Wall Street Journal - December 23 2017 Crossword Puzzle Answers

Wall Street Journal - Dec 23 2017 - Christmas Bonuses 

Clues	Answers
'...beginning to look ___ like Christmas...'	ALOT
'...but the children know how he came ___ one day' ('Frosty' lyric)	TOLIFE
'...___ cold winter's night that was so deep'	ONA
'Chandelier' singer	SIA
'Deck the Halls' snippet	FALALA
'Elephant and __' (Mo Willems children's book series)	PIGGIE
'Happy Motoring!' brand	ESSO
'How could you think that of me?'	IMHURT
'Le Mythe de Sisyphe' writer	CAMUS
'Maisie's Merry Christmas' writer Paterson	AILEEN
'Nova' subj	SCI
'Stille ___' ('Silent Night')	NACHT
'The hopes and fears of all the years are met in ___ tonight'	THEE
'___ lovely weather for a sleigh ride together with you'	ITS
'___ Mommy kissing Santa Claus...'	ISAW
'___ you cry, I'll be back again some day' ('Frosty' lyric)	DONT
A bireme has two banks of them	OARS
Admin. aide	ASST
Admits	COPSTO
Amazon smart speaker	ECHO
Approximating suffix	ISH
Assigner of nine-digit nos	SSA
B&B visit	STAY
Base-eight	OCTAL
Blacklisted screenwriter Dalton	TRUMBO
Blissful place	EDEN
Body expert	ANATOMIST
Bovine bellow	MOO
Build-___ Workshop	ABEAR
Cab competitor	UBER
Candy pioneer H.B	REESE
Cart pullers	ASSES
Case handler: Abbr	ATTY
Cash on hand?	BET
Certain cola	PEPSI
Certain colas	RCS
Chip introduced in 1993	PENTIUM
Chock Full o' Nuts container	COFFEECAN
Choir member	ALTO
Christmas Day, this yr	MON
Christmas tree branch?	APIECEOFTHEPINE
Christmas tree decoration	ICICLE
Cinematic canine	ASTA
Clatters	DINS
Concerned farewell	BESAFE
Constrain	STIFLE
Contemptuous expression	SNEER
Contents of some pockets	ORE
December 24 and 31	EVES
December, yearwise	END
Decoration for Genghis's door?	THEWREATHOFKHAN
Deuterium, e.g	ISOTOPE
Dud	FAILURE
East, in Berlin	OST
Entered	GONEIN
Erstwhile Fox teen series	THEOC
Field worker	REF
Fish also know as black grouper	BONACI
Fly off the shelves	SELL
Fundamental principle	TENET
Gifts for Dad	TIES
Give ___ (care)	ADARN
Goalie's wear	MASK
Got out of the sleigh, say	ALIT
Guest accommodation	COT
Haas of 'Inception'	LUKAS
Half-baked	DUMB
Head, humorously	NOODLE
Hearth stuff	ASH
Hook helper	SMEE
Horace collection	ODES
Household chore	WASH
Hula hoop spinners	HIPS
In the past	AGO
In ___ (as originally located)	SITU
Is audibly unhappy	SOBS
Jackie of 'Rush Hour'	CHAN
Jackie's second spouse	ARI
Jimi Hendrix followed them at Woodstock	SHANANA
John, to Lennon	LOO
Joint use of a pasture	COMMONAGE
Jump over	OMIT
Kaplan University specialty	ELEARNING
Keys	ISLETS
Kin of Art Moderne	DECO
Lanford Wilson play 'The ___ Baltimore'	HOTL
Like 12, but not XII	ARABIC
Like some office Santas	SECRET
Make abundantly clear	STRESS
Marker feature	FELTTIP
Meet successfully	RISETO
Merchandise	WARES
Mired-down-reindeer mishap?	STNICKINTHEMUD
Mob bosses	CAPOS
Monopoly quartet: Abbr	RRS
More gung-ho	EAGERER
More widespread	RIFER
Move like the one-horse open sleigh riders	DASH
Norse pole, e.g.?	MAST
On the roof of	ATOP
Once more	ANEW
One addressed as 'my lord'	EARL
One of five in 'The Winter's Tale'	ACT
One with a mortgage, e.g	LIENEE
Only president born in New Hampshire	PIERCE
Period spent preparing the presents?	WRAPSESSION
Places where the acoustics are lousy for Christmas singing?	CAROLSBADCAVERNS
Polygraph exciter	LIE
Prank	ANTIC
Privy to	INON
Pros with bows	ARCHERS
Reba McEntire's '___ Survivor'	IMA
Refi restriction	RATECAP
Renoir contemporary	MONET
Response to 'Nice day'	ISNTIT
Ring result	TKO
Second part of a count	STRIKES
Sermon's finish?	ETTE
Shooter Shaquille	ONEAL
Singer at Barack's first inauguration	ARETHA
Singer-songwriter Sands	EVIE
Single	LONE
Stamped on	TROD
Stocking stuffer?	FOOT
Stops up	DAMS
Strong heart	ACE
Subj. of some WikiLeaks leaks	NSA
Superior sort	SNOB
Supervision of a creche display?	MANGERMANAGEMENT
Teeming	ASWARM
Two items on a bird lover's Christmas tree?	STARANDFEATHER
Unsurprisingly	ASEVER
Vittles	CHOW
Wasikowska of 'Crimson Peak'	MIA
Westminster Abbey's Cosmati pavement, e.g	MOSAIC
Where residents wish each other 'Buon Natale!'	ROME
Will of 'Blue Bloods'	ESTES
Winter figures, made from the 'bonus' letters in this puzzle's theme answers	SNOWMEN
Winter utterance	BRR
Wonder-struck	AWED
Writer	PENNER
Yuletide quaffs	NOGS