Wall Street Journal - Apr 4 2020 - A Feel for the Job

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Clues Answers
“A Confederacy of Dunces” author TOOLE
“Calvin and Hobbes” girl SUSIE
“Mean Girls” writer TINAFEY
“Step on it!” HURRY
“___ we trust” INGOD
Accepted truths AXIOMS
Any of this puzzle’s theme answers PUN
Aussie bird EMU
Ballerina’s pivot TOE
Bar stock MIXERS
Baseball statistics STEALS
Bath sprinkles TALCS
Before now AGO
Bible verb suffix ETH
Big parts LEADS
Blood fluids SERA
Boeing rival AIRBUS
Brand of change-converting machines COINSTAR
Bridge action REBID
Broad players HAMS
Building bigwigs SUPERS
Chain with a heart logo CVS
Chopin piece NOCTURNE
Citrus quenchers ADES
Close relative SIS
Collected works OMNIBUS
Compassionate assassins? TENDEROFFERS
Confectioner H.B REESE
Contradicts DENIES
Cries of relief WHEWS
Curl one’s lip SNEER
Dined at home ATEIN
Disney’s portrayer in “Saving Mr. Banks” HANKS
Dudley Moore’s obsession in “10” BODEREK
Ernie Banks nickname MRCUB
Extorted BLED
Fire-prevention icon SMOKEY
Fizzless FLAT
Flutes and the like STEMWARE
Folks on the move GOERS
Forward RESEND
Free-spirited football players? LOOSEENDS
Future bride FIANCEE
Govt. mtge. insurer FHA
Heebie-jeebies CREEPS
Hip TUNEDIN
Home of one of the world’s oldest rainforests BORNEO
Icicle’s location EAVE
Impassive dealers in hot goods? WOODENFENCES
Inflexible prison guards? SETSCREWS
Inspiration for many a technophobe NEDLUDD
Is a motor-mouth RUNSON
It was introduced in late 1957 EDSEL
Jason of “The Man in the High Castle” OMARA
JFK posting ETD
Key on a map ISLET
Kirsten of “The Beguiled” DUNST
Like an acid found in greens FOLIC
Like many summer movies ESCAPIST
Like some houses HAUNTED
Lucy’s husband DESI
Manage GETBY
More hectic BUSIER
More suspicious LEERIER
Mystery writer Gerritsen TESS
Mystery writer Paretsky SARA
Not subject to change CASTIRON
Nota ___ BENE
Nursery item TREE
Oodles GOBS
Clues Answers
Open-mike night performers AMATEURS
Outcry UPROAR
Petition ASK
Picks up on SENSES
Play start SCENEONE
Playboy founder, familiarly HEF
Poignant instrument OBOE
Pop to Pebbles FRED
Power-saving mode SLEEP
Prepare to skate, maybe LACEUP
Pretense POSE
Prolonged attack SIEGE
Prom accessories CORSAGES
Punishing hike TREK
Reliable comedians? SOUNDCARDS
Remain unsettled PEND
Reneged (on) WELCHED
Results ENSUES
River with its source in a Swiss glacier RHONE
Self-assured waitstaff? SECURESERVERS
She played June in “Henry & June” UMA
Simple sack COT
Singers James and Jones ETTAS
Six-pt. scores TDS
Small sailing ship LUGGER
Some CSI evidence HAIRS
Some heiresses WIDOWS
Some spuds RUSSETS
Southwest art colony TAOS
Speaks falteringly STAMMERS
Spouts EXCLAIMS
Stoat coat FUR
Stomach TOLERATE
Strong throw, in baseball slang PEG
Summer songs? DISCO
Sunscreen nos SPFS
Surgery ctrs ORS
Surly sort CUR
Sweetums DEAR
Swift RAPID
Tank filler GAS
Tartarus has two TAUS
Team connector YOKE
The fast track SPEEDWAY
The other guys FOES
They’re sometimes slapped WRISTS
They’ve split EXES
Thin-skinned police officers? PRICKLYHEAT
Thoroughly exhausted telemarketers? DEADRINGERS
Ticket parts STUBS
Total SUM
Trophy CUP
Trusted teacher MENTOR
TV monitor? FCC
Ultimatum word ELSE
United WED
Unsettled manual laborers? SHOOKHANDS
Urbane SUAVE
Utters SAYS
Vogue alternative ELLE
Wall St. deals LBOS
Website warning NSFW
What some are stuck in ARUT
What’s left REST
White House worker AIDE
Winter Palace ruler TSAR
Word of encouragement OLE
Wrath IRE
Wreath material FIR
___ jure (by the law itself) IPSO