Wall Street Journal Crossword Answer - Nov 07, 2014

 Wall Street Journal Crossword Answer - Nov 07, 2014

Clue	Answer
'Apologia Socratis' author	PLATO
'Fruitless tears ___ my cheek': Wilde	BEDEW
'God ___ the details'	ISIN
'Homeland' org	CIA
'I have to hear the words'	SAYIT
'If God did not exist, it would be necessary to invent him' writer	VOLTAIRE
'Lady Marmalade' preposition	AVEC
'The Bourne Identity' director Doug	LIMAN
'Too rich for my blood'	IMOUT
1970 hit for the Kinks	LOLA
1970s, as coined by Tom Wolfe	MEDECADE
2012 Tony winner for Best Musical	ONCE
Adorns	FESTOONS
Advance	LEND
Animation collectibles	CELS
Anomalous	ODD
Antiquity	YORE
Art class staple	PASTE
Average guys	JOES
Banana Peel Taffy and Coffee Grounds Brittle?	GARBAGECANDY
Be careful of	MIND
Between appointments	FREE
Big name in American fashion design	BLASS
Big name in Italian fashion design	FENDI
Blow off steam	RANT
Boots	OUSTS
Brachial artery setting	ARM
Braking point	STOPSIGN
Branch breakers	GALES
Brand with a Planet Spa line	AVON
Brought to bay	TREED
Chase rival	CITI
Cleanup positions	MAIDS
Coat of many colors	PAINT
Conduct an exhaustive probe	DELVE
Cousin of currant cognac?	RAISINBRANDY
Crown piece	JEWEL
Crumb carrier	ANT
Cry out for	NEED
Custard tart	FLAN
Cutting-edge features	SAWTEETH
Dazzled	AWED
Desirable positions	PLUMS
Directors' group	BOARD
Dunham of 'Girls'	LENA
Emblem of St. Agnes	LAMB
Employee who always agrees with the mint company boss?	TICTACTOADY
Explorer for whom a Canadian strait is named	RAE
Farm team	OXEN
Festival film in a film festival?	HOLIDAYINDIE
Fiercely denounce	BLAST
Filing aid	EMERY
Finishes filming	WRAPS
First-rate	THETOPS
Frosting pros	STYLISTS
Gently dries	BLOTS
Gets a head	FOAMS
Girl hang-gliding in the Alps?	FLYINGHEIDI
Give authorization to	LET
Given the sack	AXED
Golfing feat by Hammerin' Hank?	AARONBIRDIE
Green feature	HOLE
Haggling site	BAZAAR
Hartford symbol	STAG
Hawn in her role as a farmer?	FIELDGOLDIE
Hierarchical level	RUNG
Highest pt. in Crete	MTIDA
Hog holders	STIES
Holder of a cabinet position	ERIC
Insightful cry	AHA
Instrument named for its similarity to a chestnut	CASTANET
Insurance company in the Fortune 500	CHUBB
IRA offerer	SANDL
Its highest point is the volcano Gunung Agung	BALI
Its natives call it Cymru	WALES
Job for an IRS agt	AUD
Joel Coen's younger brother	ETHAN
Joins the conversation	WEIGHSIN
Legend of the music world	JOHN
Like some etail shipping	FLATRATE
Like some professorships	ENDOWED
Like the watches in 'The Persistence of Memory'	LIMP
Lilac or fuchsia	SHRUB
Make up for a semester of partying, perhaps	CRAM
Meaningless	IDLE
Minus	LESS
Minute	TINY
Mirage setting	VEGAS
More rational	SANER
Mr. Clean, in his superhero days?	MASKEDBALDY
Nanny's mate	BILLY
Not new	USED
Oozes	SEEPS
Out of action	LAIDUP
Owner of an Ayrshire estate	LAIRD
Parks of Alabama	ROSA
Piece of cake	SNAP
Polygraph hiccups, presumably	LIES
Portfolio purchase	BOND
Practices patience	WAITS
Prepare to take the stand	SWEARIN
Producer of 1873's Peacemaker	COLT
Pucker-inducing	SOUR
Pushes off	GOES
Put stress on	TRIED
Raise up	HOIST
Remove	DOFF
Revolting	ICKY
Rids of roughness, in a way	SANDS
Rigel's setting	ORION
Scene stealers	HAMS
Sheer fabric essential to drapery makers?	VITALORGANDY
Sink	BASIN
Slimy residues	GUNKS
Smithwick's, for one	IRISHALE
Some Savile Row offerings	VESTS
Some stock	COWS
Specialized lingo	CANT
Starts suddenly	SHIES
Station served by Amtrak's Lake Shore Limited	ERIE
Stimulus	GOAD
Stupefy	ZONK
Substantial, as a sum	TIDY
Swain	WOOER
Sweater style	VNECK
Swift racers	ARABIANS
Target of some clicks	MENU
The Vancouver Sun Run, e.g	TENK
To boot	BESIDES
Together, musically	ADUE
Treater's words	ONME
Tribute with twits	ROAST
Unembellished	PLAIN
Unruly do	SHAG
West London district nicknamed 'Little India'	SOUTHALL
Where Carter holds an annual town hall for freshmen	EMORY
Wine quality	NOSE
Words after break or shake	ALEG
Worked the wedding reception	DJED
Worker on a Slayer tour?	DEATHROADIE