Wall Street Journal - Oct 27 2020 - Spooked

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Clues Answers
“Alas, it’s not to be” SADLYNO
“Go away!” SCAT
7UP, in old ads UNCOLA
Announcement upon opening the door IMHERE
Appropriate SUITED
Boring tool AUGER
Broadcast AIR
Clamp in a wood shop VISE
Colors HUES
Colors TONES
Cry from a director CUT
Dutch banking giant ING
Em, say AUNTIE
Fairy queen MAB
Family that includes the potato, eggplant and tobacco NIGHTSHADE
Fruitless pursuits, and a feature of 14-, 19-, 32-, 39- and 47-Across DEADENDS
Fuss TODO
Genre for rave DJs: Abbr EDM
Hip-hop trio with the 1989 hit “Me Myself and I” DELASOUL
Hot-rodder, often SPEEDDEMON
Hush-hush org NSA
Informative TV spot PSA
Inspect LOOKAT
Joke GAG
Juno probe org NASA
Maker of calls REF
Masked Devils, e.g GOALIES
Melmac alien ALF
Muck MIRE
Mykonos’s surroundings AEGEAN
Narrow valley GLEN
On a slant ANGLED
Opposition vote NAY
Origin of some invaders SPACE
Pennsylvania senator for 30 years ARLENSPECTER
Pep rally concern SCHOOLSPIRIT
Persia, now IRAN
Clues Answers
Play catch with TOSSTO
Pound portion OUNCE
Queen of the Nile, informally CLEO
Rangers, Pacers and Corsairs on 1950s lots EDSELS
Really hate DESPISE
Realm EMPIRE
Run into MEET
Russian legislature DUMA
Sal of “Exodus” MINEO
Scary-sounding lake ERIE
Scorch SEAR
Shares some juicy gossip DISHES
Sharpen HONE
Slight bit SMIDGE
Slight taste HINT
Snake oil peddlers CONMEN
Some are dire STRAITS
Squeezes affectionately HUGS
Staples stack PADS
Start of a letter home, maybe DEARDAD
Strange sort ODDBIRD
Swimming measures LAPS
Testosterone, for one ANDROGEN
Throw in ADD
Titan condemned to hold up the heavens ATLAS
Twain with five Grammys SHANIA
Unwieldy CLUNKY
Wee TEENSY
Where balboas are spent PANAMA
Where Ophelia dies OFFSTAGE
Wildebeest GNU
Windmill parts VANES
Witness stand promise IDO
Word after steel or pigeon TOED
Yard makeup SOD
Yonder thing THAT
Zambezi wallowers HIPPOS