Wall Street Journal - Oct 17 2003 - October 17, 2003 - Job Creation

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'Annie Hall' star KEATON
'Be quiet!' CANIT
'Cheerio!' TATA
'L'Horizon Chimérique' composer FAURE
'Mefistofele' composer BOITO
'Pippi Longstocking' author Lindgren ASTRID
'Wonderful Town' song ITSLOVE
1945 movie musical '___ Was a Lady' EADIE
A head EACH
Aconcagua's range ANDES
Adventurous exploit GEST
Area over a stage FLIES
Ashcroft's predecessor RENO
Atahualpa follower INCA
Auto parts name NAPA
Beat on the basketball court OUTSHOT
Beatles hit HELP
Beginning with athlete or cycle TRI
Bête ___ NOIRE
Binary DUAL
Chapel fixture PEW
Clock numeral III
Clueless ATSEA
Cohort of Bolger and Haley LAHR
College basketball tourney, for short NIT
Computer accessory MODEM
Concorde builder CHRYSLER
Constitution pt. AMDT
Copycat's cry METOO
Court event TRIAL
Craze FAD
Cruel practice SADISM
Delhi dough RUPEE
Dinero MOOLA
Do a baseball manager's job? DRAFTDODGERS
Do a furniture mover's job? PUTERTHERE
Do a magazine editor's job? WORKOVERTIME
Do a pilot's job? RAISEAFLAP
Do a preacher's job? SPEAKOFTHEDEVIL
Do a ringmaster's job? SENDINTHECLOWNS
Do a road builder's job? GRADEONACURVE
Do a Top 40 deejay's job? PLAYFAVORITES
Droll Wright STEVEN
Dutch export EDAM
ER procedure PREP
Filing time APRIL
Final Four org. NCAA
Fire starter TINDER
First born CAIN
Food storage sites LARDERS
Fowl language PEEPS
Free of coarseness SIFT
Frost lines POEM
Fugard's 'A Lesson From ___' ALOES
Goes out of business? RETIRES
Golden boy of film OSCAR
Good to go ALLSET
Govt. lender FHA
Great bargain STEAL
Groovy platters LPS
Hair piece TRESS
Hockey's Lindros ERIC
Hollywood events PREMIERES
Home of La Quebrada's cliff divers ACAPULCO
House work ACT
Hydrophane, e.g. OPAL
Hypothetical questions WHATIFS
iBook, e.g. MAC
Ideal BESTCASE
In need of aspirin ACHING
Increase REVUP
Inner tube? AORTA
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Invitation sender HOST
IRS IDs SSNS
Islamic mystic SUFI
It has a freezing point of zero CELSIUS
It might get you down EIDER
It's a thought IDEA
It's put before Descartes RENE
It's slippery when wet EEL
Jacks, sometimes OPENERS
Jazz grp. NBA
Kitsch owner's lack TASTE
Lab dish PETRI
Learning style ROTE
Lighten up EASEOFF
Little isle AIT
Lundgren of 'Rocky IV' DOLPH
Made oneself heard YELLED
Main chip, for short CPU
Merger announcement IDO
Mick's bandmate KEITH
Much of the paper ADS
Not so FALSE
NYSE listings COS
Of current interest TOPICAL
Oklahoma city ENID
One who may make a big deal of it AGENT
Overhaul REVAMP
Part of Caesar's boast ISAW
Pennsylvania port ERIE
Personnel STAFF
Pitching stat ERA
Place for a béret TETE
Pong producer ATARI
Pop star IDOL
Projecting edge LIP
Prom wear ORCHID
Put down DIS
Puts in a lawn SODS
Rap sheet item PRIOR
Resident of Tibet's capital LHASAN
Rosie's role model MERV
Rules and regs. STDS
Runner Sebastian COE
Rustler chasers POSSE
Sidewalk stand buy ADE
Silver streak VEIN
Singer Redding OTIS
Software license party USER
Some linemen ENDS
Sound quality HEALTH
Squealer RAT
Stern with a bow ISAAC
Story of France ETAGE
Sum people, for short CPAS
Summer specialty DISCO
Supplement ADDTO
Take ___ at (attempt) ASTAB
Talk up? PRAY
Téa of 'Hollywood Ending' LEONI
Tend to the garden WEED
They may get you the upper hand ACES
Tropical rodent AGOUTI
Vanishing sound POOF
Vermouth, for one APERITIF
Vert.'s counterpart HOR
Where to watch WETA TV DCAREA
Wilson of 'Shanghai Noon' OWEN
Wise guy SMARTALEC
Work like a beaver GNAW
You could come down with it THUD
Young Darth Vader's nickname ANI
___ gratias DEO