Wall Street Journal - Sep 23 2021 - Puzzle Pieces

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Clues Answers
“American Pie” singer Don MCLEAN
“Bohemian Rhapsody” Oscar winner MALEK
“Helpful hardware folks” brand ACE
“I wanna try!” LEMME
“Top Gun” target MIG
“Toward Freedom” autobiographer NEHRU
12-time WNBA All-Star Bird SUE
24 heures JOUR
A pop EACH
Achieve recognition ARRIVE
Adverb in the “Star Wars” intro crawl AGO
Afro-Caribbean sound SKA
Alternative OTHER
Arabian Peninsula resident YEMENI
Assistant with a hunch? IGOR
Assume illegally USURP
Average citizen COMMONMAN
Best Buy buys PCS
Beverage powder marketed as a coffee alternative POSTUM
Candid OPEN
Centurion protector ARMOR
Challenging poser...that rows 3, 5, 11 and 13 have broken TOUGHNUTTOCRACK
Cloverleaf part ONRAMP
Co. that pays income taxes CCORP
Cole Porter’s “___ Sensational” YOURE
Composer Webern ANTON
Dev of “Lion” PATEL
Enabler, of a sort PERMIT
Evaluate ASSAY
Excessively enthusiastic MANIC
Exclamation after a personal victory IRULE
Firm focus LAW
Gambling mecca on the South China Sea MACAO
GM’s Mary Barra, e.g CEO
Grew more severe STEEPENED
Grown-up grps PTAS
Gymnastics star Simone BILES
Hardly plentiful MEAGER
Hartsfield, Jackson or La Guardia MAYOR
Clues Answers
Heckling holler BOO
Hellion BRAT
Holstein chew CUD
Hush-hush org NSA
In complete agreement ASONE
Initialism that may also end with Q LGBT
Key of Mozart’s “Eine Kleine Nachtmusik” GMAJOR
Knowing, as a private joke INON
Knowledgeable sort GURU
Less racy TAMER
Letter-shaped groove TSLOT
Lexington sch. founded in 1839 VMI
Like many a motto LATIN
List-ending abbr ETC
Logan of TV news LARA
Michelangelo masterwork in St. Peter’s PIETA
Miles Davis said he was “the best there was of all the bebop piano players” BUDPOWELL
MLK Day, e.g MON
Mug for the camera, maybe ROB
Musical endings CODAS
Person with plain habits? NUN
Place de la Bastille location PARIS
Program listing? CODE
Pull out all the stops GOBIG
Raiders quarterback Derek CARR
Settled down with someone out of one’s league, in slang MARRIEDUP
Shadows UMBRAE
Sounds of rebuke TSKS
Source of Real ID cards DMV
Spleen IRE
State house person, for short REP
Swerves VEERS
Taiko instruments DRUMS
Tops ATMOST
Understands GETS
Weaken EBB
Wedge-driving hammer MAUL
Workers who make lots of calls UMPS
___-Roman (wrestling category in the Olympics) GRECO