Wall Street Journal - Crossword Answers | 2021 12 15

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