Wall Street Journal - December 24 2016 - Gift Tags Crossword Puzzle Answer

Wall Street Journal - December 24 2016 - Gift Tags  

Clues	Answers
'Don't ask me'	NOCLUE
'East of Eden' brother	CAL
'Get a move on!'	HURRYUP
'If you ask me,' online	IMO
'London Fields' author Martin	AMIS
'My shooter isn't pewter, it's really a steelie' writer?	MARBLERHYMER
'Strike the ___ and join the chorus...'	HARP
'The Gift of the Magi' feature	IRONY
'___ the blazing Yule before us...'	SEE
A soil scientist may measure it	PHLEVEL
Alley ___	OOP
Ayatollah Khamenei, e.g	IRANI
Ballpark figure	BASEMAN
Ballpark figure	FAN
Ballpark figure	STAT
Becomes chronic	RECURS
Big bone of a hide-and-seek player?	FINDERSFEMUR
Bits of mistletoe	SPRIGS
Blues great John Lee	HOOKER
Brentwood neighbor	ENCINO
Broadway illuminator	NEON
Bruno Mars song that reached #1 in 2011	GRENADE
Bustling activity	ADO
Busy co. in the pre-Christmas season	UPS
Canadian cagers	RAPTORS
Chain with MinuteClinic facilities	CVS
Concord	PACT
Cooks' covers	APRONS
Cruel practice	SADISM
Declares void	REPEALS
Deputy	AIDE
Descartes conclusion	IAM
End of the line, often	PERIOD
Exchange	SWAP
Fearsome fate	DOOM
Fit for a noble	DUCAL
Flower for a fleet admiral?	NAVYBLOOMER
Friend of Picasso and Hemingway	STEIN
Future fish	ROE
Get a better car, perhaps	TRADEUP
Gets a homer	HITSOUT
Gets clean	REHABS
Gift of the Magi, added phonetically to the theme answers	MYRRH
Gingerbread bit	CRUMB
Go by	ELAPSE
Had a bite, perhaps	ITCHED
Hail fellow?	CAESAR
Have some chips, say	NOSH
Heart	CORE
Hen or heifer	SHE
Hide evidence of peeking at a gift, perhaps	RETAPE
Hitching goal	LIFT
In the dark	UNAWARE
Island west of Mykonos	DELOS
Isn't in the sticks?	AINT
It may be about a foot	SOCK
Item for Cupid	ARROW
Jam sound	TOOT
Kanye creation	RAP
Kicks off	STARTS
Knight's backers	PIPS
Letters for a sellout	SRO
Like hush puppies	FRIED
Like many vaudeville comics	CORNY
Lions and Tigers and Bears	PROS
Lowdown	INFO
Lowly laborers	PEONS
Make wider	DILATE
Makes a bow	TIES

 

Clues	Answers
Mariah Carey's 'Christmas Time Is in the ___ Again'	AIR
Matador motivator	OLE
Menacing words	ORELSE
Modernizes, as a factory	RETOOLS
Muse often depicted holding a globe	URANIA
Name on a famed B-29	ENOLA
Nation smaller than Albuquerque	ANDORRA
Of the gland that secretes epinephrine	ADRENAL
Overdue amount	ARREAR
Pal of Jerry and George	ELAINE
Parallel action	UNISON
Part of a Santa suit	COAT
Parti-colored puss	CALICO
Particular time	EPOCH
Paucity	DEARTH
Person attacking where the castle walls meet?	CORNERSTORMER
Person shooting footage for a real estate ad?	LANDFILMER
Ping producer	SONAR
Pretty good grade	AMINUS
Price of opera performances	LEONTYNE
Programmer's creation, for short	SKED
Protective wall	PARAPET
Quite	RATHER
Quotidian	DAILY
Range extending through seven countries	ANDES
Rangers goalie Lundqvist	HENRIK
Refrain bit	TRA
Respecting	ASTO
Roger of 'Cheers'	REES
Sales force	REPS
Sales receipts	SLIPS
Salty solution	BRINE
Santa descriptor	PORTLY
Scottish estate owners	LAIRDS
Security guard in a packing plant?	CANNERYROAMER
Sharp change of direction	ZIG
Showed extreme disrespect toward	SPATAT
Silver place	SECOND
Sixths of an inch	PICAS
Slanted in a newspaper: Abbr	ITAL
Small flap	TAB
Source of bucks	ATM
Splice	UNITE
Starchy plant	TARO
Steamy	EROTIC
Stubbornly espousing	WEDDEDTO
Surfeit with sweetness	CLOY
Syrup sources	MAPLES
Textile factory sights	LOOMS
The sun?	WORLDWARMER
Thin layer	LAMINA
Upstairs window designed to catch burglars?	TRAPDORMER
Used 79-Down	WOVE
Veep's boss	PREZ
Vernal mo	APR
Walk	HOOFIT
Walk-___ (nonspeaking roles)	ONS
Warren's wife since 1992	ANNETTE
Warts and wens	GROWTHS
Where Hillary and Bill met	YALELAW
Word with candy or drum	EAR
Work a caramel	CHEW
Works in a teddy bear factory	STUFFS
You, to Juergen	SIE
Youngster	TAD
Zero	NIL
Zest	BRIO
___ a time	ONEAT
___ Aviv	TEL