Wall Street Journal - December 10 2016 - Set the Table Crossword Puzzle Answer

Wall Street Journal - December 10 2016 - Set the Table 

Clues	Answers
'Brave' princess	MERIDA
'Carol' director Todd	HAYNES
'Dancing Queen' singers	ABBA
'Goodbye, Columbus' writer	ROTH
'Inside the NBA' analyst	ONEAL
'On the Beach' author	SHUTE
'Who Put the ___...' (Barry Mann song)	BOMP
'Who ___ to judge?'	AMI
'___ on TV'	ASSEEN
13 for Al, e.g	ATNO
1974 hit '___ Tu'	ERES
1984 gold medal gymnast	RETTON
28-Down, e.g	MEAT
A good day to dye	EASTER
Ailment	MALADY
Attack forcefully	SAILINTO
Au courant	TRENDY
Austrian article	EIN
Bake-off needs	OVENS
Beat at the track	OUTRAN
Beatles descriptor	FAB
Bed contents	SOIL
Bill add-on	RIDER
Boarding place	GATE
Bob Cratchit's youngest	TIM
Bulletin	NOTICE
Cafe location, sometimes	SIDEWALK
Capital nicknamed 'la Ciudad de los Reyes'	LIMA
Castle cores	KEEPS
Catcher's work	SNARING
City on the Bay	FRISCO
Class drudgery	ROTE
Compassion	PITY
Component of a big belt	ASTEROID
Confessional enumeration	SINS
Contradicts	BELIES
Coop critter	HEN
Craving	YEN
Cry of alarm	EEK
Customs act, perhaps	SEIZURE
Dark force	YIN
Debt indicator	RED
Deep-rooted	INNATE
Displays of contempt	SNEERS
Door topper	LINTEL
Entrance	WAYIN
Exertion	EFFORT
Export shortfall	TRADEGAP
Flooring calculation	AREA
Former Texas senator Hutchison	KAY
Fragrant essence	ATTAR
Freeport-based retailer	LLBEAN
Fruity cocktail	MAITAI
George of 'The Goldbergs'	SEGAL
Getty, for one	OILMAN
Green figure	GOLFER
Group that may have an advantage	HOMETEAM
Hand over	CEDE
Hardwood choice	ELM
Hardwood choice	ASH
Held a session	MET
Highest degree	NTHPOWER
Highly styled wigs	PERUKES
Hot	STOLEN
House swallower	SINKHOLE
It may be made of koa wood	UKE
It's south of Eur	AFR
Kibbutznik's land	ISRAEL
Like punches that pack a wallop	SPIKED
Lord's Prayer starter	OUR

 

Clues	Answers
Loud longhorn	MOOER
Lowly worker, figuratively	COG
Miffed	SORE
Moat setting	ZOO
Moccasin adornment	BEAD
Monastery address	DOM
Month in Mexico	MES
More apt to be eschewed by macho fellows	GIRLIER
More precisely	RATHER
Music's Clean Bandit, e.g	TRIO
Nautical adverb	ALEE
Nearly Headless Nick at Hogwarts, e.g	GHOST
Nine-time French Open champ	NADAL
Nostrils' go-between	SEPTUM
Nourish	FEED
NYSE listing	CORP
Osso buco base	VEAL
Over	ANEW
Pack train sound	BRAYING
Painful pellets	HAIL
Pale in color	WASHY
Paris, for one	TROJAN
Part of Bertolt Brecht's setting?	MACKTHEKNIFE
Part of Doug Flutie's setting?	LIBERTYBOWL
Part of Fox Mulder's setting?	FLYINGSAUCER
Part of Gianni Versace's setting?	FASHIONPLATE
Part of Lewis Carroll's setting?	LOOKINGGLASS
Part of Paris Hilton's setting?	SILVERSPOON
Part of Vladimir Horowitz's setting?	TUNINGFORK
Part of Wayne Gretzky's setting?	STANLEYCUP
Performance reward	BONUS
Persist	LAST
Picture prize	OSCAR
Piercing	ACUTE
Pleasing	LIKABLE
Poetic feet	IAMBI
Pottery piece	SHARD
Pouch	SAC
Prepared for a punch	TENSED
Printemps follower	ETE
RSVP decliners	NOES
Seller of Toughskins kids' clothing	SEARS
Setback	REVERSE
Shuffle follower	DEAL
Singer Stefani	GWEN
Slanted, as writing	ITALIC
Sloshed	LIT
Smart	NATTY
Solemn custom	RITE
Source of ambiguous answers	ORACLE
Spew pahoehoe	ERUPT
St. Louis attraction	ARCH
Stallion steerer	REIN
Stand-up guy	MENSCH
Start of many Brazilian place names	SAO
Stunted, as trees	Scrubby
Swiftness	CELERITY
Take to the skies	AVIATE
Tattoos, in slang	INK
Tex-Mex offering	FAJITA
Tex-Mex offering	TACO
The Horned Frogs' sch	TCU
Took in a second airing of	RESAW
Trying to seem highbrow	ARTY
Upper echelon	ELITE
Uproar	CLAMOR
Varieties	TYPES
Veterans Day month or day	ELEVENTH
Wayne Manor name	BRUCE
World of learning	ACADEMIA