Wall Street Journal - Nov 2 2019 - Learning to Be a Politician Crossword Answer

Wall Street Journal - Nov 2 2019 - Learning to Be a Politician Crossword Answer

Clues	Answers
Monologuist Mort	SAHL
Muddled along	FARED
Myanmar, before	BURMA
National competition	AVIS
Noggins	BEANS
Not much, in terms of color	ATINGE
Now, in Nicaragua	AHORA
Oktoberfest toast	PROSIT
Ooze	SEEP
Orchestral gong	TAMTAM
Pamphlet	FLYER
Pea stabber	TINE
Periodic table fig	ATNO
Perjury confession	ILIED
Pilgrim’s destination	SHRINE
Plow into	RAM
Practice exercises on being in charge?	POWERDRILLS
Prefix with suppression	IMMUNO
Prize for Reba, for short	CMA
Promise breaker	RENEGER
Pub contest fodder	TRIVIA
Raccoon feature	MASK
Rear-___ (auto accident)	ENDER
Reduce to rags	TATTER
Regretted the last trip to the buffet	OVERATE
Rug rat	TOT
Run-down	SEEDY
Seminar for politicians who want to appear humble?	MODESTYPANEL
Shady card dealer’s maneuver	FALSECUT
Shake awake	ROUSE
Shoulder muscles, for short	DELTS
Show runners, often	CREATORS
Skating category	PAIRS
Slip away from	ELUDE
Smacking sound	MWAH
Souvenir stand purchase	TSHIRT
Spies may wear them	WIRES
Spiral-horned ruminant	ELAND
Sports Illustrated’s 1984 Sportswoman of the Year	RETTON
Statement of beliefs	CREDO
Studied before breaking into	CASED
Successful without assistance	SELFMADE
Surveying unit	ACRE
The Hadean, the Archean and the Proterozoic, e.g	EONS
The Hill, for Congress, and Foggy Bottom, for the State Department	METONYMS
The Horsehead, the Boomerang and the Tarantula, e.g	NEBULAE
Their tails point away from the sun	COMETS
They might be hosed	RIOTERS
Tie up	TRUSS
Toss out	CHUCK
Tubular sandwich	WRAP
Turkish general	AGA
Two-way, as a door	INOUT
Veers suddenly	ZAGS
Veil material	TULLE
Weapon for an Olympian	EPEE
Went like the dickens	TORE
What hot dogs do	PANT
Where a politician can learn how to win the presidency?	ELECTORALCOLLEGE
Where to learn how to be nominated?	PRIMARYSCHOOL
Whirl of water	EDDY
Winery visitors	TASTERS
Winter Olympics event	SLALOM
With the fewest flaws	PUREST
Woman with a title	PEERESS
Words accompanying a lightbulb going on	OHIGETIT
Words after most, best or first	OFALL
Words with binge or budget	ONA
___-Locka, Florida	OPA

Clues	Answers
“A Writer’s Life” memoirist	TALESE
“Bleeding Love” singer Lewis	LEONA
“Hamilton” writer, to his friends	LIN
“Let me think about that...”	HMM
“Mack the Knife” composer	WEILL
“Picnic” playwright	INGE
“The Fog of War” subject	MCNAMARA
Absolute idealism proponent	HEGEL
Affordability factor	COST
Aguilera, to her fans	XTINA
Airwaves, informally	ETHER
Asks too many questions	PRIES
Bad beginning	MAL
Bad party guests	BOORS
Barber’s blunder	NICK
Below, to bards	NEATH
Bet with a big payoff	TRIFECTA
Big lugs	OAFS
Bio. and chem	SCIS
Blacked out	UNLIT
Burrito’s brother	TAMALE
Calls on	USES
Capital of Canada?	CEE
Caramel candies	ROLOS
Central part	CORE
Chicago exchange, for short	MERC
Curriculum for a left-leaning politician?	LIBERALEDUCATION
Dances done with castanets	BOLEROS
Dean’s world	ACADEME
Decides	OPTS
Did an impression of	APED
Does some museum work	RESTORES
Dolby system	STEREO
Dot of color	FLECK
Dugout fixtures	BENCHES
Feature of many Homer paintings	SEA
Food fight noises	SPLATS
Forward	PERT
Frank McCourt book	TIS
Gives a break	SPELLS
Good memories	UPTIMES
GPS heading	ENE
Green shade	LIME
Gregg Allman’s brother	DUANE
Gretzky of the NHL or Moon of the NFL	EXOILER
Heavenly strings	HARP
Hirsch of “Into the Wild”	EMILE
Home of Iowa State	AMES
Home runs, in slang	TATERS
Hound handle	FIDO
Hounds’ quarries	HARES
Included in the email chain	CCED
Instruction for a future congressperson?	HOUSETRAINING
Intention	AIM
It’s a long story	SAGA
It’s broken by the hungry	FAST
JFK guess	ETA
Kitchen injuries	BURNS
Lawn mower brand	TORO
Leading	ONTOP
Lessons for budget management?	ECONOMYCLASS
Lessons on managing a financial crisis?	CRASHCOURSE
Like a better bet	SURER
Like city real estate	ZONED
Lose one’s temper	YELL
Lucifer epithet	EVILONE
Mail deliverer in the wizarding world	OWL
Many university profs	PHDS
McCartney mate	STARR