WSJ Crossword December 21 2024 Answers
The complete list of answers to the WSJ Crossword published on December 21 2024.
- 138
- Total Clues
- 67
- Total Across
- 71
- Total Down
Clues Across (67 total)
(1)
Bluster
(5)
Briefly
(12)
Pulse quickeners
(18)
Kuwait’s Mishal, e.g.
(19)
Jumbled
(20)
Having a good pedigree
(22)
Jargon used by Tour de France fans?
(24)
Talk of Torino
(25)
Diva’s display
(26)
Durango daddy
(27)
“Hamilton” Tony winner Leslie ___ Jr.
(28)
For example
(29)
Frisky
(31)
But, in Latin
(32)
Play reviewer
(33)
Hotel laundry room sight
(35)
SFO-to-LAX heading
(36)
Gumshoe, in hard-boiled fiction
(38)
Stone’s climb from TV commercials to “Casino” fame?
(41)
Drawing room
(44)
Fall preceder
(45)
Grow narrower
(46)
Have the sense that you’re falling over?
(50)
Thomas Gray’s “The Bard,” e.g.
(51)
Harshly criticize
(52)
Cloverleaf feature
(53)
Reward the actors
(55)
Naughty and nice, e.g.
(59)
“Analyze This” director Harold
(60)
Laggard’s cry
(62)
Jct. parts
(63)
Lennon’s love
(65)
Surrounded by
(66)
Round region surrounding a cathedral?
(69)
Mattress choice
(70)
Longing
(71)
Angled pipe
(72)
Very little
(73)
Gambler’s markers
(74)
Surveyed skeevily
(78)
Location
(79)
It may involve hand-holding
(80)
“How the Grinch Stole Christmas” director Howard
(81)
Channels 14 and up, on old TVs
(83)
Heat lamp for poultry farm hatchlings?
(85)
Uncomplaining
(87)
Signing, perhaps
(89)
Garden pests
(90)
Purina exec in charge of livestock products?
(93)
Elliott of 1989’s “Prancer”
(94)
Miss at a hoedown
(97)
Baffled
(98)
Pontiac in a 1964 hit song
(99)
Bar topic
(101)
Player’s contract stipulation
(104)
Play favorites, perhaps
(105)
Wood’s counterpart
(106)
Topper for a 56-Down
(108)
Fail to meet at the planned time
(109)
Fatalistic cry
(112)
Ones taking sabbaticals with no game plan?
(114)
Shocking scandals
(115)
Like contraband
(116)
Ending akin to -trix and -ette
(117)
Made the coffee
(118)
Blot on the landscape
(119)
Miss in the Highlands
Clues Down (71 total)
(1)
Renaissance fiddles
(2)
Peruvian pals
(3)
Kidman who debuted in 1983’s “Bush Christmas”
(4)
“Have a taste!”
(5)
Outmoded classroom visual aid
(6)
“You’re a mean ___, Mr. Grinch”
(7)
Grating noise
(8)
Oscar-awarding org.
(9)
Paging device
(10)
Forceful words after “There!”
(11)
Scolding sound
(12)
Begin a journey
(13)
Quahog or geoduck
(14)
“...and may ___ your Christmases be white”
(15)
Cleanup hitter’s goal
(16)
Proof of fallibility
(17)
Cotton from Arkansas, e.g.
(20)
Like a good target for a pass
(21)
Ranking member
(23)
Long-running CBS franchise
(27)
“Potatoes done perfect” brand
(30)
“Everybody knows a turkey and some mistletoe ___ to make the season bright”
(33)
Burden for Marley’s ghost
(34)
“___ Holidays!”
(37)
Black-and-white
(39)
Hit show letters
(40)
Walked boldly
(41)
Scotch Tape dispenser feature
(42)
Bank lobby array
(43)
Thing of the past
(46)
Sudden incursion
(47)
Canine coat
(48)
Kingly fur
(49)
Piece of information
(54)
Dogs with corded coats
(56)
Christmas decoration
(57)
Groundskeeper’s chore
(58)
Rat
(60)
NHL team based in Saint Paul
(61)
Financial crisis
(64)
Beginning
(66)
Squeeze together
(67)
Hollywood’s Negga and Wilson
(68)
Oktoberfest souvenirs
(69)
Massenet opera
(71)
New symphony of 1804
(73)
Alcatraz unit
(75)
Undermine
(76)
Book reviewers
(77)
Charlize of “Reindeer Games”
(79)
Vehicle for dashing through the snow
(82)
Dad, sis, bro, etc.
(84)
James of “Elf”
(85)
“A round for everybody!”
(86)
Having a will
(88)
Bad way to be accused
(90)
One-named model from Milan
(91)
“You’re absolutely right!”
(92)
Christmas, in Cremona
(94)
Lead ore
(95)
Adds tinsel to, e.g.
(96)
Items in some frames
(100)
They crash and break
(102)
Crayola color
(103)
Supergiant in Orion
(105)
“Bus Stop” playwright
(107)
___ Park (Queens neighborhood)
(110)
Boxer warning
(111)
Bourbon cask material
(112)
Commit perjury
(113)
Realm for Mars
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