Wall Street Journal - Dec 19 2003 - December 19, 2003 - Taking on Seasonal Help

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Clues Answers
'...to buy ___ pig' AFAT
'Gaspard de la Nuit' composer RAVEL
'Goodnight' girl IRENE
'Mr. and Mrs.'? LABELFORUNION
'The Swedish Nightingale' LIND
'The Unimportance of Being Oscar' author LEVANT
'To be,' e.g. IAMB
'You're on!' ITSADATE
1970s secretary of defense LAIRD
Abby's twin ANN
Advice for a burlesque show after budget cutbacks? CANCELFANDANCERS
Ages RIPENS
Austin Powers's father NIGEL
Avant-garde artist Max WEBER
Be insolent LIPOFF
Biological survivor RELICT
Bit of booze NIP
Board finishes ENDGAMES
Body shop concern DING
Buddy MAC
Cadence call HUP
Camden Yards player ORIOLE
Canadian equivalent of the Oscar GENIE
Capital AONE
Churchill trademark CIGAR
Close-lipped MUM
CNN founder TURNER
Comics bark ARF
Company with a blue globe logo PANAM
Concern for the Lone Ranger? SILVERWELFARE
Concerning ASTO
Copier input ORIGINALS
Cousin of chemin de fer FARO
Cow chow FEED
Crafty SLY
Creator of Perry and Della ERLE
Crystal ball alternative TEALEAVES
Dangerous point BRINK
Decoration at an innkeepers' expo? HOTELFAIRBALLOON
Delayed HELDUP
Desk type ROLLTOP
Draft picks ALES
Dryer waste LINT
Earring choice DROP
Exact payment? AVENGE
Extremely FAR
Fancy fiddle STRAD
Favorite of Elizabeth ESSEX
Felled HEWED
Fellow who takes a lot of interest in his work? USURER
Fez feature TASSEL
First name in home how-to MARTHA
Flame setting WICK
Fleece feature NAP
Forerunner of the Mach3Turbo ATRA
Former shahdom IRAN
Gallery fill ART
Galoots APES
Ghana's capital ACCRA
Glowing accolades ENCOMIA
Greasy spoon employees in subdued hues? PASTELFRYCOOKS
Harness race TROT
Hatchet grips HAFTS
Haunt OBSESS
Helmsman of 1960s TV SULU
Hemingway moniker PAPA
Hosp. areas ERS
Iditarod start ANCHORAGE
Idle on screen ERIC
In need of polishing RUDE
Independently APART
Clues Answers
Inter ___ ALIA
Interlacing TWINING
Iota's position NINTH
Iron, e.g. CLUB
It actually includes 11 universities BIGTEN
It has a distinctive smell NEWCAR
Its business is picking up BUS
Journalist Whitelaw REID
Kaffiyeh wearer ARAB
Kilmer classic TREES
Lasso end NOOSE
Led Zeppelin drummer John BONHAM
Lexicographer's concerns USAGES
Like many foreign films SUBTITLED
Link letters? URL
Longtime science fiction magazine ANALOG
Maria Shriver, to JFK NIECE
Math course TRIG
Medicare org. SSA
Monica's brother ROSS
Nest egg choice IRA
Newspaper for fake terrarium owners? MODELFERNTIMES
Niagara's source ERIE
Parable's point MORAL
Paycheck abbr. YTD
Peace Prize winner Wiesel ELIE
Pension plan payment BENEFIT
Piggybacking spot FLATCAR
Print measures EMS
Put on WORE
Quarter deck? SUIT
Radio carrier AIRWAVE
Rail rider HOBO
Rating from Moody's AAA
Recondite DEEP
Record holder SLEEVE
Ride for Ellington ATRAIN
Rock cover MOSS
Rose's love on stage ABIE
Scrooge cries BAHS
Sell ___ of goods ABILL
Short cut BOB
Show shame REDDEN
Sign of hunger PANG
Simpletons GEESE
Sistine Chapel painting, e.g. FRESCO
Skips past commercials ZAPS
Smart DRESSY
Snap PIC
Sort carefully SIFT
Spanish road CAMINO
Squeezes (out) EKES
Starting ASOF
Statistician's stuff DATA
Stefani of No Doubt GWEN
Stock buy LOT
Subject of 'Emily Post's Christmas Party Guide'? PROPERNOELFUN
Sweetie pies DEARIES
The third man ABEL
Tim's 'Aida' collaborator ELTON
Traveler's bag VALISE
Truck toll unit AXLE
Undermine ERODE
UPS map sections ZONES
Vacation goal REST
Visits, as gas stations STOPSAT
Word on a biblical wall MENE
Wrecker offering TOW
Writer Ferber EDNA
X on a map HERE
___ arms (angry) UPIN