Wall Street Journal - January 4 2020 Crossword Puzzle Solution

Wall Street Journal - Jan 4 2020 - Fallback Positions

Clues	Answers
"Dances With Wolves" abodes	TEPEES
"FWIW, here's what I think..."	IMO
"How dare you!"	HEY
"I'm so sorry to hear that!"	OHNO
"Majas on a Balcony" painter	GOYA
"Me too"	SAMEHERE
"We've had some sex...uh...setbacks," for example	FREUDIANSLIP
1521 stop for Magellan	GUAM
1960s college protest grp	SDS
Address for Ryan, but not Pelosi	MRSPEAKER
Akkadian god of heaven	ANU
Annoying email	SPAM
Attorney general under Ronald Reagan	EDMEESE
Bakery buy	PIE
Bale for Bossy	HAY
Beside oneself	INASTATE
Black Friday motto	SHOPTILLYOUDROP
Boisterously competitive	ROUGHANDTUMBLE
Boy band from Puerto Rico	MENUDO
Brings together	UNITES
Bunting tool	BAT
Burden	ONUS
Bygone indigestion medicine	MAALOX
Canine command	SIT
Checkout choice	CASH
Chef who likes to kick it up a notch	EMERIL
Chihuahua, e.g	TOY
City near Wright-Patterson Air Force Base	DAYTON
Clint's co-star in "The Bridges of Madison County"	MERYL
Club with clubs: Abbr	PGA
Comforting response to a youngster's boo-boo	YOUREOK
Conceive	IDEATE
Confident players at the card table	RAISERS
Crime fiction author Rankin	IAN
Deep divide	CHASM
Dip that's bitter?	POLARBEARPLUNGE
Do as freegans do	DUMPSTERDIVE
Dollar competitor	AVIS
Donald of "Atlanta"	GLOVER
Earns a timeout, say	ACTSUP
Enters a lease with	RENTSTO
Fancy affair	SOIREE
Fashion designer Lepore	NANETTE
Fireplace receptacles	ASHPITS
Forest female	DOE
Fortnite player, e.g	GAMER
French article	LES
Freshener targets	ODORS
Germany's first female chancellor	MERKEL
Goals	ENDS
Hand, in Honduras	MANO
Have a late meal	SUP
Have lofty goals	ASPIRE
Having homes in Los Angeles and New York	BICOASTAL
Holds responsible	BLAMES
Horse's cousin	ASS
Hosp. areas	ORS
Hundred-eyed monster of myth	ARGUS
Inventive sort	CREATOR
It may not come across online	SARCASM
Japanese capital	YEN
Jessica of "Zero Dark Thirty"	CHASTAIN
Joint stock?	POT
Kidnapper, e.g	FELON
Lacking give	TAUT
Least drab	GAUDIEST
Like citrus juices	ACIDIC
Londoner's letter	ZED
Made use of, as experience	DREWON
Magic and Wizards org	NBA
Mailed?	INARMOR
Maine college	BATES
Mambo cousin	CHACHA
March 14 celebration	PIDAY
Matthew of "Full Metal Jacket"	MODINE
Mechanic's jobs	TUNEUPS
Millions, for Super Bowl spots	ADFEES
Moody music	EMO
Morally bound	OBLIGED
Mosey	AMBLE
Nada	ZIP
Not so demanding	EASIER
Not to be missed	AMUST
One of three in a postal creed	NOR
One who's gone platinum	BLONDE
Orange seed	PIP
Overindulge	SPOIL
P-shaped letters	RHOS
Part of some PCs	CDDRIVE
Personnel directors, e.g	HIRERS
Pizzazz	FLAIR
Places you'll see balls and strikes	ALLEYS
Pop	DAD
Put away	ATE
Quarterback Manning	ELI
Reaction to a rodent	EEK
Reduces	LESSENS
Related	AKIN
Require	NEED
Responds to a broken grocery sack	REBAGS
Royal symbol of Egypt	ASP
Sagan series	COSMOS
Sanders in the Pro Football Hall of Fame	DEION
Sault ___ Marie	STE
Savory quality	UMAMI
Second-rate second effort	SOPHOMORESLUMP
Sheet with Disney characters on it, say	CEL
Sightseeing aid	MAP
Singer Rawls	LOU
Slimy gunk	GOO
Small caverns	GROTTOES
Some flat-screen TVs	PLASMAS
Start of a conclusion	ERGO
Stephen of "V for Vendetta"	REA
Stunned, in a way	TASED
Sufficient	AMPLE
Summer hrs. in St. Louis	CDT
Take out, as wine bottles	UNCASE
Thanks, in Hawaii	MAHALO
They're administered on forearms	TBTESTS
This or that	PRONOUN
Timeline points	DATES
Tip	POINTER
Tipped off	ALERTED
Toe total	TEN
Triathlon requirement	BIKE
Trifling quibble	NIT
Unlikely risk taker	WIMP
Use up	EXPEND
Verizon Fios, for one	ISP
Vietnamese capital	HANOI
Was on the ticket	RAN
Wedding reception site, at times	TENT
Well-established	AGEOLD
What to say to avoid a mate	IRESIGN
Wood for Harry Potter's wand	HOLLY
Worn-down pencil	NUB
Write reminisences, say	MISSPELL
You might trip on it	LSD
Young fellows	LADS