Wall Street Journal - Dec 11 2021 - Off of Work

Tired of your current crossword puzzle? Try solving our daily crossword puzzles. GO TO DAILY PUZZLES!
Clues Answers
“Look ___ Now” (Selena Gomez song) ATHER
“No kidding!” TRULY
“Right Lane Exit Only,” e.g.? TURNOFFPHRASE
“The Big Short” director Adam MCKAY
7UP, in old ads UNCOLA
Agreeable answer YES
Alaska or Kansas, traditionally REDSTATE
Amy’s Golden Globes co-host TINA
Announcer Hall EDD
Anxious med. condition OCD
Apt-sounding name for a chef? STU
Army’s equivalent of Navy’s CPO SFC
Auction unit LOT
Banned hydrocarbon DDT
Barrel plank STAVE
Beetles’ relatives JETTAS
Beginning ONSET
Betray FLIPON
Big yuks, in text-speak ROTFL
Bisected INHALF
Bouillabaisse bit MUSSEL
Broccoli bit FLORET
Brooks from Brooklyn MEL
Brothers in an Old West outlaw gang DALTONS
Builds up, as interest ACCRUES
Chuck Berry’s portrayer in 2008’s “Cadillac Records” MOSDEF
Coleman of “9 to 5” DABNEY
Collected REAPED
Coolers for rms ACS
Coping MAKINGDO
Crude quarters SHACK
Dance noisily TAP
Dismounted ALIT
Distribute METE
Domingo, por ejemplo DIA
Drop by VISIT
Dropped the charges against CLEARED
Engaged in intrigue CONNIVED
Engraving tools LASERS
Feature of the flags of Kazakhstan, Kurdistan and Kyrgyzstan SUN
Field attire UNIFORMS
Fill the tank on a rust bucket? TOPOFFTHEHEAP
Find matches for everybody in a New York borough? PAIROFFQUEENS
Fouls POLLUTES
French painter Camille COROT
Gives meaning to DEFINES
Goddess of wisdom ATHENA
Good, for garçons BON
Groundbreaking events FIRSTS
Grumpy co-worker DOC
Having an effect CAUSAL
Hawk SELL
His is the third of Chaucer’s “Canterbury Tales” REEVE
Hit letters SRO
Humiliation of the pitcher who gives up the game winner in the bottom of the ninth? WALKOFFSHAME
Inbox fill EMAILS
Initial unedited prints of film scenes DAILIES
Insightful DEEP
Institute focus SCIENCE
It may be virtual or augmented REALITY
Italian prime minister Draghi MARIO
Jargon suffix ESE
Join the regatta SAIL
Largest nation of América do Sul BRASIL
Like some hair STYLED
Masculine German article DER
Masked drama of Japan NOH
Measure of popularity QSCORE
Midsize Kias OPTIMAS
Mil. schools ACADS
Clues Answers
Milk source GOAT
Milk source EWE
Mischievous sort RASCAL
Morgan Stanley subsidiary ETRADE
Mormon letters LDS
Mound need ROSINBAG
Moves gingerly EASES
Neuter German article DAS
News Corp. newspaper WSJ
One of Nixon’s daughters TRICIA
Outpourings SPATES
P look-alike RHO
Pampered SPOONFED
Pampered, in Portsmouth SPOILT
Passes on presents REGIFTS
Penna. neighbor DEL
Photographer Goldin NAN
Piano piece ETUDE
Place for pampering SPA
Pod piece PEA
Pointer TIP
Popular card game UNO
Postponement STAY
Preston or Child, for the Agent Pendergast novels COAUTHOR
Prizefighter’s dream TITLE
Progressive spokesperson FLO
Pull into STOPAT
Pulsate THROB
Put the country out of work? LAYOFFTHELAND
Raiders’ org DEA
Rainbow producer MIST
Razed TORNDOWN
Reebok rival PUMA
Repeal the tax on consumer goods? CALLOFFDUTY
Repeated word in a Beatles refrain YEAH
Restrict LIMIT
Seat of New York’s Oneida County UTICA
Seeker of tech support USER
Separate the grain from the chaff THRESH
Sign of a sprain, maybe LIMP
Sink annoyance DRIP
Sir’s counterpart MADAM
Site of famed caucuses IOWA
Skye who’s Donovan’s daughter IONE
Smart dresser FOP
Snick’s partner SNEE
Spiced brew CHAI
Sticks BOONIES
Stiff-upper-lip type STOIC
Support staff for a daredevil? SHOWOFFHANDS
Take a chance RISKIT
Test material DNA
The great unwashed PLEBS
There are 100,000 in a newton DYNES
They cast no votes ANTIS
They may need a lift SKIERS
Tithing amount, traditionally ONETENTH
Tony’s cousin OBIE
Toward dawn EAST
Trampled TROD
Trombone part SLIDE
Tumbled FELL
Ukr., once SSR
Uproar FLAP
Usher’s offering ARM
Washout DUD
What Rome was not built in ADAY
Wide’s partner FAR
Word on a bill DUE
Zoo resident APE