“Beetle Bailey” subject? Crossword Clue

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Hint 1: Clue Definitions

BAILEY (noun)
1. United States singer (1918-1990)
2. English lexicographer who was the first to treat etymology consistently; his work was used as a reference by Samuel Johnson (died in 1742)
BEETLE (verb)
1. be suspended over or hang over
2. beat with a beetle
BEETLE (noun)
1. a tool resembling a hammer but with a large head (usually wooden); used to drive wedges or ram down paving stones or for crushing or beating or flattening or smoothing
2. insect having biting mouthparts and front wings modified to form horny covers overlying the membranous rear wings
BEETLE (adjective)
1. jutting or overhanging

More WSJ Crossword (12/11/2024) Answers

Across

1. Use salty language

5. Primed

10. Clothing mishaps

14. Outback gem

15. Reached a conclusion

16. “Hair” hairdo

19. Some rabbits

20. Paltry coin

21. Ticked off

22. Christmas trees, often

23. Trunks

25. Rationale for Christmas doings?

29. “___ 17” (Billy Wilder war movie)

31. Indefinite amount

32. Quirky

33. Prolonged blockade

34. Cobbler's tool

35. Southwestern tribe

36. Got some invigorating libations in a raffle?

39. Mine!

42. Ehomaki ingredient

43. Marine Band leader of the 1880s

46. Words with diet or dime

47. Amsterdam in NYC, e.g.

48. Parcels of land

50. Dessert chef’s reaction to a fire in the oven?

54. Yawl’s kin

55. Stinging blow

56. Gold rush site of 1899

58. Cell messenger

59. Cruise ship amenities

60. Tough issue for a debater?

63. Ramble

64. “Hadestown” creator Mitchell

65. Checkout nuisance

66. Just slightly

67. Precept

68. Pursues tenaciously

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Down

1. Beach locales

2. Forces to relocate

3. Daimyo’s defenders

4. Cunning

5. City near Lake Tahoe

6. Admittance

7. “Au revoir!”

8. Big mo. for the P.O.

9. Upholsterer’s meas.

10. Ham's need

11. “Sorry, slipped my mind”

12. Have authority

13. 'Help us!'

18. Italian cheese

22. Pants part

24. A heap

26. Croquet setting

27. Answer Uncle Sam’s call

28. S&L offerings

30. Site of the World Health Organization headquarters

34. Pioneering ISP

35. Customary

37. Typical new driver

38. Bit of breathtaking attire?

39. Clinic address

40. Facing difficulty

41. Layered Turkish pastry

44. Halloween baby, e.g.

45. Remedy for a guilty conscience

47. Gamer’s download

49. Hits the bar?

51. Let up

52. Like Machu Picchu

53. Mary Martha Corinne Morrison Claiborne Boggs Roberts, familiarly

57. Game with a sequel called Riven

59. Monterrey Mrs.

60. Chinese zodiac animal

61. Its own square

62. Vintage

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