Wall Street Journal - Jan 23 2004 - January 23, 2004 - The Natural

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Clues Answers
$1,000-a-plate-dinner attendee FATCAT
'...___ take arms against...' ORTO
'Ah, Wilderness!' patriarch NAT
'By the way...' SAY
'Cry, the Beloved Country' author PATON
'December Bride' studio DESILU
1968 dancer biopic ISADORA
A party to INON
Andy's boy OPIE
Arise CROPUP
As ___ (usually) ARULE
Astronomer Simon NEWCOMB
Attaches, in a way TAPESON
Attack SETAT
Bastille Day time ETE
Be on one's toes? TAPDANCE
Belgian singer/songwriter BREL
Bellyached GRIPED
Big auto parts chain PEPBOYS
Bilk ROB
Blew a gasket GOTMAD
Book by 117-Across about his experience with 85-Across OPENNET
Borscht base BEETS
Bottom-line amount TOTAL
Boxing legend with whom 117-Across went three rounds in 1959 ARCHIEMOORE
Brazilian dances SAMBAS
By means of VIA
Bygone OLDEN
Cambodia's Lon ___ NOL
Caroline's uncle TED
CBS symbol EYE
Center opening? EPI
Cheer from the sidelines RAH
Choler IRE
Circulation, essentially READERS
Clause link NOR
Clyde Beatty-Cole Brothers Circus job for 117-Across ACROBAT
Conciliatory gift SOP
Conquistador's treasure ORO
County west of Tipperary CLARE
Cousin of 'voila!' TADA
Cowboy ropes RIATAS
D-Day transports LSTS
Deep sleep SOPOR
Deli fixture SLICER
Do a museum job RESTORE
Do goo GEL
Dockers' org. ILA
Dundee denial NAE
Elizabeth of '20/20' VARGAS
Expert at joshing RIBBER
Film genre NOIR
Fire proof ASH
Fliers AIRMEN
Flight deck setting CARRIER
Football team for which 117-Across briefly played quarterback DETROITLIONS
Fountain output SODA
Franklin's wife ELEANOR
Frustrates DERAILS
Get up again REWAKE
Green-lighted OKD
Group of three TROIKA
Growth area? WOMB
Had a life WAS
Have ___ to pick ABONE
Hikes BOOSTS
Hockey team for which 117-Across briefly played goalie BOSTONBRUINS
Holiday sparklers TINSELS
In spite of, simplified THO
It's human TOERR
Clues Answers
Journal entries?: Abbr. COS
Kruger National Park sight HIPPO
Kyrgyzstan mountain range ALAI
Lamb's alias ELIA
Less refined CRUDER
Longtime New York literary figure and this puzzle's honoree GEORGEPLIMPTON
Maestro under whose baton 117-Across once played triangle LEONARDBERNSTEIN
Magazine edited by 117-Across from its inception THEPARISREVIEW
March honoree, for short STPAT
Met, e.g. NLER
Midriff-revealing top HALTER
Miranda of 'The Lord of the Rings' OTTO
New driver, often TEEN
Not working OFF
Old Chevy NOVA
Oscar-winning film in which 117-Across played a Bedouin extra LAWRENCEOFARABIA
Parrot REPEAT
Parrot ECHO
Paul or Butterworth MRS
Perform major surgery RESECT
Player's range OCTAVE
Plead BEG
Ponders WEIGHS
Pool activity BETTING
Popular aquarium fish MOLLIES
Practiced quickly RANOVER
Pre-college, for short ELHI
Preferred few ELITE
Prufrock's creator ELIOT
Pub perches STOOLS
Ralph Lauren brand POLO
Ravine ARROYO
Reacted to a traffic tie-up HONKED
Ready to eat DONE
Reagan's 'Star Wars' prog. SDI
Resist change STANDPAT
Rummikub piece TILE
San Luis ___, California OBISPO
Saturn or Mercury CAR
Scandal sheet RAG
Showy FLORID
Similar ALIKE
Sister of Amy, Jo and Meg BETH
Small fry TYKES
Some buttons ONS
Something to shoot for PAR
Spots ADS
Suffix with depend ENCE
Sulk SNIT
Summer time in NYC EDT
Surfer's software BROWSER
Symbol of Artemis HIND
Take control of OBSESS
Take out SEE
Texas wildcat OCELOT
Thanksgiving veggie YAM
Trial balloon FEELER
TV series in which 117-Across once appeared as a professor THESIMPSONS
Ultimate critic CENSOR
Unaided SOLO
Unctuous OILY
Underhanded SLY
Unpredictable ERRATIC
Urge PRESS
Weak, in Whitehall ANAEMIC
West end? ERN
Without delay ATONCE
Word on an invoice DUE
Words before pickle or stew INA
World view? ATLAS