Wall Street Journal - Jan 4 2021 - The Jocular Vein

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Clues Answers
“2 Broke Girls” co-star Dennings KAT
“60 Minutes” airer CBS
“A Promised Land” memoirist OBAMA
“Ask me later!” NOTNOW
“Make up your mind!” CHOOSE
“___ we having fun yet?” ARE
*Craft by which quotations are put on pillows NEEDLEPOINT
*He plays Thanos in “Avengers: Endgame” JOSHBROLIN
*Marbled cut of beef RIBEYESTEAK
*Nick Jonas, to Joe Jonas KIDBROTHER
*Weather a period of chaos RIDEOUTTHESTORM
Attire DRESS
Ballet bend PLIE
Beyond beefy OBESE
Black-and-white treat OREO
Canceled NOGO
Coastal city in San Diego County OCEANSIDE
Colossal BIG
Colossal weight TON
Commotion TODO
Congress’s creations LAWS
Contaminate with a bug INFECT
Cousins’ mothers AUNTS
Crunch’s rank? CAPN
Cry on recognizing an ambush ITSATRAP
Date, time, location, etc INFO
Deceive LIETO
Deg. requiring a defense PHD
Fairy king in “A Midsummer Night’s Dream” OBERON
First place? EDEN
Flightless bird EMU
Forerunners of texts, in brief IMS
French city where Van Gogh painted ARLES
Fury RAGE
Grammy category RAP
Had dinner ATE
Ho-hum BLAH
Horse morsel OAT
In need of cheering up SAD
Clues Answers
IRS identifiers SSNS
Lad BOY
Leather worker TANNER
Leave out OMIT
Main seating section in many a plane COACH
Marked by ebbs and flows TIDAL
Martini garnish OLIVE
Modern: Prefix NEO
Murmured tenderly COOED
Musical intervals that are nearly octaves SEVENTHS
Org. in many “Breaking Bad” episodes DEA
Pig enclosure STY
Pinball fail TILT
Plan together, as a scheme COLLUDEON
Play matchmaker for SETUP
Pot-draining aid LID
Purple smoothie ingredient ACAI
R&B singer Lennox ARI
Ranch grazer STEER
Rescues from the pet shelter, say ADOPTS
Rolling golf stroke PUTT
Sea ___ (spiny creature) URCHIN
Selfish sort TAKER
Signing tool PEN
Smaller than small TINY
Sound judgment SENSE
Specialized market NICHE
Succumb to gravity SAG
Taxi alternative UBER
Tennis shoes, informally SNEAKS
Texter’s “Here’s what I think...” IMO
Underground resource ORE
Use the tub BATHE
Verb for which synonyms can be found at the beginnings of the starred answers TEASE
Wand-waving org. at the airport TSA
Wild card, at times JOKER
Workplace-regulating org OSHA
Yarn TALE
___ the line (conformed) TOED