Wall Street Journal - Jan 21 2005 - January 21, 2005 - Closing the Sale

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Clues Answers
'Blue screen of death' event CRASH
'Got it!' ISEE
'I was at home washing my dog,' e.g. ALIBI
'My Heart Will Go On' singer DION
'Science Guy' Bill NYE
'Sometimes a Great Notion' author KESEY
'Sweet!' NEATO
'That's really something!' MAN
'The Last Juror' author GRISHAM
'Zounds!' EGADS
1980s Attorney General MEESE
34-Down sounds CAWS
A mullet covers it NAPE
Ad animal since 1938 ELSIE
Alley end? OOP
Alma mater of 19 prime ministers ETON
Alternative to a Keogh acct. SEP
Arithmetic class answer SUM
Arrested RANIN
At hand NIGH
Bandleader called 'The Ol' Perfessor' KYSER
Beginning for boy or girl ATTA
Beta carotene, for one ISOMER
Blacken SEAR
Bond component ATOM
British beef cube brand OXO
Cagney's portrayer GLESS
Calls Domino's, perhaps EATSIN
Capital indicator STAR
Capt.'s underling in the Navy CMDR
Cards, on scorecards STL
Catch one's sweetie by surprise STEALAKISS
Challenger of Stalin TITO
Charlie Brown utterance RATS
Cheshire cat trademark GRIN
Chortle with glee, perhaps EXULT
Clearasil target ACNE
Cobalt or Neon CAR
Cold-water flat? IGLOO
Computer voiced by Douglas Rain HAL
Conditional kind of statement IFTHEN
Confession words IDIDIT
Containing a bluish metallic chemical element OSMIC
Conventional NORMAL
Cornfield pest CROW
Course hazards TRAPS
Designer for Mrs. Kennedy CASSINI
Designer Spade KATE
Did a strudel-making job CORED
Early birds ROBINS
Eliminates ERASES
Ellipsis unit DOT
Elvis expression SNEER
Emblem ICON
Evening up TYING
Fallopian tube travelers OVA
Followed OBEYED
Football Hall of Famer Dawson LEN
Foreman's place RING
Giggly Sesame Street resident ELMO
Go off on a tangent DIGRESS
Good fighter? EVIL
Granddaddy of all computers ENIAC
Grape-filled valley NAPA
Grounded fleet SSTS
Hind REAR
Indistinguishable SAME
Infer DERIVE
Isn't wrong? AINT
It gets under your collar TIE
Its highest point is Mount Olympus MARS
Its highest pt. is Harney Peak SDAK
Clues Answers
Jack of 'The Great Dictator' OAKIE
Kennedy or Clinton SENATOR
Knuckleheads DOPES
LA-NYC flight path ENE
Lab subject AMEBA
Least perfidious TRUEST
Less fresh STALER
Letters before a second afterthought PPS
Liability for a musician TINEAR
Like some monks' heads SHORN
Like some of Pizarro's victims INCAN
Liqueur named from the Gaelic for 'drink that satisfies' DRAMBUIE
Logging opponent TREEHUGGER
Marshal in Napoleon's army NEY
Minimal amount LEAST
Mirthful RIANT
More despicable BASER
Muddy ROIL
Nickname for Francisco PACO
Not-so-functional firecracker DUD
Not-so-great hand ONEPAIR
On ___ (carousing) ATEAR
Org. on the docks ILA
Oust from power DETHRONE
Overdoes the whiskey drinks TOPES
Part of A.D. ANNO
Part of Tafari Makonnen's adopted name HAILE
Plant with sword-shaped leaves IXIA
Rake over the coals CHIDE
Rapper born Tracy Marrow ICET
Red-eye gravy base HAM
Reef dwellers EELS
Replay feature SLOMO
See 23-Across ACOMPACT
Shellacking DEFEAT
Site of much outsourcing INDIA
Skater Harding TONYA
Slate, for one EMAG
Small-print nos. in credit card ads APRS
Spread outward SPLAY
Spur URGE
Square-ended boat SCOW
Stock character? INVESTOR
Stock holder PEN
Sure moneymaker CASHCOW
Take off DEPART
Takes home NETS
Tasseled topper FEZ
Tepee wall HIDE
The author... GOTITINWRITING
The book publisher... MADEITBINDING
The cartoonist... INKEDACONTRACT
The circus trainer... SEALEDTHEDEAL
The mason... SETITINSTONE
The tailor... SEWEDTHINGSUP
The tuxedo shop owner... FORMALIZEDIT
To be, in Toulouse ETRE
Track numbers ODDS
Train TEACH
Trash holder BIN
Troy story ILIAD
Ukr. was one SSR
Uneven haircut SHAG
War and go GAMES
What collectors do AMASS
Whiskey drinks SOURS
Wing ANNEX
With 127-Across, the car dealer... AGREEDON
Word repeated in a Doris Day title SERA
Writer Dinesen ISAK
Yeats's home EIRE
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