Wall Street Journal - Nov 9 2019 - Metamorphosis Crossword Answer

Wall Street Journal - Nov 9 2019 - Metamorphosis Crossword Answer

Clues	Answers
Kanye, to Chicago	DAD
Knee injury site, often	ACL
Knights’ titles	SIRS
LBJ’s first attorney general	RFK
Life stage originally represented by the circled letters, prior to metamorphosis	PUPA
Like some flares	SOLAR
Like some sprays	NASAL
Lunches and brunches	REPASTS
Man without manners	CHURL
Max Scherzer’s team	NATS
McConaughey’s co-star in “The Dark Tower”	ELBA
Memoir bits	ANECDOTES
Mint plant	CHIA
Mississippi Delta fish	MUDCAT
Mortgage, e.g	LOAN
Negotiation pro	AGENT
New York governor	CUOMO
Not glossy	MATTE
Oatmeal kin	BEIGE
One might be framed in a painter’s studio	ARTDEGREE
One might be lent or bent	EAR
Opposite of effective?	CAUSAL
Painters of “Water Lilies” forgeries?	MONETMAKERS
Patron of Venice	STMARK
Pet sound	ARF
Post-traumatic stress from spending all day assembling IKEA furniture?	SHELFSHOCK
Prankster’s projectile	EGG
Present	GIFT
Prix fixe feature, by definition	SETRATE
Professional shooters	SLRS
Prohibition, e.g	ERA
Publisher’s insert	ERRATAPAGE
Rapper Lil ___ X	NAS
Release vapors into the air	OUTGAS
Resulted in	LEDTO
Ritz crackers alternatives	HIHOS
Sch. in Charlottesville	UVA
Serengeti stalker	LION
Shiners first sold in 1979	MAGLITES
Sign of balance?	LIBRA
Sinbad’s milieu	SEVENSEAS
Singer Stefani	GWEN
Slender probe	STYLET
Slight sound	PEEP
Snoopy’s alter ego Joe Cool, et al.?	CHILLDOGS
Sound heard when hell freezes over?	MIRACLEBRR
Structured plan	SCHEMA
Sultanate on the Arabian Peninsula	OMAN
Talking the talk without walking the walk	LIPSERVICE
Tattooist’s target	SKIN
Televised coin tosser, often	REF
Terrarium growth	MOSS
The ’rents and the rest	FAM
Tijuana tavern	CANTINA
Tilted text, briefly	ITAL
Titular ship in a sci-fi series	GALACTICA
Tropical sorbet choice	GUAVA
Troubled times	CRISES
Tubes in trunks	AORTAE
TV monitor	FCC
Two-time Wimbledon champ Murray	ANDY
Visionary?	OPTIC
Where Venus Flytrap deejayed	WKRP
Whitney who graduated from Yale, appropriately	ELI
With eyes wide open	ALERT
Word on many mall maps	HERE
Writer actively avoiding synonyms?	ROGETDODGER
Wyoming county that includes Jackson Hole	TETON
___ Gatos	LOS
___ Lanka	SRI

Clues	Answers
“Ain’t never gonna happen!”	NOHOW
“American Gods” author	NEILGAIMAN
“Chicago” actor	GERE
“Diana” singer	ANKA
“Grisham’s a hack! He’ll never write a book as good as ‘Presumed Innocent’!” e.g.?	TUROWSHADE
“Indeed!”	YES
“Midsommar” director Aster	ARI
“Noir Alley” network	TCM
“Turn! Turn! Turn!” songwriter	SEEGER
1958’s Corsair, e.g	EDSEL
1990s sitcom on the Beeb	ABFAB
2020 candidate Bullock	STEVE
@BigBird messages, e.g	TWEETS
Accomplished people	DOERS
Affordable copy of “The Lake Isle of Innisfree”?	CHEAPYEATS
Aldrich Ames, e.g	CIASPY
Amazon Fire rival	IPAD
Articles of faith	TENETS
Battleship?	BOATOFARMS
Beef	GRIPE
Bewildered	LOST
Big name in haute couture	DIOR
Biological encoder	DNA
Bleakly cold	RAW
Boardroom bigwig	CEO
Bonny miss	LASS
Brian’s replacement on “NBC Nightly News”	LESTER
Broccoli ___ (turnip relative)	RABE
Brother of Adam and Little Joe	HOSS
Buster	MAC
Chargeless particles	NEUTRINOS
Church doctrines	CANONS
Clairvoyant types	SEERS
Cocktail also called a blanc-cassis	KIR
Colony raider	ANTEATER
Comic bit	GAG
Components of some KFC orders	PEPSIS
Concord, e.g	GRAPE
Crawl like a crab	SIDLE
Crew team	OARS
Crushed the midterm	ACEDIT
Curl target, informally	BICEP
Distinctive smell	ODOR
Down-home	FOLKSY
Emmy-winning role for Valerie	RHODA
Executive at Lipton?	TEAOFFICER
Fantasy novel by Christopher Paolini	ERAGON
Field unit	ACRE
Flavoring in Cedilla liqueur	ACAI
Flight feature	STEP
Flip out, and then some	GOBERSERK
Frank, Dean, Sammy, Peter and Joey	THERATPACK
Frequent Kwik-E-Mart customer	HOMER
Fully fulfill	SATE
Future cop	CADET
Gallaudet Univ. course	ASL
Gamblers’ notes	CHITS
Gentle touch	PAT
Glum drop	TEAR
Gobs	ALOT
Grueling motorcycle race	ENDURO
Hangzhou “hello”	NIHAO
Hartsfield-Jackson’s airport code	ATL
Herculean effort?	LABORS
High points	ACMES
Hog holders	STIES
Itinerary word	VIA
Jah follower	RASTA
Job for a gob	BOSUN
Jordans, e.g	NIKES