Wall Street Journal - Sep 2 2005 - September 2, 2005 - Modern-Day Herculean Labors

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'Another Day on Earth' rocker Brian ENO
'Bon ___!' APPETIT
'Hymn to Aphrodite' poet SAPPHO
'Straight From the Gut' writer Welch JACK
'That's rich' HAHA
'The Joy of Cooking' author Rombauer IRMA
'The NFL Today' analyst ESIASON
'The Science of Right' writer KANT
'Totally clear now' AHSO
'Twelfth Night' heroine VIOLA
'Venus of Urbino' painter TITIAN
'Yep!' UHHUH
'___ Death' (Grieg movement) ASES
Affected attitude AIRS
Annoyance HASSLE
Appealing SEXY
Artist Mondrian PIET
Average name? DOW
Bank acct. abbr. INT
Bank withdrawal? HEIST
Biology 101 specimen AMOEBA
Bring under control REININ
Brown bagger? WINO
Came before LED
Capacity ROOM
Carlo Levi's 'Christ Stopped at ___' EBOLI
Cell phone message TEXT
Centers of interest MECCAS
City in many Vermeer paintings DELFT
City on the Roaring Fork River ASPEN
Clean, and how SCOUR
Columnist Joseph ALSOP
Dead ___ (Cockney slang for sauce) ORSE
Decides OPTS
Disregard LETPASS
Distress AIL
Do nothing LOAF
Does double duty? RETAXES
Domingo, for one DIA
Entrance line IMHERE
Excel on the mound OUTPITCH
Eye OGLE
Fit SPASM
Float through the air WAFT
Foil for Garfield ODIE
Fool NINNY
Ford Field team LIONS
French nobleman DUC
Future embryos OVA
German naturalist for whom an ocean current is named HUMBOLDT
Gets melodramatic EMOTES
Go ballistic SNAP
Gobs ALOT
Goes pfffft DIES
Grier of TV's 'Daniel Boone' ROSEY
Grows bored with TIRESOF
Gumbo pods OKRAS
H. Rap Brown's org. SNCC
Hans Christian Andersen's birthplace ODENSE
Herculean labor at a psychiatrist's office SPLITPERSONALITIES
Herculean labor at a restaurant PICKUPTHECHECK
Herculean labor at the bar TOSSBACKAFEWDRINKS
Herculean labor at the DMV KILLAFEWHOURS
Herculean labor during a conversation CUTTOTHEQUICK
Herculean labor during a conversation SHOOTTHEBREEZE
Herculean labor in Hollywood STEALTHESCENE
Herculean labor on the highway HOLDUPTRAFFIC
Here ONEARTH
Indian attire SARI
Invited to dinner, perhaps ASKEDOUT
iPod button PLAY
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Is imaginative HASIDEAS
ISP that debuted with Windows 95 MSN
It might be saved on a cell phone PIC
Job ad abbr. EOE
Karmann ___ (sports car) GHIA
Krispy Kreme purchase DOZEN
La ___, California JOLLA
LAX posting ETD
London-based information provider REUTERS
Lux. locale EUR
More ELSE
More or less SORTOF
Nicety NUANCE
Nothing, in Nice RIEN
One who might come into a house HEIR
Opposite of exo- ENTO
Out of the ordinary SPECIAL
Payload carriers ICBMS
Peculiarity TIC
Pension source FUND
Philly school PENN
Piano string makeup STEEL
Place SITUATE
Planning UPTO
Pope from the Medici family LEOXI
Pressure cooker fill STEAM
Profess AVER
Pursuer of the 'accursed white whale' AHAB
Put two and two together COMBINED
Range: Abbr. MTNS
Rank STEP
Recipe abbr. TBSP
Related to BOREON
Relaxed EASY
Remove from the schedule YANK
Roaring ruminant ELK
Ruthless boss AXER
Sassy retort DIDSO
Sci-fi writer Frederik POHL
Short agenda? SKED
Silents star Negri POLA
Sitcom planet ORK
Slave to crosswords? ESNE
Sounds of insight OHOS
Spied through a window PEEREDIN
Spring HOP
Staff leader CLEF
Start another tour REUP
Start of a seasonal song title AULD
Start of the Kansas motto ADASTRA
Subject, usually NOUN
Sushi choice SQUID
Temple talk HEBREW
Tenth: Prefix DECI
The Seminoles' sch. FSU
Tiny particle: Abbr. MOL
Toll rd. TPK
Took too much of ODEDON
Traditional Spanish dish PAELLA
Trying person, for short ATT
TV series whose theme song is The Who's 'Who Are You' CSI
Twist makeup RIND
Unsaturated hydrocarbon ALKENE
UPS Store buy BOX
Village on the Hudson NYACK
Well pitched ONKEY
Words of approval RAHS
Yellow primrose OXLIP
___ Balls (Hostess snack food) SNO
___ corda (piano direction) UNA
___ populi VOX