Wall Street Journal - Mar 4 2021 - Rung by Rung

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Clues Answers
“Large and in charge” person BOSS
“Queen of the South” network USA
“___ you sure about that?” ARE
A ton HEAPS
Adler whose photo Sherlock keeps IRENE
Amy’s four-time Golden Globes co-host TINA
Blacken CHAR
Bombarde’s kin OBOE
Cell transmission TEXT
Clay, e.g ORATOR
Clubs on diamonds BATS
Cut a zigzag edge on PINK
Cut with an ax HEWN
Design PLAN
Designated space AREA
Doofus SCHMO
Drive off DISPEL
Enjoy a run SKI
Favors PREFERS
Felipe VI de España, por ejemplo REY
Feydeau works FARCES
Fictional seller of Earthquake Pills and Female Road-Runner Costumes ACME
Figure skater Paulsen AXEL
Forwards, say RESENDS
Further ALSO
Gather in REAP
Hammer’s end PEEN
Haunted house sound MOAN
He beat Novak in the 2020 French Open final RAFAEL
Hypothesis IDEA
Include, as an email file ATTACH
Involving in difficult problems ENSNARLING
Is wrong ERRS
Kid after napping? SUEDE
Leisurely movement ADAGIO
Like a dungeon DIM
Like some underbellies SEAMY
Lived BEEN
Loom part TREADLE
Clues Answers
Love affair AMOUR
Lowly laborer PEON
Many a time OFT
Material of some glossy sheets ICE
NHL team size SIX
Penn. neighbor DEL
Picked stuff ORE
Pilot predictions, for short ETAS
Plea of the accused ALIBI
Practice petulance SULK
Prague’s region BOHEMIA
Private healer MEDIC
Purcell piece ARIA
Qatari cash RIYALS
Raccoon cousin COATI
Rigs for the long haul SEMIS
Rodent, to a raptor PREY
Satisfy SLAKE
Scientist whose maiden name was Skodowska CURIE
See 3-Down UPTHELADDER
Setting piece UTENSIL
She leaves for New York with Sportin’ Life BESS
Site of Hephaestus’s workshop ETNA
Speed reader, of a sort RADAR
Sudden succession SPATE
Summer sign LEO
Symbols of strength OAKS
Ump’s announcement CALL
Unable to move INERT
Unmistakable CLEAR
Upper limit CAP
Uprooted individual EXILE
Watched the young ones SAT
Wherein the world? ATLAS
With 26-Down, how to succeed in business, and a hint to this puzzle MAKEYOURWAY
Work against RESIST
Workers in gardens BEES
Writing desk with a cabinet section SECRETAIRE
XXX CHIS