Wall Street Journal Crossword Puzzle Answer - Dec 26, 2014

 Wall Street Journal Crossword Puzzle Solution - Dec 26, 2014

Clue	Answer
'Beat it!'	SHOO
'Beat it!'	SCAT
'Christmas Oratorio' composer	BACH
'Murder by Death,' for one	SPOOF
'Pimp My Ride' accessories	RIMS
'Poems are made by fools like me' poem	TREES
'There oughta be ___!'	ALAW
'___ Can' (Obama campaign slogan)	YESWE
1970s TV cop show	TOMA
1980 Michael Crichton novel	CONGO
2013 Broadway play starring Nathan Lane, with 'The'	NANCE
A claim, slangily	DIBS
A group of sailors 'cast him forth into the sea'	JONAH
Antiquated oath	EGAD
Armenia's capital	YEREVAN
Assail	SETAT
Baddies in bedtime stories	OGRES
Bear claw's cousin	DONUT
Bear with a hard chair	PAPA
Became known	EMERGED
Before, poetically	ERE
Black tea variety	PEKOE
Boston bus-and-subway system, familiarly	THET
Bourbon cousin	RYE
Boxing legend	ALI
Browser button	BACK
Campaign components	ADS
Capone's nemeses	TMEN
Charlize's 'Sweet November' co-star	KEANU
Chicago-to-Atlanta dir	SSE
Ciudad Bolivar's river	ORINOCO
Clinic offering	EXAM
Comic who played a ladybug in 'A Bug's Life'	DENISLEARY
Competitive advantage	EDGE
Con game involving pancake syrup?	STICKYBUNKO
Corp. bigwig	PRES
Country lass	GAL
Country music's Florida Georgia Line, e.g	DUO
Credit application no	SSN
Dawn	ONSET
Dealer's nemesis	NARC
Drive erratically	WEAVE
Emperor of Japan since 1989	AKIHITO
Endeavor	TRY
Express	VOICE
Feature of the Black Hills gold rush?	DAKOTAMINING
Fertility clinic stock	OVA
Gathered dust	SAT
Good combatant	EVIL
Great, to Grissom	AOKAY
Greedy choice, perhaps	BOTH
Harbor, e.g	HIDE
Hardly upbeat	GRIM
Headed up	LED
Hefty item	BAG
Helter-skelter	AMOK
Home, slangily	CRIB
Hostel environment?	INN
Icelandic epics	EDDAS
It contains the enzyme ptyalin	SALIVA
Join, as the army	ENLISTIN
Kisser	MUG
Knowing	SLY
Koa wood instruments	UKES
Lab subj	SCI
Like some keypads	NUMERIC
Losing proposition?	DIET
Main ingredient in an Oscar	TIN
Many minivan drivers	MOMS
Mary's boss at WJM-TV	LOU

Clue	Answer
Miss by ___	AMILE
Most likely to cause horripilation	EERIEST
Muffler spot	NECK
Mullah's faith	ISLAM
Musical aptitude	EAR
N. Mex. neighbor	COLO
Name on some euro coins	EIRE
Nettle	IRK
New Horizons probe launcher	NASA
New York Observer film critic	REXREED
Number entered by a parent on a Seoul census form?	THEAGEOFKOREASON
Omani money	RIAL
On the left side of the no. line	NEG
Opposite of hence	AGO
Order follower	NUN
Organization's constitution	CHARTER
Participant in a moving experience	VAN
Pension substitute, for short	IRA
Pick in a pool	WAGERON
Pillow for a McCarthy-era leftist?	PINKOCUSHION
Platter player	PHONO
Played the shrew	NAGGED
Popular tablets	IPADS
Preferred few	ELITE
Pressed	URGED
Privy to	INON
Problem for a mechanic	RATTLE
Roman comic playwright	TERENCE
Roulette bet	RED
Ruler of the Aussie marsupials who's got a yellow streak?	CHICKENKOALAKING
Russian coin used in place of blush?	KOPECKONTHECHEEK
Ryukyu islander	OKINAWAN
Scholarly book	TOME
Scratch (out)	EKE
Second word of 'The Raven'	UPON
Secured	WON
Shooting sport	SKEET
Some Apple players	NANOS
Sot's spot	SKIDROW
Sound relative	BAY
Spitfire propeller	AIRSCREW
Spoke without feeling	INTONED
Springfield bartender	MOE
Square things	REPAY
Staff on a sheep farm	CROOK
Stare stupidly	GAWK
Start illegally	HOTWIRE
Suitable spot for Jewish bark beetles?	KOSHERWOODFOREST
Surrounded by	AMID
Take steroids, say	DOPE
Task for a kebab maker	MARINATING
Tech entrepreneurs, stereotypically	NERDS
The chi in a 'Merry Xmas' greeting?	GREEKONCARD
The Jets, e.g	GANG
They played in Shea Stadium and Comiskey Park in 1965	BEATLES
Tow job, at times	REPO
Triangular sails	JIBS
Unceremonious ouster	HEAVEHO
Unenthusiastic reviews	EHS
Unit of angular measure	RADIAN
Unsettled detail	LOOSEEND
Viscous goo	TAR
Wailing waterfowl	LOON
Washington's 'Training Day' co-star	HAWKE
Wayne moniker	THEDUKE
Where Shah Jahan was crowned in 1628	AGRA
Whodunit suspect, often	HEIR
Wordsworth's 'Intimations of Immortality,' e.g	ODE
Work with a number, maybe	OPUS
Yield to temptation	FALL