Wall Street Journal - May 13 2021 - It’s Elementary

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Clues Answers
“Operatic pop” quartet since 2004 ILDIVO
*1980s Republican strategist Lee ATWATER
*Cream-filled treats ECLAIRS
*Drip solutions SALINES
*Name, so to speak APPOINT
*Nonet redefined as an octet in 2006 PLANETS
*Orthodontist’s rubber bands SPACERS
*Tuscany’s capital, to natives FIRENZE
*Warm spots HEARTHS
1980 NFL MVP Brian SIPE
Additionally ALSO
Bestselling Leonard ELMORE
Bit of trickery WILE
Boarded GOTON
Celebration FETE
Colorful meringue-based treat MACARON
Combative Olympian ARES
Comber’s collectible SHELL
Conductor Stokowski LEOPOLD
Contained in PARTOF
Continent north of Afr EUR
Convened again RESAT
Court winner ACE
Dash dial TACH
Deep-fried Mexican treat CHURRO
Downward-facing dog, e.g ASANA
Drea’s role in “The Sopranos” ADRIANA
Drei doubled SECHS
Either of two in Georgia SOFTG
End for comment or decor ATOR
Face, in British slang PHIZ
Former Bolivian president Morales EVO
Georgia and others, once: Abbr SSRS
Getaway destination ISLE
Gummy fruit candy GELEE
Hiccup cures, perhaps SCARES
Hotel lobby sights SOFAS
Clues Answers
In a stupor CATATONIC
It always comes with a charge ION
Italian ice chain RITAS
Kachina doll producers HOPIS
Lexus competitor ACURA
Main ingredient of margarine OLEOOIL
Mets’ div NLE
MLB has one in Cooperstown HOF
Not a good shape for the body-conscious PEAR
Not yet bug-free, probably BETA
Pain relief ANALGESIA
Palindromic carrier SAS
Pen in ENCAGE
Play ender RAINOUT
Position STANCE
Price to play ANTE
Priest who taught Samuel ELI
Primo AONE
QB’s objectives TDS
Ratchets (up) AMPS
Reclined LAIN
Riled (up) HET
Simple fabric TOILE
Smack on the street HEROIN
Some QB protectors RTS
Sound sensors EARS
Spasm THROE
Sporty tops POLOS
The fifth element BORON
Threads in beds PJS
Tombstone surname EARP
Type of elements hidden in the starred answers on this side of the grid CLASSICAL
Type of elements hidden in the starred answers on this side of the grid GEOMETRIC
Weigh in OPINE
Will Hunting was a wicked smart one JANITOR
You can’t stand to have one LAP
___ Lingus AER