Wall Street Journal - Jan 23 2020 - Wild Pitches

Wall Street Journal - Jan 23 2020 - Wild Pitches
Clues Answers
“A bit of talcum/Is always walcum” writer NASH
“Amen!” ILLSAY
“Everything but” items KITCHENS
1900, on a cornerstone MCM
1979 miniseries starring Robert Duvall IKE
1990s party RAVE
Acting after much hesitation, and a hint to four answers in this puzzle TAKINGTHEPLUNGE
Age abbr YRS
Alitalia destinazione ROMA
Amethyst kin LILAC
Auel heroine AYLA
Bleeding Gums Murphy plays it SAX
Blinkers EYES
Bois de Boulogne, par exemple PARC
Butler’s bride OHARA
Cast HEAVE
Certificate feature SEAL
Collaborator of Bowie and Byrne ENO
Comanche foe UTE
Common pasta sauce ingredient PLUMTOMATO
Composer Bartók BELA
Crumbling sections of glaciers ICEF
Dark purple berry ACAI
Darn SEW
Do a snow job PLOW
Easy out POPUP
Evasive sub maneuvers CRASHD
Express from Penn Station ACELA
Farsi speaker IRANI
Flyers with tails KITES
Goes down DIVES
Goes down DROPS
Goes down SINKS
Goes down FALLS
Good fighter EVIL
Guantánamo prisoner, e.g DETAINEE
Hindu honorific SRI
Hold fast ANCHOR
In a moody manner MOROSELY
It may be written on a tablet EMAIL
It may leave you shaken up TURBULENCE
It’s a sin TRESPASS
Japan’s longest-serving prime minister ABE
Jump for joy EXULT
Key material CORAL
Like some ballot boxes XED
Little sucker? VAC
Livy’s law LEX
Love, Italian-style AMORE
Mt. Sunflower setting KAN
NBC show since 1975 SNL
Norwegian king until 1991 OLAV
Not free INUSE
Objective END
Parisian pyramid planner IMPEI
Penn pal TELLER
Picks up GETS
Psyche component EGO
Pumping unit REP
Rebel Alliance general LEIA
Religious recesses APSES
Reprimand for a Rottweiler BAD
Rich dessert TORTE
Safecracker YEGG
Scores ALOT
Second of two LATTER
Shrunken “sea” ARAL
Sowing machine SEEDER
Sparkling wine source ASTI
Spread apart SPLAY
Staff members? NOTES
Sundae topper, sometimes OREO
Tart treats LEMOND
The Grand Combin, for one ALP
Theban queen who was the aunt of Dionysus INO
Things on hand NAILS
Vicious with a bass SID
Viscosity symbol ETA
What’s left ESTATE
Your, of yore THY