Wall Street Journal - Oct 21 2005 - October 21, 2005 - Making It

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'5001 Nights at the Movies' writer KAEL
'Fiddlesticks!' PSHAW
'Hey Jude' refrain NANANANA
'I bet!' OHSURE
'Idylls of the King' lady ENID
'Mayberry ___' RFD
'See you later!' TIMETOGO
'The Sicilian' author PUZO
'TV for Movie People' network AMC
'What's ___ you?' ITTO
2004 extreme makeover series THESWAN
Abu Dhabi dignitary EMIR
Actor Fernando REY
Adriatic resort LIDO
Animated ALIVE
Arms in slings? STONES
Blow the whistle TELL
Bouncer's joint KNEE
Boy LAD
Bulb output, perhaps TULIP
Busboy's burden TRAY
Buttonhole, e.g. STITCH
Carbon compound suffix ENE
Carson's predecessor PAAR
Charged IONIZED
Cleaning up like the Pillsbury Doughboy? RAKINGINTHEDOUGH
Concert take GATE
Crime fighter's tactic STING
Dad's sib AUNT
Deadbeat's comeuppance REPO
Dependent RELIANT
Depilatory brand NAIR
Destinación de vacaciones ISLA
Disney head Robert IGER
Doing great at Lay's? INTHECHIPS
Don't go together CLASH
Dorm rooms, sometimes STIES
Draft status ONEA
Dryer stuff LINT
Election day abbr. TUES
Enterprise, e.g. STARSHIP
Error SLIPUP
Farming for fun and profit? ROLLINGINCLOVER
Fireplace INGLE
First chancellor of West Germany ADENAUER
Fix at a predetermined level PEG
Fly trap? MITT
Foreign tycoon in Hong Kong TAIPAN
Genetic attribute TRAIT
Ger. neighbor NETH
Gists NUBS
Graph line AXIS
Grazed ATE
Hardly the pick of the litter RUNT
HBO's sister network CINEMAX
Highly placed at a fire sale? WITHMONEYTOBURN
Hopping mad IRATE
Hot time in Haiti ETE
Ice cream add-in OREO
Impassioned FIERY
In a picayune way TRIVIALLY
In a position ABLE
In fine fettle HALE
Inclination SLOPE
It has eyes on its skin POTATO
It's quite attractive MAGNET
Itsy-bitsy TINY
Jargon suffix ESE
José's hand MANO
Last choice on a questionnaire OTHER
Layout measures PICAS
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Leading OUTFRONT
Lifeless INERT
Like cold duck PINK
Like fern spores ASEXUAL
Like putty in one's hands? SHAPED
Like telegraphy's heyday PRERADIO
Make the most of USE
Manhattan setting BAR
Mauna ___ LOA
Mention in an acceptance speech, maybe THANK
MetLife rival AETNA
Moral dilemmas, for example GRAYAREAS
My and thy OUR
Norms: Abbr. STDS
Noted hammer thrower THOR
Nymph changed to a laurel tree DAPHNE
On the mark APT
Online giggle HEHE
Oranjestad native ARUBAN
Overly modest COY
Overpayment result CREDIT
Passing total: Abbr. YDS
PDQ ASAP
Philly hockey player FLYER
Pooh's pal EEYORE
Power unit WATT
Pre-rhinoplasty check NOSEXRAY
Primary concern VOTES
Prosperous like Mona Lisa while modeling? SITTINGPRETTY
Pullet, e.g. HEN
Puzzle with pictures REBUS
Rapper? CRITIC
Reacting to a touchdown, perhaps AROAR
Resting like a pedigreed puppy? INTHELAPOFLUXURY
Rice in the bookstore ANNE
River of Germany's steel-making region RUHR
Rumormonger YENTA
Run-down residence HOVEL
Sadist, at times HURTER
Scout rank EAGLE
Shelled food PEAS
Sign of the future PORTENT
Skeptic's forte DOUBT
Some overseas markets BAZAARS
Soprano Norman JESSYE
Spammer, for one PEST
Spicy cuisine HUNAN
Spots for lodgers INNS
Spreadsheet command SORT
Standard product OIL
Successful at Florsheim? WELLHEELED
The Cowardly Lion's Kansas counterpart ZEKE
They get filled while moving VANS
They're skin-deep TATTOOS
Thriving at FTD? COMINGUPROSES
Tibia's place SHIN
Tombstone lawman EARP
Trench maker SPADE
Trojan ally ARES
Truffaut's 'La ___ Américaine' NUIT
Unfavored paper RAG
Unqualified NOTFIT
Way out EXIT
Went kaput DIED
Within AMID
Wore away, in a way GNAWEDON
WTO predecessor GATT
Xi preceders NUS
Yours, in Tours ATOI
___ Friday's (restaurant chain) TGI
___ Mahal TAJ