Wall Street Journal - Dec 28 2001 - WSJ December 28, 2001 - Bad Business

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'And here it is!' TADA
'Cursed spite!' updated a bit DASHIT
'Diamond' lady LIL
'Evangeline' setting ACADIA
'Exactly!' BINGO
'Let's just leave ___ that' ITAT
'Stop already!' ENOUGH
'___ on first?' WHOS
-y pluralized IES
1973 Broadway revival starring Debbie Reynolds IRENE
1985 Kate Nelligan film ELENI
325i or Z3 BMW
All-night dance party RAVE
Alley-___ (basketball play) OOP
Alway EER
Auction offering LOT
Available ONHAND
Bank calamities RUNS
Baseman Martinez TINO
Belief in Allah ISLAM
Big Bad Wolf's demand LETMEIN
Boathouse inventory OARS
Bone connector SINEW
Bring down TOPPLE
Bus driver on 'The Simpsons' OTTO
Busy fellow in a gold rush ASSAYER
Calamity WOE
Cassette part SPOOL
Caustic stuff LYE
Censure REPROVE
Charley Weaver's hometown MTIDY
Charter publication? ATLAS
Chiang ___-shek KAI
Chinese idol JOSS
Come out from hiding EMERGE
Common LOWBORN
Conceal HUSHUP
Cry at home SAFE
Cry for LAMENT
De ___ (actual) FACTO
Destination of some spring break participants STPETE
Dies ___ (Latin hymn) IRAE
Domed rooms ROTUNDAS
Eccl. talk SER
Effective OPERANT
European fashion center MILAN
Evenly matched ONETOONE
Fountain offerings SODAS
Frasier's Seattle radio station KACL
Fretful INASTEW
Froze up ICEDOVER
Getting on OLD
Gibberish BLATHER
H.S. exam PSAT
Halifax clock setting: Abbr. AST
Have ___ in one's bonnet ABEE
In order that one might SOASTO
Incline SLOPE
Invite twice REASK
It may contain wasabi SUSHI
Jazz pianist Art TATUM
Just sitting there IDLE
Kathryn of 'Law & Order: Criminal Intent' ERBE
King on a gilt trip? MIDAS
Leaves for Canada? MAPLE
Like company reports ANNUAL
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Litigation task REBUTTAL
Look of contempt SNEER
Low-paying employment, slangily MCJOB
Manages to endure RIDESOUT
Massachusetts cape ANN
Mlle., across the Pyrenees SRTA
Monk's hood COWL
Most skilled DEFTEST
Mount whose name means 'I burn' ETNA
Naturists may be in it THEBUFF
Negation mark in logic TILDE
Nile delta town ROSETTA
Ones who leave the board DIVERS
Part of a blind spot? SLAT
Part of a rural skyline SILO
Pen name CROSS
Photographically natural UNPOSED
Pirouette follower, perhaps PLIE
Prepare a budget, e.g. PLAN
Princess who becomes a 85-Across ODETTE
Put down, in slang DIS
Regal address SIRE
Rick's order to Sam PLAYIT
Roof ornament EPI
SASE, e.g. ENC
See 94-Down SWAN
Sheriff's followings POSSES
Simmons rival SERTA
Site of touchdowns AIRPORT
Snoopy sorts PRYERS
Some Colonial worshipers DEISTS
Some NFL linemen TES
Sounds from a hot tub OOHS
Split for church? TITHE
State capital on Budd Inlet OLYMPIA
Supportive INFAVOR
Surprise hits SLEEPERS
Take ___ for the worse ATURN
Tattoo place ARM
Team leader: Abbr. MGR
The cartographer failed when she ___ MISSEDBYAMILE
The fashion designer failed when he ___ MUFFEDHISLINES
The genealogist failed when she ___ BARKEDUPTHEWRONGTREE
The horror writer failed when he ___ MADEABOOBOO
The odist failed when he ___ SHOTHIMSELFINTHEFOOT
The pinch hitter failed when he ___ PULLEDABLOOPER
The tower-clock maker failed when he ___ BLEWITBIGTIME
Theoretically ONPAPER
Toast start HERESTO
Tours season ETE
Trembling ASHAKE
Troop group UNIT
Turn back to zero, perhaps RESET
Universal donor's category TYPEO
Useful article THE
Well-versed woman? POETESS
Westernmost of the Aleutians ATTU
What one may win by ANOSE
Wing, in combinations PTERO
Wood joint part TENON
Word said with finger-pointing SHAME
Workaday ROUTINE
Wrigley field? GUM
You and others SOLVERS
Z's in Zaragoza SIESTA
___ duck (Chinese dish) PEKING