Wall Street Journal - Crossword Answers | 2022 12 19

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