Wall Street Journal 2022 12 19 - Crossword Answers

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

“___ Want for Christmas Is You”

ALLI

*Common bedside table item

CLOCKRADIO

*Meeting building code, in a way

FIRERESISTANT

*Take advantage of a profitable period

RIDETHEWAVE

Allay, as worries

EASE

BAR ORDER

SHOT