Wall Street Journal - Dec 24 2018 - Branching Out

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Clues Answers
'...___ find out who's naughty or nice' GONNA
'In Stiller Nacht' composer BRAHMS
'Lord Jim' author CONRAD
'Strike the ___ and join the chorus' HARP
Arrive TURNUP
Automaker with a four-ring logo AUDI
Become entangled SNARL
Bedtime for kids and cadets LIGHTSOUT
Bone: Prefix OSTEO
Book after John ACTS
Bottom-dwelling fish with winglike fins ANGELSHARK
Bring in EARN
Broad WIDE
Broke down, in a way WEPT
Card game for three players SKAT
Clarinet part REED
Climb onto MOUNT
Cobbler's kin PIE
Conks out DIES
Crime novelist Buchanan EDNA
Diva delivery ARIA
Donkey cry HEEHAW
Employer of Kirk and Picard STARFLEET
Flooring measure AREA
Fundamental BASIC
Gets together MEETS
Guitar innovator Paul LES
Hawkeye State native IOWAN
Hollywood, informally TINSELTOWN
Home of college's Quakers PENN
Impose LEVY
Journey TRIP
Lent follower EASTER
Ludicrous INANE
Makes out, in Manchester SNOGS
Matador's need CAPE
Member of a sleigh-pulling team DASHER
Memorable stretch ERA
Clues Answers
Most populous continent ASIA
Mouse chasers CATS
Natural burn soother ALOE
Nog ingredient EGG
Notion IDEA
Objectives AIMS
Painting holder FRAME
Peace of mind EASE
Pieced artwork MOSAIC
Pogo, for one POSSUM
Pounds and pints UNITS
Quarters for women HAREM
Revival shelter TENT
Round at the bar, perhaps SHOTS
Schnitzel meat VEAL
Sneezy sound ACHOO
Soldier's station POST
Spice's partner SUGAR
Stocking stuffer? SANTA
Supermarket sights CARTS
Ticket remnant STUB
Tim, to Bob Cratchit SON
Topic in a job interview SKILLSET
Trade SWAP
Trafficker's amount KILO
Trunk of the body TORSO
Two-masted sailboat YAWL
Unspoiled places EDENS
Victorious general at Gettysburg MEADE
Water, in Juarez AGUA
Wedding exchange IDOS
Where grunts get grub MESSHALL
Word on an octagon STOP
Work one's incisors GNAW
Wrap up END
Yuletide undertaking, and a hint to the starts of 17-, 21-, 54- and 63-Across TRIMMINGTHETREE
___ colada PINA
___ musette (French dance venue) BAL