Wall Street Journal - Jun 27 2014 - June 27, 2014 - Colorful Language

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Clues Answers
'Ariel' poet PLATH
'Best I Ever Had' rapper DRAKE
'Common Sense' writer PAINE
'Have ___' (waiting room directive) ASEAT
'Once There Was ___' (Steinbeck book) AWAR
'This is a big problem' OHNO
'Very funny!' HAHA
'___ dreaming?' AMI
*Hershey's Kiss, essentially? GIANTCHOCOLATECHIP
*Library section that, to my knowledge, would be completely empty? LIGHTRUSSIANBOOKS
*Make a recording of Salvation Army Santas? TAPECHRISTMASBELLS
*Response one might get from Beijing when asking about Tibet? CHINESEMATTERPERIOD
*Smart ducks during hunting season? ALERTWATERBIRDS
*Tusk, often? BULLELEPHANTTOOTH
2008 bailout recipient AIG
Alternative to a spinner DIE
Atlantic in Atlantic City, e.g.: Abbr AVE
Babe in a barn FOAL
Baked, so to speak ONPOT
Balance sheet listing ASSETS
Bank RELY
Be compliant OBEY
Beat in an endurance contest OUTSTARE
Body cover SKIN
Braided together INTERWEAVED
Bring dishonor upon BESMIRCH
Buy a green car GOHYBRID
Caroling tune NOEL
CEO supporter ASST
Cheer for the matador OLE
Chest protector BIB
Co. acquired by Delta in 2008 NWA
Coll. or acad SCH
Color DYE
Common pledge drive gift TOTE
Conference teams often have them RIVALRIES
Consumed ATE
Crack SOLVE
Cry after stubbing one's toe OWOW
Designer of the first working nuclear reactor FERMI
Diamond club BAT
Disallow BAN
Distant flare-up NOVA
Doesn't ignore HEEDS
Drop down? MOLT
Editor's veto STET
Emulate Betsy Ross SEW
Exciting finish BANG
Facial spots SPAS
Fall off the wagon BACKSLIDE
Field worker ASS
First name in cosmetics ESTEE
First Spanish actor to win an Oscar BARDEM
Flying start? AERO
Freudian focus EGO
GarageBand runner, perhaps IMAC
Gentleman from Germany HERR
German subsidiary of GM OPEL
Gift bag padding TISSUEPAPER
Guinness Book suffix EST
Handfuls for sitters IMPS
Harmful, as effects ILL
Hasten HIE
Hermione's eventual husband RON
Highland Games item CABER
Home of the Bruins UCLA
Homes for some lizards TERRARIA
Hooded serpents ASPS
Hotel freebie SOAP
Hunter of myth ORION
Clues Answers
Infantry units BRIGADES
Interminable time EON
Irascible TESTY
Item with a duel purpose EPEE
Japan wax source SUMAC
Jerry Maguire, notably AGENT
John of 'Full House' STAMOS
Largest city in Moravia BRNO
Like 'that moss-covered bucket which hangs in the well' OAKEN
Like some budgets BLOATED
Long PINE
Long ACHE
Loren's love AMORE
Make one's voice heard VOTE
Many CEOs have them MBAS
Market player, for short ARB
Mine, in Marseille AMOI
Neighborhood south of Astor Place NOHO
Neither Rep. nor Dem IND
Network MESH
Next in the line of succession after Boehner LEAHY
Night vision? BLACK
Oil vessel CRUET
Only character mentioned in the 'Star Wars' crawl LEIA
Org. with many arms NRA
Parrot REPEAT
Part of the DreamWorks logo MOON
Pasty dish POI
Penalty kick awarder REF
Pickup in an alley SPARE
Plane section NOSE
President of Palestine since 2005 ABBAS
Ravenous STARVING
Remove from the drive ERASE
Result of getting plastered? CAST
Return to slender DIET
Roman road ITER
San Diego treat FISHTACO
Scottish interjection OCH
Scrabble rack septet TILES
Seen least often RAREST
Seventh of 24 letters ETA
Shakes off LOSES
Shankar with a sitar RAVI
Shout before applying the defibrillator CLEAR
Singer Basil TONI
Singer DiFranco ANI
Sleep clinic topic APNEA
Soft mineral TALC
Some scans CTS
Sources of durable wood ASHTREES
Speak with your hands SIGN
Springfield Elementary's bus driver OTTO
Sticker letters MSRP
Story that's sometimes dirty ATTIC
Subject of a Wonderland trial TARTS
Sullies TAINTS
Supply an address ORATE
T or F, e.g ANS
Take in ABSORB
Therefore ERGO
Thimbleweed, for one ANEMONE
Told and retold STALE
Trudge SLOG
Vaults LEAPS
Wedge-shaped inlet RIA
Where Meryl Davis and Charlie White won gold SOCHI
Wicked thing CANDLE
Words that can precede, in order, the three words in each starred answer REDWHITEANDBLUE
Wraps up ENDS