Wall Street Journal - Aug 8 2020 - B-Listers

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Clues Answers
“I second that!” AMEN
“In all probability...” ODDSARE
“Is it just ___...” MEOR
“Jingle Bells” preposition OER
“Phew! Someone open a window!” ITSHOT
“Ruffneck” rapper MC ___ LYTE
“___ durn tootin’!” YER
Accepts, as terms AGREESON
Alaska’s longest river YUKON
Andean bearer LLAMA
Basketball but not football ORB
Beat by a narrow margin NIP
Behind REAR
Burrowing rodents VOLES
Candidate’s focus RACE
Capable of being drawn out TENSILE
Chap OLDBOY
Chart template PIE
Chocolate-caramel candy ROLO
Classic car REO
Clichéd BANAL
Collection of paint swatches? BLENDINGLIBRARY
Colosseum greeting AVE
Contradict BELIE
Copacabana Beach setting RIO
Costa ___ RICA
Country singer Tillis MEL
Cracker spread BRIE
Creaks, squeaks and shrieks NOISES
D.C.-area airport BWI
Daddy, in Durango PAPI
Day-___ GLO
Deg. for a barrister LLB
Deteriorates ROTS
Disease preventer, in slang VAX
Dresser’s kin BUREAU
Dyeing site VAT
Egg cells OVA
Extra mins. in games OTS
Factory MILL
Fella GUY
Fiddled (with) TOYED
Figure taking a bow? EROS
Final Four org NCAA
Finds a new tenant for RELETS
First-aid product prefix MEDI
FX letters CGI
Galoot APE
General assemblies? ARMIES
Gillette brand ATRA
Goal AIM
Golden Crispers! brand OREIDA
Graceful antelopes IMPALAS
Graffiti? BLIGHTREADING
Grammy-winning “Weird Al” song EATIT
Guileless state NAIVETE
H look-alike ETA
Hauling measure TON
Headwear for Picasso BERET
High school subj ENG
Hillside house asset VIEW
Home of Triple-A baseball’s Rainiers TACOMA
Honey-do list item TASK
Hue’s partner CRY
In sequence ORDERED
Intent look STARE
JFK guess ETD
Juan’s wife EVA
Leaves to turn PAGES
Letters of urgency ASAP
Lhasa ___ APSO
Clues Answers
Like some bills and hills STEEP
Like some foreign films DUBBED
Like some monks COWLED
Like the “Odyssey” HOMERIC
Long YEARN
Lose it GOMAD
Luxurious country residence VILLA
Madrid monarchs REYES
Maker of short suits SPEEDO
Many tour guides NATIVES
Matchmaker’s prattling about being “made for each other”? CHEMISTRYBLAB
Middle weight? SPARETIRE
Modern-day hieroglyphic EMOJI
Move quickly HIE
Move, to real estate pros RELO
Muddy up ROIL
NASA’s Grissom GUS
Neighborhood ENVIRONS
Neurologist’s printouts, briefly EEGS
No longer in effect VOID
NYPD figures SGTS
Officiant at Boris and Natasha’s wedding? BLESSEROFTWOEVILS
Oil stain under the car? PARKINGBLOT
Ornamental swimmers KOI
Oscar winner as Mercury MALEK
Paint can direction STIR
Parts of planes NOSES
Pass the hat SOLICIT
Pickers pick them BANJOS
Play to ___ (draw) ATIE
Polite reply to a schoolmarm YESM
Poorly hit fly ball at Wrigley Field? CHICAGOBLOOP
Possible courses of events SCENARIOS
Post-holdup question AMILATE
Proud motto of a spicy food restaurant? NEVERNEVERBLAND
Quite a bit OODLES
Radar operator’s duty? BLIPSERVICE
Rash description, perhaps ITCHY
Ready the machete, say HONE
Roadside assistance org AAA
Rooster’s mate HEN
Rubbery substances LATEXES
See 54-Across ERNST
Sick, in rap slang ILLIN
Sierra Nevada resort TAHOE
Signs of things to come OMENS
Singer Rawls LOU
Singer with the 2015 #1 hit “Cheerleader” OMI
Singer’s quavery effect TREMOLO
Snoozefest BORE
Solution for shaking hands? MITTENS
Somewhat hostile AVERSE
Sorrowful sigh ALAS
South African settler BOER
Spike with a screenplay Oscar LEE
Spirit PEP
Stronghold CITADEL
Subsides EBBS
Suit properly BEFIT
Support payers, at times EXES
Szubanski of “Babe” MAGDA
Terra ___ COTTA
Texter’s “Beats me” IDK
Tom Hanks comedy BIG
Training session for would-be online posters? BLOGGINGCAMP
Troop troupe, briefly USO
Underwear initials BVD
Unwanted email SPAM
With 106-Down, German Dadaist MAX
With proficiency ADEPTLY
Wrong AMISS