Wall Street Journal - Sep 7 2022 - Crescendo

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Clues Answers
“America’s Original, Fun-tastic Frozen Treat” ICEE
“Did that really just happen?!” OHDAMN
“Morbius” star Jared LETO
“Rumor has it...” IHEAR
“Yeah, that’s gonna happen!” ASIF
A bunch LOADS
Angel dust letters PCP
Ashen WAN
Assn. kin ORG
Baldwin’s TV co-star FEY
Be behind OWE
Buff Orpington female HEN
Bureaucratic obstacle REDTAPE
Carnival attractions RIDES
City with a famed horse race in the Piazza del Campo SIENA
Cold and damp RAW
Commercial realty agreement NETLEASE
Compared with THAN
Compete in ENTER
Composer Bartók BELA
Consent ACCEDE
Copy, of a sort CLONE
Coward knighted by Queen Elizabeth NOEL
Cut down SLAY
Destiny’s Child, 1999 (p) SAYMYNAME
Diet that precludes grains and dairy PALEO
Dissertation writers’ prizes PHDS
Duplicitous SLY
Femur’s end HIP
G.P.’s grp AMA
Game with Skip and Reverse cards UNO
George Michael, 1984 (ppp) CARELESSWHISPER
Heightened state AROUSAL
Houston of Texas SAM
Impatient acknowledgment YESYES
Inbox nuisance SPAM
Kidnap victim in Disney+’s “Obi-Wan Kenobi” LEIA
Leaves for lunch SALAD
Clues Answers
Like O’Neill’s “The Moon of the Caribbees” ONEACT
Made like a baby CRAWLED
Maintained HELD
Mo. neighbor KAN
Monument Valley feature MESA
Muddy Waters and B.B. King, for two BLUESMEN
Musical mélange MEDLEY
Nationality in the culinary term for the Patagonian toothfish CHILEAN
Nottingham nonsense TOSH
Phone setting ALARM
Possibly will MAY
Prevailing ONTOP
Record label for Tanya Tucker MCA
Remote option MUTE
Ruined UNDONE
School that manages the Jet Propulsion Laboratory CALTECH
Sherry or ginger ale descriptor PALEDRY
Singing syllable TRA
Smooth sailing EASY
Snap PIC
Southwestern saloon CANTINA
Sovereign state with an area of less than a square mile MONACO
Spoil MAR
Sponge MOOCH
Swindles FLEECES
Taylor-Joy of “The Queen’s Gambit” ANYA
TDs earn six PTS
Tennis star Caroline Wozniacki, e.g DANE
The Beatles, 1964 (fff) TWISTANDSHOUT
The Four Seasons, 1964 ( ) SILENCEISGOLDEN
The Nats’ stadium, until 2008 RFK
Throat-clearing sound AHEM
Twangy Twain SHANIA
Upscale hotel chain OMNI
Washington follower ADAMS
Zebra’s cousin ASS
___ pants (baggy wear) HAREM