Puzzle Answers - Labyrinth - June 20-21, 2015 - The Wall Street Journal - (SPOILER ALERT!)

Puzzle Answers - Labyrinth - June 20-21, 2015 - The Wall Street Journal - (SPOILER ALERT!)

I don't always solve the puzzle but when I do, it's on a sundae.

Labyrinth | by Mike Shenk 

Across

1. 

• Composer of the 1963 televised opera “Labyrinth” = MENOTTI
• It comes straight from the horse’s mouth = NEIGH

2.

• Cross training goal = FITNESS
• Set aside = ALLOT

3.

• Neapolitan, e.g. = ITALIAN
• Four for Favre = DOWNS

4.

• Witty conversation = REPARTEE
• Boarding site = GATE

5.

• “A Musketeer of great height and haughty countenance” = PORTHOS
• Singer with the 2006 album “Songs from the Labyrinth” = STING

6.

• Sites for muezzins = MINARETS
• Largest member of the brass family = TUBA

7.

• Treats with more leniency (3 wds.) = LETS UP ON
• She pined for Narcissus = ECHO

8.

• Spa treatment = PEEL
• Oscar nominee for “Tootsie” (2 was.) = TERI GARR

9.

• Mental workout = TEST
• Sheets and pillowcases (2 wds.) = BED LINEN

10.

• Rigging support = SPAR
• Inflatable used in an emergency (2 wds.) = LIFE RAFT

11.

• Unaffected = NATURAL
• Focus of IBM’s Deep Blue computer = CHESS

12.

• Choose a successor = ANOINT
• Newspaper coupon section for example = INSERT

13.

• Witty conversation = BANTER
• Skylit courtyard = ATRIUM

14.

• Mount Vernon is on its banks = POTOMAC
• In-group outcasts = NERDS

Winding

• Unwritten reminders = MENTAL NOTES
• Herbal infusion for medicinal purposes = TISANE
• Worst part of a performance or event = LOWLIGHT
• Beginning = ONSET
• Senescence = AGEDNESS
• Quarry work = STONECUTTING
• Inspiring disgust = ABHORRENT
• Cream of Wheat, for example = FARINA
• Corset’s cousin = GIRDLE
• Jerks back in fear = FLINCHES
• Makes balalaika music = STRUMS
• Helps with the dishes = DRIES
• Budget item? (Hype.) = RENT-A-CAR
• Anathema to a Vulcan = EMOTION
• Head honcho (2 wds.) = TOP BANANA
• Beat a hasty retreat (2 wds.) = TURN TAIL
• Entomologist’s specimen = BEETLE
• Shoulder bag feature = STRAP
• High point of many a village skyline = STEEPLE
• Consequential = IMPORTANT
• Apartment house worker = SUPER
• Empty talk (2 wds.) = HOT AIR
• Ouzo or pastis = APERITIF