Wall Street Journal - Dec 30 2020 - In at the Finish

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Clues Answers
“Doctor Who” carrier BBC
“Finally!” ATLAST
“Let me think about that...” HMM
“Tales of Mother Goose” author Charles PERRAULT
Appreciative observation at the Renaissance Faire? WHATAJERKIN
Beggar’s utterance PLEA
Biblical name that means “he laughs” ISAAC
Big do GALA
Big do AFRO
Big galoot LUG
Bitter ACRID
BLT alternatives PBJS
Boxers, e.g UNDIES
Breakfast treat with an auriform shape? EARMUFFIN
Burns books, for example POETRY
Call center staff AGENTS
Cautious acrobat’s installation NET
China flaw CHIP
Chorister’s reference HYMNAL
Coach’s intellectual equipment? SPORTSBRAIN
Colloquial contraction AINT
Common landscaping tree PINOAK
Completely redesigned ALLNEW
Corvine call CAW
Coupled DUAL
Cut from the same cloth ALIKE
Dance shoe attachment TAP
Digital tool APP
Dimwit DOLT
Exemplar of meekness LAMB
Expensive material for a crib blanket? BABYSATIN
Familiar friends KITH
Flight part RISER
Fuss ADO
Gathers after harvest GLEANS
Geographical depression VALLEY
Idyllic spot EDEN
In your head MENTAL
Clues Answers
Inventor of a lidded glass dish PETRI
It flows through Lake Brienz AARE
It runs hot and cold FAUCET
Its first cover showed the infant Desi Arnaz Jr TVGUIDE
Latte laborer BARISTA
Lummox CLOD
Massage therapist’s place SPA
Matched group SET
Mouse-sighting exclamation EEK
Nautical direction ALEE
Not working, maybe ILL
Out of action IDLE
Particularly unpleasant NASTY
Passing zone? GRIDIRON
Persona non grata PARIAH
Pitcher’s deliveries ADS
Plan for sr. years IRA
Prestidigitator’s publication? MAGICBULLETIN
Pretentious pronoun ONE
Prevents from airing BLEEPS
Put in stitches SEW
Rage IRE
RBI or ERA STAT
Sch. in Troy RPI
Scholarly output PAPERS
Schubert works LIEDER
Series of courses MEAL
Shed one’s inhibitions BEFREE
Short skirt, for short MINI
Shows curiosity ASKS
Simple rhyme scheme ABAB
Site of the USDA’s National Animal Disease Center AMES
Sty occupant PIG
Subject to a legal proceeding TRY
Superfluous flesh FLAB
Triumphant shout HAH
U.S. ID SSN
Vientiane denizen LAO