Wall Street Journal - Jul 25 2008 - July 25, 2008 - Union Perks

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Clues Answers
'All Things Considered' airer NPR
'Believe it ___!' ORNOT
'Death in Venice' author MANN
'Les Misérables' inspector JAVERT
'Little Eyolf' playwright IBSEN
'My Heart Will Go On' singer DION
'The Alchemy of Finance' author George SOROS
'The Color Purple' heroine CELIE
'The Crying Game' character DIL
'The Five Pennies' star KAYE
'What services ___ thou do?': King Lear CANST
1948 Pulitzer-winning cartoonist (50) RUBEGOLDBERG
1970 Grammy winner for writing 'A Boy Named Sue' (25) SHELSILVERSTEIN
1984 inductee to the Songwriters Hall of Fame (60) NEILDIAMOND
Advertiser's award CLIO
Applicant's goal JOB
Atkins diet no-no CARB
Bad-tempered PETULANT
Ballerina Pavlova ANNA
Baseball's Bando SAL
Baseless IDLE
Basement problem MILDEW
Beginning RISE
Beige ECRU
Best Director nominee for 'A Room With a View' (14) JAMESIVORY
Best-selling player IPOD
Big wheel at sea HELM
Blanche's sister STELLA
Bolshoi rival KIROV
Bow, say LEANOVER
Brothers' place ABBEY
Bumbling GIs SADSACKS
Buy off BRIBE
Bygone fleet SSTS
Captain Hook's toady SMEE
Cat in Disney's 'Peter and the Wolf' IVAN
Chain units STORES
Chess grandmaster Anatoly KARPOV
Comic member of the Grand Ole Opry cast for over 50 years (30) MINNIEPEARL
Comic novel of 1816 EMMA
Comment at the end of an exhausting day IMBEAT
Comment to the audience ASIDE
Controversial science project CLONING
Corin of 'Stargate SG-1' NEMEC
Cow catcher LASSO
Cracker topper BRIE
Cubicle fixture DESK
Deceives LIESTO
Decorate a copperplate ETCH
Decorator's asset TASTE
Deejay's collection DISCS
Different ELSE
Director Fritz and singer K.D. LANGS
Eight-time Academy Awards broadcast host (15) BILLYCRYSTAL
End for dull or drunk ARD
End of a New Year's Eve song SYNE
End-of-week cry TGIF
Exploding cigar sound BLAM
Feline's nine LIVES
Fish story YARN
Five-time Wimbledon champ BORG
For men only STAG
Ford in a Beach Boys song TBIRD
French legislature SENAT
Frodo's portrayer in 'The Lord of the Rings' (5) ELIJAHWOOD
Gen-___ (post-boom babies) XERS
Great time BLAST
Guadalajara gold ORO
Gulf VIPs EMIRS
Gushing reviews RAVES
Clues Answers
Gutter holder EAVE
Happen next ENSUE
Has a TV dinner, e.g. EATSIN
Invitation letters RSVP
Italian tourist city PISA
Jackie O's hubby ARI
Jacob's twin ESAU
Jib, for one SAIL
Jovovich of 'The Fifth Element' MILLA
Keebler cookie makers ELVES
Krispy ___ KREME
Linda of Broadway's 'Jekyll & Hyde' EDER
Low points on graphs MINIMA
Lukas of 'Witness' HAAS
Make a run for it BOLT
Maker of many chips INTEL
Maker of pricey bags FENDI
Makes more confident, perhaps EMPOWERS
Man at the wheel SAJAK
Map square ACRE
Mazda roadster MIATA
Most closefisted STINGIEST
NBA Hall of Famer Dan ISSEL
Needed to be kneaded ACHED
Nevil Shute's '___ Like Alice' ATOWN
One of us? ISSUE
Peter Pan rival JIF
Philbin's co-host RIPA
Pipe part STEM
Pirate flag icons SKULLS
Plaster backing strip LATH
Pointed end CUSP
Pole, for one SLAV
Pong producer ATARI
Prepares to fire AIMS
Quest maker NISSAN
Quick raid FORAY
Recipe amts. TSPS
Restless desires ITCHES
River that empties into the Bering Sea YUKON
Rudiments ABCS
Salt SEAMAN
Seabee's org. USN
Sense FEEL
Sidney Lumet film set at the Union Broadcasting Systems NETWORK
Singer Furtado NELLY
Skater Katarina WITT
Smackers CLAMS
Sniggling experts EELERS
Sole pattern TREAD
Sorbet flavor MANGO
Sots TOPERS
Suggestive RACY
Tattooed lady of song LYDIA
The present day? XMAS
Times to remember ERAS
Tiny fraction of a min. NSEC
To one side APART
Totally unscathed SCOTFREE
Two-time loser to DDE AES
Uncle Scrooge's surname MCDUCK
Union perk found in the answer to each clue that's followed by a number ANNIVERSARYGIFT
Unpaired ODD
Wander off STRAY
Was out for the afternoon? TOOKANAP
Washington players, for short NATS
Wife-killer of fairy tale BLUEBEARD
Wimbledon do-over LET
Winchester, e.g. RIFLE
___ pro nobis ORA