Wall Street Journal Apr 4 2020 Crossword Puzzle Solution

Wall Street Journal Crossword - April 4 2020 - A Feel for the Job - Puzzle Answers

Clues	Answers
"A Confederacy of Dunces" author	TOOLE
"Calvin and Hobbes" girl	SUSIE
"Mean Girls" writer	TINAFEY
"Step on it!"	HURRY
"___ we trust"	INGOD
Accepted truths	AXIOMS
Any of this puzzle's theme answers	PUN
Aussie bird	EMU
Ballerina's pivot	TOE
Bar stock	MIXERS
Baseball statistics	STEALS
Bath sprinkles	TALCS
Before now	AGO
Bible verb suffix	ETH
Big parts	LEADS
Blood fluids	SERA
Boeing rival	AIRBUS
Brand of change-converting machines	COINSTAR
Bridge action	REBID
Broad players	HAMS
Building bigwigs	SUPERS
Chain with a heart logo	CVS
Chopin piece	NOCTURNE
Citrus quenchers	ADES
Close relative	SIS
Collected works	OMNIBUS
Compassionate assassins?	TENDEROFFERS
Confectioner H.B	REESE
Contradicts	DENIES
Cries of relief	WHEWS
Curl one's lip	SNEER
Dined at home	ATEIN
Disney's portrayer in "Saving Mr. Banks"	HANKS
Dudley Moore's obsession in "10"	BODEREK
Ernie Banks nickname	MRCUB
Extorted	BLED
Fire-prevention icon	SMOKEY
Fizzless	FLAT
Flutes and the like	STEMWARE
Folks on the move	GOERS
Forward	RESEND
Free-spirited football players?	LOOSEENDS
Future bride	FIANCEE
Govt. mtge. insurer	FHA
Heebie-jeebies	CREEPS
Hip	TUNEDIN
Home of one of the world's oldest rainforests	BORNEO
Icicle's location	EAVE
Impassive dealers in hot goods?	WOODENFENCES
Inflexible prison guards?	SETSCREWS
Inspiration for many a technophobe	NEDLUDD
Is a motor-mouth	RUNSON
It was introduced in late 1957	EDSEL
Jason of "The Man in the High Castle"	OMARA
JFK posting	ETD
Key on a map	ISLET
Kirsten of "The Beguiled"	DUNST
Like an acid found in greens	FOLIC
Like many summer movies	ESCAPIST
Like some houses	HAUNTED
Lucy's husband	DESI
Manage	GETBY
More hectic	BUSIER
More suspicious	LEERIER
Mystery writer Gerritsen	TESS
Mystery writer Paretsky	SARA
Not subject to change	CASTIRON
Nota ___	BENE
Nursery item	TREE
Oodles	GOBS
Open-mike night performers	AMATEURS
Outcry	UPROAR
Petition	ASK
Picks up on	SENSES
Play start	SCENEONE
Playboy founder, familiarly	HEF
Poignant instrument	OBOE
Pop to Pebbles	FRED
Power-saving mode	SLEEP
Prepare to skate, maybe	LACEUP
Pretense	POSE
Prolonged attack	SIEGE
Prom accessories	CORSAGES
Punishing hike	TREK
Reliable comedians?	SOUNDCARDS
Remain unsettled	PEND
Reneged (on)	WELCHED
Results	ENSUES
River with its source in a Swiss glacier	RHONE
Self-assured waitstaff?	SECURESERVERS
She played June in "Henry & June"	UMA
Simple sack	COT
Singers James and Jones	ETTAS
Six-pt. scores	TDS
Small sailing ship	LUGGER
Some CSI evidence	HAIRS
Some heiresses	WIDOWS
Some spuds	RUSSETS
Southwest art colony	TAOS
Speaks falteringly	STAMMERS
Spouts	EXCLAIMS
Stoat coat	FUR
Stomach	TOLERATE
Strong throw, in baseball slang	PEG
Summer songs?	DISCO
Sunscreen nos	SPFS
Surgery ctrs	ORS
Surly sort	CUR
Sweetums	DEAR
Swift	RAPID
Tank filler	GAS
Tartarus has two	TAUS
Team connector	YOKE
The fast track	SPEEDWAY
The other guys	FOES
They're sometimes slapped	WRISTS
They've split	EXES
Thin-skinned police officers?	PRICKLYHEAT
Thoroughly exhausted telemarketers?	DEADRINGERS
Ticket parts	STUBS
Total	SUM
Trophy	CUP
Trusted teacher	MENTOR
TV monitor?	FCC
Ultimatum word	ELSE
United	WED
Unsettled manual laborers?	SHOOKHANDS
Urbane	SUAVE
Utters	SAYS
Vogue alternative	ELLE
Wall St. deals	LBOS
Website warning	NSFW
What some are stuck in	ARUT
What's left	REST
White House worker	AIDE
Winter Palace ruler	TSAR
Word of encouragement	OLE
Wrath	IRE
Wreath material	FIR
___ jure (by the law itself)	IPSO