Wall Street Journal - Dec 8 2020 - Send In the Clowns

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Clues Answers
“King of the Hill” town ARLEN
“St. Matthew Passion” composer BACH
“Suuure” ILLBET
*Great beginning FLYINGSTART
*Hired public relations pro MEDIACONSULTANT
*Mecca for used goods FLEAMARKET
*School supply item that might come with dividers THREERINGBINDER
Aladdin’s monkey sidekick ABU
Approves OKS
Article in El Mundo UNA
As a whole INALL
Be over by ENDAT
Boy band that Ricky Martin began in MENUDO
Breakfast brand in the frozen food aisle EGGO
Buddy PAL
Bullfight bellow OLE
Choice word? ELSE
Common bratwurst component PORK
Compare LIKEN
Crime boss Gambino CARLO
Cruz in the Senate TED
Cushion contents FIBERFILL
Demonstrates fallibility, in a way ERASES
Description of the neighbor’s grass, it seems GREENER
Designer monogram YSL
Diner treat PIE
Dream Team jersey letters USA
Drew out EDUCED
Earth: Prefix GEO
EMT’s skill CPR
Extended family CLAN
False front? PSEUDO
Fanning who plays Catherine in “The Great” ELLE
Florida park EPCOT
Franklin beat him in 1936 ALF
Fusses ADOS
Gate fastener LATCH
Clues Answers
Get skunked LOSE
Guac and salsa DIPS
Hip-hop partner of Salt and Spinderella PEPA
Home of Saint Francis ASSISI
Homes for hatchlings NESTS
Icky accumulation CRUD
Important times ERAS
Is plural? ARE
Leipzig lang GER
Links org PGA
Middling grades CEES
Objector’s conjunction BUT
Officially give up CEDE
Ominous note from a teacher SEEME
One of Rockefeller Center’s original tenants RCA
Outbreaks FLAREUPS
Park honker GOOSE
Piddling MEASLY
Plea choice NOTGUILTY
Puts on TV AIRS
QB achievements TDS
Reaction to a frenzied scene, and what could be said of the beginnings of the starred answers ITSACIRCUS
Reptile that may be 13 feet in length BOA
Settings of saunas SPAS
Silence on a score REST
Simple elegance GRACE
Some jackets ETONS
Spot for a yacht SEA
Subject to slander DEFAME
Sushi wrapping NORI
Trig follower, often CALC
Tussles GOESATIT
Ump’s call BALL
Underlying principle of the universe TAO
When a psychiatric session might finish TENOF
Where “Death on the Nile” opens CAIRO
Where many bats originate ASHTREE