Wall Street Journal - Nov 4 2005 - November 04, 2005 - Why Al Roker Got Fired

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'Amscray!' GIT
'Born ___' TORUN
'Don't Wanna Lose You' singer Gloria ESTEFAN
'Little Iodine' creator Jimmy HATLO
'My turn to bat' IMUP
'The cow is of the bovine ilk' writer NASH
'Wild Thing' group, with 'the' TROGGS
'You know how ___' ITIS
'___ good you do so much for charity': Portia TWERE
Actors Suplee and Hawke ETHANS
Acts the sycophant BUTTERSUP
Advantage for strikers UNITY
Amanti maker KIA
Animated chihuahua REN
Artist championed by Zola MANET
Atlas blowups INSETS
Back problem ACHE
Balance sheet list ASSETS
Baltimore bard POE
Blood-typing syst. ABO
Bothered ATEAT
British byes TATAS
Broadway's longest running musical CATS
Call letters? MCI
Call maker REF
Call to attention HARK
Camera card contents IMAGES
Canal zone? EAR
Canon camera EOS
Cash containers TILLS
Chilly sounds BRRS
Chooser's greedy choice BOTH
Chopper spinner ROTOR
Circus trio RINGS
City on Lake Ontario OSWEGO
Classify ASSORT
Comparable to a lobster ASRED
Confound ADDLE
Construction zone SITE
Contribute to the mix ADDIN
Cornfield cacophony CAWS
Corp. bigwig PRES
Daughter of Kronos HERA
Designer Geoffrey BEENE
Dinner in a bucket STEAMERS
Distant APART
Doo-wop syllable SHA
Dressing choice RANCH
Emmy winner for playing Gotti ASSANTE
Food stamp org. USDA
For fear that LEST
Furtive SLY
Get set? COLLECT
Go out of business FOLDUP
Good service? ACE
Grand THOU
Grant an appeal for REHEAR
Gray without age? DORIAN
Great athlete who wore the number 10 PELE
Grounded flier SST
He didn't meet his deadlines when he became ___ SNOWEDUNDER
He tried to ___ but still got fired RIDEOUTTHESTORM
He was often wrong, for which he ___ TOOKTHEHEAT
His forecasts were ignored, leaving him ___ OUTINTHECOLD
His forecasts were ___ FULLOFHOTAIR
In danger NOTSAFE
Inclined APT
It borders It. AUS
It may be shot in the open PAR
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It's for the birds PERCH
Just for kicks INFUN
Kind of attaché CULTURAL
Kitchen array SPICES
Least speedy POKIEST
Little salamander EFT
Loser to Franklin in 1936 ALF
Many middle schoolers TWEENS
McDonald's supply PATTIES
Mississippi source ITASCA
Move, in realty jargon RELO
Onassis and others ARIS
One in the fare trade CAB
Org. of concern to AARP SSA
Osso ___ BUCO
Other more popular meteorologists were able to ___ STEALHISTHUNDER
Palms and the like PDAS
Part of RISD RHODE
Party leader HOST
Person who'll put you in your place USHER
Piece of school jewelry CLASSPIN
Place where you might have a shot BAR
Plane figures COPILOTS
Plant SOW
Poll star? GALLUP
Pre-Little League game TBALL
Prepare for the shower STRIP
Prepare to take off, perhaps UNZIP
Prevents access to SHUTS
Prince Philip's birthplace CORFU
Random number generator DIE
Red flag to ___ (anger provocation) ABULL
Reggae great Peter TOSH
Ronsard writings ODES
Sawbuck TENNER
Schedule-publishing org. IRS
Short and sweet CONCISE
SI staffers EDS
Simple sheds LEANTOS
Slipped ERRED
Some brown-baggers WINOS
Some drinkers extend them PINKIES
Some low-income housing, for short SROS
Some shells PASTA
Splits BREAKUPS
Spot charges ADRATES
Stadium near the Unisphere ASHE
Starbucks choice GREENTEA
Strangle THROTTLE
Stressful existences RATRACES
Summery fabric MADRAS
Sunscreen ingredient PABA
System of beliefs ISM
Tailless mammal APE
Tarzana neighbor ENCINO
Teammate of Jackie, Duke and Pee Wee GIL
They know when you're out UMPS
This answer is one NOUN
Tomorrow's forecast? He didn't have ___ THEFOGGIESTIDEA
Too often he called in saying he was ___ UNDERTHEWEATHER
Tortilla triangles NACHOS
Venom injector FANG
View from Catania ETNA
Waiting room supply MAGAZINES
Weight-bearing bone TIBIA
Windows boxes PCS
Worker in the fields BEE
Worldwide workers' agcy. ILO
Zorro's real first name DIEGO