Wall Street Journal - Nov 28 2003 - November 28, 2003 - Playing Politics

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Clues Answers
'...___ he rode out of sight...' ERE
'I've been framed!' ITSALIE
'Norma ___' RAE
'Zip-A-Dee-___-Dah' DOO
A few, to Francisco UNAS
Acting teacher Hagen UTA
Alcohol consumption by nonextremists? MODERATEDRINKING
Asbestos remover ABATER
Barley-shaped pasta ORZO
Be silent, in music TACET
Bits of work ERGS
Blood products SERA
Board member TRUSTEE
Boardroom VIPs CEOS
Brother's title FRA
Buffalo-to-Baltimore dir. SSE
Certain calculations SUMS
Cheerleading asset PEP
Choir makeup VOICES
Clinton cabinet member Federico PENA
Clothing line HEM
Cockeyed AMISS
Cocoon occupants PUPAE
Coeur d'___ ALENE
Corporate division OPERATIONS
Corrupt DEGRADE
Cosmopolitan competitor ELLE
Cricket equipment BATS
Darlings PETS
Dept. that oversees the Forest Service AGR
Dinnerware synthetic MELMAC
Director Grosbard ULU
Disney classic FANTASIA
Drop in the ocean SINK
Elaine Chao's department LABOR
ER VIPs RNS
Eta look-alikes AITCHES
Exit of extremists? RADICALDEPARTURE
Financial assistance AID
Firmly opposed to SETAGAINST
Flapjack-making need GRIDDLE
Follows up on SEESINTO
For the flock LAIC
Fourth-down choice PUNT
Franchise that sells Shivers and Moo Malts TCBY
Funds ENDOWS
Gaelic tongue ERSE
Galoot APE
Garden worker HOER
Gaucho weapon BOLA
Geisha girder OBI
Go-aheads YESES
Goes after ATTACKS
Golfer Aoki ISAO
Grammy winner India.___ ARIE
Greenspan and others ALANS
High marks APLUSSES
High point of a European trip? ALP
Hokkaido honorific SAN
Honcho MRBIG
Horror movie staples MONSTERS
Indian strings SITARS
Its official language is Catalan ANDORRA
Lane's 'Unfaithful' co-star GERE
Largest antelope ELAND
LeBron James's squad, for short CAVS
Legal proceedings for a right-winger? CONSERVATIVESUIT
Less likely to put up a fight MEEKER
Letters found in briefs BVD
Light ___ ASAIR
Clues Answers
Like the 13 U.S. colonies ORIG
Lowly worker, figuratively COG
Magic's real name EARVIN
Major successor BLAIR
Marathoner's need STAMINA
Mead subject SAMOAN
Mister product SPRAY
Modern art? ARE
Molson offering ALE
Monkey in Disney's 'Aladdin' ABU
Monument Valley sight MESA
Most trivial LEAST
Movie for the unaffiliated? INDEPENDENTFILM
Multi-slope roof MANSARD
Music for reformists? PROGRESSIVEJAZZ
Noted party crasher ALICE
Obliquely ASKANT
On a higher plane ASTRAL
Org. that helps mom-and-pop stores SBA
Painter's protector SMOCK
Pampering places SPAS
Part of UNLV LAS
Pat down TAMP
Peace, in Panama PAZ
Playwright Henley BETH
Portrayer of Kelsey's ex BEBE
Raisin-studded dessert BABAAURHUM
Russell Crowe or Nicole Kidman AUSSIE
Sábado, e.g. DIA
Safeco Field player MARINER
Schooling for those on the left? LIBERALEDUCATION
Seaman's outfit: Abbr. USN
Series of lines, essentially ROLE
Serve as the basis for UNDERLIE
Shade in the summer SUNTAN
Shakespeare's feet IAMBS
Shaq's alma mater LSU
Siberian expanse STEPPE
Situation after a leadoff single ONEON
Snaps PICS
Some DVD players RCAS
Something wonderful, in slang APIP
Songwriter's Alley TINPAN
Space walks, for short EVAS
Strainer SIEVE
Swiss river AAR
Taunted JEERED
Taylor of 'The Haunting' LILI
Telephone line acronym WATS
Test answer FALSE
The Spartans' sch. MSU
There's no I in it TEAM
They're read in brasseries CARTES
Ticks off RILES
Tilting need LANCE
To a great degree INSPADES
Tollbooth setting PLAZA
Tony winner Judith IVEY
Toppers for some environmental activists? GREENBERETS
Treat with tea SCONE
Tribute maker MAZDA
Tufted bird TIT
Verdi opera first performed in 1844 ERNANI
Vogue CRAZE
Watergate monogram RMN
Way to serve scampi ONRICE
Where you live ABODE
Women who walk down the aisle USHERETTES
___ vincit amor OMNIA
___-Boy (furniture brand) LAZ