Wall Street Journal - Aug 28 2009 - August 28, 2009 - My 8 Favorite Texting Words

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Clues Answers
'Burn Notice' carrier USA
'Flashdance...What a Feeling' singer CARA
'Make ___ double' ITA
'My bad' OOPS
'The Taming of the Shrew' adaptation TENTHINGSIHEABOUTYOU
'The Velvet Fog' TORME
100 lbs. CWT
1940s propagandist TOKYOROSE
A/C meas. BTUS
Acronymic wage adjustment COLA
Aggressive TYPEA
Allan Lane supplied his voice MRED
Aquarium material PLEGLASS
Around NEAR
Ascap alternative BMI
At the earliest date SOONEST
B.D. of 'Law & Order: SVU' WONG
Bad plays ERRORS
Balder sire ODIN
Becomes evident DAWNS
Benefits mankind DOESGOOD
Bolt shooter CROSSBOW
Brainstem section MEDULLA
Broken-down DECREPIT
Bronchus outlet LUNG
Calls from the stands RAHS
Chestnut horse SORREL
City conduit network SEWERAGE
Collecting Soc. Sec. RET
Comment after a tumble IMOK
Concert highlights SOLOS
Connected drums BONGOS
Constellation critter URSA
Cow catcher RIATA
Culture need AGAR
Depressing comment? AAH
Diner offering EATS
Do damage to IMPAIR
Do with a pick AFRO
Ending for profit or market EER
Experts with figures, perhaps ICESKERS
Fed GMAN
Field sound CAW
First name in jazz ELLA
Fleece GYP
Force on earth, for short ONEG
From the heart EARNEST
From the top ANEW
Gambol CAPER
Garden pest SLUG
Give a confidence boost to EMPOWER
Goth's foe ROMAN
Graff of 'Mr. Belvedere' ILENE
Grammy winner Erykah BADU
Guess from the capt. ETA
Holding ASSET
Hurler Hershiser OREL
Infuriates IRES
Ink for une plume ENCRE
Invoice no. AMT
It may be on the house LIEN
It varies for homeowners ADJUSTABLEREMORTGAGE
Jeremy Piven's HBO role ARI
Jerry's partner BEN
Kindergarten award STAR
Lamentations PLAINTS
Least pleasant NASTIEST
Letter before Bravo ALFA
Letters in a return address? IRS
Like some realizations PAINFUL
Clues Answers
Like Virginia hams AGED
Lion's prey GNU
List component ITEM
Long bath SOAK
Lot DESTINY
Lover of 'pic-a-nic baskets' YOGIBEAR
Made like a geyser SPEWED
Match TWIN
Memorial Quadrangle setting YALE
Missing company LONESOME
Modest skirt MAXI
Movie terrier ASTA
Neither Rep. nor Dem. IND
Network: Abbr. SYST
New Mexico's state flower YUCCA
NFL coach Jim MORA
Offers a shoulder to cry on CONSOLES
Old World language ERSE
One involved in batting EYELASH
Paula of 'What's New Pussycat?' PRENTISS
Pen output OINKS
Perform well SHINE
Phone service addition CALLWEING
Piedmont wine center ASTI
Pile on a literary agt.'s desk MSS
Pines YEARNS
Player in a stadium known as 'The Swamp' FLORIDAGEOR
Pool need RACK
Prefix with European or China INDO
Prepares to capitalize SHIFTS
Prey gripper TALON
Proper name on some euros EIRE
Put out EMIT
Race finish TAPE
Rain forest feature MIST
Records ANNALS
Role for Robert De Niro ALCAPONE
Rumble seat setting REAR
Running ONEND
Russian tycoon Deripaska OLEG
Salesman's no-no BEANDSWITCH
Ship watched over by Hera ARGO
Shortens a sentence, perhaps EDITS
Show backer ANGEL
Shuriken thrower NINJA
Sides in an ongoing battle SEXES
Silly goose ASS
Silvery herring ALEWIFE
Silvery herring SPRAT
Sis, say SIB
Slight PETITE
Sons of, in Hebrew BNAI
Sound HALE
Spirit, in Stuttgart GEIST
Staples, e.g. CHAIN
Summoner's signal GONG
Tailgate party backdrop ARENA
Temporary alliance COALITION
They go about two feet SHOES
They're no dreamers REALISTS
Thickness measure MIL
Tree-ringed spot GLADE
Troop group UNIT
Very much AGREDEAL
Victoria's Secret offering TEDDY
Was fast, or wasn't fast RAN
What happened HISTORY
Without fault LILYWHITE
Words to a Yankee GOHOME
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