Wall Street Journal - Dec 15 2021 - Queued Up

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Clues Answers
“Go ahead, I dare you!” DOIT
“Holy cow!” GOSH
“Huh-uh!” NOPE
“Just ___!” ASEC
Alter the length of REHEM
Apostrophized word in “Jingle Bells” OER
Atlanta Hawks coach McMillan NATE
Be decisive OPT
Big oafs LUGS
Bronze kin TAN
Cape Horn setting CHILE
China’s last imperial dynasty QING
Classic Pontiac muscle car GTO
Concert venue ARENA
Cooler PEN
Creator of Hercule AGATHA
Creator of Perry ERLE
Cruise control? HELM
D.C. transit system METRO
Dandling spot KNEE
Docile bunch SHEEP
Encourage EGGON
Force measured in newton-meters TORQUE
Hay crop ALFALFA
Hired killers, informally ICEMEN
Irish poet Heaney SEAMUS
Lab oratory? ARF
Label on some organic food packages GMOFREE
Letters for lawyers ESQ
Low point NADIR
Made more secure, in a way RETIED
Made some dough KNEADED
Not as often LESS
Octogenarians’ places of worship? GRANDMAMOSQUES
On cloud nine ECSTATIC
Org. that administers World Heritage Sites UNESCO
Clues Answers
Patient for un pédiatre ENFANT
Peak in the Bernese Alps EIGER
Port named for a Native American people ERIE
Potpourri parts PETALS
Protectors of the Forest of Fangorn ENTS
Put in the cabinet FILE
Ruck of “Succession” ALAN
Sea stopper DIKE
Simple switch type ONOFF
Slithering swimmer EEL
Something brought up by a loser REAR
Soothing stuff ALOE
Sound quality TONE
Spurious statements LIES
St. Kitts or Nevis ISLE
Start for nautical or dynamic AERO
Stops reading “War and Peace”? QUITSALONGSTORY
Suffix for a gerund ING
Surfer’s destination, for short URL
Table entreaty EAT
Teal’s kin AQUA
Team up UNITE
Test for newborns APGAR
Textile worker DYER
The Queen of Hearts asks her “Can you play croquet?” ALICE
Therefore HENCE
They may be bitter ENEMIES
Top part of le corps TETE
Wallop SLUG
Weasel word? STOAT
Western, facetiously OATER
What each colored button on a Guitar Hero controller represents FRET
Widely distributed FARFLUNG
Words of encouragement to a poetry plagiarizer? TAKETHEQUATRAIN
World’s greatest milkman? MASTEROFQUARTS
Wrinkly citrus fruit UGLI