Wall Street Journal - Crossword Answers | 2022 12 15

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