Wall Street Journal Crossword Answer - Jun 27, 2014

 Wall Street Journal Crossword Solutions - Jun 27, 2014

Clue	Answer
'Ariel' poet	PLATH
'Best I Ever Had' rapper	DRAKE
'Common Sense' writer	PAINE
'Have ___' (waiting room directive)	ASEAT
'Once There Was ___' (Steinbeck book)	AWAR
'This is a big problem'	OHNO
'Very funny!'	HAHA
'___ dreaming?'	AMI
*Hershey's Kiss, essentially?	GIANTCHOCOLATECHIP
*Library section that, to my knowledge, would be completely empty?	LIGHTRUSSIANBOOKS
*Make a recording of Salvation Army Santas?	TAPECHRISTMASBELLS
*Response one might get from Beijing when asking about Tibet?	CHINESEMATTERPERIOD
*Smart ducks during hunting season?	ALERTWATERBIRDS
*Tusk, often?	BULLELEPHANTTOOTH
2008 bailout recipient	AIG
Alternative to a spinner	DIE
Atlantic in Atlantic City, e.g.: Abbr	AVE
Babe in a barn	FOAL
Baked, so to speak	ONPOT
Balance sheet listing	ASSETS
Bank	RELY
Be compliant	OBEY
Beat in an endurance contest	OUTSTARE
Body cover	SKIN
Braided together	INTERWEAVED
Bring dishonor upon	BESMIRCH
Buy a green car	GOHYBRID
Caroling tune	NOEL
CEO supporter	ASST
Cheer for the matador	OLE
Chest protector	BIB
Co. acquired by Delta in 2008	NWA
Coll. or acad	SCH
Color	DYE
Common pledge drive gift	TOTE
Conference teams often have them	RIVALRIES
Consumed	ATE
Crack	SOLVE
Cry after stubbing one's toe	OWOW
Designer of the first working nuclear reactor	FERMI
Diamond club	BAT
Disallow	BAN
Distant flare-up	NOVA
Doesn't ignore	HEEDS
Drop down?	MOLT
Editor's veto	STET
Emulate Betsy Ross	SEW
Exciting finish	BANG
Facial spots	SPAS
Fall off the wagon	BACKSLIDE
Field worker	ASS
First name in cosmetics	ESTEE
First Spanish actor to win an Oscar	BARDEM
Flying start?	AERO
Freudian focus	EGO
GarageBand runner, perhaps	IMAC
Gentleman from Germany	HERR
German subsidiary of GM	OPEL
Gift bag padding	TISSUEPAPER
Guinness Book suffix	EST
Handfuls for sitters	IMPS
Harmful, as effects	ILL
Hasten	HIE
Hermione's eventual husband	RON
Highland Games item	CABER
Home of the Bruins	UCLA
Homes for some lizards	TERRARIA
Hooded serpents	ASPS
Hotel freebie	SOAP
Hunter of myth	ORION
Infantry units	BRIGADES
Interminable time	EON
Irascible	TESTY
Item with a duel purpose	EPEE
Japan wax source	SUMAC
Jerry Maguire, notably	AGENT
John of 'Full House'	STAMOS
Largest city in Moravia	BRNO
Like 'that moss-covered bucket which hangs in the well'	OAKEN
Like some budgets	BLOATED
Long	PINE
Long	ACHE
Loren's love	AMORE
Make one's voice heard	VOTE
Many CEOs have them	MBAS
Market player, for short	ARB
Mine, in Marseille	AMOI
Neighborhood south of Astor Place	NOHO
Neither Rep. nor Dem	IND
Network	MESH
Next in the line of succession after Boehner	LEAHY
Night vision?	BLACK
Oil vessel	CRUET
Only character mentioned in the 'Star Wars' crawl	LEIA
Org. with many arms	NRA
Parrot	REPEAT
Part of the DreamWorks logo	MOON
Pasty dish	POI
Penalty kick awarder	REF
Pickup in an alley	SPARE
Plane section	NOSE
President of Palestine since 2005	ABBAS
Ravenous	STARVING
Remove from the drive	ERASE
Result of getting plastered?	CAST
Return to slender	DIET
Roman road	ITER
San Diego treat	FISHTACO
Scottish interjection	OCH
Scrabble rack septet	TILES
Seen least often	RAREST
Seventh of 24 letters	ETA
Shakes off	LOSES
Shankar with a sitar	RAVI
Shout before applying the defibrillator	CLEAR
Singer Basil	TONI
Singer DiFranco	ANI
Sleep clinic topic	APNEA
Soft mineral	TALC
Some scans	CTS
Sources of durable wood	ASHTREES
Speak with your hands	SIGN
Springfield Elementary's bus driver	OTTO
Sticker letters	MSRP
Story that's sometimes dirty	ATTIC
Subject of a Wonderland trial	TARTS
Sullies	TAINTS
Supply an address	ORATE
T or F, e.g	ANS
Take in	ABSORB
Therefore	ERGO
Thimbleweed, for one	ANEMONE
Told and retold	STALE
Trudge	SLOG
Vaults	LEAPS
Wedge-shaped inlet	RIA
Where Meryl Davis and Charlie White won gold	SOCHI
Wicked thing	CANDLE
Words that can precede, in order, the three words in each starred answer	REDWHITEANDBLUE
Wraps up	ENDS