Wall Street Journal - Jan 14 2023 - Alternate Endings

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Clues Answers
“A Visit From the Goon Squad” author Jennifer EGAN
“Nightfall” author ASIMOV
“Pish posh!” BAH
“The gloves are off!” ITSON
“The Rise of Skywalker” role LANDO
“Three’s Company” landlord MRROPER
“Waterfalls” group TLC
“Who cares if they do?” LETEM
“Working Girl” woman TESS
*Crossing a gangplank, say GOINGABROAD
*Disfavored option for a flier MIDDLEEAST
*Early 18th-century pirate of the West Indies BLACKBREAD
*Live audience on TV’s “Howdy Doody” PEANUTALLERGY
*Rubber-bulbed tube needed for Thanksgiving TURKEYBREAST
*Self-aggrandizing deeds POWERSTRIP
*Substitute squad SECONDMATE
*Teslas and the like ELECTRICARCS
*Theater wall display MOVIETROPES
2018 CVS acquisition AETNA
Aleppo’s land SYRIA
Apple variety since 1998 IMAC
Aria belter DIVA
Arthur with Emmys BEA
Awesomely exciting, in slang LIT
Back part of a Navy site? MIL
Balance sheet listing ASSET
Belgian artist James ENSOR
Bonfire setting, perhaps CAMP
Bonny boy LAD
Bound LIMIT
Burj Khalifa’s nat UAE
Burn, in a way SCALD
Cagney’s TV partner LACEY
Cartoonist Thomas NAST
Casting groups? COVENS
Caustic chemical LYE
Cellist Casals PABLO
Civil rights leader Roy INNIS
Comic Silverman SARAH
Comic skill TIMING
Conceding words ILOST
Conspiracy theorist’s affliction DELUSION
Coral, for one SEA
Correct a PIN, say RETYPE
CPR pro EMT
Daggers, in a way EVILLOOK
Damp at dawn DEWY
Diarist with a dieresis ANAIS
Doubt-raising question ORISIT
Draw closer COME
Dumb jerk NIMROD
Echo’s voice ALEXA
Ed Norton’s wife TRIXIE
Element whose name is derived from the Greek for “heavy” BARIUM
Email program button SEND
Enthralled RAPT
Express unhappiness MOAN
Extracted stuff ORE
Facilitate ENABLE
Fall setting EDEN
Female kangaroo DOE
Fir coat? SAP
Fix a plot hole? RESOD
Former filly MARE
Further down? BLUER
Getaway destination INN
Gossipy sort YENTA
Greek peak OSSA
Hall of Fame pitcher Wilhelm HOYT
Harrow rival ETON
Clues Answers
Hawk VEND
Hit back? SIDEB
Indian outfit SARI
Indian state ASSAM
Island with an immigration museum ELLIS
Italian painter Guido RENI
Jeff of ELO LYNNE
Judgment day? COURTDATE
Keystone ___ KOPS
Make certain ENSURE
Make fizzy AERATE
Mens ___ (intent) REA
Minor criticism NIT
Nike competitor AVIA
Not new USED
Note that sounds like good advice BNATURAL
Nothing special SOSO
Number cruncher, briefly CPA
Odd couple? DEES
Old PC monitor CRT
One who never skips class? SNOB
Opera makeup ACTS
Optimistic HOPING
Pacific microstate NAURU
Panacea CUREALL
Part of a bed spread? SEED
Piano classic dedicatee ELISE
Plain UNADORNED
Portioned (out) DOLED
Profile in crime? DNA
Provide a little night music? SNORE
Put the kibosh on NIX
Radius neighbor ULNA
Receivers of checks PAYEES
Redheaded Disney princess ARIEL
Refuse place GARBAGEPAIL
Region of ancient Palestine GILEAD
Resort at Baja’s tip CABO
Riot police wear BODYARMOR
Rival of Bugs and Daffy, for short TAZ
River through Rugby AVON
Rocker Etheridge MELISSA
Rocky outcropping CRAG
Sarge, say NONCOM
Scanner parts LASERS
Setting for an Innocence Project victory, maybe RETRIAL
Siberian forest TAIGA
Siouan speaker OTOE
Sitting out TAKINGAPASS
Skips phonetically ELIDES
Sneeze response BLESSYOU
Spanish hero ELCID
Subject for a Millet painting PEASANT
Sunburn preventer BASETAN
Tacked-on charges FEES
Tall and thin LANK
They have uncrackable shells SOFTTACOS
Thrower of shade ELM
Trouble with sibilants LISP
Twosomes DUADS
View from Everest NEPAL
Warming up ONDECK
Weighted fishing tool SEINENET
Where the wild things are ZOO
With skepticism ASKANT
Work out EXERCISE
Yarn skein specification DYELOT
Yodeler’s spot, traditionally ALP
___ Gatos LOS
___ mater (brain membrane) DURA