Wall Street Journal - Mar 19 2022 - Talking Smock

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Clues Answers
“Columbia’s Pride” composer SOUSA
“Fernando” group ABBA
“High Voltage” band ACDC
“That so?” reply ITIS
“Yer darn ___!” TOOTIN
1860s presidential nickname ABE
2020 Pixar film with the voices of Jamie Foxx and Tina Fey SOUL
A bit off ODD
Aides for profs TAS
Ailing ILL
Après-ski quaff HOTTODDY
Athlete’s mansion? THEHOUSETHATJOCKBUILT
Bad blood RANCOR
Blessing, so to speak ASSENT
Book reviewers, of a sort CPAS
Bow’s kin CURTSY
Brand that used a tiger in its ads ESSO
Burgundy grape PINOT
Calc prerequisite TRIG
Casual read MAG
Categorizes SORTS
Charles Lamb’s “Essays of ___” ELIA
Choice ELITE
Comfortably safe RISKFREE
Command the helm STEER
Commotions ADOS
Competent ABLE
Complained KVETCHED
Corresponds AGREES
Cry from the Capulet balcony OROMEO
Debate side PRO
Didn’t need to be told KNEW
Disney princess voiced by Auli‘i Cravalho MOANA
Doctor Eggman’s nemesis, in video games SONIC
Donizetti opera title character LUCIA
Dream ender ALARM
Drill sergeant’s syllable HUP
Duchamp specialty DADAART
Evoking an “ewww!” ICKY
Extinct bird that resembled the emu MOA
Eye part LENS
Family surname on HBO’s “Succession” ROY
Fit to be farmed ARABLE
Flier’s choice AISLE
Foil for Garfield ODIE
Forget-me-___ NOTS
Frat dudes BROS
From Casablanca MOROCCAN
Full of vitality ALIVE
Garbage drummer Duke ERIKSON
Give an expensive coat to GILD
Given the nod OKD
Gradually ease off WEAN
Green gamer NEWB
Hammer, anvil and stirrup site EAR
Hanging on every word RAPT
Harrison or Clinton GEORGE
Has the gumption DARES
Have no reservations BESURE
Hobart “howdy” GDAY
Home of Italy’s patron saint ASSISI
Howard Stern specialty? RADIOSHOCK
Humphrey’s wife and four-time co-star LAUREN
Impassive STOLID
In need of stimulus SLUGGISH
Insensitive, in a way UNPC
It might be well-made WISH
IT staffer’s pride GEEKCRED
James of “127 Hours” FRANCO
Jeweler Lalique RENE
Clues Answers
Kingsley Amis title SIR
KOA facility RVPARK
Labor followers BIRTHS
Lake Mohave feeder COLORADO
Leave VACATE
Lego expert in Lipetsk? BLOCKRUSSIAN
Like some fiber OPTICAL
Lip SASS
Lose traction SKID
Loud, on a score FORTE
Made a lap SAT
Make fun of a poorly made shiv? MOCKTHEKNIFE
Maker of a mythological quest JASON
Many an Agatha Christie suspect HEIR
Mississippi’s source lake ITASCA
Monopoly token retired in 2013 IRON
More sore ACHIER
Nail the final ACEIT
Name on some small trucks TONKA
Nanakuli nicety ALOHA
Natasha’s last name in Rocky and Bullwinkle cartoons FATALE
NBC show since 1975 SNL
Nighttime notes TAPS
No longer listening to loud music? OFFTHEROCK
Orange character of kids’ TV ERNIE
Overly VERY
Palace address SIRE
Person in front of a train BRIDE
Pilot’s place STOVE
Pitched properly ONKEY
Pollution portmanteau SMOG
Printer’s unit PICA
Printer’s units REAMS
Rang PHONED
Rapids transits RAFTS
Relating to stars ASTRAL
Resident of the Shire HOBBIT
Result ARISE
Roadster’s reversals UTURNS
Rush job letters ASAP
Satisfied sounds AAHS
Scary brutes OGRES
Select OPTFOR
Sheer fabric TOILE
Shine on a tress of hair? LOCKLUSTER
Shoes, informally KICKS
Short story ANECDOTE
Sites for rites ALTARS
Slow cooker humor? CROCKJOKES
Smidgen SKOSH
Start for girl or boy ATTA
Steinbeck’s Tom Joad, e.g OKIE
Step, to Stendhal PAS
Stole from a burlesque theater BOA
Stopped, in a way ATANCHOR
They get scoops FLOATS
Three-time title role for Keanu TED
Time to remember ERA
Tomei of “Spider-Man” films MARISA
Toy originally advertised with the suggestion “Throw it indoors” NERFBALL
Two-time home run leader Canseco JOSE
Uncooperative BALKY
University of Washington athletes HUSKIES
Wasn’t stuck HADANOUT
Watching Colbert, perhaps UPLATE
Whale food PLANKTON
Whip up a batch of cookies, say BAKE
Yellow card issuer REF
Zeroth power of a number ONE
___ Domini ANNO