Wall Street Journal - Crossword Answers | 2022 12 15

crossword answers
Clue Answer
“How boring!” YAWN
“Ready” IMSET
“Swish!” NOTHINGBU
2002 PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction winner Patchett ANN
30-Across, biblically GIVETH
50-Across for cut-off jeans DAISYDUKE
Adjustable diaphragm IRIS
Advisory group established by HST NSC
AFTER ALA
Backdrop of Catania ETNA
BED CHOICE TWIN
Bunting’s kin TOWHEE
Charisse of “Brigadoon” CYD
Collaborator on Aguilera’s “Woohoo” MINAJ
CONFERS BESTOWS
Crimson booers ELIS
PLUS ALSO
PLUS AND
GIANT LEGEND MELOTT
MAINTAINED HELD
EUROPEAN PENINSULA IBERIA
KIDS JESTS
Dingo’s dinner, maybe EMU
First name at 46-Down ELON
Fish named for its four-sided fins TETRA
Genealogy graphic TREE
Gently use a towel on PATDRY
Gist of a saying about useful personal contacts ITSWHOYOU
Good name for a worrywart STU
Hook companion SMEE
Increasingly uncommon material for baseball bats ASH
It causes people to trip LSD
It means “merry” in Basque ALAI
Narrowly escaped disaster DODGEDABU
Quite a few bucks DEER
Romeo’s last words IDIE
Show whose judges have included Michael Kors and Zac Posen PROJECTRU
Sister of Patty and Selma MARGE
SWANKY LUXE
WELL-BUILT SOUND
Site of Akbar’s Church AGRA
Stable guys? MAGI
Vodka from Austin TITOS
Was financially secure HADITMADE
When some farmers start to work ATDAWN
___ Mason (investment firm acquired by Franklin Templeton) LEGG
Grammy winner Lipa DUA
It’s pitched outside TENT
First name in a noted 1857 decision DRED
Reading facilities LOO
PLACES FOR PILOTS STOVES
POLICY PRO WONK
HAVING A LOT TO LOSE INBIG
SIRIUS DOGSTAR
RITE SITE ALTAR
OVERSTATE, AS AN EXPENSE REPORT PAD
LOSE GROUND? ERODE
HAIL, TO CAESAR AVE
SEE 38-ACROSS SPACEX
PERCOLATE LEACH
DAY, IN HEBREW YOM
CRACKED AJAR
TRIBAL TALES LORE
STRUCK, OLD-STYLE SMIT
SWORE AVOWED
TEAR UP WEEP