Wall Street Journal - Apr 21 2006 - April 21, 2006 - Taking Sides

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Clues Answers
'Belt that ball!' RIPIT
'Bring the Boys Home' singer Payne FREDA
'Coming to America' prince AKEEM
'Fiddler on the Roof' star TOPOL
'I beg to differ' AUCTRAIRE
'O'er bank and ___...he glanced away...': Sir Walter Scott BRAE
'So that's what you're up to!' OHO
'The Neverending Story' author ENDE
'The New Atlantis' author BAC
'The ___ the Hat' CATIN
'To refresh your memory...' ISAID
'___ Is to Blame' (1986 song) NOONE
Actor Kevin and kin KLINES
Actor with seven Emmys EDASNER
Amex alternative OTC
Archipelago makeup ISLES
Arrived unexpectedly BLEWIN
Arrogant PUD
Bibliographer's phrase ETALIA
Big bang producer TNT
Big name in harmonicas HOHNER
Birds sacred to Thoth IBISES
Blastoff lead-in TWOONE
Brouhaha UPAR
Budget, in brand names ECO
Bunk ROT
Chicago exchange, for short MERC
City known for its sparkling wines ASTI
Coin of ancient Greece OBOL
Cosmopolitan competitor ELLE
Costa ___ RICA
Court call OYEZ
Cowpokes' colleagues PARDS
Cross bearers, often STEEPLES
Cube steak, usually TOPUND
Dabbling duck MALLARD
Dam org. TVA
Deep gulfs ABYSMS
Diner orders BLTS
Donne and Bradstreet POETS
Doozies LULUS
Dubya's Secretary of State CDI
Dusseldorf donkey ESEL
Electrical hub FUSEBOX
Email info SENDER
Erode EATAWAY
Extra NBA periods OTS
First dog to orbit Earth LAIKA
Freeze in one's tracks STOPDEAD
Frugal fellow SAVER
Ground, as one's teeth GRITTED
Guitarist Eddy DUANE
Ham's place, perhaps ONRYE
Hardly an ethics teacher REPBATE
Hasty escape LAM
Having two sides, perhaps DEBATABLE
Head light? HALO
Heck of a long time EON
House call? VOTE
Investigate PBE
Isolationist's bane ALLIANCE
Juan's wife EVA
Julia of 'Romero' RAUL
Killed time IDLED
Kind of mortgage SECD
Kind of partially assembled computer BAREBONE
Lake in Minnesota's Clearwater County ITASCA
Landing place STRIP
Layers STRATA
Light bracket SCCE
Like capital gains TAXED
Clues Answers
Like laptops PORTABLE
Like some bottle caps TAMPERPOF
Like some Ryan games NOHIT
Like Virginia hams AGED
Lionel Luthor's son LEX
Lucy's husband DESI
Maternal domination, figuratively APNSTRINGS
Medical fluids SERUMS
Moderate CENTRAL
Multi-day prayer NOVENA
N.Y. Mets' division NLEAST
Nags HENPECKS
Name abandoned by Jersey Standard in 1972 ESSO
Nonstick cookware brand TFAL
Nutella nut FILBERT
Offensive reference SLUR
Olympics monogram USA
Orchestra's place PIT
PAC work LOBBYING
Paces at races TROTS
Parlor piece DIVAN
Partner of broomsticks in a 1971 movie BEDKNOBS
Person with a title OWNER
Pita sandwiches GYROS
Places in the heart ATRIA
PlayStation 2 game of 2002 REZ
Popular novelty at the 1904 St. Louis World's Fair ICECREAMCE
Popular pastel LILAC
Prepare cocktails MIX
Put out SORE
Ready to be driven TEED
Restrained BATED
Return PFIT
Richie's dad, to the Fonz MRC
River to the Moselle SAAR
Rod squad? NRA
Rte. parts STS
Salad bar choice SPUTS
School subj. ENG
Seagram Bldg. location PARKAVE
Self-important bureaucrat SATRAP
Show stopper? REMOTECTROL
Sites of some rods RETINAS
Sojourn BIDE
Some MIT grads EES
Speak ill of TRADUCE
Sporty trucks, briefly UTES
Spot for Juliet BALCY
Stack-selling restaurants, for short IHOPS
Stand for a photographer TRIPOD
Start of a Fred Flintstone cry YABBA
Superhero's foe EVILDOER
Takes care of TENDS
Tap-dancing great King ___ Brown RASTUS
Tell all BLAB
That's just like ewe OVINE
They're aimed at the green APPACHSHOTS
They're found over tongues UVULAE
They're found under tongues INSOLES
Tight wrapper ANACDA
To-do list markings TICKS
Toledo native SPANIARD
USO audience GIS
Util. regulator PSC
Vigorous ANIMATED
Villain, figuratively BLACKHAT
Went up GAINED
Work with a libretto OPERA
Year in Provence ANNEE
___ Domingo SANTO
___ mater PIA