Wall Street Journal - Nov 15 2021 - Defensive Position

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“B ___ boy” ASIN
“The Little Mermaid” mermaid ARIEL
“You’ve gotta be kidding me!” COMEON
A party to INON
Adele hit that won Grammys for Song and Record of the Year HELLO
Airy prefix ATMO
Arsonist or kidnapper, for example FELON
Avoid restaurant crowds, perhaps EATIN
Before long, to poets ANON
Blow up on Twitter TREND
Boat deck wood TEAK
Bone in the leg TIBIA
Bonehead IDIOT
Bonehead TWIT
Brand with tiger ads ESSO
Brought into the world BORN
Business offering Brazilians WAXINGSALON
By word of mouth ORAL
Called out to HAILED
Cancel key ESC
Carpentry tools SAWS
Cheeky talk SASS
Chevy hybrid VOLT
Cigar dangler ASH
Clark from Smallville KENT
Coexisting campus/off-campus community TOWNANDGOWN
Corrosive stuff ACID
Costa ___ RICA
Dieter Jack of rhyme SPRAT
Disapproving sounds TSKS
Downward Dog or Reverse Warrior ASANA
Eggs in labs OVA
Faith factions SECTS
Final, for one TEST
Follow, as advice ACTON
Fragrance SMELL
Fragrances ODORS
Garlic-seasoned mayo AIOLI
Gender pronoun option SHE
Clues Answers
Get into a defensive position, and what we do in this grid CIRCLETHEWAGONS
Glass vessel VIAL
Grain husks separated by threshing CHAFF
Great anger IRE
Hoods for monks COWLS
Humpbacks’ annual journeys to polar waters WHALEMIGRATIONS
Jason’s ship ARGO
Key just above D EFLAT
Key lime or coconut cream PIE
Latin poet OVID
Like a discreet motel NOTELL
Like rowboats OARED
Lotion ingredient ALOE
Loud lament SOB
Many a Moroccan ARAB
Meadow measure ACRE
Org. that issues emergency authorizations for vaccines FDA
Part of a pod cast? PEA
Parts of trees and teeth ROOTS
Penn with a pair of Oscars SEAN
Plant with fronds FERN
Plays nine ball, say SHOOTSPOOL
Possum of the funny papers POGO
Rapper who’s a regular on “Law & Order: SVU” ICET
Repeated sound ECHO
Roman goddess of peace PAX
Russian novelist Maxim GORKI
Singer Tormé MEL
Site of stitching SEAM
Six-legged groups? TRIOS
Some Little League coaches DADS
Stereo precursor MONO
Suit fabric TWILL
Terrier type WIREHAIRED
They may clash EGOS
Topaz or tourmaline GEM
TV’s Perlman or Seehorn RHEA
Watchdog’s warnings GROWLS
Work with the teeth CHEW