Wall Street Journal - Nov 29 2021 - Top Marks

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Clues Answers
“NCIS” network CBS
Addition column ONES
Alto-baritone go-between TENOR
Anchor’s delivery NEWS
Barely adequate SCANT
Bearing a burden LADEN
Booth in a theater, e.g.? ASSASSIN
Car freshener scent PINE
Cellist awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom by Obama YOYOMA
Collide with CRASHINTO
Confiscated TOOK
Dedicated poems ODES
Egyptian reptile ASP
Fabric interwoven with glistening threads LAME
Female friend, in France AMIE
Fencing sword EPEE
Fire proof ASH
Five on a foot TOES
Fizzy drink SODA
For each PER
Fraternal order since 1868 ELKS
Gave DONATED
Give a glittery coat to GILD
Gives out hands DEALS
Greek god of love EROS
Group of lions PRIDE
Hamm who was named U.S. Soccer Female Player of the Year five times MIA
Impudent talk LIP
Increased GREW
Iron output STEAM
Kind of coffee or stew IRISH
Kitchen come-on AROMA
Lacking an institutionalized power structure, as a city or state REGIMELESS
Lead-in to a reiteration ISAID
Location SITE
Luke’s twin sister LEIA
Massive mammal of Africa HIPPO
Member of a network’s standards and practices department CENSOR
Clues Answers
Move on a 39-Down GLIDE
Muppet with a unibrow BERT
Nation whose official language is Hebrew ISRAEL
Online market EBAY
Paintball sound SPLAT
Painter Degas EDGAR
Paper package REAM
Pilots’ guesses, for short ETAS
Pints in pubs ALES
Plane fixtures SEATS
Point on a molar CUSP
Poppers at parties CORKS
Printer’s list of mistakes ERRATA
Put together COMPILE
River beneath the Pont Neuf SEINE
Self-proclaimed “Milk’s Favorite Cookie” OREO
Small, to Scots WEE
Spinning top whose four sides bear the Hebrew letters found in this puzzle’s circles DREIDEL
Spot for skaters RINK
Spotted SEEN
Spring, e.g SEASON
Star of 1960’s “Exodus” PAULNEWMAN
Start for sphere ATMO
Swelled heads EGOS
Team with a record 27 World Series titles THEYANKEES
Texas politician O’Rourke BETO
The ugly duckling, as it turns out SWAN
Told whoppers LIED
Transmit SEND
Tries to seize GRASPSAT
Trim, as a limb PRUNE
Troop-entertaining grp USO
Two-time Pulitzer Prize for Fiction winner John UPDIKE
Unexpected problem SNAG
Where koalas and kangaroos live DOWNUNDER
Where the femur joins the pelvis HIP
William Henry Harrison nickname TIPPECANOE
Zodiac animal RAM