Wall Street Journal - Feb 12 2022 - Alternate Plans

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“A Writer’s Life” writer TALESE
“Don Carlo” composer VERDI
“Easy on Me” singer ADELE
“Every seat is spoken for,” on B’way SRO
“Gotcha” ISEE
“I Ain’t Marching Any More” singer Phil OCHS
“I’ll Bet ___ Nice” (Beach Boys song) HES
“Odyssey” sorceress CIRCE
“Under the Jaguar Sun” author Calvino ITALO
“Wonder Woman” villain ARES
1998 Sarah McLachlan hit ADIA
About INRE
Absorbed the cost of ATE
Annoying sort PEST
Approx. fig EST
Approximately ORSO
Apt name for an Uber driver OTTO
Baker with eight Grammys ANITA
Barely gets (by) EKES
Basic French verb ETRE
Basis for some vaccines RNA
BBC clock setting GMT
Billowing blasts GUSTS
Bluegrass instruments BASSFIDDLES
Boorish CRASS
Boot OUST
Boulogne-___-Mer SUR
Bounded box AREA
Brief respite SIESTA
Bumps, on the air PREEMPTS
Casual denial UNHUNH
Clock face DIAL
Common comment graphic MEME
Common cult leader delusion SAVIORCOMPLEX
Computer capacity MEMORY
Confines SHUTSIN
Crème de la crème ELITE
Cubs’ home, informally CHITOWN
Curative elixirs TONICS
Curly-haired girl of old comics LITTLELULU
Dash or Butterworth, in stores MRS
Deets INFO
Distort SKEW
Dormant LATENT
Exam for a future public defender, for short LSAT
Excel at the comedy club SLAY
Excellent mark APLUS
Fake NOTREAL
Feature of 23-Across STEPPINGASIDE
Feature of 28-Across STAGGERINGDEBT
Feature of 40-Across HOPPINGMAD
Feature of 55-Across SKIPPEDROPE
Fencing option EPEE
Flowers with bright rays ASTERS
Former filly MARE
Four Corners people UTES
Get involved, whether welcome or not WADEIN
Give preferential treatment to FAVOR
Glossary entry TERM
Goes by ELAPSES
Goes toe-to-toe DOESBATTLE
Govt.-issued security TBOND
Heavy metal bands? ORES
High spirits PEP
Hug tightly ENCLASP
Hula accompaniment UKE
Jewelry buy CHAIN
Jotter’s tool PEN
Lady Grantham’s given name on “Downton Abbey” CORA
Lang. of Leipzig GER
Clues Answers
Like “Romeo and Juliet” TRAGIC
Lisa’s sib BART
Loch of legend NESS
Manipulated, as expense figures MASSAGED
Member of a certain septet ASIA
Michaels with more Emmy nominations than any other person LORNE
More avant-garde EDGIER
More unearthly EERIER
Mother of Horus ISIS
Musses TOUSLES
Nearly ALLBUT
NFL cornerback Burns ARTIE
Number on a vowel tile in Scrabble ONE
Ooze SEEP
Our, in Abruzzo NOSTRA
Patisserie workers ICERS
Pay up? RAISE
Period of work STINT
Pew separators AISLES
Physicist Fermi ENRICO
Pigskin, e.g HIDE
Popcorn purchase TUB
Posse people DEPUTIES
Prepared for company CLEANED
Prerequisite for merging in traffic GAP
Put forward POSITED
Quarters, informally DIGS
Queen of Jordan before Queen Rania NOOR
Rapper/actor ___ Def MOS
Raymond’s condition in “Rain Man” AUTISM
Register SIGNUP
Rejuvenation station SPA
Rock box AMP
Saturn’s largest moon TITAN
School mates FISH
Settle DECIDE
Sighs of delight AHS
Small-screen reading TEXT
Some referendum votes YESES
Soon INABIT
Sound, for example INLET
Spanakopita ingredient FETA
Spectral indication of a receding galaxy REDSHIFT
Spots, perhaps RASH
Stadium call OLE
Starts to celebrate and ceases? SOFTCS
Station stuff GAS
Storied voyager SINBAD
Studio fee RENT
Stuns to silence AWES
Sums TOTESUP
Tablet input devices STYLI
Take care of TENDTO
Tea party setting? HARBOR
They smoke on the job BEEKEEPERS
They’re sometimes inflated EGOS
Throws toward the stratosphere LOBS
Toasted sandwich PANINI
Top hat or race car, in Monopoly TOKEN
Trendy 1980s Manhattan nightclub NELLS
Troublesome tykes IMPS
Turn sharply VEER
Undercover operations STINGS
V-J Day ended it WWII
Virtual people SIMS
Wanders hither and yon RANGES
Warrior with two swords SAMURAI
What chiromancers read PALMS
What many try to find in Hollywood FAMEANDFORTUNE
Who’s there FIRST