Wall Street Journal - Sep 19 2008 - September 19, 2008 - Front-Runners

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'Grand Canyon Suite' composer GROFE
'Later!' SEEYA
'Monk' carrier USA
'Swell!' NEATO
'They're A-B-C-Delicious!' brand ALPHABITS
'___ Death' (Brad Garrett sitcom) TIL
1963 role for Shirley IRMA
1968 buyer of Sheraton ITT
1976, when leisure suits were most popular? POLYESTERYEAR
1983 World Series champs ORIOLES
20-Across, for one OPERA
2001 #1 hit for Jennifer Lopez IMREAL
8.5-pound awards OSCARS
A river runs through it DELTA
According to ASPER
Across-the-room call HEY
Acting expert Hagen UTA
Airship that participates in a survey? POLLEDZEPPELIN
Annoyed RILED
Apple's apple and Target's target LOGOS
Assayer's sample ORE
Attack helicopter APACHE
Bambino TOT
Bass part GILL
Beachgoer's souvenir SUNTAN
Bit of business DEAL
Brewpub fare ALES
Bridge unit TRICK
Bring down TOPPLE
British sailors, in slang LIMEYS
Building with wings? HANGAR
Cantonese cooker WOK
Caught, in a way ROPED
Chooses SETTLESON
City map abbr. AVE
Clairvoyant skill ESP
Collectively ENMASSE
College officials PROVOSTS
Convertible driver's option TOPUP
Croatia's capital ZAGREB
Dawn OUTSET
Delineate clearly ETCH
Denver elevation MILE
Did nothing IDLED
Dilettante, e.g. AMATEUR
Direction at sea ALEE
Directive to a chauffeur HOME
Do as the rueful do ATONE
Draft card letters SSS
Drainpipe part TRAP
Dry out PARCH
Dump output ODOR
Easy runs LOPES
Emotionally expressive LYRICAL
Enticed DREWIN
Except if UNLESS
Extreme DRASTIC
Faithful TRUE
Fangorn Forest creature ENT
Farm team OXEN
Fencer's foot stamp APPEL
Fill the kite-flying air with smog, say? POLLUTESTRINGS
Fix, in a way SPAY
Fixed helping of a 19th-century president? POLKRATION
Flamenco clicker CASTANET
Forte METIER
Frisco footballer NINER
Germany's equivalent of 14-Across LOLAS
Goes a bout BOXES
Clues Answers
Got one's feet wet, in a way WADED
Grammarian's concern CASE
Grammarian's concern TENSES
Guff LIP
Has a hankering YEARNS
High and low ALLOVER
Home of the Horned Frogs TCU
House work? ACT
Husk-wrapped item TAMALE
Iditarod item SLED
In the mail SENT
Incense ANGER
Incited URGED
Iodine source SEAWEED
Khaki's cousin ECRU
Kind of order STOP
Knockoff REPLICA
La Scala premiere of 1887 OTELLO
Lindsay of 'Places in the Heart' CROUSE
Machine part CAM
Makes pigtails PLAITS
Member of a tropical column ARMYANT
Missile engine RAMJET
Most disgusting FOULEST
Motel offering ROOM
Nation on the Medit. Sea LEB
Newton-meter JOULE
Oasis's music BRITPOP
One for the books? PAGE
One of Tony's inner circle, on 'The Sopranos' PAULIE
Ordinary MERE
Out of sorts ILL
Personal histories PASTS
Piston connector ROD
Port pusher TUG
Prepare for a big day RESTUP
Produce section array PEPPERS
Producer's nightmare FLOP
Recipe amount CUP
Resident of Okefenokee Swamp POGO
Roll call response in French class ICI
Soft & ___ (Dial brand) DRI
Spelunking sites GROTTOS
Star of the 2008 Beijing Olympics PHELPS
Stewart and Heder JONS
Supreme Court justice since 1990 SOUTER
Tailless mammal APE
Take by surprise STARTLE
Teaser PROMO
Telescope part OPTIC
They're wicked CANDLES
Tire type RADIAL
Took the bench SAT
Toronto-based Ralph Lauren subsidiary? POLOCANADA
Trainer of horses for the Mounties? POLICEBREAKER
Turned aside AVERTED
Two-time Tony winner Bernadette PETERS
Up-to-the-minute news LATEST
User-friendly SIMPLE
Valuable vein LODE
Wards off REPELS
Warsaw's court system made universal? POLANDJUSTICEFORALL
Was a front-runner LED
Washer cycle RINSE
Where Jim Bowie died ALAMO
Where the Gila joins the Colorado YUMA
Words before pickle or jam INA
___ crossroads ATA
___ Tomé SAO