Wall Street Journal solution (January 25, 2014)

The Everson Museum in Syracuse
I.M. Pei (1968)

Below the fold is the solution to today’s Wall Street Journal variety puzzle: “For Starters” by Emily Cox and Henry Rathvon.

I’ve also identified the “initial changes” for the themed answers.  The instructions say “eleven or twelve cases” because 31d is altered twice.

Solution to Wall Street Journal puzzle: 1/25/14 

Theme answers

1a	MC Hammer (entertainer)
12a	BB King (bluesman)
13a	HG Wells (author)
14a	IF Stone (journalist)
19a	TS Eliot (author)
32a	JP Morgan (banker)
2d	CW Post (businessman)
6d	IM Pei (architect)
18d	JM Barrie (author)
23d	WC Fields (comedian)
31d	CP Snow (author)
31d	EB White (author)