Wall Street Journal 2022 12 19 - Crossword Answers

Clue	Answer
Allay, as worries	EASE
BAR ORDER	SHOT
Be attracted (toward)	GRAVITATE
Capable of meeting, as a challenge	UPTO
Cauldron’s kin	KETTLE
CITI FIELD PLAYER	MET
HAVE DEBTS	OWE
FLAT-TOPPED HILL	MESA
FISH FEATURE	FIN
DRONE	HUM
RIVAL	ENEMY
INVENTOR WHITNEY	ELI
RUB OUT	ERASE
HEAT UNIT	THERM
COMIC CARVEY	DANA
CHECKED OUT	EYED
CENTRAL POSITION	MIDST
BULLFIGHT CRY	OLE
BEFORE LONG, TO SHAKESPEARE	ANON
BASIC BELIEFS	TENETS
1002, IN OLD ROME	MII
Disney’s “little mermaid”	ARIEL
Downloadable greetings	ECARDS
Drag laboriously	HAUL
Feature of an incandescent bulb	FILAMENT
Lack enough resources	RUNSHORT
Lauder of beauty wares	ESTEE
NASA astronaut Jemison	MAE
Neat freak’s bane	MESS
Origin for ideas	MIND
Pony, to a preschooler	HORSY
Release, as a canary	UNCAGE
STANDING STRAIGHT	ERECT
*Take advantage of a profitable period	RIDETHEWAVE
“___ Want for Christmas Is You”	ALLI
“___ Como Va” (Santana hit)	OYE
Yeoman’s “yes”	AYE
JABS	POKES
SICILIAN PEAK	ETNA
SLIPPERY	ELUSIVE
OPUS ___	DEI
FROM ___ Z	ATO
LEVELS	TIERS
LUXURY HOTEL CHAIN	OMNI
Sandy color	TAN
SEMIAQUATIC AMPHIBIAN	NEWT
LYMPHATIC SYSTEM COMPONENTS	NODES
SOME JAPANESE WATCHES	SEIKOS
Form 1040 org	IRS
Jazz legend Vaughan	SARAH
STORYBOOK BRUTE	OGRE
SUGAR SUFFIX	OSE
VIETNAMESE NOODLE SOUP	PHO
TV’s “___ Lasso”	TED
Most careless	SLOPPIEST
CROONER VIC	DAMONE
Team strategy	GAMEPLAN
*Common bedside table item	CLOCKRADIO
*Meeting building code, in a way	FIRERESISTANT
Many a winning soccer score	TWOONE
Like some drugs and stock trades: Abbr	OTC
STAYS OUT OF SIGHT	LIESLOW

Allay, as worries

EASE

BAR ORDER

SHOT

Be attracted (toward)

GRAVITATE

Capable of meeting, as a challenge

UPTO

Cauldron’s kin

KETTLE

CITI FIELD PLAYER

MET