Wall Street Journal - Mar 30 2022 - Best Play

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Clues Answers
“A Doll’s House” role NORA
“Bye now!” TATA
Absurd INANE
Barber’s offering SHAVE
Be in the hole OWE
Belonging to you and me OUR
Bicycle gear supplier? SPROCKETMAN
Bowl’s kin ARENA
Brand that introduced the two-liter bottle PEPSI
Candy with a patented dispenser PEZ
Character introduced in Super Mario World YOSHI
Christmas in Carcassonne NOEL
Cloudless FAIR
Composer Satie ERIK
Earth personification GAIA
Executed, as a command RAN
Firefighter, at times HERO
Fleece feature NAP
Give ___ go ITA
Ground for the longest time FINEST
Hawaii’s “Garden Isle” KAUAI
Homer utterance DOH
Honors for athletes, and a phonetic hint to this puzzle’s theme ESPYAWARDS
Ill-suited INAPT
Injury timeout? SPRAINDELAY
Iron and Bronze, for two AGES
Italic alternative ROMAN
Kilmer of “Top Gun” VAL
Lead singer’s delivery VOCALS
Lose it ERUPT
Mail, e.g ARMOR
Maker of Coco Mademoiselle perfume CHANEL
Melancholy SAD
Member of the subgenus Hippotigris ZEBRA
Moving about ASTIR
Openings GAPS
Pacific crop TARO
Pastel? SPRINGTONE
Perch for a cat burglar LEDGE
Clues Answers
Permissible LEGAL
Physicist Mach ERNST
Plant life FLORA
Play again REAIR
Procedural TV franchise CSI
Product touted as “a quantum leap in listening to music” at launch IPOD
Pulled pork sandwich topping SLAW
Puts up ERECTS
Rankle EATAT
Red 40, for one DYE
Rotgut HOOCH
Sanctions, briefly OKS
Saunter MOSEY
Seemingly forever EONS
Sense of self EGO
Serious suffering AGONY
Small vessel VIAL
Soft drink served on a flight? SPRITEOFPASSAGE
Sort of INAWAY
Sparkly headwear TIARA
Steamer, e.g CLAM
Stipulations IFS
Strenuous TIRING
Stuck-up VAIN
Switch words ONOFF
Taprooms PUBS
Target of a 1950s vaccine POLIO
They can be even, interestingly enough ODDS
Thinking cap products IDEAS
Titanic inits RMS
Title of respect that anagrams to 40-Down SRI
Title of respect that anagrams to 61-Down SIR
Tutor, say TEACH
Unenthusiastic TEPID
Uninspired VAPID
Unisex do AFRO
Unit also called a megagram TONNE
Yucatan people MAYAS
___ mater ALMA