Wall Street Journal - Mar 3 2022 - Homo Erectus

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Clues Answers
“Ars Amatoria” poet OVID
“Get a backbone!” (and a feature of four of the puzzle’s answers) MANUP
“Great public schools for every student” org NEA
“Shoot!” HECK
“That’s what I like” brand PEPSI
“The Pink Panther Theme” composer HENRYMCINI
“We should!” LETS
“Wisdom is organized life” philosopher IMMUELKANT
Angel in Venezuela, e.g FALLS
Benzoyl peroxide target ACNE
Big bore SNORE
Bind tightly LASH
Burnett of CNN ERIN
Chrysler Building style DECO
City northeast of Düsseldorf ESSEN
Concert receipts GATE
Dash dial TACH
Demanding sort DIVA
Doctor, Dame or Duke TITLE
EF5 event TORNADO
Enabled “All in favor?” SECONDED
Falafel holder PITA
First killer whale trained to perform NAMU
Flock member EWE
For another time ANEW
Fork feature TINE
Fount SOURCE
Game with multiple balls LOTTO
Gig part SET
Gill dubs him “Shark Bait” NEMO
Glossy surface ENAMEL
Gossipy Barrett RONA
Harsh sound RASP
Heed the bailiff RISE
How slow people run? LATE
Hue and cry ADO
Ilhan in Congress OMAR
Indiscriminate RANDOM
It makes waves SINE
Clues Answers
It may be bald PATE
Journalists’ focuses BEATS
Kia model RIO
Leon of “Meet Me in St. Louis” AMES
Like burning rubber ACRID
Make lovable ENDEAR
Miscellanies OLIOS
Modernize, say REDO
Mushroom or balloon GROW
Nile wader IBIS
Noted baseball matronymic ALOU
Novelist who used the alias Joseph Anton during nine years in hiding SALMRUSHDIE
Numbers for Nilsson ARIAS
Oklahoma’s “Wheat Capital” ENID
Org. chart topper CEO
Paradigm IDEAL
Prime AONE
README.TXT, e.g FILENAME
Rudiments ABCS
Sally Field’s “Places in the Heart” role EDNA
Schedule opening SLOT
Scotland’s Scridain, e.g LOCH
Seething state IRE
Shaped HEWED
Site of some ’60s tours NAM
Split the tab GODUTCH
Spotter’s declaration ISEEIT
Street of mysteries DELLA
Stud spot NOSE
Test subject LABRAT
Tiger Woods’s ex ELIN
Trail LAG
Traveler’s lodging INN
Tribal sage ELDER
Undermine ERODE
Waze directive TURN
Without forethought IDLY
World leader born in the village of Mvezo NELSONMDELA
___-majesté LESE