Wall Street Journal - Oct 27 2018 - Biting Humor Crossword Answer

Wall Street Journal - Oct 27 2018 - Biting Humor Crossword Answer

Clues	Answers
Litigious bunch	SUERS
Little illuminators	PENLITES
Lived a purposeful life, like Dracula?	DIDNOTDIEINVEIN
Makes finer	SIFTS
Match parts	SETS
Meets with, as hard times	FALLSON
Merchandise	GOODS
Mil. hospitals	VAS
Monopoly pieces	HOTELS
More than buzzed	STONED
Morse morsel	DAH
Name on California gas stations	ARCO
Native Israeli	SABRA
No-___ (obvious solution)	BRAINER
NYSE listings	COS
October 31, e.g	DATE
Old sundial number	IIII
Ollie's 'A-Haunting We Will Go' partner	STAN
Orchestra alternative	LOGE
Painting class equipment	EASELS
Pilgrimage destination	MECCA
Pituitary hormone	ACTH
Pomona College player	SAGEHEN
Posturing person	SNOB
Prado display	ARTE
Praise	KUDOS
Prey of the Morlocks, in 'The Time Machine'	ELOI
Ratted out	TOLDON
Related to K-12	ELHI
Remove the skin of	PARE
Response from an accident survivor	IMOK
Rooibos beverage	REDTEA
Rooting section?	SOIL
School whose home games are played in the L.A. Coliseum	USC
Shogun entertainer	GEISHA
Show conclusively	PROVE
Sign at an information desk	ASKME
Siouan speakers	OTOES
Slimy stuff	OOZE
Sneaky fellow	PETE
Some saxes	ALTOS
Soon, to Shakespeare	ANON
Soothing stuff	ALOE
Southern cooking guru Paula	DEEN
Spot	SEE
Starter's stat	LOSSES
Sunny starter	HELIO
Sweet drink for Dracula?	SUCKERPUNCH
Take in	EARN
Talk sheepishly	BLEAT
Temporary	SHORTTERM
Terminates	ENDS
Threatening adversary for Dracula?	STAKEHOLDER
Tide variety	NEAP
Till fill	CASH
Torcher's doing	ARSON
U.S. Open tennis stadium honoree	ASHE
Uses scare tactics on	COWS
View from the Fr. Riviera	MEDIT
Way to go	DISTANCE
What's left	ESTATE
Where 'Three Sunflowers in a Vase' was painted	ARLES
Who lives forever	NOONE
Why Dracula's would-be pickup rejected him?	NOTHERTYPE
Woman of the House	PELOSI
Work at a bar	TEND
Work on wood	SAND
World's most populous landlocked country	ETHIOPIA
You might take his word for it	ROGET

Clues	Answers
'American Buffalo' playwright	MAMET
'Dark Shadows' airer	ABC
'Do what I say!'	OBEY
'Midnight in Paris' director	ALLEN
'No More Victims' org	MADD
'Sicario' character	NARC
'The Devil in Miss Jones,' e.g	ADULTMOVIE
'Winsanity' airer	GSN
'___ Beso'	ESO
Alternatively, online	OTOH
Andy Kaufman's 'Taxi' role	LATKA
At a time in the past	ONCE
Aussie gal	SHEILA
Bear in the night sky	URSA
Bedtime for Dracula?	COFFINSPELL
Bellatrix, Regulus or Sirius	STAR
Bit of choreography	STEP
Bolan of T. Rex	MARC
Bram Stoker's homeland	EIRE
Butcher's stock	MEAT
Cab competitor	UBER
Campbell of 'Scream'	NEVE
Cargo ship load	CONTAINERS
Carol opening	ADESTE
Cave ceiling, for vampires	ROOST
Churches in Westeros	SEPTS
Citi Field predecessor	SHEA
Colt with arms	SAMUEL
Complain	CARP
Contaminated	IMPURE
Corn concoction	PONE
Creepy	EERIE
Deco designer	ERTE
Dix plus un	ONZE
Doc bloc	AMA
Dracula as an overindulged child?	SPOILEDBAT
Dracula's boat?	BLOODVESSEL
Dracula's quilt fill?	DOWNFORTHECOUNT
Dracula, when he's annoying?	PAININTHENECK
Draw conclusions	INFER
Dull browns	TAUPES
Engage in histrionics	EMOTE
Escape	LAM
Essen exclamation	ACH
Explorer Shackleton	ERNEST
Explosive experiments	ATESTS
Extra locks	TOUPEE
Force	IMPEL
Forgo frugality	SPEND
Friendly	AFFABLE
Get rid of	SHED
Ghosts, literarily	SHADES
Grade	ASSESS
Guitar pioneer Paul	LES
Hammer head half	PEEN
Hardly friendly	ALOOF
Having a shot to win	INIT
Improve	HONE
In direct confrontation	TOETOTOE
iPhone forerunners	PDAS
Israeli desert city	BEERSHEBA
Joint filer	SPOUSE
Juilliard major	DANCE
Kidney enzyme	RENIN
Kindergarten song refrain	EIEIO
Kitchen draw	AROMA
Korean minivan	KIASEDONA
Let the cat out of the bag	BLAB
Letter before Bravo	ALFA