Wall Street Journal - Dec 15 2022 - About Face

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Clues Answers
“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
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