Wall Street Journal Crossword Answers December 21, 2019

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Author: Mike Shenk

Across

Like Mafia higher-ups MADE
Rewrites for the screen, say ADAPTS
Connecticut Avenue-St. Charles Place go-between JAIL
Sixth col. heading FRI
HCl, for one ACID
High quarters GARRET
1952 Winter Olympics host OSLO
Pound sterling QUID
Altar slab? SHRINESTONE
Display samples in the confectioner’s shop? SHOWFUDGE
Scraps SETTOS
Play place STAGE
Develop wing feathers FLEDGE
Dandy FOP
Subway posting MAP
Lt. Columbo’s employer LAPD
Bother AIL
Surf with one’s buds? SHAREWAVES
Translucent bath stoppers? SHEERPLUGS
Start for d’oeuvres or de combat HORS
Held in reserve ONICE
Leaves speechless AWES
Comfy shoe, casually MOC
Hackberry’s family ELM
Take turns ROTATE
Archipelago composition ISLES
Babe’s basic beverage WAWA
Successfully enticed REELEDIN
Delicate hue PASTEL
Caravan creature CAMEL
Past-due debts ARREARS
Partridge named for the Partridge family mother? SHIRLEYBIRD
Bother ADO
Walks unsteadily TOTTERS
California’s Santa ___ winds ANA
Specialist in the lamp factory? SHADEWORKER
Pan-fried, as pancetta CRISPED
Pot addition WAGER
Shrikes’ cousins VIREOS
Southwestern spread owner RANCHERO
Country club club IRON
Monument Valley features MESAS
Camping treats SMORES
Canine warning GRR
Nine-digit ID SSN
Antlered animal HART
“Groundhog Day” director RAMIS
French vineyard CLOS
Introvert in your address book? SHYCONTACT
Champion of Hooverville? SHANTYHERO
“Selma” director DuVernay AVA
Peaceful race in “Avatar” NAVI
“Brokeback Mountain” director Lee ANG
Alpha rhythm scan, for short EEG
Is penitent ATONES
Lord’s place MANOR
Lethargic state TORPOR
Big name in the pashmina biz? SHAWLSTAR
Designer Wang, interested only in superficial matters? SHALLOWVERA
Carry TOTE
Crooked AWRY
Legally prohibit ENJOIN
Article ITEM
Locs. for people wearing gowns ORS
Loudly laments SOBS
Pleasantly warm TOASTY
Reduced amount LESS

Down

Celebrant’s service MASS
Canine warning? ACHE
Laborer with no hands DIRTFARMER
Paper powers EDITORS
Annoying wait AGES
Courthouse figs. DAS
Cunning ART
Candidate for being brought up to the Majors PROSPECT
It requires pitching TENT
Terrific buy STEAL
Nativity scene figure JOSEPH
Fireplace bit ASH
Agcy. that won the 1969 Nobel Peace Prize ILO
Spirit come-ons LOWFARES
Surname of a noted wabbit hunter FUDD
Diana of “Game of Thrones” RIGG
Cannes concept IDEE
Put down QUELL
“Huh-uh” NOPE
Decides to inform FLIPS
Terrific time GAS
Predatory insect MANTIS
Interesting to ornithologists AVIAN
Deck handlers DEALERS
“Princess of Power” of cartoons SHERA
Perforating tool HOLER
President between William and Warren WOODROW
Trickle SEEP
Tom of “The Seven Year Itch” EWELL
Savory taste UMAMI
“42nd Street” director/choreographer Champion GOWER
Spill cocoa on, say SCALD
Publishing house staffer READER
“___ Dead?” (Mark Twain play) ISHE
Eggnog recipe direction STIR
River in the title of Indiana’s state song WABASH
Like many a winter sky LEADEN
Elroy’s canine pal ASTRO
Jaded bunch CYNICS
Utterly serious EARNEST
Wagnerian title role TRISTAN
Gumbo vegetable OKRA
Simple tops TEES
Reuben layer SWISS
Strident HARSH
“Into the Woods” song AGONY
Not hidden OVERT
Compassionate CARING
Brutish villain of Mickey Mouse cartoons PEGLEGPETE
Reason for erasure ERROR
Back: Prefix DORSO
Latv. and Lith., until 1990 SSRS
Like Venus and Vulcan ROMAN
Battle of Bull Run site MANASSAS
Sikh Empire founder Ranjit Singh, e.g. MAHARAJA
Squalid shack HOVEL
Parsley kin CHERVIL
Eager kids’ plea CANWE
Midsize Toyotas CAMRYS
Nolichucky Dam maintainer: Abbr. TVA
Pained cry YEOW
Atlas detail INSET
Concerning ASTO
2011 blockbuster directed by Kenneth Branagh THOR
Mare meal OATS
“Dear me!” OHNO
Expensively stylish TONY
Metal sources ORES
Super Bowl XXXIV victors RAMS
Turtledoves count TWO
Securities trader, for short ARB
___ Alamos LOS
Excellent, in slang LIT