Wall Street Journal Crossword

Sat-Sun, November 27-28, 2021

Carl Larson

TABLE SCRAPS

The clues below will have something in common that has nothing to do with their meanings. The common element is hinted at by the last clue.

1. SILENT OBSERVER

2. BORDER REGION

3. NEW SEASON

4. COPIER PAPER

5. LEVEL HEAD

6. GOING HOG WILD

7. SOCCER STADIUM

8. Radical members of a group

 

HINT:
The introduction above contains a hint.

Answers:

 

The word "element" is in the introduction to the puzzle.

 

The first two or three letters and the last two, three, or four letters of each clue spell out the name of an element:

 

1. SIL..........VER

2. BOR...........ON

3. NE..............ON

4. COP.........PER

5. LE..............AD

6. GO.............LD

7. SO.........DIUM 

 

Since the elements are at the beginnings and ends of the clues, they are FRINGE ELEMENTS - which answers Clue #8.