Wall Street Journal - Crossword Answers | 2021 10 16

crossword answers
Clue Answer
Gray ones may be debated AREAS
“These sheets are freezing!” BRR
DNA may prove it PARENTAGE
LIEU STEAD
PEN PALS? INMATES
Letter twelve before 45-Down ETA
SOLEMN CEREMONIES RITES
What a kitten may lick TUNACAN
A wk. has 168 HRS
Framer’s supply MATTES
TEXAS FLAG SYMBOL STAR
EVEN TIED
Campaigns have lots of it HYPE
LETTER BEFORE OMEGA PSI
MORE, IN MADRID MAS
A.D. PART ANNO
PROTRUDING BELLY PAUNCH
FENCING BLADES EPEES
BITTER BREW ALE
SCRUBBED NOGO
DALLAS CAGER MAV
Parliament title LORD
Priestly Dumas character ARAMIS
Descartes’s conclusion IAM
Avoids a crash, perhaps VEERSAWAY
Carrier based at Mehrabad International IRANAIR
Coachella Valley refuges OASES
Grammy winner LaBelle PATTI
It’s often sesame-crusted AHI
PACIFY APPEASE
First sound from elephants? SHORTE
Water brand from Canada NAYA
Prez’s underling VEEP
Light scatterers? ROACHES
WINE BOTTLE NUMBER YEAR
CHECKED OUT EYED
Records clerk’s retrieval CASEFILE
Reduce to a paste MASH
Become a candidate RUN
Bid strategically on eBay SNIPED
Post office machine MAILSORTER
Magic words, or an apt phrase describing 32-Across NOWYOUSEEITNOWYOUDONT
BUDGET RIVAL ALAMO
Hay handful WISP
PACK LEADERS ALPHAS
Extortionist’s technique PRESSURE
Icicle’s place EAVE
It might be witching HOUR
Misremembers, maybe ERRS
Forgers’ places SMITHIES
The Horned Frogs’ sch TCU
Post-blizzard transport, perhaps SKIS
Reel people? ANGLERS
Brady blunder: Abbr INT
“I’ll be!” GEE
Tarragona title SENOR
FLIGHT LAM
Letter four before 82-Across TAU
Tiger’s props TEES
SWEATSHIRT STYLE HOODIE
Bernadette or Jeanne: Abbr STE
AQUARIUM SWIMMERS GUPPIES
Honorary deg. awarded by Harvard to Angela Merkel in 2019 LLD
ANCIENT AGESOLD
Prompter’s task CUING
“Adorns” on Halloween TPS
BETRAY PAIN WINCE
Kiddo TOT
AVOID SHUN
DOWN SAD
Ticket surcharge FEE
SO FAR YET
REALLY HOT SEXY
LANDLOCKED AFRICAN NATION UGANDA
Wrong answer to a sentry FOE
Podcast annoyances ADS
Practice represented by an inverted pentagram SATANISM
Scam online PHISH
What crosswords should be FUN
Attorney/pundit Katyal NEAL
Custody battle participants EXES
Their glory days are long past HASBEENS
Honorific of India SRI
CRY FROM HOMER DOH
IN DAYS PAST AGO
Make a muumuu, say SEW
COURT AFFIRMATION IDO
Computer once shaped like a gumdrop IMAC
Sanctum modifier INNER
HATES DETESTS
TENNIS CALL LET
Feels fluish, maybe AILS
Noted Celtic singer ENYA
ISLAMIC CHIEF EMIR
RANKLE VEX
PROTEIN ACID AMINO
All counterpart NONE
Second-largest U.S. rideshare company LYFT
DRAPERY FABRICS DAMASKS
FILL IN FOR ACTAS
Hoarders’ houses, e.g MESSES
DRILL PART BIT
EXPLOIT USE
KINDA ISH
Baltimore-to-Annapolis dir SSE
Capricious creatures ELVES
“Dude!” BRO
Drapery needs RODS
Like a so-so movie MEH
Wild animal tranquilizer DARTGUN
LOGICAL OPERATORS ORS
Showing a suit, maybe FACEUP
Word after dash or nanny CAM
IMPROVE ENHANCE
CORVINE CALL CAW
TRY TO SWAT HITAT
Pierre’s love in “War and Peace” NATASHA
Chewy noodle UDON
Govt. building manager GSA
Annual Big Apple fashion event THEMETGALA
King of Maine, e.g.: Abbr SEN
Frat house crash sites SOFAS
Large digits TOES
Paris Match article UNE
Carnaby Street setting SOHO
Strongly emphasize a point RAMITHOME