Wall Street Journal - Feb 22 2020 - Quick-Witted

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Clues Answers
“A Doll’s House” playwright IBSEN
“Barry” carrier HBO
“Black Water” novelist OATES
“Cemetery Road” novelist Greg ILES
“Fingers crossed!” HOPESO
“First, ___ harm” (doctor’s principle) DONO
“Full House” twins OLSENS
“I’m ___ home right now...” NOTAT
“Pearly Shells” singer DONHO
“Terrific!” AWESOME
“The Family Circus” cartoonist KEANE
“___, chess player!” KEEPITMOVING
“___, chicken plucker!” SHAKEALEG
“___, cryptologist!” GETCRACKING
“___, exterminator!” STEPONIT
“___, lumberjack!” CHOPCHOP
“___, quarterback!” MAKEITSNAPPY
“___, stunt performer!” ONTHEDOUBLE
“___, you solver with pencil!” GETTHELEADOUT
“___, zombie hunter!” LOOKALIVE
14-Down, for example SIMIAN
1882 Gilbert and Sullivan work IOLANTHE
74-Across, e.g OPERA
Abstainer’s choice NONE
ATM button ENTER
Audra with six Tonys MCDONALD
Automated email address harvester SPAMBOT
Ball wear, at times MASKS
Banded mineral ONYX
Battler of the frost giant Ymir ODIN
Bible boatwright NOAH
Biblical landing spot ARARAT
Bill raiser FEEHIKE
Brush aside DISMISS
Buck in country OWENS
Call somebody’s bluff, perhaps SEE
Chain sounds CLANKS
Colorado resort ASPEN
Dial in a tub SOAP
Dismaying dryer discovery ONESOCK
Do an orchard job GRAFT
Drama award OBIE
Duds TOGS
Education support grp PTA
Familial bunch CLAN
Fingers IDS
Fit in a garage, e.g CAR
Fluids in IV bags SERA
Former baseball commissioner Bud SELIG
Frat vowel ETA
French 101 verb ETRE
Garfield’s target, often ODIE
General at Gettysburg MEADE
Give an edge HONE
Gives in to gravity SAGS
GlaxoSmithKline obesity drug ALLI
Glides onto or off of a snowy slope PARASKIS
Gush EMOTE
He landed in Florida in 1539 DESOTO
Heroic toon with antennae ATOMANT
Hogwarts librarian Pince IRMA
Holes in the head NARES
Home on a cliff AERIE
In the past ONCE
Ingredient in some caramels SEASALT
Inhospitable to vegetation ARID
Initial advice for busybodies MYOB
It might bear 103-Across LOVENOTE
It might mean trouble OMEN
Jerk SOANDSO
Clues Answers
John on a farm DEERE
Lace problem KNOT
Large tub VAT
Least original STALEST
Less reasonable INSANER
Letters of affection SWAK
Loopy ones DINGBATS
Loud dance STOMP
Magic, for a time LAKER
Many a Christmas gift TOY
Materials for metallurgists ORES
McGwire’s 1998 rival SOSA
Means of access in some caper films DUCT
Men’s gymnastics event RINGS
Mexican moolah PESOS
Minotaur’s home CRETE
Mislead LIETO
Nancy’s pal in the comics ROLLO
Nasty folks MEANIES
Negotiations proponent DOVE
New Rochelle college IONA
Not a neat home HOVEL
Not neat OVERICE
Novelist Hunter EVAN
Nut’s hangout? TREE
Opposition group ANTIS
Orangutan, e.g GREATAPE
Organ part STOP
Packers linebacker Burks OREN
Parenthetical amount LOSS
Plants used for rope and dope HEMPS
Port for yachters LEFT
Potent cocktail name MOLOTOV
POTUS 35 JFK
Praise officially CITE
Primatologist Goodall JANE
Pro ___ RATA
Prodded EGGEDON
Psyche part EGO
Pub potable ALE
Quack remedy SNAKEOIL
Recurrent theme TROPE
Relish ENJOY
Result of a pot bust? SHARD
Risk falling from, as the brink TEETERON
Rockefeller in NYC, e.g CTR
Run for it FLEE
Satan’s collection SOULS
Scrooge visitors GHOSTS
Significant sorrow WOE
Sounded like wind chimes TINKLED
Source of a ribbiting performance FROG
Speckled steeds ROANS
Spot ESPY
Studio stand EASEL
Take a page from, perhaps UNJAM
Tallies SUMS
Target in a paintball game SHOOTAT
They wear little clothing KENS
They’re binding STRAPS
Thingy GISMO
Thwack BOP
Tied EVEN
Trade gathering EXPO
Uncle since the early 1800s SAM
Used up SPENT
Utah resort ALTA
Verbal facepalm DOH
Wiper sweeps ARCS
Wyoming’s ___ Range TETON