Wall Street Journal - Feb 15 2002 - WSJ February 15, 2002 - Why Cardplayers Make Lousy Golfers

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'Glamour' rival ELLE
'Il Nome Della Rosa' writer ECO
'Please, ___ you' IBEG
'Sweet Charity' star VERDON
'Tartuffe' author MOLIERE
'What chutzpah!' THENERVE
4-F, in military classification UNFIT
A limited number of SOMANY
A time when hands are joined? NOON
Affixes ADDS
Aleve producer ROCHE
Alway EER
Ambitious sort ACHIEVER
America West Arena team SUNS
Articulated Apples IMACS
Aussie outlaw Kelly NED
Back in the water STERN
Barry Levinson's directorial debut DINER
Bill of educational TV NYE
Bliss HEAVEN
Bloodline STRAIN
Buddy PARD
Bugs ANNOYS
Can't abide HATE
Carroll critter SNARK
Chance BET
Cheese often flavored with dill HAVARTI
City planner of Washington, D.C. LENFANT
Co-star of Spade and San Giacomo SEGAL
Co. component DIV
Contemptuous laugh HAH
Cookout FRY
Court accomplishment TIPIN
Cry of discovery OHO
Cry of pain YOWL
Current NEW
Cutie pies HONEYS
Cyrano portrayer of 1990 GERARD
Dairy case purchase OLEO
Dissolved ATE
Drawer fresheners SACHETS
Economist's guess FORECAST
Electrician, at times WIRER
Elev. suburb HTS
Figure skating pioneer Jackson ___ HAINES
Fire place? HELL
First name in stunts EVEL
French film award CESAR
Georgetown player HOYA
Graceful AIRY
Hansom fellow? HACK
Hawthorne's birthplace SALEM
Heater GAT
Hitting the bottle TOPING
Homer called her 'rosy-fingered' EOS
Homer's lament DOH
In need of a massage ACHY
Intense DEEP
It's often stepped on GAS
Japanese porcelain IMARI
Jct. component HWY
Kareem, originally LEW
Knocks off, as chatter STOWS
Know someone who works there, maybe HAVEANIN
Least cluttered TIDIEST
Least hackneyed FRESHEST
Let down LOWERED
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Like shearlings OVINE
Like well-tended bows ROSINY
Lip-syncher of '60s TV MRED
Long stories EPICS
LP protector SLEEVE
M. Valdemar's creator POE
Man-of-war attack STING
Milk choice WHOLE
Miscalculates ERRS
Movie starring 'Weird Al' UHF
Natural BORN
Newshound's need SOURCES
Nickname of prisoner Robert Stroud BIRDMAN
No longer in one's wallet SPENT
Not just mindlessly entertaining EDIFYING
Offensive name TET
Opera excerpt ARIA
Outback hopper ROO
Overdone TRITE
Papal representative LEGATE
Particle with a 'flavor' QUARK
Phobos and Deimos, e.g. MOONS
Picks out ELECTS
Plant SOW
Pot product TEA
Powered by radiation SOLAR
President called 'His Fraudulency' HAYES
Put-on ACT
Ridges on a face? TOEHOLDS
Ringed marble CATSEYE
Roof ornaments EPIS
Sarcophagus site TOMB
Saudi king since 1982 FAHD
Secures, as a victory ICES
Skin layer DERMA
Spanish port ALICANTE
Spur-of-the-moment vacation GETAWAY
Stevie Wonder's '___ She Lovely' ISNT
Strive toward AIMAT
Sugar bowl visitor ANT
Sunk fence HAHA
Swift-swimming whale SEI
Swimmer Thorpe IAN
Tabriz resident IRANI
Tangible CONCRETE
They work on a board IRONERS
Threw a spanner into QUEERED
Translucent envelope material GLASSINE
Ultra-secret org. NSA
Unspoken feeling VIBE
Urchin IMP
Utopian novel by Samuel Butler EREWHON
V makers GEESE
Was a buttinsky MEDDLED
Weary worker's letters TGIF
Why blackjack dealers never finish a round of golf? THEYSTAYATSEVENTEEN
Why honest poker dealers make lousy scorekeepers on the links? THEYDONTMARKTHECARDS
Why professional poker players rarely hit longer than 100 yards? THEYGENERALLYUSECHIPS
Why the blackjack player got odd looks from the rest of the foursome? HEHITAGAINAFTERANACE
Why the bridge player was obliged to stop golfing? HEDISCARDEDHISCLUBS
Why the five-card stud player gave up golfing? HEGOTNOTHINGINTHEHOLE
Wide body SEA
Wipe out EFFACE
Without delay RIGHTNOW
Word heard by Cratchit BAH
Worst off NEEDIEST
___ voce SOTTO