.g MISSILE
Twinings wares TEA
Twisty shapes ESSES
Twisty swimmer EEL
Ventura runner MAC
Very bright NEON
Warm piece of over-the-shirt attire WOOLVEST
Work with figures? SKATE
Yorkshire area DALES