Puzzle Answers - LABYRINTH - January 3-4, 2015 - The Wall Street Journal - (SPOILER ALERT!)

Puzzle Answers - LABYRINTH - January 3-4, 2015 - The Wall Street Journal - (SPOILER ALERT!)

Chartres Labyrinth Photograph by Jeff Saward http://www.labyrinthos.net/  

Labyrinth | by Mike Shenk 

Across

1 • French city whose cathedral floor features a labyrinth = CHARTRES


• Lead, for example = ROLE


2 • Prepares potatoes, in a way = RICES


• How Pyrrhic victories are won (3 wds.) = AT A COST


3 • Nostalgic number = OLDIE


• King’s enemies = RACISTS



4 • Like some oils and candles = SCENTED


• Correct for publishing = AMEND


5 • Fit for farming = RURAL


• Masthead setting, often (2 wds.) = PAGE TWO


6 • Did a drum major’s job (2 wds.) = KEPT TIME

• Fiddlehead source = FERN



7 • Dramatist with three Pulitzer Prizes = ALBEE

• Thug = GORILLA


8 • A matter of degrees? = ANGLE


• Far below the actual value, say = NOMINAL


9 • Tennis star with a record 17 Grand Slam titles = FEDERER

• Distinguish oneself = SHINE


10 • Intensely engaged = IMMERSED

• Give up = CEDE



11 • Cold season purchase = TISSUES

• Monopoly collections = RENTS


12 • Pugilist’s prize = PURSE

• Doubloons from a sunken galleon, e.g. = SALVAGE


13 • Seeing the sites = ONLINE


• One might be good with figures = SKATER


14 • Common name for pyridine-3-carboxylic acid = NIACIN

• Playing hooky, perhaps = ABSENT



Winding

• Concern for working parents (2 wds.) = CHILD CARE

• Fed subjects (2 wds.) = INTEREST RATES

• Purely theoretical = ACADEMIC

• Fowl poles? = ROOSTS

• Disappoints (2 wds.) = LETS DOWN

• Promise of Christianity (2 wds.) = ETERNAL LIFE

• Pool settings (2 wds.) = GAME ROOMS

• Mao’s realm (2 wds.) = RED CHINA

• Sparing the rod = LENIENT


• Gila monster’s habitat = DESERT

• Invalidate = NEGATE

• Frugal fellow = SAVER

• Polio vaccine developer = SALK

• In it, the square of 8 is 71 (2 wds.) = BASE NINE

• 2000 Broadway show including the song “Oh, the Thinks You Can Think!” = SEUSSICAL

• Quarrel (Hyph.) = RUN-IN

• Pollyanna quality = OPTIMISM

• Render harmless = DEFANG

• Groucho expression = LEER

• Home to the largest terrestrial mammal migration in the world = SERENGETI

• Batter’s place = PLATE


• “The Tyger” poet = BLAKE


• Walkman, to the iPod, e.g. = PRECURSOR

Puzzle Answers - TWENTY-SIX OUT - December 27-28, 2014 - The Wall Street Journal - (SPOILER ALERT!)

Puzzle Answers - TWENTY-SIX OUT - December 27-28, 2014 - The Wall Street Journal - (SPOILER ALERT!)

Across

1. Peg gets away with candy = TOFFEE

peg = (TEE) + away = (OFF)


5. For audience, singers as a group take to the ice with dazzle = CORUSCATE

CHORUS + SKATE (audience = HOMONYM)


10. Lopsided defeat overwhelms Oakland player in bad day at the ballpark = RAINOUT

lopsided defeat = (ROUT) + Oakland player = (A) + (IN)


11. Horseshoe Peak, Iowa, is a nice place to live = UTOPIA

horseshoe = (U) + peak = (TOP) + Iowa = (IA)


13. Tore around lake and made waves = RIPPLED

tore = (RIPPED) + (L)ake


14. Protestant group jokes about Rudner in comedy  = PURITANS

jokes = (PUNS) + Rudner in comedy = (RITA)


15. Faculty I jailed in prison term = SENTIENCE

(I) + prison term = (SENTENCE)


18. Red spy caught in Massachusetts = MAGENTA

spy = (AGENT) + Massachusetts = (MA)


19. Mac tried doctored proof of work = TIMECARD

MAC TRIED [ANAGRAM]


20. Hype and hoo-ha for a museum name = PRADO

hype = (PR) + hoo-ha = (ADO)


21. Hot spots with good puzzles = GRIDDLES

(G)ood + puzzles = (RIDDLES)


24. Quality of an ape: primarily, his buoyancy = HAIRINESS

(H)is + buoyancy = (AIRINESS)


27. Mantra adopted by newlywed is a cliché = BROMIDE

mantra = (OM) + newlywed = (BRIDE)


30. Fight starter: a character in “Twilight” = BELLA

fight starter = (BELL) + (A)


31. Statement from a mathematician garbled in a quote = EQUATION

IN A QUOTE [ANAGRAM]


33. Henry VIII’s second tree pronounced very old = ANTIQUE

Henry VIII’s second = (ANNE) + tree = (TEAK) [HOMONYM]


35. Oddly dry eyes at sad Beatles song = YESTERDAY

(EYES) + (DRY) + (AT) [ANAGRAM]


37. Without having a theater debut, duet sang freely = UNSTAGED

(DUET) + (SANG) [ANAGRAM]


38. Fashioned a great ID for an animal (2 wds.) = EAR TAG

(A) + (GREAT) [ANAGRAM]


39. Homer, in Italian lake, makes a sort of picture = CHROMO

homer = (HR) + Italian lake = (COMO)


40. Embarrassed Dickens baddie is seized by call for quiet = SHEEPISH

Dickens baddie = (HEEP) + (IS) + call for quiet = (SH)


41. Hard water’s running into the ground = EARTHWARDS

HARD WATERS [ANAGRAM]


42. After gym, fish around for a bit of gorp = PEANUT

after gym = (PU) + fish = (NET) + (A)


Down

1. Spare part adapted for roofing materials = TARPAPERS

SPARE PART [ANAGRAM]


2. Fahrenheit elevation in icebox = FRIDGE

(F)ahrenheit + elevation = (RIDGE)


3. Baloney for a cardinal back in autumn = FALDERAL

cardinal = (RED) + autumn = (FALL)


4. James, the singer, following deal in “Family Feud” = VENDETTA

James the singer = (ETTA) + deal = (VEND)


5. Faucet’s former temperature within upper limit (2 wds.) = COLD TAP

former = (OLD) (T)emperature + upper limit = CAP


6. Pharaoh keeps stray back in castle tower = TURRET

Pharoah = TUT + stray = ERR


7. Small heart label = STICKER

(S)mall + heart = (TICKER)


8. Shoot a ray gun at a Mexican revolutionary = ZAPATA

shoot a ray gun = (ZAP) + (AT) + (A)


9. Carl’s van slowed and stopped = CEASED


12. Hardened around the face of John Hurt = INJURED

hardened = INURED + (J)ohn


15. We own this reassembled fairy tale figure (2 wds.) = SNOW WHITE

(WE) + (OWN) + (THIS) [ANAGRAM]


16. Number Rev. Spooner might call neato, swell (Hyph.) = FIFTY-NINE

neato = (NIFTY) + swell = (FINE) [SPOONERIZED]


17. Added fee for new exec at six (2 wds.) = EXCISE TAX

(EXEC) + (AT) + (SIX) [ANAGRAM]


22. Satisfactory speed and average float for orbiter, maybe =  SPACEGAIT

(S)atisfactory + speed = (PACE) +


23. One grieving for our Navy’s leader in French sea = MOURNER

(OUR) + (N)avy + French sea = (MER)


25. Shallow leak slowly covers type (hyph.) = SKIN-DEEP

leak slowly = (SEEP) + type = (KIND)


26. A tailless reptile in red dye = ALIZARIN

(A) + (LIZAR)d + (IN)


28. Deny Ovid was wrong = DISAVOW

(OVID) + (WAS) [ANAGRAM]


29. Celebrates skill in bakery display = PARTIES

skill = (ART) + bakery display = (PIES)


31. Lead astray with deuces wild = SEDUCE

(DEUCES) [ANAGRAM]


32. Arrange for passport with missing pages = ASSORT

(PASSPORT) – (P)age – (P)age [pages]


34. African magic has its martial training = JUJITSU

African magic = (JUJU) + (ITS)


36. Magician who’s often silent or who’s narrating = TELLER



MISSING LETTERS

Rows (top to bottom)

O
U
P
N
M
D
I
B
Q
Y
G
H
A


Columns (Left to Right)

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R
W
V
L
F
T
K
X
Z
J
C