Wall Street Journal - Crossword Answers | 2019 12 26

crossword answers
Clue Answer
PIECE OF LAMB ESSAY
COSTA ___ RICA
FOOTWEAR BRAND SINCE 1916 KEDS
KEEPS IN THE LOOP, IN A WAY CCS
TOOK IN EYED
Wafflers brand EGGO
What makes CGI artists love their jobs? THEJOYOFSFX
Homer’s neighbor NED
One moaning “braaaaaaaains” ZOMBIE
Meditative school ZEN
SMARTY NODOPE
TALKS HOARSELY RASPS
One with a killer job ASSASSIN
SEASONED VETS PROS
ZIP NIL
FLAG TIRE
SELLOUT HIT
Oddly, usual color of an airplane’s black box ORANGE
Out of service, so to speak EXARMY
One of Voldemort’s horcruxes DIARY
Org. for the Jets and the Sharks NHL
Penny’s makeup, largely ZINC
Peebles people SCOTS
Psychic gift ESP
CLEANED OUT BROKE
URGE YEN
CHAMPAGNE CORK SOUND POP
Jacques of French cinema TATI
Richest passenger on the Titanic ASTOR
Laze about LOAF
WESTERN TRIBE UTES
BAKERY COME-ON AROMA
GO FROM DAWN TO DUSK LATEN
Least loud SOFTEST
Like contented gourmands SATED
Michelle’s predecessor LAURA
Laugh lines? COMEDYSERIFS
Joe without the jitters DECAF
How to get the lead out ERASURE
Hulking out MAD
High point of a skyline, perhaps SPIRE
Go from empty to full, and a hint to four squares in this puzzle FUELUP
LOOM IMPEND
BIBLICAL PROPHET HOSEA
REPEATEDLY OFTEN
REVIEWER OF BOOKS, BRIEFLY CPA
Crash sites? SOFAS
Eileen of “The Crown” ATKINS
Famous fashion initials YSL
Exclamation on the Autobahn ACH
Eerie aircraft UFOS
Color of a Sonora sunset, perhaps ROJO
Chain through seven countries ANDES
Brand that can double as a tic-tac-toe row OXO
UNSPECIFIED AMOUNT SOME
VIETNAMESE SOUP PHO
“Exodus” writer URIS
1973 #1 song from the Rolling Stones ANGIE
Base balancers ACIDS
Beginning to understand? SHORTU
Battle of the bulge? FIGUREFIGHT
Can’t abide HATES
7-Down, north of the border RED
“You agree, yes?” AMIRIGHT
“Once upon a midnight dreary...” writer POE
MOVE LIKE MOLASSES OOZE
YELLOWISH EARTH TONE OCHRE
TOOK OFF LEFT
LIKE MOLASSES SLOW
Ruminant that sounds just born GNU
Scriptural verse PSALM
Source of Wall St. headlines IPO
Specimen for a volcanologist ASH
Strategic accessorizing? SCARFTACTICS
Steamy stories EROTICA
GIVES AWAY CEDES
MODEST DRESS MAXI
NOT OUT AWAKE