Wall Street Journal - Mar 23 2007 - March 23, 2007 - National Mergers

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Clues Answers
'...in heaven above, ___ earth beneath...': I Kings ORON
'America Alone' author Mark STEYN
'Come hungry. Leave happy.' chain IHOP
'Happy Days' diner ALS
'I smell ___!' ARAT
'Oh Yeah' band YELLO
'See ya, Major Pierce'? ALOHAHAWKEYE
'Swans Reflecting Elephants' painter DALI
'The Flowering Peach' playwright ODETS
'The Haj' writer URIS
'Uncle!' IGIVE
'___ soup yet?' ISIT
'___ voce poco fa' (Rossini aria) UNA
1980 Tony-winning musical EVITA
1998 Masters champ Mark OMEARA
2006 sports retiree AGASSI
Actor-composer Novello IVOR
Antipasto bits OLIVES
Autumn color OCHER
Bankrupt DEVOID
Bearing AIR
Beret bearers TETES
Betting men GAMESTERS
Bldg. loan MTGE
Borscht base BEETS
Butlers' places MANORS
Catkin bearer WILLOW
Challenge for a tailor RIP
City on the Rio Grande LAREDO
Common Windows file extension EXE
Composer Khachaturian ARAM
Dawn ONSET
Daytime viewing SOAPS
Declare AVER
Didn't go straight SNAKED
Director Clair and others RENES
Donate a ruby, say? VOLUNTEERGEM
Doozy ONER
Even more see-through SHEERER
Famous coil creator TESLA
Fare plans DIETS
Fill SATIATE
Final Four org. NCAA
Fire proof ASH
First name in mystery fiction ERLE
Flinch, perhaps REACT
Fly in the face of DEFY
Foe of the Cheyenne PAWNEE
Foot part INSTEP
Former FBI director Louis FREEH
French 1 verb ETRE
Game with Draw Two cards UNO
Gave kudos to HAILED
Generic NONAME
Give rise to SPAWN
Grammarian's concern SYNTAX
Hard thing to climb? GRANITEMOUNTAIN
Hardly enthusiastic TEPID
Hole, in philatelic jargon PERF
Home of the Beck's Beer brewery BREMEN
Homer's neighbor NED
Hook helper SMEE
In the past THEN
In your face BLATANT
Indigenous ENDEMIC
Intelligible LUCID
It might get passed on ESTATE
Joins a jury SITS
Clues Answers
LA-to-Bakersfield heading NNW
Lab lines LEASHES
Law or med lead-in PRE
Levi's rival LEE
Like van Gogh's night STARRY
Location of lots of dams? BEAVEREMPIRE
Long-running TV variety show HEEHAW
Longtime first name at ABC News ROONE
Machinery part GEAR
Money neighbor, on the newsstand INC
Monopoly card DEED
More forbidding STERNER
More shiver-inducing CREEPIER
Numbered rd. RTE
Observant ones NOTERS
Opened, as a drawer SLIDOUT
Ottoman governor DEY
Painter/director Julian SCHNABEL
Performed as an understudy STOODIN
Pirate's demand? SHOWMETREASURE
Poisoner of Britannicus NERO
Polite rural response YESM
Pompous sort ASS
Portfolio portion BONDS
Prefix with European or China INDO
Pulitzer-winning biographer Leon EDEL
Race place DRAGSTRIP
Radio user HAM
Region with a particular weather CLIME
Research search DATA
Riled (up) HET
Seat of power THRONE
Secretive org. NSA
Seminal punk band, with The RAMONES
Sephora purchase LOTION
Setting for Thomas Hardy novels WESSEX
She came into Sam's joint ILSA
Short haircut BOB
Simple structure HUT
Skeptical reply to a supposed fact SAYSWHO
Slalom maneuver ESS
Spells HEXES
Spice harvester's place? NUTMEGGARDEN
Summer drink ADE
Team VIPs MGRS
The stuff of life DNA
Theodore Roosevelt Natl. Pk. setting NDAK
They offer flights WINEBARS
They're in the race ENTRANTS
They're often dedicated ODES
They're parallel to radii ULNAE
To date YET
Tommy gun's cousin STEN
TV debut of 1980 CNN
Ump's call SAFE
United ONE
Unlearned INNATE
Verve ELAN
Village noted for its cheese EDAM
W. Hemisphere alliance OAS
Waiting room read MAG
What Americans celebrated in 1876? FIRSTCENTENNIAL
What beachgoers hope for? GOLDENSUNSHINE
What each of eight of this puzzle's answers consists of TWOSTATENICKNAMES
White elephant, for one ALBINO
Willie Mays catchphrase SAYHEY
Words before consent or reason AGEOF
Words before profit or loss ATA