Wall Street Journal - Jul 17 2021 - The Name of the Game

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Clues Answers
“Ain’t happening!” NODICE
“Chad” airer TBS
“Doctor Who” airer BBCTV
“Just ___!” (“Hold on!”) ASEC
“La Belle ___” (revue that launched Al Jolson’s career) PAREE
“Maybe” WELLSEE
“You nailed it!” PERFECTO
1982 movie with a 2010 sequel TRON
Accompanying WITH
Add to the mixing bowl STIRIN
Aquarium bother ALGAE
Awkward situation HOWDEDO
Back ENDORSE
Badlands sight MESA
Bayer brand ALEVE
Be really awful SUCK
Be revolting RISEUP
Birthed HAD
Blow ERUPT
Breakout company ATARI
Broadway star’s favorite childhood game? MUSICALCHAIRS
Brother of Alvin and Simon THEODORE
Brother of Virgil and Morgan Earp WYATT
Bud PAL
Bunch of produce BANANAS
Burks of the Knicks ALEC
Character with a whalebone leg AHAB
Chemical in eye health supplements LUTEIN
Chopin’s “Funeral March” and Beethoven’s “Pathétique” SONATAS
Classical element FIRE
Coll. star, back in the day BMOC
Comedian Tig NOTARO
Common courier transport MOPED
Conjugation target VERB
Consider deeply MULL
Coral colony member POLYP
Course org PGA
Crone HAG
Current unit AMPERE
Cynical snicker HEH
Deduce INFER
Demings in the House VAL
Did teamster work HAULED
DiFranco who founded Righteous Babe Records ANI
Dot on a map ISLET
Early computer for hobbyists ALTAIR
Email status SENT
Eponym of an L-shaped wrench ALLEN
Excessively pricey STEEP
Extended operatic solo SCENA
Farmyard fowl HEN
Fasteners named for their shape TNUTS
Feels bitter, say? TASTES
First sign of spring ARIES
Foot with two parts IAMB
Fruit from a palm DATE
Fruit from a palm ACAI
Game participants PLAYERS
Geometry calculations AREAS
Gifts BESTOWALS
Go off script ADLIB
Goddess with a lyre ERATO
Green power SOLAR
Hawk’s home AERIE
Heartland of America Park site OMAHA
Hepburn’s “The Lion in Winter” co-star OTOOLE
Highly caffeinated WIRED
Hill’s counterpart DALE
House relative TECHNO
Joiner’s tools AWLS
Clues Answers
Kaitlin of “It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia” OLSON
Lake at the end of a canal finished in 1825 ERIE
Leak preventers, of a sort: Abbr NDAS
Lengthy accessory BOA
Lymphatic system component NODE
Mauna ___ KEA
Mexican mister SENOR
Migration formation VEE
Monopoly turn ROLL
Morse taps DITS
Mule’s father ASS
Nascar sponsor STP
Natural manner EASE
NBA nail-biters OTS
Nine-digit ID SSN
Now or in the past EVER
Nursery purchase SOD
Out of place INAPT
Pact replaced by the USMCA NAFTA
Pendulum path ARC
Person seated at intermission, say LATECOMER
Photographer’s favorite childhood game? CAPTURETHEFLAG
Picked a candidate not on the ballot WROTEIN
Piz Bernina, e.g ALP
Planet’s shape in a book series by Terry Pratchett DISC
Political strategist Navarro ANA
Political strategist’s favorite childhood game? SPINTHEBOTTLE
Pretends nothing is amiss ACTSCASUAL
Procedure part STEP
Protection that may be worn by a conspiracy theorist TINFOILHAT
Purell target GERMS
Really smell REEK
Rover alternative SPOT
Salicylic acid target ACNE
Saoirse with four Oscar nominations RONAN
Scolding sound TSK
Secret store STASH
Senators’ home OTTAWA
Sighing sounds AHS
Sister brand of Twinkies and Zingers HOHOS
Social media influencer’s favorite childhood game? FOLLOWTHELEADER
Source of a draft BEERTAP
Spaghetti sprinkling PARMESAN
Spanish gentleman DON
Speak like Cicero ORATE
Study guide TUTOR
Stunt performer’s favorite childhood game? DOUBLEDUTCH
Tailor’s concern FIT
Tales of Mars, e.g MYTHS
Tall storage site SILO
Tanner’s favorite childhood game? HIDEANDSEEK
Temple chest ARK
The planets, e.g ORBS
They might be grand SLAMS
Thick Japanese noodles UDON
Top of le corps humain TETE
Unaccompanied LONE
Vichyssoise ingredient CREAM
Visibility reducers FOGS
Visual precursors to migraine headaches AURAE
Walter Raleigh’s 1595 quest ELDORADO
Way to a treehouse, perhaps ROPELADDER
What K-Cups and Nespresso capsules are designed for ONETIMEUSE
When to enter ONCUE
Window installer’s favorite childhood game? BLINDMANSBLUFF
Witherspoon of “Walk the Line” REESE
Wood-damaging beetle BORER
WWII prez FDR
Yellowfin tuna AHI
You, before you were born THEE