Wall Street Journal - Jan 16 2009 - January 16, 2009 - Cabinet Meeting

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Clues Answers
'And God Created Woman' star BARDOT
'Entertainer' whose last name is Kyles CEDRIC
'Magic Stick' rapper LILKIM
'Project Runway' sponsor ELLE
'Step right in!' NOWAIT
'Under Siege' star SEAGAL
'Why would ___?' ILIE
'___ bien!' TRES
'___ bien!' ('All right!' in Acapulco) ESTA
'___ soup yet?' ISIT
'___ to please' IAIM
4x4 SPORTUTE
AFL partner CIO
Alphanumeric code acronym ASCII
American plan inclusions MEALS
Andrew Carnegie, for one SCOT
Around the corner NOTFAR
Asylum seekers EMIGRES
Atkins diet no-no CARB
Babysitter's bane IMP
Bass output ALE
Best for seeking advice from WISEST
Board makeup WOOD
Borscht base BEETS
Bread bit RYESEED
Brings to a boil ANGERS
Briscoe's portrayer on 'Law & Order' ORBACH
Cabinet department furnisher? INTERIORDECORATOR
Cabinet department memo? TREASURYNOTE
Cabinet department room? CHAMBEROFCOMMERCE
Cabinet department yacht? SHIPOFSTATE
Carried the day WON
Cheap TIGHT
Cheesy snack NACHO
Chilly reaction BRR
Christine of 'Running on Empty' LAHTI
Christmas trees FIRS
Coffee container URN
Comeback kid? RETURNEE
Contract type COSTPLUS
Counsel to a cabinet department? DEFENSEATTORNEY
Crescent-shaped BICORN
Delivers to a cabinet department? BRINGSTOJUSTICE
Desperado BADMAN
Diva's problem EGO
Do a double take? REFILM
Draw TIE
Drug choice GENERIC
Easter basket item DYEDEGG
Emergency at a cabinet department? ENERGYCRISIS
Encase SHEATHE
Exist ARE
First MAIDEN
Fleeting BRIEF
Food on a stick KEBAB
Former Asian nation MALAYA
Freak out GOAPE
Free-throw area KEY
Give a hand? SLAP
Hammer hurler of myth THOR
Hardly a hedonist ASCETIC
Have a dependency RELY
He loved Roxane CYRANO
Heard AURAL
Herd word MOO
Highway sign word THRU
Home of Goya's 'La Maja Desnuda' ELPRADO
Home run pace TROT
Hugs, symbolically OOO
Iger's predecessor at Disney EISNER
Clues Answers
In costume CLAD
Inebriate SOT
Informal legal plea NOLO
Initials on the cover of 'The Hobbit' JRR
It's going around ORBIT
Japanese conquest of 1942 BURMA
Lifted STOLE
Like skeletal muscles STRIATED
Like the Islamic calendar LUNAR
Love letters? SWAK
Mall pizza chain SBARRO
Many an IM sender AOLER
Many Miamians RETIREES
Mark down, perhaps RETAG
Market-overseeing org. SEC
Mexico has 31 of them ESTADOS
Monet painted its cathedral ROUEN
More than mega- GIGA
Movie critic Jeffrey LYONS
Mrs., from Marseilles MME
Music's Mary J. BLIGE
Non-profit situation LOSS
Nosy one YENTA
NYPD figures SGTS
Off the table EATEN
Old Olds CIERA
On the sidelines, maybe HURT
Ones abroad UNES
Parabolic path ARC
Part of the Iowa skyline SILO
Party centerpiece CAKE
Passionate fellow ROMEO
Place for a pin MAT
Place for a ring EAR
Pocketbook protection MACE
Poet Silverstein SHEL
Pooh pal ROO
Problem for a classroom teacher CALLINGOUT
Put away, as groceries UNBAG
Qantas commercial critters KOALABEARS
Raison d'___ ETRE
Resort east of Squaw Valley TAHOE
Ricky's wife LUCY
Ross creation OLDGLORY
Rupert of 'My Best Friend's Wedding' EVERETT
Scout's interest TALENT
Secret rival ARRID
Send out EMIT
Smack suffix EROO
Something to skip ROPE
Spicy cuisine THAI
Suit in a Spanish deck of cards OROS
Suitor BEAU
Take on K2 CLIMB
Test the weight of HEFT
Thousandth of a yen RIN
Time for a revolution? YEAR
Tony winner Schreiber LIEV
Totaled RANTO
Tournament pass BYE
Treat badly MISUSE
Twist in the sky YAW
Vb. type IRR
VIP table setting DAIS
Visit a cabinet department building? GOINTOLABOR
When Juliet is compared to the sun ACTII
Where trapeze artists meet MIDAIR
Whispers sweet nothings COOS
Will-wisp connection OTHE
Zenith ACME