Wall Street Journal - Crossword Answers | 2017 12 18

crossword answers
Clue Answer
'The Hunchback of Notre-Dame' author HUGO
Ask to be excused BEGOFF
PLACE SITE
Swabber's tool MOP
Petits ___ (small cakes) FOURS
ARLES ARTICLES UNES
Trivial ornament DOODAD
GRAZING AREA MEADOW
Visual feature in Time, perhaps PHOTOESSAY
Stocking stuffer found in the long Across answers TOE
'The Old Curiosity Shop' girl NELL
UP TO THE TASK ABLE
BASIC BELIEF TENET
Sound from a cold sufferer ACHOO
MISSOURI RIVER TRIBUTARY OSAGE
Descartes observation COGITOERGOSUM
TOP CARD ACE
LAUNCHER OF VOYAGER PROBES NASA
MIL. BRANCH IN THE DEPT. OF HOMELAND SECURITY USCG
CORKSCREW SHAPE HELIX
HOLY TRINITY MEMBER THESON
Destination for many winter vacations ISLE
CHARGED BIT ION
POPULAR COOKIE OREO
CONTINENTAL COIN EURO
BEFORE LONG SOON
BARCELONA BULL TORO
'Definite maybe' or 'open secret,' e.g OXYMORON
SAIL SUPPORTER MAST
LIKE SOME SLICK ROADS ICY
PRETEND LETON
FENCING SWORD EPEE
REALLY SHINE EXCEL
'It's beginning to look a ___ like Christmas...' LOT
2002 Winter Olympics host nat USA
WITHIN WALKING DISTANCE CLOSE
LUKEWARM TEPID
FOUNDATION GARMENT CORSET
ROSE OF GUNS N' ROSES AXL
'White Christmas' weather SNOW
DENIAL IN DEUTSCHLAND NEIN
Port in the Keystone State ERIE
Place for geese a-laying, say NEST
'BEAUTY AND THE BEAST' BEAUTY BELLE
IRRITATE RILE
STRIKE OUT, IN PROOFING DELE
'Be right with you...' ONESEC
Film's Farrow MIA
ALPINE HEROINE HEIDI
Ens.'s superiors in the 29-Down LTS
Captain aboard the Nautilus NEMO
NOG INGREDIENT EGG
OTHERWISE ELSE
'Christmas Oratorio' composer Camille SAINTSAENS
AMER. CURRENCY DOL
CLASSIC CHRISTMAS PRESENTS DOLLS
Belly bulge OUTIE
CHRISTMAS TREE DECORATION TINSEL
Attacker of accepted ideas ICONOCLAST
JACOB'S TWIN ESAU
'Oh, you wish!' ASIF
MAIDEN NAME LABEL NEE
'THE NAME OF THE ROSE' WRITER UMBERTOECO
TURKEY SANDWICH SPREAD MAYO
LIKE MANY A CHRISTMAS SWEATER LOUD
COMET PART TAIL
90 DEGREES NORTH, FOR THE NORTH POLE LATITUDE
SWAMPY SPOTS BOGS
Assent in France OUI
''Tis the ___ to be jolly...' SEASON
Danish shoe company with stores in many malls ECCO
To be sung by two, in music ADUE
ENACT, AS A LAW PUTINTOEFFECT
SMALL CHANGE CENT
MOGUL ON A SKI SLOPE, ESSENTIALLY BUMP
DANCER'S FIERY PERFORMANCE TANGO