WSJ Crossword December 21 2024 Answers (12/21/24)

Our WSJ Crossword December 21, 2024 answers guide should help you finish today’s crossword if you’ve found yourself stuck on a crossword clue. The Wall Street Journal Crossword is a well-known and respected puzzle that appeals to solvers looking for a challenging and thought-provoking experience. The puzzles are created by a team of skilled constructors and are known for their clever clues, intricate wordplay, and challenging themes. The WSJ Crossword is published daily and offers solvers the opportunity to exercise their minds while enjoying a classic form of entertainment.

WSJ Crossword December 21, 2024 Answers

If you need help solving the WSJ Crossword on 12/21/24, we’ve listed all of the crossword clues below so you can find the answer(s) you need. You can search for the clue and then select the appropriate clue to get the answer. We have done it this way so that if you’re just looking for a handful of clues, you won’t spoil other ones you’re working on!

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

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