Wall Street Journal - Jan 8 2022 - Letter Carriers

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Clues Answers
“Free Guy” star Reynolds RYAN
“Girl Before a Mirror” painter PICASSO
“My bad!” OOPS
“See here, it’s a film fish who’s put on weight”? CHUNKYDORY
“Sex for Dummies” author DRRUTH
“The guys on Tinder are so much alike—it’s eye-catching”? BACHELORPARITY
“___ be my honor” ITD
Act the loving parent DOTE
Annoy PESTER
Bad thing to get from your boss THEAX
Banned pesticide DDT
Base man CAD
Beekeeper’s IQ test? BRAINGAUGE
Behind the times OLD
Belong FITIN
Big payroll service co ADP
Bottom of the barrel WORST
Brothers’ keeper, of a sort FRIARY
Buckled CAVED
Burn brightly BLAZE
Bus. card info TEL
Buster who played Flash Gordon CRABBE
Can. joined it in 1990 OAS
Clunker at sea TUB
Columbus sch OSU
Conciliatory offering SOP
Corvette, e.g COUPE
Cottonwood trees ALAMOS
Country west of Benin TOGO
CPR performers EMTS
Curly-tailed dogs PUGS
Day break SIESTA
Deer dad STAG
Defeat soundly CREAM
Deliberately avoid SHUN
Dole (out) METE
Dorm leaders, briefly RAS
Earliest phase ONSET
Ebb SUBSIDE
Enterprising type DOER
Famed art deco designer ERTE
Feel TEXTURE
Final order, often DESSERT
Fluctuate wildly SEESAW
Focus of many a photo SELF
Found despicable LOATHED
Gives some lip SASSES
Grassy marsh plants SEDGES
Groups with one more member than a 94-Down OCTETS
Harvard has had one since 1858 GLEECLUB
Honda’s luxury division ACURA
Ideal area EDEN
Idealistic UTOPIAN
Ideally ATBEST
Infallible authorities ORACLES
Infatuates BESOTS
Intelligence agency problem LEAK
It’s like a diamond in the sky KITE
Jazz ensemble, at times SEPTET
Jazz scene UTAH
Jazz selections NUMBERS
Jazz style BOP
Katharine Hepburn’s four OSCARS
Keep moist in the oven BASTE
Knot untiers EXES
Kylo ___ (“The Force Awakens” character) REN
Like Braille writing TACTILE
Like bruschetta TOASTED
Like bungee cords ELASTIC
Little people TOTS
Clues Answers
Live EXIST
Long YEARN
Lummox OAF
Lusitania’s undoing TORPEDO
Macho guy wearing vivid red? Why not? ASTUDINSCARLET
Many charitable grps NGOS
Many middle schoolers TWEENS
Mil. buffer area DMZ
More likely to burn FAIRER
Needed to put money in a jar, perhaps SWORE
Nighttime streaker METEOR
NPR’s Totenberg NINA
Oh no! The beer is gone? VANISHINGPINT
Org. with schedules IRS
Outlaw trackers POSSE
Outperform TOP
Pacific garland LEI
Pasty ASHEN
Patronage AEGIS
Perfect Sleeper brand SERTA
Pompeo of “Grey’s Anatomy” ELLEN
President, when signing a bill ENACTOR
Prof’s visitor, perhaps GRAD
Quilter’s supply FABRICS
Rare Scrabble declaration IPASS
Relevant APROPOS
Remedies for measles and chickenpox are missing? SPOTSMEDICINE
Retiring SHY
Rollover option for a 401(k) IRA
Serengeti beasts GNUS
Settled a score GOTEVEN
Short shorts HOTPANTS
Show reluctance DEMUR
Slot in the end of an arrow NOCK
Small salamander NEWT
Snitch STOOLIE
Sorrowful state DOLOR
Sourpuss GRUMP
Steady drone HUM
Suffocating serpents BOAS
Swallowed greedily GULPED
Synagogue SHUL
Tabloid fare DIRT
Tad’s dad in the White House ABE
Tea leaves show trouble for a matador? HORNINHISSIDE
They get folks in a sweat SAUNAS
Threads in shreds RAGS
Thumb, for one TOM
Tibia sites SHINS
Tiki bar orders MAITAIS
Tim Tebow, when he won the Heisman GATOR
Toe woe CORN
Took away REMOVED
Toward the stern AFT
Towel end? ETTE
Twofold DUAL
Uncouple DETACH
Understood only by the few ARCANE
USPS circuit RTE
Vert. counterpart HOR
Verve DASH
Volkswagen luxury division AUDI
Where many engagements end ALTARS
Where you might “see table” in a reference book ATRIGHT
Wildlife park ranger’s tool DARTGUN
Wing it FLY
Wise guy SMARTIE
You came in for pressure to get married? WEDDINGDURESS
Yucky pond coating SCUM
___ rule ASA