Wall Street Journal - Aug 25 2006 - August 25, 2006 - X Marks the Spot

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Clues Answers
'American Idol' prop MIC
'Everybody Hurts' band REM
'Jurassic Park' baddies TREXS
'My heavens!' GAD
'Puss in Boots' beast OGRE
'Something Happened' author HELLER
1982 David Mamet play EDMOND
1982 Jeff Bridges film TRON
1990s Britcom, familiarly ABFAB
2003 film with the tagline 'Free Your Mind,' with 'The' MATRIXELOADED
3-D, in combinations HOLO
Airline freebies, sometimes MEALS
Anglo-Saxon tax GELD
Atlantic Ocean, slangily POND
Author Robert ___ Butler OLEN
Barely JUST
Barrymore family member ETHEL
Bath suds? ALE
Battlefield formation ECHELON
Beaten by Botvinnik MATED
Becoming SEEMLY
Believer in dictatorship MONOCRAT
Big-tongued comic strip character ODIE
Border RIM
Came down ALIT
Captain of the Adventure Galley KIDD
Casting call shout NEX
Catch sight of DESCRY
Celebrates gloatingly EXLTS
Climber's spike PITON
Commotions ADOS
Courtroom figure STENO
Danced to 'Mi Noche Triste' TANGOED
Deer sirs? STAGS
Description of an oyster shell's shape EARLIKE
Didn't accept an apology, maybe SUED
Doesn't go for the green, in golf LAYSUP
Downwind LEEWARD
Dr. Phil's last name MCGRAW
Election night data TREND
Evening dress PAJAMAS
Evolutionary links APEMEN
Fancy flapjack CREPE
Female oracle SIBYL
Fifth-century invader of the Balkans ATTILA
Film director Kazan ELIA
Finished off ATE
Flatter excessively ADULATE
Fleeced female EWE
Freeloader LEECH
Guy FELLA
Hat-tipping word MAAM
Havana homes CASAS
Have trouble deciding AGONIZE
Hollywood twins' name OLSEN
Hoover rival ORECK
Hurdles for grad students ORALEXMS
Identified LABELED
Ignored the alarm SNOOZED
Indicates agreement ASSENTS
It lasted through the reign of Marcus Aurelius PAXOMANA
Item examined by a cardiologist CHESTXAY
Juan's wife SENORA
Kafka character Gregor ___ SAMSA
Keach who played Mike Hammer STACY
Kin of 65-Across TYPIST
Land, manufacturing equipment and the like FIXDASSETS
Laurie Partridge's portrayer SUSANDEY
Clues Answers
Left on an ocean voyage PORT
Life saver? NOAH
Like baroque architecture ORNATE
Like many returning vacationers TANNED
Many millennia AEON
Masquerade necessity COSTUME
Mother goddess of Asia Minor CYBELE
Natural source? DICE
Nest dweller HORNET
Office mailbox fodder MEMOS
Old-money families look down on them NOUVEAUXICHES
One eager to see how the other half lives, say TRANSSEXAL
Order specifications SIDES
Ostensible reasons PRETEXS
Painter Magritte RENE
Parent company of Jimmy Dean and Wonderbra SARALEE
Party with a DJ RAVE
Phrase following a clarification TOBEEXCT
Play records? BOXCORES
Poe poem featuring a dialogue with Psyche ULALUME
Pop performer? WEASEL
Premium potato chip coating SEASALT
Prepares Parmesan GRATES
Prize ribbon's top ROSETTE
Pro ___ (for one's country) PATRIA
Prop for Sherlock PIPE
Put right REMEDY
Reason to downshift HILL
Restaurant of folkie fame ALICES
Royal coat trim ERMINE
Samuel Richardson novel subtitled 'Virtue Rewarded' PAMELA
Sausalito's county MARIN
Saxony's capital DRESDEN
Screw top SLOT
Serengeti sights GNUS
Sewer line? SEAM
Sheen's 'Two and a Half Men' co-star CRYER
Shell directors COXWAINS
Shepard in space ALAN
Single out CHOOSE
Soccer star Mia HAMM
Soprano Scotto RENATA
Speedy Gonzales shout ANDALE
Split level? BANANA
Start of a German farewell AUF
Stops being so formal UNBENDS
Suggestion TINGE
Sum component ADDEND
Supplement, with 'out' EKE
Supporter ALLY
Swindler CROOK
The Crimson Tide, familiarly BAMA
Trickery WILES
Trillionth, in metric names PICO
TV princess XNA
Unwelcome ones PARIAHS
Upright ONEND
Vaquero's workplace HACIENDA
Vein contents ORE
View with loathing DETEST
Vigorous effort EXRTION
Watergate evidence TAPES
Web page code HTML
Wheelwright's supply SPOKES
Wickfield's clerk HEEP
Woman of paradise, in Islam HOURI
Wrinkly dogs SHARPEIS
Writer Zora ___ Hurston NEALE