Wall Street Journal – Dec 15 2022 – “About Face”
Wall Street Journal – Dec 15 2022 – About Face
Clues | Answers |
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“Finding the Sun” playwright | ALBEE |
“How boring!” | YAWN |
“Let her be thine, ___ have no such daughter”: King Lear | FORWE |
“Ready” | IMSET |
“Swish!” | NOTHINGBU |
2002 PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction winner Patchett | ANN |
30-Across, biblically | GIVETH |
50-Across for cut-off jeans | DAISYDUKE |
Adjustable diaphragm | IRIS |
Advisory group established by HST | NSC |
After | ALA |
Any one of the 5-Across | YALIE |
Backdrop of Catania | ETNA |
Bed choice | TWIN |
Bother | ADO |
Bunting’s kin | TOWHEE |
Charisse of “Brigadoon” | CYD |
Collaborator on Aguilera’s “Woohoo” | MINAJ |
Confers | BESTOWS |
Cracked | AJAR |
Crimson booers | ELIS |
Day, in Hebrew | YOM |
Dingo’s dinner, maybe | EMU |
Elizabeth of “Avengers: Endgame” | OLSEN |
European peninsula | IBERIA |
First name at 46-Down | ELON |
First name in a noted 1857 decision | DRED |
Fish named for its four-sided fins | TETRA |
Flips (through) | LEAFS |
Fruit that’s rich in antioxidants and vowels | ACAI |
Genealogy graphic | TREE |
Gently use a towel on | PATDRY |
Giant legend | MELOTT |
Gist of a saying about useful personal contacts | ITSWHOYOU |
Good name for a worrywart | STU |
Grammy winner Lipa | DUA |
Hail, to Caesar | AVE |
Having a lot to lose | INBIG |
Hook companion | SMEE |
Clues | Answers |
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Increasingly uncommon material for baseball bats | ASH |
It causes people to trip | LSD |
It means “merry” in Basque | ALAI |
It’s pitched outside | TENT |
Kids | JESTS |
Lose ground? | ERODE |
Maintained | HELD |
Marine nymph of Greek mythology | IONE |
Narrowly escaped disaster | DODGEDABU |
One of four required to solve this puzzle | UTURN |
Overstate, as an expense report | PAD |
Percolate | LEACH |
Person after whom something is named | EPONYM |
Places for pilots | STOVES |
Plus | ALSO |
Plus | AND |
Policy pro | WONK |
Quite a few bucks | DEER |
Reading facilities | LOO |
Rite site | ALTAR |
Romeo’s last words | IDIE |
See 38-Across | SPACEX |
Show whose judges have included Michael Kors and Zac Posen | PROJECTRU |
Sirius | DOGSTAR |
Sister of Patty and Selma | MARGE |
Site of Akbar’s Church | AGRA |
Stable guys? | MAGI |
Struck, old-style | SMIT |
Swanky | LUXE |
Swore | AVOWED |
Tear up | WEEP |
Tech giant with an infinity symbol logo | META |
Tribal tales | LORE |
Vodka from Austin | TITOS |
Was financially secure | HADITMADE |
Weakness at the poker table | TELL |
Well-built | SOUND |
When some farmers start to work | ATDAWN |
___ Mason (investment firm acquired by Franklin Templeton) | LEGG |