Puzzle Answers - Cigar Boxes - December 6, 2014 - The Wall Street Journal - (SPOILER ALERT!)

Puzzle Answers - Cigar Boxes - December 6, 2014 - The Wall Street Journal - (SPOILER ALERT!)

by Patrick Berry, Edited by Mike Shenk

Rows

1.
 “Beautiful downtown” city where “Laugh-In” was taped = BURBANK

 Barbershop quartet singer’s headwear (2 wds.) = STRAW HAT

2.
 Agitate (2 wds.) = STIR UP

 Radio host John = TESH

 “Vision of Love” singer = CAREY

3.
 Armed Forces middle-ranker, for short = NONCOM

 The “A” of Chester A. Arthur = ALAN

 Composer of the U.S.’s official national march = SOUSA

4.
 Blacken = CHAR

 Chip brand since 1932 = LAYS

 Bedeviling, with “on” = PREYING

5.
 Natives of Tallinn = ESTONIANS

 Building with a marquee = CINEMA

6.
 Sudden fearful feeling = CHILL

 Difficult to dissuade = ARDENT

 One of Rome’s seven = HILL

7.
 Not at all bright = DREARY

 White fall = SNOW

 Crime film centerpiece (9) = HEIST

8.
 Marital status signifier = RING

 Novelist Malraux = ANDRE

 Be the boss of = MANAGE

9.
 Pub crawls = BENDERS

 Hefty slice = SLAB

 Eat in style = DINE


10.
 ___ Day (spring holiday) = ARBOR

 Partnership for Peace alliance: Abbr. = NATO

 Enthrall = RAVISH

11.
 Like highways but not byways = WIDE

 Blue jeans reinforcer = RIVET

 Scarring experience = ORDEAL

12.
 “Just one more ___ ...” = THING

 Digital Audio Tape creator = SONY

 Former California congressman Gary = CONDIT

13.
 Office policy update, often = MEMO

 Eyeball (2 wds.) = LOOK AT

 Bob in the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame = SEGER

14.
 Kill time in a bookstore = BROWSE

 Tree in the pine family = LARCH

 Severely worn, as tires = BALD

15.
 Lipton competitor = NESTEA

 Part of a pescetarian’s diet = FISH

 Express a view = OPINE


Boxes
 Shareholder’s sum (8) = DIVIDEND

 Tapped out (8) = BANKRUPT

 Most tanned (8) = BROWNEST

 Like almost 30% of Borneo’s population (9) = MALAYSIAN

 Accurately foretelling the future (9) = PRESCIENT

 Walter’s 1984 running mate (9) = GERALDINE

 Group that receives online newsletters (5, 4) = EMAIL LIST

 First Book-of-the-Month Club selection by an African-American writer (6, 3) = NATIVE SON

 Type of paper used in binders (5-4) = LOOSE-LEAF

 Contiguous with (9) = BORDERING

 Disturb by entering suddenly (5, 2, 2) = BURST IN ON

 Containers seen in alleys (5, 4) = TRASH CANS

 “The Today Show” regular from 1973 to 2010 (4, 6) = GENE SHALIT

 Dance performed by 1920s flappers (10) = CHARLESTON

 Beatles song by John Lennon that’s supposedly autobiographical (7, 3) = NOWHERE MAN

 Highest rank in the Anglican Church (10) = ARCHBISHOP

 “Please be patient—I’m almost done” (4, 4, 2) = BEAR WITH ME

 Job for productive people? (5-7) = CHILD-REARING

 Fictional talk show host whose sidekick is Hank Kingsley (5, 7) = LARRY SANDERS

 “MythBusters” garments (10, 5) = LABORATORY COATS

 Horrified listener’s question (4, 3, 3, 6) = WHAT ARE YOU SAYING?