Wall Street Journal - Dec 24 2016 - Gift Tags

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Clues Answers
'Don't ask me' NOCLUE
'East of Eden' brother CAL
'Get a move on!' HURRYUP
'If you ask me,' online IMO
'London Fields' author Martin AMIS
'My shooter isn't pewter, it's really a steelie' writer? MARBLERHYMER
'Strike the ___ and join the chorus...' HARP
'The Gift of the Magi' feature IRONY
'___ the blazing Yule before us...' SEE
A soil scientist may measure it PHLEVEL
Alley ___ OOP
Ayatollah Khamenei, e.g IRANI
Ballpark figure STAT
Ballpark figure FAN
Ballpark figure BASEMAN
Becomes chronic RECURS
Big bone of a hide-and-seek player? FINDERSFEMUR
Bits of mistletoe SPRIGS
Blues great John Lee HOOKER
Brentwood neighbor ENCINO
Broadway illuminator NEON
Bruno Mars song that reached #1 in 2011 GRENADE
Bustling activity ADO
Busy co. in the pre-Christmas season UPS
Canadian cagers RAPTORS
Chain with MinuteClinic facilities CVS
Concord PACT
Cooks' covers APRONS
Cruel practice SADISM
Declares void REPEALS
Deputy AIDE
Descartes conclusion IAM
End of the line, often PERIOD
Exchange SWAP
Fearsome fate DOOM
Fit for a noble DUCAL
Flower for a fleet admiral? NAVYBLOOMER
Friend of Picasso and Hemingway STEIN
Future fish ROE
Get a better car, perhaps TRADEUP
Gets a homer HITSOUT
Gets clean REHABS
Gift of the Magi, added phonetically to the theme answers MYRRH
Gingerbread bit CRUMB
Go by ELAPSE
Had a bite, perhaps ITCHED
Hail fellow? CAESAR
Have some chips, say NOSH
Heart CORE
Hen or heifer SHE
Hide evidence of peeking at a gift, perhaps RETAPE
Hitching goal LIFT
In the dark UNAWARE
Island west of Mykonos DELOS
Isn't in the sticks? AINT
It may be about a foot SOCK
Item for Cupid ARROW
Jam sound TOOT
Kanye creation RAP
Kicks off STARTS
Knight's backers PIPS
Letters for a sellout SRO
Like hush puppies FRIED
Like many vaudeville comics CORNY
Lions and Tigers and Bears PROS
Lowdown INFO
Lowly laborers PEONS
Make wider DILATE
Makes a bow TIES
Clues Answers
Mariah Carey's 'Christmas Time Is in the ___ Again' AIR
Matador motivator OLE
Menacing words ORELSE
Modernizes, as a factory RETOOLS
Muse often depicted holding a globe URANIA
Name on a famed B-29 ENOLA
Nation smaller than Albuquerque ANDORRA
Of the gland that secretes epinephrine ADRENAL
Overdue amount ARREAR
Pal of Jerry and George ELAINE
Parallel action UNISON
Part of a Santa suit COAT
Parti-colored puss CALICO
Particular time EPOCH
Paucity DEARTH
Person attacking where the castle walls meet? CORNERSTORMER
Person shooting footage for a real estate ad? LANDFILMER
Ping producer SONAR
Pretty good grade AMINUS
Price of opera performances LEONTYNE
Programmer's creation, for short SKED
Protective wall PARAPET
Quite RATHER
Quotidian DAILY
Range extending through seven countries ANDES
Rangers goalie Lundqvist HENRIK
Refrain bit TRA
Respecting ASTO
Roger of 'Cheers' REES
Sales force REPS
Sales receipts SLIPS
Salty solution BRINE
Santa descriptor PORTLY
Scottish estate owners LAIRDS
Security guard in a packing plant? CANNERYROAMER
Sharp change of direction ZIG
Showed extreme disrespect toward SPATAT
Silver place SECOND
Sixths of an inch PICAS
Slanted in a newspaper: Abbr ITAL
Small flap TAB
Source of bucks ATM
Splice UNITE
Starchy plant TARO
Steamy EROTIC
Stubbornly espousing WEDDEDTO
Surfeit with sweetness CLOY
Syrup sources MAPLES
Textile factory sights LOOMS
The sun? WORLDWARMER
Thin layer LAMINA
Upstairs window designed to catch burglars? TRAPDORMER
Used 79-Down WOVE
Veep's boss PREZ
Vernal mo APR
Walk HOOFIT
Walk-___ (nonspeaking roles) ONS
Warren's wife since 1992 ANNETTE
Warts and wens GROWTHS
Where Hillary and Bill met YALELAW
Word with candy or drum EAR
Work a caramel CHEW
Works in a teddy bear factory STUFFS
You, to Juergen SIE
Youngster TAD
Zero NIL
Zest BRIO
___ a time ONEAT
___ Aviv TEL