Wall Street Journal - May 22 2009 - May 22, 2009 - It's Not the Economy

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'Arabian Nights' bird ROC
'Camptown Races' bit DOODAH
'Zero chance!' NOSOAP
'___ been had!' IVE
1984 Leon Uris book, with 'The' HAJ
1996 Madonna movie EVITA
Absorbs the loss EATSIT
Alpha rhythm readout, for short EEG
Ashen WAN
Awaken harshly ROUST
Baseless IDLE
Basketry material RAFFIA
Bearing MIEN
Beginning for boy or girl ATTA
Beginning for Cat or cone SNO
Bleacher feature TIER
Blows away AWES
Bodice shaper DART
Brand of note POSTIT
Bring down RAZE
Bring into being CREATE
Brings a boxing punch under control? TIGHTENSONESBELT
Broadway revival of 2009 HAIR
Brotherhood since 1868 ELKS
Camera setting FSTOP
Cereal pkg. abbr. NTWT
Chanel fragrance for men EGOISTE
Charlemagne's realm: Abbr. HRE
Chats with, PC-style IMS
City near Milan LODI
Containing iron: Pref. FERRO
Counterfeit FORGE
Curvy molding OGEE
Dips fingers into snuff or salt? FEELSTHEPINCH
Disco ___ of 'The Simpsons' STU
Do painstaking research DELVE
Do some soundtrack work DUB
Doesn't bother to return the turpentine, say? JUSTKEEPSSOLVENT
Dollywood loc. TENN
Driver's lic. and the like IDS
Dwells RESIDES
Emmy winner Alan ALDA
Entre ___ NOUS
Envelope abbreviation ATTN
Equally speedy ASFAST
Famed former French restaurant of Manhattan LUTECE
Fashion finish? ISTA
Feet-sliding ballroom dance TWOSTEP
Fixed SET
Following ALA
Football's Cappelletti GINO
Fruit-flavored Coca-Cola brand FANTA
Gadget GIZMO
Getaway site ISLE
Gloss over OMIT
Go sour TURN
Goal of some seeders RAIN
Goat quote MAA
Gorge SATIATE
Grating HARSH
Great Seal feature EAGLE
Gung-ho EAGER
Half of 59-Across TRE
Half of dodici SEI
Hare care specialist VET
Head out west? STEER
Heal, as broken bones KNIT
Horse-player's hangout: Abbr. OTB
In need of a towel WET
In ___ (stewing) ASNIT
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Intended AIMED
Is immortalized like Franklin Roosevelt? LIVESONADIME
Is tied up by 'the Man in Black' GETSSTRAPPEDFORCASH
It may have an apron STAGE
Late period OLDAGE
LBJ's veep HHH
Levitator's command RISE
Like Ponzi schemers' pockets? LINED
Lofty EXALTED
Market VIPs GROCERS
Maximally corny HOKIEST
Meaning SENSE
Med. provider group HMO
Milo in movies OSHEA
Minute WEE
Monsignor's rel. CATH
Namely TOWIT
Needed renewing LAPSED
New Jersey's ___ Park MENLO
Newspaper from 1912 to 1991 PRAVDA
Noise from fans ROAR
O'Brien is replacing him LENO
On ATOP
Ones with drawing power ARTISTS
Org. that included the New York Cosmos NASL
Pamplona pals AMIGOS
Peak southeast of Olympus OSSA
Person of interest? SAVER
Pittsburgh of the Ruhr ESSEN
Precept TENET
Prefix meaning 'blood vessel' ANGIO
Rackets SCAMS
Ready for robbery, maybe ARMED
Removes DOFFS
River with a sturgeon population URAL
Rose's love ABIE
Roughly ORSO
Runs a nudist colony? BARELYMANAGES
Russia/China border river AMUR
Saw ADAGE
Shrewd ASTUTE
Sigma preceder RHO
Skater Slutskaya IRINA
Skyrocket SOAR
Sloshed STINKO
Some NCOs SGTS
Starts carving some ham? GOESINTOHOCK
Stimulates EXCITES
Struts SASHAYS
Student from College Station, Texas AGGIE
Tamino in 'The Magic Flute,' e.g. TENOR
Tater SPUD
They may be fired GUNS
Thing, for lawyers RES
Throng HORDE
Tried for a hit SWUNG
Under SEDATED
Unifying theme MOTIF
Used public transportation RODE
Violinist's stroke indicated by a 'V' UPBOW
Water temperature tester TOE
Wheel thing SPOKE
When tripled, a WWII film TORA
Where British princes prep ETON
Where the buoys are SEA
Witchy women HAGS
With all one's might AMAIN
Words with premium or loss ATA
Works on getting some football players introduced to each other? TRIESTOMAKEENDSMEET
___ Folly (Alaska nickname) SEWARDS