Wall Street Journal - Crossword Answers | 2017 12 23

crossword answers
Clue Answer
UNSURPRISINGLY ASEVER
Concerned farewell BESAFE
CART PULLERS ASSES
Haas of 'Inception' LUKAS
Period spent preparing the presents? WRAPSESSION
Assigner of nine-digit nos SSA
More widespread RIFER
Response to 'Nice day' ISNTIT
Subj. of some WikiLeaks leaks NSA
Chock Full o' Nuts container COFFEECAN
Is audibly unhappy SOBS
DECEMBER 24 AND 31 EVES
Blacklisted screenwriter Dalton TRUMBO
Make abundantly clear STRESS
One addressed as 'my lord' EARL
CHRISTMAS TREE DECORATION ICICLE
JACKIE'S SECOND SPOUSE ARI
ENTERED GONEIN
SUPERIOR SORT SNOB
CONTEMPTUOUS EXPRESSION SNEER
NORSE POLE, E.G.? MAST
KEYS ISLETS
GUEST ACCOMMODATION COT
JOINT USE OF A PASTURE COMMONAGE
Will of 'Blue Bloods' ESTES
ADMIN. AIDE ASST
REFI RESTRICTION RATECAP
'Chandelier' singer SIA
'...___ cold winter's night that was so deep' ONA
GIVE ___ (CARE) ADARN
'Nova' subj SCI
SINGLE LONE
RING RESULT TKO
Sermon's finish? ETTE
MARKER FEATURE FELTTIP
Cinematic canine ASTA
Christmas tree branch? APIECEOFTHEPINE
Kaplan University specialty ELEARNING
Case handler: Abbr ATTY
Chip introduced in 1993 PENTIUM
Decoration for Genghis's door? THEWREATHOFKHAN
'Elephant and __' (Mo Willems children's book series) PIGGIE
'Le Mythe de Sisyphe' writer CAMUS
Singer-songwriter Sands EVIE
Two items on a bird lover's Christmas tree? STARANDFEATHER
Winter utterance BRR
Wasikowska of 'Crimson Peak' MIA
HULA HOOP SPINNERS HIPS
Base-eight OCTAL
Certain cola PEPSI
FIELD WORKER REF
'...beginning to look ___ like Christmas...' ALOT
'The hopes and fears of all the years are met in ___ tonight' THEE
Meet successfully RISETO
BUILD-___ WORKSHOP ABEAR
'Happy Motoring!' brand ESSO
CONTENTS OF SOME POCKETS ORE
Jackie of 'Rush Hour' CHAN
Winter figures, made from the 'bonus' letters in this puzzle's theme answers SNOWMEN
MORE GUNG-HO EAGERER
HOUSEHOLD CHORE WASH
ONCE MORE ANEW
IN THE PAST AGO
ADMITS COPSTO
HEAD, HUMOROUSLY NOODLE
HOOK HELPER SMEE
'...but the children know how he came ___ one day' ('Frosty' lyric) TOLIFE
B&B visit STAY
Reba McEntire's '___ Survivor' IMA
East, in Berlin OST
Stamped on TROD
Candy pioneer H.B REESE
JUMP OVER OMIT
PRIVY TO INON
AMAZON SMART SPEAKER ECHO
Mired-down-reindeer mishap? STNICKINTHEMUD
WRITER PENNER
DUD FAILURE
Like 12, but not XII ARABIC
Hearth stuff ASH
TEEMING ASWARM
GOALIE'S WEAR MASK
Approximating suffix ISH
'Deck the Halls' snippet FALALA
PRANK ANTIC
CASH ON HAND? BET
HALF-BAKED DUMB
A bireme has two banks of them OARS
SECOND PART OF A COUNT STRIKES
CAB COMPETITOR UBER
FUNDAMENTAL PRINCIPLE TENET
Gifts for Dad TIES
BOVINE BELLOW MOO
'___ Mommy kissing Santa Claus...' ISAW
JOHN, TO LENNON LOO
WONDER-STRUCK AWED
Fish also know as black grouper BONACI
YULETIDE QUAFFS NOGS
ON THE ROOF OF ATOP
Strong heart ACE
One of five in 'The Winter's Tale' ACT
VITTLES CHOW
MERCHANDISE WARES
One with a mortgage, e.g LIENEE
Kin of Art Moderne DECO
Jimi Hendrix followed them at Woodstock SHANANA
STOPS UP DAMS
Clatters DINS
PROS WITH BOWS ARCHERS
Certain colas RCS
BLISSFUL PLACE EDEN
RENOIR CONTEMPORARY MONET
STOCKING STUFFER? FOOT
Christmas Day, this yr MON
Westminster Abbey's Cosmati pavement, e.g MOSAIC
MOB BOSSES CAPOS
Where residents wish each other 'Buon Natale!' ROME
'___ lovely weather for a sleigh ride together with you' ITS
'How could you think that of me?' IMHURT
December, yearwise END
ONLY PRESIDENT BORN IN NEW HAMPSHIRE PIERCE
CONSTRAIN STIFLE
Erstwhile Fox teen series THEOC
Places where the acoustics are lousy for Christmas singing? CAROLSBADCAVERNS
Singer at Barack's first inauguration ARETHA
BODY EXPERT ANATOMIST
HORACE COLLECTION ODES
'___ you cry, I'll be back again some day' ('Frosty' lyric) DONT
Deuterium, e.g ISOTOPE
Shooter Shaquille ONEAL
Lanford Wilson play 'The ___ Baltimore' HOTL
CHOIR MEMBER ALTO
'Maisie's Merry Christmas' writer Paterson AILEEN
Polygraph exciter LIE
Like some office Santas SECRET
Got out of the sleigh, say ALIT
FLY OFF THE SHELVES SELL
Supervision of a creche display? MANGERMANAGEMENT
Move like the one-horse open sleigh riders DASH
Monopoly quartet: Abbr RRS
In ___ (as originally located) SITU
'Stille ___' ('Silent Night') NACHT