Wall Street Journal - Sep 10 2004 - September 10, 2004 - In the Running

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Clues Answers
'...should come ___ surprise' ASNO
'Au contraire!' in the 1990s NOT
'Forbidden Planet' robot ROBBY
'Lonely Boy' singer ANKA
'Me here!' ITSI
'Muskrat Ramble' composer ORY
'Skedaddle!' GIT
'That's a lie!' UNTRUE
'The Godfather' composer Nino ROTA
'The Man Who Fell to Earth' director ROEG
'Wee wee wee' goer? LITTLETOE
2000 Series losers METS
Abba's music EUROPOP
Agcy. that moved from Treasury to Justice in 2003 ATF
Agitated state SNIT
Alpha male TOPDOG
Attended WENTTO
Big busyness ADO
Blade brand ATRA
Bond rating AAA
Brainiac EINSTEIN
Brand that offers the Arctic Blast ICEE
Brush up on REREAD
Cal. column heading THU
Close END
Cockiness ATTITUDE
Contract SHRINK
Contract add-ons RIDERS
CPA's suggestion IRA
Crest holder TUBE
Curved arch OGEE
Daisy's look-alike ASTER
Degree in mathematics? NTH
Democrat-turned-Republican Phil GRAMM
Digs in twigs NEST
Disney's Dwarfs, e.g. SEPTET
Do an usher's job SEEIN
Docket AGENDA
Doesn't own RENTS
Draft status? ONTAP
Easily calmed TAME
End of the quip NAGGINGPESTS
Extremists ULTRAS
Eyeballs OGLES
First name in motorcycle stunts EVEL
General activity WAR
Genesis brother ABEL
Grabbed with a toothpick SPEARED
Group within a group SECT
Half of oct- TETR
Halves of qts. PTS
Have some catching up to do LAG
Hieroglyphic creatures ASPS
Hip-hop's ___ Hill DRU
Home of the Atlas Mts. AFR
Horatian collection ODES
Included elements of ECHOED
Investigator from the P.D. DET
Is for more than one? ARE
It has pressing business IRON
It may be committed to memory CHIP
Just make, with 'out' EKE
Like NCOs ENL
Lush SOT
Mad. Sq. Garden users of 2004 GOP
Make more secure, perhaps RETIE
Marmalade ingredient RIND
Marshy WET
Massimo of 1994's 'Il Postino' TROISI
Mauna ___ LOA
Mimics APERS
Misbehaves ACTSUP
Clues Answers
Mitch Miller's instrument OBOE
Morally corrupt DEGENERATE
Most coll. applicants SRS
Moves at a slow pace PLODS
Muffin spread OLEO
Multitude of people THRONG
Muscovite's money RUBLES
Neighbor of Tanzania RWANDA
Network: Abbr. SYST
New York mayor nicknamed 'The Little Flower' LAGUARDIA
No longer chic OUT
Not 10-Down THEIR
Not 26-Down OUR
Obstinate equine ASS
Olds model ALERO
Olive in the funny papers OYL
One of the Five Nations ONEIDA
Pageant prizes TIARAS
Part 2 of the quip BUTWEHAVEHEARD
Part 3 of the quip THATPOLITICS
Part 4 of the quip ISACOMPOUNDWORD
Part 5 of the quip THEGREEKFORMANY
Part 6 of the quip LEADSTHEBEST
Part 7 of the quip ENGLISHWORDFOR
PFC's superior CPL
Place to get a bite EATERY
Popular street name ELM
Prefix with mural or party INTRA
President before Jack IKE
Pulling no punches BRUTAL
Put forth POSIT
Regarding ASTO
Resort on Guanabara Bay RIO
Role for Carrie LEIA
Scale range OCTAVE
Schindler who had a list OSKAR
Schooner fill ALE
Seasonal quaff EGGNOG
Second-hand producer? REDEAL
See 86-Down ALLISON
Semicircle CEE
Service USE
Set up RIG
She came into Sam's joint ILSA
Shout on a ship LANDHO
Showers with encomia PRAISES
Silents star Renée ADOREE
Singular ODD
Sixteen oz. ONELB
Somewhat ATAD
Sound from a bay NEIGH
Squad that plays in the Coliseum TITANS
Start of a poetic quip WECANTBESURE
Strengthens TONESUP
Supermodel Sastre INES
Target of promotion PAWN
Theol. school SEM
Throwing into confusion ADDLING
Toupee, slangily RUG
Tube plug TVSPOT
Unable to decide TORN
Uncurl STRAIGHTEN
Utah ski resort ALTA
V makeup GEESE
Victoria's Secret buy BRA
Vous, familiarly TOI
White coat RIME
Willy Wonka's creator DAHL
With 77-Across, noted jazz pianist MOSE
Worker's reward RAISE
WWII medical technician, perhaps WAC
___ polloi HOI