Wall Street Journal - Crossword Answers | 2022 12 15

crossword answers
Clue Answer
CRACKED AJAR
PLUS ALSO
PLUS AND
PERCOLATE LEACH
HAIL, TO CAESAR AVE
AFTER ALA
LOSE GROUND? ERODE
GIANT LEGEND MELOTT
DAY, IN HEBREW YOM
Crimson booers ELIS
KIDS JESTS
CONFERS BESTOWS
Collaborator on Aguilera’s “Woohoo” MINAJ
Charisse of “Brigadoon” CYD
Bunting’s kin TOWHEE
BED CHOICE TWIN
Backdrop of Catania ETNA
Advisory group established by HST NSC
Dingo’s dinner, maybe EMU
First name at 46-Down ELON
Fish named for its four-sided fins TETRA
Genealogy graphic TREE
Gently use a towel on PATDRY
Gist of a saying about useful personal contacts ITSWHOYOU
Good name for a worrywart STU
Hook companion SMEE
Increasingly uncommon material for baseball bats ASH
It causes people to trip LSD
It means “merry” in Basque ALAI
Narrowly escaped disaster DODGEDABU
Quite a few bucks DEER
Romeo’s last words IDIE
Show whose judges have included Michael Kors and Zac Posen PROJECTRU
Sister of Patty and Selma MARGE
Adjustable diaphragm IRIS
50-Across for cut-off jeans DAISYDUKE
TEAR UP WEEP
30-Across, biblically GIVETH
2002 PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction winner Patchett ANN
“Swish!” NOTHINGBU
Site of Akbar’s Church AGRA
Stable guys? MAGI
Vodka from Austin TITOS
Was financially secure HADITMADE
When some farmers start to work ATDAWN
___ Mason (investment firm acquired by Franklin Templeton) LEGG
“Ready” IMSET
“How boring!” YAWN
RITE SITE ALTAR
MAINTAINED HELD
SIRIUS DOGSTAR
SEE 38-ACROSS SPACEX
EUROPEAN PENINSULA IBERIA
HAVING A LOT TO LOSE INBIG
POLICY PRO WONK
PLACES FOR PILOTS STOVES
Reading facilities LOO
First name in a noted 1857 decision DRED
It’s pitched outside TENT
Grammy winner Lipa DUA
OVERSTATE, AS AN EXPENSE REPORT PAD
SWANKY LUXE
WELL-BUILT SOUND
SWORE AVOWED
STRUCK, OLD-STYLE SMIT
TRIBAL TALES LORE