Wall Street Journal - Crossword Answers | 2022 12 15

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