Wall Street Journal - November 5 2016 - Red States/Blue States Crossword Puzzle Answer

Wall Street Journal - November 5 2016 - Red States/Blue States

Clues	Answers
'Brand New Key' singer	MELANIE
'Goosebumps' writer	STINE
'Hamilton' won one in 2015	DRAMESKAWARD
'What a shame'	TOOBAD
1984 title role for Jeff Bridges	STARMAN
50+ group	AARP
About 3.26 light-years	PARSEC
Acting together	ASONE
Adoptee of a sort	PETCAT
Afternoon breaks	NAPS
Alert and energetic	FRESHASAISY
Arab Spring opposer	ASS
Assenting answer	AYE
Autumn quaff	CIDER
Back, in Burgundy	ARRIERE
Bass part	FIN
Best Picture winner whose soundtrack won a classical Grammy	AMEUS
Best way to view bears	FROMISTANCE
Boat whose name means 'three boards'	SAMPAN
Book's page numbers	FOLIOS
Boring thing	BIT
Brooks in Hollywood	MEL
Business letters	INC
Catholic boarding school student of children's literature	MELINE
Cerebral sections	LOBES
Conked out	DIED
Country lad	SWAIN
Cpl.'s superior	SGT
Customs	USAGES
Data player	SPINER
Debate side	CON
Deck divisions	SUITS
Designer Anna	SUI
Divan cousins	SOFAS
Divan cousins	SETTEES
Doddering	SENILE
Dominican title	FRA
Drifter	NOM
Dwarf who joins the Fellowship of the Ring	GIMLI
Early heat	PRELIM
Embellish	ADORN
Enjoys a run	SKIS
Enterprise choice	CAR
Event with a mechanical lure	DOGRACE
Exaggerate	OVERDO
Firebugs	PYROS
Firing location	KILN
Flock faction	EWES
GameCube successor	WII
He addressed the Knesset in 1977	SAT
Help to make a state red or blue	VOTE
Here and there	INSPOTS
High-maintenance sorts	PRIMONNAS
Highest region on Earth	TIBET
Holstein handle	BOSSY
Honoree of a day in mayo	MRE
Hound	PESTER
Impassioned movement	CRUSE
Indian title of respect	SRI
Indisputable doctrine	IRONLAW
Invisible emanations	AURAE
Invoice word	DUE
It comes with a Magic Mouse	IMAC
It's in the drink	STRAW
It's on the house	ROOF
Its motto is 'Lux et Veritas'	YALE
Jazz pianist Chick	COREA
Justice symbol	SCALES
King James's team	CAVS

 

Clues	Answers
Leaves no trace of	ERASES
Lemon's cousin	CITRON
Like some old mirrors	SILVERED
Like Stilton, compared with Swiss	STINKIER
Lip	SASS
Lip-smacking	TASTY
LPs and CDs: Abbr	RECS
Made like a volcano	SPEWED
Made some calls	REFFED
Mag. staffers	EDS
Many an early HDTV	PLASMISPLAY
Many an FDNY employee	EMT
Many an FDNY employee	PARAMEDIC
Marsupial of the comics	POGO
Massage targets	ACHES
Master of macabre cartoons	CHARLESDAMS
Minute	TEENSY
Monsoon season events	RAINS
Neighbors of the Sammarinese	ITALIANS
Nesting places for elf owls	CACTI
Not genuine: Abbr	IMIT
Old Navy buys	TEES
Olds model	CIERA
One of Donald's stumpers	RUDY
Ontario-New York separator	NIAGARA
Openly confess	AVOW
Ottoman governor	BEY
Oxford academics	DONS
Packs down	TAMPS
Park unit	ACRE
Particles composed of a quark and an antiquark	MESONS
Passionate fan	ADORER
Payment before a deal is made	ANTE
Plant of a sort	SPY
Pluck, in a way	TWEEZE
Pond bed prowler	MUDTURTLE
Promontory	CAPE
Prov. follower	ECCL
Pull together	UNITE
Qdoba offering	QUESILLA
Rapper's handful	MIC
Rebellious group	TEENS
Role played to provoke debate	DEVILSVOCATE
Runner's woe	CRAMP
Safari, e.g	APP
Sargasso Sea spawner	EEL
Sauternes sediment	LEES
Selfless 'David Copperfield' character	AGNES
Shekels	GELT
Showed interest	SATUP
Some presidential appointees	AMBASSORS
Still green, perhaps	UNRIPE
Stock offering?	SOUP
Stream swimmers	MINNOWS
Takes in	SEES
Tap dancer Glover	SAVION
The going rate?	CABFARE
Theda of silent films	BARA
There are 20 in a ream	QUIRES
They combine colons and parentheses	SMILEYS
They smell	NOSES
Tom's ex	NICOLE
Top part	LEAD
Trans activist Bono	CHAZ
Trigger, as strong emotions	CHURNUP
Underling	MINION
Wide throw, e.g	ERROR
Work in a bed	HOE
You might have a shot at it	BAR