Wall Street Journal - Aug 27 2004 - August 27, 2004 - The Crossword Puzzle Diet

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Clues Answers
'...had ___ and couldn't keep her' AWIFE
'Are you glad I'm back?' MISSME
'Brigadoon' lyricist LERNER
'Fiddler on the Roof' setting SHTETL
'Let ___' ITBE
'Old' Disney dog YELLER
'That's how it's going to be, is it?' ISEE
'The Lion King' lyricist TIMRICE
'The NFL Today' analyst ESIASON
'___ la vie' CEST
Abbr. on a cornerstone ESTD
Affinity for music EAR
Agcy. that analyzes black boxes NTSB
Anthem opener OSAY
Arles agreement OUI
Back up a bad guy ABET
Besides ATTHAT
Big, in combinations MEGA
Black-necked goose BRANT
Blockbuster stock TAPES
Bread boxes? TILLS
Brewer's need YEAST
Bro, to sis SIB
Bus driver's diet? REDUCEDFARE
Calls the shots DIRECTS
Capone foe NESS
Center performance SNAP
Cheeky PERT
Chem. and biol. SCIS
Chemist's suffix IDE
Choose on the radio dial TUNETO
Clothes line HEM
Come after ENSUE
Comic turn BIT
Confident ASSURED
Decides to participate OPTSIN
Department supervisor's diet? MIDDLEMANAGEMENT
Detective Pinkerton ALLAN
Did some gardening WEEDED
Discounter's diet? TENPERCENTOFF
Do gallery work HANG
Driving hazard ICE
Driving school practice UTURNS
Duracell size AAA
Duvall nickname in a 1979 movie SANTINI
Ecuador ending EAN
Egyptian headdress symbol ASP
Elders, e.g. TREES
Ending of some URLs ORG
Enters another forum message REPOSTS
Even a little ATALL
Exercises USES
Fashionable, in a way LATE
Fat, in France GRAS
Financial support AID
Find UNEARTH
Five-carbon sugar RIBOSE
Flop DUD
Gather piece by piece GLEAN
Gee preceders EFS
Get through a swap TRADEFOR
Half-hearted person's diet? THINATTEMPT
Halloween charity UNICEF
Hands-up situation NOONTIME
Hero of Berlioz's 'Les Troyens' AENEAS
Insurgent's diet? REGIMECHANGE
It was dropped in the '60s LSD
King of boxing DON
Kitchen drainer COLANDER
Lab nuisance FLEA
Clues Answers
Less cluttered NEATER
Less likely to be in Mensa DENSER
Like some drawings RANDOM
Lith. and Ukr., once SSRS
Maiden name indicator NEE
Make a gift of DONATE
Many potatoes IDAHOS
Margin mark STET
Mark's successor EURO
Mo. of the Perseid meteor shower AUG
Most elusive EELIEST
Night school subj. ESL
One-time JFK lander SST
Ornamental notions case ETUI
Patch target RIP
Patience-virtue link ISA
Periodic table abbr. ATNO
Pessimist's diet? SLENDERPROSPECTS
Poor grade DEE
Prison in a Johnny Cash song FOLSOM
Privy to INON
Prolonged attack SIEGE
Protest OPPOSE
Reacted to a good hand RAISED
Responds to a busy signal REDIALS
RNs dispense them MEDS
Run smoothly HUM
Russian fighter MIG
Salonga of 'Miss Saigon' LEA
Schweppes offering TONIC
Senators' grp. NHL
Serious thinker's diet? WEIGHTYMATTER
Shows scorn SNEERS
Sign of a mistake ERASURE
Signifies ADDSUPTO
Slangy turndowns NAHS
Some radios FMS
Sound from cats? HARDC
Soup herb DILL
Souvenir stand buy TEESHIRT
Spoofed SENTUP
Start of the 'Yellow Submarine' chorus WEALL
State capital named for a French fur trader PIERRE
Stimulate WHET
Subject of some limits TERM
Summon for active duty CALLUP
Tailor's tool SHEARS
Tennis no-no FAULT
Texaco symbol STAR
The world according to Arp MONDE
Therapist's advice LETITOUT
They bargain with GM UAW
Tibia setting SHIN
Track star's diet? FASTTIMES
Transistor part EMITTER
Trickle SEEP
Underdog's diet? LOSINGBATTLE
Unexpected obstacles SNAGS
Uses a spoon STIRS
Veil material TULLE
Was considered CAMEUP
Wealthy Walton SAM
Welcome order ATEASE
What we work for PAY
Wimbledon winner Gibson ALTHEA
Winter Palace resident TSARINA
Wishful thinker? ALADDIN
Words from an optimist ICAN
You can get down from one EIDER
Young person's diet? SALADDAYS