Wall Street Journal - Crossword Answers | 2021 12 15

crossword answers
Clue Answer
“Go ahead, I dare you!” DOIT
Apostrophized word in “Jingle Bells” OER
Bronze kin TAN
Cape Horn setting CHILE
ON CLOUD NINE ECSTATIC
SOUND QUALITY TONE
Cruise control? HELM
Creator of Perry ERLE
Creator of Hercule AGATHA
Hired killers, informally ICEMEN
Lab oratory? ARF
Label on some organic food packages GMOFREE
Made more secure, in a way RETIED
Octogenarians’ places of worship? GRANDMAMOSQUES
Patient for un pédiatre ENFANT
Port named for a Native American people ERIE
Ruck of “Succession” ALAN
Sea stopper DIKE
Simple switch type ONOFF
Spurious statements LIES
Start for nautical or dynamic AERO
Stops reading “War and Peace”? QUITSALONGSTORY
Suffix for a gerund ING
Table entreaty EAT
St. Kitts or Nevis ISLE
The Queen of Hearts asks her “Can you play croquet?” ALICE
COOLER PEN
WRINKLY CITRUS FRUIT UGLI
Force measured in newton-meters TORQUE
China’s last imperial dynasty QING
BIG OAFS LUGS
BE DECISIVE OPT
Top part of le corps TETE
What each colored button on a Guitar Hero controller represents FRET
Words of encouragement to a poetry plagiarizer? TAKETHEQUATRAIN
World’s greatest milkman? MASTEROFQUARTS
DANDLING SPOT KNEE
DOCILE BUNCH SHEEP
CONCERT VENUE ARENA
LOW POINT NADIR
THEREFORE HENCE
TEXTILE WORKER DYER
D.C. transit system METRO
Letters for lawyers ESQ
WALLOP SLUG
Atlanta Hawks coach McMillan NATE
“Huh-uh!” NOPE
“Holy cow!” GOSH
TEAM UP UNITE
Not as often LESS
“Just ___!” ASEC
WEASEL WORD? STOAT
Test for newborns APGAR
Western, facetiously OATER
Teal’s kin AQUA
Surfer’s destination, for short URL
CLASSIC PONTIAC MUSCLE CAR GTO
Potpourri parts PETALS
Made some dough KNEADED
Irish poet Heaney SEAMUS
ENCOURAGE EGGON
Hay crop ALFALFA
They may be bitter ENEMIES
Widely distributed FARFLUNG