Wall Street Journal - Crossword Answers | 2021 10 19

crossword answers
Clue Answer
Hot rods? POKERS
Commonly mispunctuated possessive ITS
PREMIERE ARRIVAL LIMO
*Flash photography annoyance REDEYE
REVELATORY CRY OHO
Creature sacred to Aphrodite DOVE
*Contemptible person YELLOWDOG
Like 50-Down’s character Valkyrie NORSE
PARTY LINE? CONGA
READILY APPARENT OVERT
ULTIMATE DEGREE NTH
Hewitt Quadrangle setting YALE
UNEXCITING BLAH
Singers Riley and Pendergrass TEDDYS
Metroliner’s successor ACELA
Cubic decimetre LITRE
DOWNWIND, NAUTICALLY ALEE
PHYSICS CLASS TOPIC ATOM
REACTED TO FIREWORKS AAHED
AMD product CPU
Hardly upscale CHEAPO
*Peary goal of 1909 NORTHPOLE
LO-CAL LITE
Patch, e.g MEND
SET LOOSE FREED
Film role for Ricardo Montalban and Benedict Cumberbatch KHAN
Self-declared AVOWED
___ a time (singly) ONEAT
Web service TinyURL for net addresses, e.g Shortener
SMART CHIC
PLOY RUSE
FOLDS CREASES
SOUND OF ALARM YELP
Fashionably elegant HAUTE
*Programming language common on websites JAVASCRIPT
1989 “Weird Al” Yankovic movie UHF
Alternating current pioneer TESLA
Inactive periods for seeds BYEROUNDS
Prize for playwrights TONY
Squirrel, slangily TREERAT
Increase over time ACCRUE
*Skin blemish also called a comedo BLACKHEAD
POLISHED ADEPT
IN A SORRY STATE SAD
Harry Potter’s Patronus STAG
OPEN, AS A GATE UNBAR
Almost half of mammals? EMS
SECRET AFFAIR AMOUR
AAA SUGGESTION RTE
Humorously playful JOCOSE
REAR RAISE
Scout recitation OATH
___ BRAVA, SPAIN COSTA
“Animal Kingdom” network TNT
“Get outta here!” SCAT
Thompson of “Avengers: Endgame” TESSA
KID JOSH
OFF-ROADER, BRIEFLY ATV
Latter Day Saints title ELDER
GREAT LAKES MNEMONIC HOMES
*EXACTLY RIGHT DEADON
Letters on a camcorder button REC
Many a jazz ensemble OCTET
Bankable star NAME
STREET CRED REP