Wall Street Journal - Crossword Answers | 2021 10 16

crossword answers
Clue Answer
ANCIENT AGESOLD
Annual Big Apple fashion event THEMETGALA
Attorney/pundit Katyal NEAL
Avoids a crash, perhaps VEERSAWAY
Baltimore-to-Annapolis dir SSE
Become a candidate RUN
Bernadette or Jeanne: Abbr STE
Bid strategically on eBay SNIPED
FILL IN FOR ACTAS
COURT AFFIRMATION IDO
DRAPERY FABRICS DAMASKS
BITTER BREW ALE
FENCING BLADES EPEES
FLIGHT LAM
EVEN TIED
Capricious creatures ELVES
CHECKED OUT EYED
Brady blunder: Abbr INT
Campaigns have lots of it HYPE
Carrier based at Mehrabad International IRANAIR
Chewy noodle UDON
Coachella Valley refuges OASES
Computer once shaped like a gumdrop IMAC
DNA may prove it PARENTAGE
Drapery needs RODS
Extortionist’s technique PRESSURE
Feels fluish, maybe AILS
First sound from elephants? SHORTE
Forgers’ places SMITHIES
Framer’s supply MATTES
Frat house crash sites SOFAS
Govt. building manager GSA
Grammy winner LaBelle PATTI
Gray ones may be debated AREAS
DOWN SAD
EXPLOIT USE
PROTRUDING BELLY PAUNCH
REALLY HOT SEXY
BETRAY PAIN WINCE
AVOID SHUN
AQUARIUM SWIMMERS GUPPIES
All counterpart NONE
HATES DETESTS
A.D. PART ANNO
A wk. has 168 HRS
“These sheets are freezing!” BRR
LIEU STEAD
“I’ll be!” GEE
“Adorns” on Halloween TPS
Custody battle participants EXES
CRY FROM HOMER DOH
DRILL PART BIT
BUDGET RIVAL ALAMO
DALLAS CAGER MAV
MORE, IN MADRID MAS
Carnaby Street setting SOHO
Descartes’s conclusion IAM
PROTEIN ACID AMINO
LANDLOCKED AFRICAN NATION UGANDA
Post office machine MAILSORTER
IMPROVE ENHANCE
LOGICAL OPERATORS ORS
SO FAR YET
PEN PALS? INMATES
LETTER BEFORE OMEGA PSI
SOLEMN CEREMONIES RITES
Hay handful WISP
Hoarders’ houses, e.g MESSES
Honorary deg. awarded by Harvard to Angela Merkel in 2019 LLD
Honorific of India SRI
Icicle’s place EAVE
It might be witching HOUR
It’s often sesame-crusted AHI
King of Maine, e.g.: Abbr SEN
Large digits TOES
Letter four before 82-Across TAU
Letter twelve before 45-Down ETA
Light scatterers? ROACHES
Like a so-so movie MEH
Make a muumuu, say SEW
Misremembers, maybe ERRS
Noted Celtic singer ENYA
Paris Match article UNE
Pierre’s love in “War and Peace” NATASHA
Podcast annoyances ADS
Post-blizzard transport, perhaps SKIS
Practice represented by an inverted pentagram SATANISM
Prez’s underling VEEP
Sanctum modifier INNER
Scam online PHISH
Second-largest U.S. rideshare company LYFT
Showing a suit, maybe FACEUP
Strongly emphasize a point RAMITHOME
Tarragona title SENOR
IN DAYS PAST AGO
PACIFY APPEASE
RANKLE VEX
“Dude!” BRO
TENNIS CALL LET
TEXAS FLAG SYMBOL STAR
SWEATSHIRT STYLE HOODIE
PACK LEADERS ALPHAS
CORVINE CALL CAW
ISLAMIC CHIEF EMIR
WINE BOTTLE NUMBER YEAR
Kiddo TOT
Parliament title LORD
Priestly Dumas character ARAMIS
Wrong answer to a sentry FOE
Reel people? ANGLERS
Reduce to a paste MASH
KINDA ISH
Ticket surcharge FEE
Tiger’s props TEES
Water brand from Canada NAYA
What crosswords should be FUN
Word after dash or nanny CAM
What a kitten may lick TUNACAN
Their glory days are long past HASBEENS
TRY TO SWAT HITAT
SCRUBBED NOGO
The Horned Frogs’ sch TCU
Records clerk’s retrieval CASEFILE
Prompter’s task CUING
Magic words, or an apt phrase describing 32-Across NOWYOUSEEITNOWYOUDONT
Wild animal tranquilizer DARTGUN