Wall Street Journal - Mar 14 2003 - March 14, 2003 - Palindromic Conclusions

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'East of Eden' girl ABRA
'Elektra' composer STRAUSS
'Here comes trouble!' UHOH
'Traffic' org. DEA
'___ free country' ITSA
'___ Now' (Edward R. Murrow show) SEEIT
1,852 meters SEAMILE
1987 Nick Nolte movie WEEDS
Abbr. at the bottom of a page CONT
About-faces UTURNS
Albino's lack MELANIN
Ancient OLDASTIME
Ancient Italians SABINES
Arboretum item SHRUB
Bambi's aunts DOES
Beehive State athlete UTE
Brainpower WIT
Breakfast staple EGGS
Broken, as a highway line UNSOLID
Brother-to-be PLEDGE
Caterwauls YOWLS
Certain undergrad SOPH
Challenges for rats MAZES
Charades player, at times APER
Cheekiness SASS
Cheese burg EDAM
Chow EATS
City of western Texas ODESSA
Coffeehouse orders LATTES
Costly car ROLLS
Court WOO
Cry from the Hundred Acre Woods? WINNIETHEPOOHWHOOP
Deep-sixes DUMPS
Director Lee ANG
Ellipsis makeup DOTS
Ethyl ending ENE
Executed DID
Faction SECT
Fake coin SLUG
Fashionable footwear, once SPATS
Fifth place BOTTLE
Fly catcher MITT
Game animals released? WHITETAILDEERFREED
Gets better HEALS
Gives a hard time HASSLES
Gland over the kidney ADRENAL
Goal END
Grateful remark from one who was lost at sea? BLESSYOUBUOY
Greek deli order GYRO
Group of législateurs SENAT
Häagen-Dazs rival EDYS
Hang around STAY
Hardy heroine TESS
Have an ___ grind AXETO
Havoline competitor STP
Holdup SNAG
Hotel offering SUITE
Ignore the chucklehead? PAYNOATTENTIONTOIDIOT
It follows directions ERN
James Bay natives CREE
Just make, with 'out' EKE
Know-it-all WISEACRE
Lacking a match ODD
Langston Hughes poem ITOO
Large pipe MAIN
Laser output RAYS
Left in the lurch RANOUTON
Lettuce DOREMI
Like England's Coronation Chair OAKEN
Clues Answers
Like most jigsaw puzzles DIECUT
Like some choirs ALLMALE
Little laugh TEHEE
Mach 1 passer SST
Madison Ave. world ADBIZ
Maiden name preceder NEE
Many superheroes have them ALTEREGOS
Meals in fluted shells QUICHES
Middy, e.g. BLOUSE
Modern, once HEP
Narrow peninsula SPIT
Navel base ORANGE
Neither Rep. nor Dem. IND
Nest material TWIGS
Nomo number ERA
Of the hipbone: Prefix ILIO
One who's trying ESSAYER
Operator's item HEADSET
Orr teammate, familiarly ESPO
Overlooks OMITS
Palindromic Diamond LIL
Peak on the Gulf of Thérmai OSSA
Pilot episode? BOOBTUBEDEBUT
Pinafore letters HMS
Plant pores STOMATA
Plays a bass? UNREELS
Predicament TIGHTSPOT
Proust protagonist SWANN
Pulls an all-nighter CRAMS
Quasimodo's creator HUGO
Race rounds HEATS
Record holder SLEEVE
Repeat ITERATE
Request for rescue HELPME
Requires skill ISANART
River part MOUTH
Room at the top LOFT
Roquefort relative BLEU
Runs easily TROTS
Safari photo op GNUS
Sawtooth Mountains setting IDAHO
Sharp ASTUTE
Shellfish amid the veggies? SALADBARCRAB
Sink trap shape ESS
Site of the Vatican bank TIBER
Small silvery fish DACE
Some hold spectacles EARS
Sorvino of 'Mimic' MIRA
Sounds from pounds YIPS
Split hairs QUIBBLE
Sprint rival MCI
Stock buys LOTS
Stravinsky ballet AGON
Superfluity EXCESS
Surface ARISE
Surpass ONEUP
Suspended ride TRAM
Tennis call LET
The king, in Córdoba ELREY
Theater award OBIE
They fill the bill CENTS
Toppers for G-suits? DEEPSPACECAPS
Two-finger sign VEE
Vetoes NIXES
Wide open place EXPANSE
With anger IRATELY
With markers out INDEBT
Writer ___ Rogers St. Johns ADELA
___-jongg MAH