Wall Street Journal - Dec 24 2022 - Yule Begone

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Clues Answers
“...and giving a nod, up the chimney he ___” ROSE
“Amahl and the Night Visitors,” e.g OPERA
“Guide us to ___ perfect light” (“We Three Kings” lyric) THY
“It Came ___ the Midnight Clear” UPON
“No way that Dickens character is the Nickleby lad!”? AINTNICHOLAS
“The Lion in Winter” actor OTOOLE
“This is only ___” ATEST
1939 co-star of Garland, Haley and Bolger LAHR
1952 Winter Olympics setting OSLO
Aachen article DAS
Advantage of using a natural sweetener? SUGARPLUS
Afternoon break SIESTA
Agitated state FLAP
Archaeologist’s place DIG
Aromatherapy stuff OIL
Bahía de Cochinos island CUBA
Bakery wares TARTS
Balloonist, e.g AERONAUT
Be indiscreet BLAB
Be patient WAIT
Birch family members ALDERS
Bitter feeling ENMITY
Brit’s sweater JUMPER
Capital between Winnipeg and Calgary REGINA
Cardinal, e.g SONGBIRD
Catalan artist DALI
Chronological stretches ERAS
City in the shadow of the Snowy Range LARAMIE
Classic Yuletide presents SLEDS
Come together GATHER
Companion of Porthos and Aramis ATHOS
Composer Bruckner ANTON
Contact lens solution brand RENU
Dasher’s activity RACE
Deviousness WILE
Diploma owner GRAD
Dispatches dragons, e.g SLAYS
Drive ahead PROPEL
Eighth cal. page AUG
El Greco Museum city TOLEDO
Emperor at age 16 NERO
Eve’s predecessor ADAM
Exception to the rule? ANARCHY
Extra, in a price list: Abbr ADDL
Ezekiel or Isaiah PROPHET
Feline warning HISS
Fender offering GUITAR
Feydeau who wrote farces GEORGES
Field figure JOCK
First half of a double-header, usually DAYGAME
Foil’s kin EPEE
Follow ENSUE
Genuine REAL
GI address letters APO
Gives an edge to WHETS
Hams it up EMOTES
Hang down DROOP
Healthcare prefix MEDI
Helen of Troy’s mother LEDA
Highland girls LASSES
Icy GELID
Inquisition charge HERESY
Jan. and Dec., e.g MOS
Kareem’s alma mater UCLA
Keeps from taking off, perhaps FOGSIN
Lairs for bears DENS
Letters on Chicago-bound luggage ORD
Like some cider HARD
Lively horse STEED
Make a crop top, perhaps? TRIMTHETEE
Clues Answers
Make like a beaver GNAW
Makeup of Vivien’s carillon? LEIGHBELLS
More eccentric DOTTIER
Mountaineer’s spikes PITONS
Musician who’s a relative of Herman Melville MOBY
Mystery writer Grafton SUE
Nation east of North Macedonia BULGARIA
Nation south of North Macedonia GREECE
Neighborhood AREA
New Haven collegians ELIS
Obsessed captain AHAB
One may be related to you TALE
One might be found in a stocking KNEE
One of Santa’s team COMET
One-eyed god ODIN
Online picture surrounded by text? GIFWRAPPED
Orange vegetable YAM
Paisley of country music BRAD
Paths for snowballs ARCS
Pic to click ICON
Piddling MERE
Places to get une éducation ECOLES
Planets and moons ORBS
Present’s opposite ABSENT
Presidential power VETO
Princess in Disney’s “Enchanted” GISELLE
Puts on STAGES
Red-haired horse produced on a stud farm? GINGERBRED
Reflection, e.g IMAGE
Refrain syllable TRA
Rental pages LEASE
Repress HOLDIN
Richards of “The World Is Not Enough” DENISE
School in 117-Across TULANE
Scrooge, for one MISER
Shady spot ARBOR
Sheep sound BLEAT
Shortly ANON
Showed again RERAN
Silences MUTES
Slamming into the side of TBONING
Sofia Coppola, to Talia Shire NIECE
Solved a word search, say LOOPED
Sometime home of Georgia O’Keeffe TAOS
Son of 13-Down THOR
Southwestern cottonwoods ALAMOS
Stanley Cup champs in 1975 FLYERS
Star player ALLPRO
Start for Cop or call ROBO
Store conveniences CARTS
The Big Easy, for short NOLA
Thick with greenery LUSH
Thief who stole the missing letters from this puzzle’s theme answers THEGRINCH
Thomas nicknamed “Soul Queen of New Orleans” IRMA
Turn to slush THAW
Under control TOHEEL
Vigoda and Beame ABES
Viral phenomenon MEME
Warhol’s walking aids? ANDYCANES
Wastefully extravagant PRODIGAL
Water balloon fight? SOPPINGSPREE
Water nymph NAIAD
Well-made spar on a boat’s sail? GOODSPRIT
Wide shoe designation EEE
Window alternative AISLE
Wise-owl connector ASAN
Within one’s power DOABLE
Words of approximation ORSO
Zealous AVID
Zwei quadrupled ACHT