Wall Street Journal - Crossword Answers | 2020 12 23

crossword answers
Clue Answer
PROFICIENT ABLE
Polygraph exciter LIE
LINGERING LOOK OGLE
CASES FOR DERMATOLOGISTS RASHES
PROPERTY CHARGE LIEN
ABSORB, AS A COST EAT
BIG NAME IN ELEVATORS OTIS
PERIPHERY FRINGES
REMOTE OPTION MUTE
GIVES A HAND AIDS
“Jingle Bells” preposition OER
Belarusian, for one SLAV
ROUTINELY OFTEN
GOES BALLISTIC RANTS
TILL COMPARTMENT TENS
WHISKEY CHOICE BLEND
Plot units ACRES
Sound blocker EARPLUG
Bit of balm DAB
401(k) cousin IRA
Parisian preposition AVEC
WHITE WADERS EGRETS
OBSIDIAN, ORIGINALLY LAVA
COURSE ACTIVITY GOLF
WING ELL
VOYAGE SEGMENT LEG
LASH OUT AT ASSAIL
CUT LINE SCAR
DISTURBINGLY DIFFERENT ALIEN
INVOLVED ACCOUNT SAGA
ON TENTERHOOKS AGOG
SLIP BY ELAPSE
FACILITATE EASE
STICK GLUE
SECONDHAND USED
DO A SLOW BURN SEETHE
Hwys RDS
Hwys RTES
ONE SOUGHT FOR ADVICE ELDER
GROOVES RUTS
BEFORE, POETICALLY ERE
Site of big deposits DELTA
SCHOLARSHIP BASIS NEED
CARRY ON WAGE
LONG-NECKED INSTRUMENTS SITARS
METER MAID OF SONG RITA
OBJECTS AIMS
Largest of a group of seven ASIA
Second-largest of a group of seven AFRICA
In a situation of entanglement AFOUL
Group by size, e.g ASSORT
Flowery wear GARLAND
First to die ABEL
Felipe, Matty, Jesús or Moisés ALOU
Favored La-Z-Boy setting DEN
EMS service CPR
Big Dipper, to Brits PLOUGH
10-Down figure LAMA
“Pretty please?” CANI
Squeeze past EDGE
They’re capable of swimming backward EELS
“No ___!” (“Don’t sweat it!”) PROB
Location of Potala Palace LHASA
Fudge, perhaps MISSTATE
Super Bowl prize RING
The chicken dance as a touchdown celebration? VICTORYFLAPS
Squalid tenements RATTRAPS
Plane trip whose carbon emissions are offset? GREENFLIGHT
Evolution gone wrong? FLAWOFNATURE
Pairs-diving practice? FLIPSYNCING