Wall Street Journal - Nov 1 2002 - November 1, 2002 - Slick Mergers

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Clues Answers
'All My Children' vixen ERICA
'Blow' actor DEPP
'Buon ___!' (Christmas greeting in Italy) NATALE
'Delicious!' YUM
'Driving Miss Daisy' playwright UHRY
'Nonsense!' PAH
'The Osbournes' airer MTV
'Waterloo' group ABBA
'We Got the Beat' singers, with The GOGOS
1990s sitcom ELLEN
1996 AT&T spinoff LUCENT
Afternoon breaks NAPS
Air-monitoring org. EPA
Ample, in dialect ENUF
Barbering obstacles EARS
Baseball's Hodges GIL
Bemoan RUE
Betelgeuse, for one REDSTAR
Big name in chips LAYS
Bought hook, line and sinker ATEUP
Brittany, for one SPANIEL
Business bigwigs BARONS
Cash chaser? IER
Cash on hand? BET
Champagne bucket ICER
Chasing AFTER
Chow line LEASH
Chromosome components GENES
Class act TEST
Collars NABS
Consolation prize recipient LOSER
Contract addition RIDER
Creazione di ___ (Sistine ceiling section) ADAMO
Cry from a defibrillator user CLEAR
Detailed accts. RPTS
Disastrous evils POXES
Dub a bomb PAN
Elect. Day, e.g. TUE
Elroy's pet ASTRO
Elsie's chew CUD
English playwright George PEELE
Enters the joust TILTS
Ethan's 'Gattaca' co-star UMA
Exhaust USEUP
Flicker's snack ANT
Following etiquette PROPER
Frank McCourt book TIS
From the U.S. AMER
Gardeners, at times SEEDERS
Hack question WHERETO
Held a session MET
Hindu beverage of immortality AMRITA
Hoopla ADO
Hull tender BOSUN
Hunk's pride BOD
Impact site CRATER
Indian rule RAJ
It stirs things up SPOON
It's Mongolian for 'waterless place' GOBI
It's tapped for cash ATM
Its business is picking up CAB
Jesuit university in Cincinnati XAVIER
Kind of raid PANTY
Lace hole EYELET
Language end ESE
Largest peninsula in the Western Hemisphere ALASKA
Librarian's demand SILENCE
Like some rovers LUNAR
Lion in C.S. Lewis's Narnia books ASLAN
Maestro Toscanini ARTURO
Magazine for egotists? SELFPARADE
Magazine for empty nesters? SUNSETPARENTS
Clues Answers
Magazine for prospectors? DISCOVERWORTH
Magazine for salesmen? PEOPLEHUSTLER
Magazine for some soap fans? WOMANSDAYTIME
Magazine for Vanna White? SPINFORTUNE
Magazine for Western Union staffers? WIREDMONEY
Magazine for young rakes? TEENPLAYBOY
Map out PLAN
Maupassant's '___ Vie' UNE
Military sch. OCS
N.Y. Ranger, e.g. NHLER
Newish RECENT
No longer with the company? ALONE
Noble AUGUST
Of the lower back LUMBAR
On the take DIRTY
On-demand viewing PAYTV
Oscar-nominated role for Will Smith ALI
Ottoman governor BEY
Pabst Brewing brand STROHS
Part of a dean's e-mail address EDU
Past flames EXES
Pennsylvania's ___ Mountains POCONO
Pipe feature TRAP
Pitchfork parts PRONGS
Play place SET
Powell's frequent co-star LOY
Queen, e.g. BEE
Round number PAR
Rubbish BALONEY
Runway model PLANE
Rural residence VILLA
Salinger lass ESME
Send an APB RADIO
Serving aid TEACART
Six-line stanza SESTET
Small-scale MICRO
Spoils LOOT
Sun, in combinations HELIO
Super AONE
Supporter's word YEA
Take a shot at GUESS
Taxing mo. APR
Temporary currency SCRIP
There's money in it VAULT
Time of preparation EVE
To boot AND
Too tubby OBESE
Top-notch GRADEA
Torture AGONY
Trent of the Senate LOTT
Truffaut category NEWWAVE
Tube type INNER
TV ratings period SWEEPS
Two cents' worth INPUT
UFO staff ETS
Uniform decoration EPAULET
Vail vacation SKITRIP
Vengeful feeling WRATH
Veto NIX
View from Mount Pellegrino PALERMO
Wears away ABRADES
Weed whackers HOES
Weighed down LADEN
West Texas city ODESSA
Whirlpool EDDY
Whirlpool SPA
With no excess LEANLY
Work units JOULES
Working without ___ ANET
WWW letters HTTP
Zombie base RUM
___ des Beaux-Arts ECOLE