Wall Street Journal - Crossword Answers | 2021 12 15

crossword answers
Clue Answer
Apostrophized word in “Jingle Bells” OER
BE DECISIVE OPT
BIG OAFS LUGS
Bronze kin TAN
Cape Horn setting CHILE
China’s last imperial dynasty QING
CONCERT VENUE ARENA
COOLER PEN
Creator of Hercule AGATHA
Creator of Perry ERLE
Cruise control? HELM
D.C. transit system METRO
SOUND QUALITY TONE
TEXTILE WORKER DYER
THEREFORE HENCE
LOW POINT NADIR
ENCOURAGE EGGON
ON CLOUD NINE ECSTATIC
DOCILE BUNCH SHEEP
TEAM UP UNITE
DANDLING SPOT KNEE
Force measured in newton-meters TORQUE
Hired killers, informally ICEMEN
Irish poet Heaney SEAMUS
Lab oratory? ARF
Label on some organic food packages GMOFREE
Made more secure, in a way RETIED
Made some dough KNEADED
Octogenarians’ places of worship? GRANDMAMOSQUES
Patient for un pédiatre ENFANT
Port named for a Native American people ERIE
Potpourri parts PETALS
Ruck of “Succession” ALAN
Sea stopper DIKE
Simple switch type ONOFF
Spurious statements LIES
St. Kitts or Nevis ISLE
Start for nautical or dynamic AERO
Stops reading “War and Peace”? QUITSALONGSTORY
Suffix for a gerund ING
Surfer’s destination, for short URL
Table entreaty EAT
Teal’s kin AQUA
Test for newborns APGAR
The Queen of Hearts asks her “Can you play croquet?” ALICE
WALLOP SLUG
WRINKLY CITRUS FRUIT UGLI
WEASEL WORD? STOAT
Top part of le corps TETE
What each colored button on a Guitar Hero controller represents FRET
Words of encouragement to a poetry plagiarizer? TAKETHEQUATRAIN
World’s greatest milkman? MASTEROFQUARTS
They may be bitter ENEMIES
Letters for lawyers ESQ
Hay crop ALFALFA
Not as often LESS
CLASSIC PONTIAC MUSCLE CAR GTO
Atlanta Hawks coach McMillan NATE
“Just ___!” ASEC
“Huh-uh!” NOPE
“Holy cow!” GOSH
“Go ahead, I dare you!” DOIT
Western, facetiously OATER
Widely distributed FARFLUNG