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