Wall Street Journal - Mar 26 2022 - First Strike

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Clues Answers
“Cobra ___” (show on 90-Down) KAI
“Let me consider that...” HMM
“Oh my!” YIPE
2000 Home Run Derby winner SOSA
A cowboy may sport a big one BELTBUCKLE
Activity for bored students and office drudges CLOCKWATCHING
Adopt TAKEUP
Adored one IDOL
African language group BANTU
Allen Ginsberg’s oeuvre BEATPOETRY
Ancient viper ASP
Apt. coolers ACS
Archaeological find RELIC
Artist Magritte RENE
Avian chatterboxes MYNAHS
Berkshire Hathaway’s headquarters OMAHA
Big crowds THRONGS
Billionth, in metric prefixes NANO
Bluesy James ETTA
Born yesterday, so to speak NAIVE
Bow counterpart CURTSY
Brand with a Precisionist line BULOVA
Bros DUDES
Built with buttresses BRACED
Bun ingredients? TRESSES
Call off ABORT
Candy maker H.B REESE
Caravan stop OASIS
City southeast of 19-Across PISA
City that rings in the New Year by dropping a huge potato BOISE
Columbus’s birthplace GENOA
Comic Boosler ELAYNE
Cricket, for one SPORT
Crisp red apple BRAEBURN
Croaks RASPS
Delighted cry OOH
Desktop folder, e.g ICON
Determination RESOLVE
Diatribe RANT
Did galley work OARED
Disorderly sorts ANARCHISTS
Down SAD
Dr. Phil’s field POPPSYCHOLOGY
Economy, e.g CLASS
Eddie’s “Coming to America” co-star ARSENIO
Entered digitally TYPEDIN
Eschews chow FASTS
Farrah of TV’s “Charlie’s Angels” FAWCETT
Female surfer WAHINE
Formal address ORATION
Friend of Ralph, Potsie and Fonzie RICHIE
Galveston Bay, e.g ESTUARY
Game shockers UPSETS
Gather with old schoolmates REUNE
Gibson’s “Lethal Weapon” co-star GLOVER
Gift on the seventh day SWANS
Going rate? TOLL
Govt. org AGCY
Griddle-baked Indian bread ROTI
Handed (out) METED
Hawaiian goose NENE
ICE is part of it DHS
Icicle formers DRIPS
Inductor, generally COIL
Intl. commerce regulator WTO
It erupted more than 50 times in 2021 ETNA
Kids’ song refrain EIEIO
Lager alternatives PALEALES
Leaning ATILT
Letter before Zulu YANKEE
Clues Answers
Low-carb regimen KETO
Make a case ARGUE
Make a lasting impression on ETCH
Makes haste HIES
Manor worker MAID
Mint family plant CHIA
Monk’s title FRA
Musical including the song “Funky Monkeys,” with “The” WIZ
Netanyahu, familiarly BIBI
Newsroom standout CRACKREPORTER
NFL scores TDS
Norse equivalent of Mars TYR
Not eliminated INIT
Only player to play 1,000 games with the Knicks EWING
Oomph VIM
Oozes SEEPS
Opposite of 123-Across EATS
Org. with a Kid Power division UNICEF
Outdo BEST
Place to make a case COURT
Plus ASSET
Prepare for action GIRD
Prepares to cross a speed bump SLOWS
Purple competitor SERTA
Put one’s feet up REST
Put your faith in RELYON
Put ___ appearance INAN
Ranch in “Giant” REATA
Remy or Templeton, e.g RAT
Rugged CRAGGY
Rust OXIDIZE
Sap DUPE
See 114-Down NETFLIX
Service cost FEE
Service whose business is picking up UBER
Sews up ASSURES
SFO screeners TSA
Shake off ELUDE
Shari Lewis’s Lamb Chop, e.g SOCKPUPPET
Shoo-in LOCK
Short cut? SNIP
Skeptics may raise one EYEBROW
Some OLED TVs LGS
Source of most of a typical casino’s profit SLOTS
Started the bidding OPENED
Sticky syrup TREACLE
Strikers’ foes SCABS
Suffix with lemon or lime ADE
Tachometer abbr RPM
Target for a spiker PUNCHBOWL
Temperamental toon DONALDDUCK
Tend OVERSEE
They hold water PAILS
They may clash EGOS
They promise quick losses CRASHDIETS
Toothsome TASTY
Top of le corps humain TETE
Top tunes listing HITPARADE
Track assignments LANES
Transplant, as a plant REPOT
Trigger of a chain of events ROOTCAUSE
Trillion, in metric prefixes TERA
Unspeakable TABOO
Vehicle that leaves a wake? HEARSE
Walgreens rival RITEAID
Walkway for strollers PASEO
West Indies island north of Guadeloupe ANTIGUA
Words with tear or tight leash ONA
World Cup cheer OLE
___-Magnon CRO