Wall Street Journal - Crossword Answers | 2021 12 15

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