Wall St.Journal Weekend 29Feb2020

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From this week’s

Wall Street Journal

Rows Garden|by Patrick Berry

Answers fit into this flower garden

in two ways. Row answers read

horizontally from the lettered

markers; each Row contains two

consecutive answers reading left to

right (except Rows A and L, which

contain one answer reading across

the nine protruding spaces).

Blooms are six-letter answers that

fill the shaded and unshaded

hexagons, reading either clockwise

or counterclockwise. Bloom clues

are divided into three lists: Light,

Medium and Dark. Answers to

Light clues should be placed in

hexagons with white centers;

Medium answers belong in the

hexagons with gray centers; and

Dark answers belong in hexagons

with black centers. All three Bloom

lists are in random order, so you

must use the Row answers to figure

out where to plant each Bloom.

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Get the solutionsto this week’s Journal Weekend Puzzles in next

Saturday’s Wall Street Journal. Solve crosswords and acrostics

online, get pointers on solving cryptic puzzles and discuss all of the

puzzles online atWSJ.com/Puzzles.

A B C D E F G H I J K L

A B C D E F G H I J K L

Rows

A Data storage medium that the

U.S. Census Bureau first used

in 1890 (2 wds.)

B Rock and Roll Hall of Fame

inductee who only lived to

age 17 (2 wds.)

Bargain events often advertised

by homemade flyers (2 wds.)

C Where dropkicks, brainbusters

and powerbombs are

performed (2 wds.)

Have a meaningful impact

D 1950s−60s film format

with a lens developed by

Bausch & Lomb

Interstellar object identified as

the remnant of a supernova

observed in A.D. 1054 (2 wds.)

E Greek god who shoots arrows

with a golden bow

1984 concert film that pioneered

the use of all-digital audio

(3 wds.)

F Unofficial measure of public

opinion (2 wds.)

She tells a thousand stories in

the “Arabian Nights”

G 1982 song written by Paul

McCartney that was banned

in South Africa (3 wds.)

Deserted in a time of need

(3 wds.)

H Vegetables at the low end of

the Scoville scale, along with

pimentos (2 wds.)

Social networking site owned

by Facebook

I Some single-sex gatherings

(2 wds.)

Honest and trustworthy

(3 wds.)

J Group fond of dining out?

Episode ending that encourages

binge-watching

K Like some folk medicines

Home entertainment option

relinquished by cord-cutters

(2 wds.)

L Separate with one’s hands

(2 wds.)

Light Blooms

Trophy winners

Crumple into a compact mass

(2 wds.)

Musical intervals slightly larger

than octaves

Source of many superhero films

Legends in their fields

Appreciative restaurant patron

Powerful blow

Brings joy to

Platform in a warehouse

Contributor to a literary journal

Touches lightly while whizzing by

“Foolish Pride” singer Tritt

Knuckled under (2 wds.)

Lounge-around-the-house pants

Medium Blooms

Gets a move on

3 Musketeers filling

Horizontal bar exercise (Hyph.)

Open, as a vacuum-packed jar

Cryptographer’s creation

One who kicks in on Kickstarter

Odin’s realm

“The Irishman” co-star Al

Take-home amount (2 wds.)

Indefinite geographical expanse

Blackburn football club

Tower builder for the 1889

World’s Fair

Ellen of “The Big Easy”

Grip tightly

Dark Blooms

“Gunsmoke” marshal Matt

Typical fairy-tale hero

When repeated, a courtroom cry

(2 wds.)

Shuts down

Performed penance

Discotheque light

Title role for Robert Guillaume

Walking off nervous energy

Least plausible, as an excuse

Montana’s capital

Across

1 City served

by Kansai

International

Airport

6Level

13 Marketing tool

17 Rich deposits

18 Old riddle

question

19 Refrain from

21 John James

Audubon, for one

23 “Shoot!”

25 Good golf game

26 Sense of

excitement

27 Formal

permission

28 Desired outcome

29 Hall’s bandmate

31 Fictional

accounts

34 Lilliputian

35 British-made

SUV

39 Flower holder

41 Optimal

42 “Chicago Hope”

Emmy winner

43 Atlas alternative

45 Withdraw,

judicially

48 Act the couch

potato

51 Kitchen staple

99 Conclusion for

Descartes

100 Vino region

101 Washing

machine cycle

102 Longoria of

“Desperate

Housewives”

103 Letter-shaped

fasteners

105 Canon

competitor

107 Harmful helper

111 Some are lazy

113 Repressed

feelings, and a

hint to the circled

letters

115 Pedigree figures

116 Some aliens

117 Terrific

118 Unsophisticated

humor

119 They’re seen in

showers

120 Makes smooth

Down

1 “The Favourite”

Oscar winner

Colman

2 Grave

3 Annex, briefly

4 Food for sea

urchins

5 Java container?

6 She has a wool

coat

7 Stainless

8 Creator of Boo

and Atticus

9 Singers James

and Jones

10 Retreat

11 Trans-Siberian

Railway city

12 Tight player, in

poker

13 Spot to jot

14 Round figures

15 Tribal tales

16 First woman

nominated for a

directing Oscar

20 Sell off

21 Regular

deterioration

22 ___ Loops

(Toucan Sam’s

brand)

24 Saw things

30 Tel ___

31 Trail

32 Unfavorably

33 Squeezes (out)

36 Sticks

37 Unhurried

38 Scoreboard

letters

39 Trifling amount

40 Young’uns

41 Makes a bundle

43 One in a rush?

44 Polished off

45 Like many a

Disney film

46 Magic medicine

47 Record store

section

49 Apiece

50 Exult in victory

55 Plugging away

56 Venues

58 Laudatory words

59 Communicated

with one’s

thumbs

61 William Tell’s

canton

62 Unstable particle

63 Woodstock

quartet, for short

64 Choice word

66 Collision sound

68 Bury

69 Tom Clancy hero

72 Manipulative

bunch

74 Major meal

77 Icicle’s spot

79 Takes off

81 Jazz club

offerings

83 Spot checker?

84 Main ingredient

of 82-Across’s

products

85 Moo ___ pork

86 Cuts out

87 Titania and

Oberon circle it

88 Smashed

89 Belt at a tea

ceremony

91 Bygone Rolling

Stone competitor

94 Chicago suburb

95 Comparatively

cockamamie

96 Browser button

97 Doings

98 Listening devices

100 Co-star of Moore

and Knight

101 Mountain line

104 Poi root

105 Ceviche

ingredient

106 Prepare for

print

108 Yule beverages

109 Razor brand

110 Good, in Granada

112 Tax form ID

113 Skirt edge

114 Twisty shape

In the Mood |by Gary Larson

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52 Site of many

strikes

53 Everyone

54 Mineo of movies

57 Entice

60 Miembros de la

familia

61 Scanner target

65 Admittedly

67 “___ & Oh’s” (Elle

King hit)

68 Saint Patrick’s

Day celebrant,

often

70 Indulgent

71 Separation

73 Dickens boy

74 Move like a moth

75 Matter for a

miller

76 “Science Guy” Bill

78 Long of “NCIS:

Los Angeles”

79 Participants in

some flying

formations

80 So-so grades

82 Skin care brand

85 Took to the sky

86 Argue about

90 Targets for

masseuses

92 WWW addresses

93 Yak’s home

94 Orange, e.g.

PLAY

NEWS QUIZ DANIEL AKST

THE JOURNAL WEEKEND PUZZLESedited byMIKE SHENK

5.Markets were roiled

by coronavirus fears.

Whom did President

Trump appoint to

lead the govern-

ment’s response?

A.Rudy Giuliani


B.Mike Pence


C.Jared Kushner


D.Mike Pompeo

6.Hosni Mubarak, whose auto-

cratic rule as Egypt’s president

ended in 2011, died at 91. What

was his wife’s first name?

A.Suzanne


B.Jeanette


C.Marie


D.Adrienne

7.Which of these did Rajeev

Misra use to undermine rivals

en route to the top at Soft-

Bank’s giant Vision Fund?

A.Planting negative news

stories about them


B.Concocting a shareholder

campaign for their dismissal


C.Trying to get one of them

to compromise himself sexually

for blackmail


D.All of the above

8.What’s the latest thing

people in California are doing

with their RVs?

A.Racing souped-up versions


B.Using them as Uber

vehicles


C.Living in them


D.Being buried in them

1.Indian leader

Narendra Modi

came under

sharp criticism

after days of

deadly commu-

nal violence—in

what city?

A.Mumbai


B.New Delhi


C.Jaipur


D.Kolkata

2.When it launches in May,

the new HBO Max streaming

service will include a special

reunion—of which TV show?

A.“The Andy Griffith Show”


B.“Friends”


C.“Seinfeld”


D.“The Office”

3.Per a new study, U.S. road

fatalities hit a 30-year high in

2019—in which category?

A.SUV drivers


B.Motorcycle riders


C.Bicycle riders


D.Pedestrians

4.Barbara Novick, one of the

most influential women on Wall

Street, is stepping down as vice

chairman—of which key firm?

A.BlackRock


B.Blackstone


C.Blackfriars


D.Goldman Sachs

Answersare listed below

the crossword solutions at right.

FROM TOP: T. NARAYAN/BLOOMBERG NEWS; ISTOCK

Answersto News Quiz:1.B,2.B,3.D,4.A,5.B,6.A,7.D,8.C

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NUMBERS PUZZLE SOLUTIONS TOLAST

WEEK'SPUZZLES

ACROSS 1. PEL(O)T + ON 2. PHOE + BE (“hope” anag.) 3. P(RIM)ER 4. PL +

EDGED 5. GRENADE (anag.) 6. MAT(UR)E 7. SCRE(W)ED 8. LA(FIT)TE 9. G

+R+OVER10.FLATTER (2 defs.) 11. RE(V)ELER 12. S + ENTRY 13. SHORTY

(hid.) 14. SETT + LED (“test” anag.)

CYCLISTS a. G(R)ASP; PI(G’S)TY b. ARCHER (2 defs.); E(THE)R c. O + LIVE;

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TREBLE (rev.) m. D(E + AD)EN; B(ERR)Y