Wall Street Journal - Aug 25 2020 - Crossword Puzzle Solutions

 Wall Street Journal Puzzle - August 25 2020 - "On the Surface" Crossword Answers

Clues	Answers
"Copy that, dude!"	IDIG
"I fear..."	ALAS
"Moonlight" Oscar winner Mahershala	ALI
"To be," to Bizet	ETRE
2000 Philip Roth novel	THEHUMANSTAIN
5-Down, for example	PLANET
Acknowledge silently	NODAT
Adoption-promoting org	SPCA
Animation sheets	CELS
Appeal (to)	PRAY
Avoiding alcohol	TEETOTAL
Bar room?	JAIL
Bears Ears National Monument tribe	UTE
Besides	ELSE
Broadband option	DSL
Center	MIDST
Color similar to oatmeal	ECRU
Columnist's piece	OPED
Commedia dell'___	ARTE
Commotion	STIR
Crooked	ATASLANT
Dickens's Chuzzlewit	MARTIN
Diner lure	AROMA
Dull as dishwater	HOHUM
He became emperor at age 16	NERO
Himalayan creature	YETI
Home to many Los Angeles rock clubs	SUNSETSTRIP
Italian wine center	ASTI
Language of Sri Lanka and southern India	TAMIL
Late hours, in ads	NITE
Leander loved her	HERO
Like	AKINTO
Like many shower rooms	TILED
Like some JFK arrivals	INTL
Love, in Latin	AMOR
Manhattan neighborhood	SOHO
Metaphorical cutoff point	LINEINTHESAND
Moody music	EMO
Morgan of the 2019 Women's World Cup winning team	ALEX
Nonetheless, briefly	THO
Order of lightsaber-wielding knights	JEDI
Org. with lots of clubs	PGA
Perfect place	EDEN
Pile up	AMASS
Portentous sign	OMEN
Postmark part	DATE
Queen of Carthage	DIDO
Raided the fridge	NOSHED
Rapper ___ Moe Dee	KOOL
Really close outcome in a race	PHOTOFINISH
Response to an insult	SLAP
Restaurant VIP	CHEF
Revered celebrity	IDOL
Robert Morse stage show	TRU
Scrutinize	EYE
Second part of a historic boast	ISAW
See 67-Across	WORK
Sign of a sprained ankle	LIMP
Snaky swimmers	EELS
Snide response after a lengthy complaint	ISTHATALL
Somewhat, informally	ISH
Song of the mountains	YODEL
Spike in cinema	LEE
Sports venue	ARENA
Squabble	ROW
Stun electrically	TASE
Tall and thin	LANK
Thor's father	ODIN
Titan circles it	SATURN
Transfer in a nursery, perhaps	REPOT
Wheel-to-wheel rod	AXLE
With 68-Across, a hint to the ends of 21-, 25-, 45- and 52-Across	WOOD
Words before snapping	HUTONE
Writer Ephron	DELIA
Young lady of Lisbon	SENHORITA
___ Valley (site of the Reagan library)	SIMI