Wall Street Journal - Crossword Answers | 2022 12 19

crossword answers
Clue Answer
“___ Want for Christmas Is You” ALLI
*Common bedside table item CLOCKRADIO
*Meeting building code, in a way FIRERESISTANT
*Take advantage of a profitable period RIDETHEWAVE
Allay, as worries EASE
Be attracted (toward) GRAVITATE
Capable of meeting, as a challenge UPTO
Cauldron’s kin KETTLE
CENTRAL POSITION MIDST
CITI FIELD PLAYER MET
HAVE DEBTS OWE
FLAT-TOPPED HILL MESA
FISH FEATURE FIN
INVENTOR WHITNEY ELI
DRONE HUM
OPUS ___ DEI
Sandy color TAN
SEMIAQUATIC AMPHIBIAN NEWT
CROONER VIC DAMONE
Form 1040 org IRS
LUXURY HOTEL CHAIN OMNI
Disney’s “little mermaid” ARIEL
Downloadable greetings ECARDS
Drag laboriously HAUL
Feature of an incandescent bulb FILAMENT
Lack enough resources RUNSHORT
Lauder of beauty wares ESTEE
Like some drugs and stock trades: Abbr OTC
Many a winning soccer score TWOONE
NASA astronaut Jemison MAE
Neat freak’s bane MESS
Origin for ideas MIND
Pony, to a preschooler HORSY
Release, as a canary UNCAGE
JABS POKES
SICILIAN PEAK ETNA
SLIPPERY ELUSIVE
VIETNAMESE NOODLE SOUP PHO
FROM ___ Z ATO
RIVAL ENEMY
LEVELS TIERS
Team strategy GAMEPLAN
RUB OUT ERASE
HEAT UNIT THERM
COMIC CARVEY DANA
CHECKED OUT EYED
BULLFIGHT CRY OLE
BEFORE LONG, TO SHAKESPEARE ANON
BASIC BELIEFS TENETS
BAR ORDER SHOT
1002, IN OLD ROME MII
“___ Como Va” (Santana hit) OYE
SOME JAPANESE WATCHES SEIKOS
LYMPHATIC SYSTEM COMPONENTS NODES
Most careless SLOPPIEST
Jazz legend Vaughan SARAH
STANDING STRAIGHT ERECT
STORYBOOK BRUTE OGRE
SUGAR SUFFIX OSE
STAYS OUT OF SIGHT LIESLOW
TV’s “___ Lasso” TED
Yeoman’s “yes” AYE