Wall Street Journal Dec 26 2020 "Backflips" Crossword Solutions

 Wall Street Journal - Dec 26 2020 - "Backflips" Crossword Answers

Clues	Answers
"Como ___?" ("How are you?")	ESTAS
"Aw, nuts!"	DRAT
"Go ahead, I'm listening"	OKSHOOT
"I dunno"	GOTME
"Rumble in the Jungle" champ	ALI
"Stand and Deliver" star	OLMOS
"The Planets" composer	HOLST
"Wir glauben all an ___ Gott" (Lutheran hymn)	EINEN
Action before driving	TEEING
Airfare restrictions?	TICKETBUTS
Apple pie order	ALAMODE
Aquatic plant	ALGA
Asian sultanate	BRUNEI
Bath scrubber	LOOFA
Be penitent	ATONE
Belgrade native	SERB
Bert Bobbsey's twin	NAN
Blot	DABAT
Bonnie of "Presumed Innocent"	BEDELIA
Border in the court	ENDLINE
Brand of virtual critters	NEOPETS
Braves' div	NLE
Brazilian coffee port	SANTOS
Breakfast menu section	OMELETS
Brushoff from a daredevil?	HOTDOGSNUB
Canned meat to go?	ROADSPAM
Cardholder's burden	DEBT
Casual quality	EASE
Central Plains people	OTOE
Cheapskates	PIKERS
Commanded	RAN
Commotions in the Japanese legislature?	DIETADOS
Continental cash	EUROS
Creature with pseudopods	AMOEBA
Crushing defeats	ROUTS
Danny, Sandy or Rizzo, say?	GREASEPART
Degs. for curators	MFAS
Dick Dastardly's cartoon sidekick	MUTTLEY
Didn't guzzle	NURSED
Dir. opposite NNW	SSE
Dot follower	COM
Extra, briefly	ADDL
Facelift alternative?	NATURALSAG
Fan belt?	MOTORLOOP
Fighter for Sauron	ORC
Financial guru Suze	ORMAN
Fix some walls	REPANEL
Fix up	REMODEL
Food box abbr	NETWT
Forte	LOUD
Freeloader	SPONGER
Goes too far	OVERDOES
Guileless	NAIVE
Gym count	REPS
Handles	SEESTO
Hawking collaborator	PENROSE
He had a whale of a time	JONAH
Heroic accounts	SAGAS
Hiccups, so to speak	SETBACKS
High point	ACME
Hoarse	CROAKY
Hoisin sauce ingredient	SOY
Informal greeting	HEY
It eats shoots and leaves	PANDA
Jeff Lynne's group	ELO
Jerry's pursuer	TOM
John of rock	ELTON
Justice Sotomayor	SONIA
Kangaroo feature	POUCH
Last-call request	ONEMORE
Letter-shaped beam	HBAR
Like banter	WITTY
Like caterpillars	LARVAL
Like owls	TALONED
Lima locale	OHIO
Location of rods and cones	RETINA
Lost soul	SINNER
Louts	YAHOOS
Lowly worker	SERF
Lustful god	EROS
Made deductions	INFERRED
Made ready	PREPPED
Makes an oath	CURSES
Mastiff feature	JOWL
Memory measures	BYTES
Mother of Zeus	RHEA
Mozart's Adagio ___ minor	INB
Music syllable	LAH
Name on some batteries	DELCO
New York congressman Jeffries	HAKEEM
Ninny	PEABRAIN
Oahu neighbor	MOLOKAI
Observatory observations	NOVAS
Old schoolteacher	MARM
Online marketplace	EBAY
Oscar of "Ex Machina"	ISAAC
Oscar winner for playing Lynn	SPACEK
Oslo language, to native speakers	NORSK
Perennial trouble spot	MIDEAST
Play grounds	ARENA
Principle	TENET
Pub order	ALE
Radio City Music Hall style	ARTDECO
Rang out	PEALED
Relax	LOOSEN
Rock genre	PUNK
Room for relaxing	DEN
Ruhr Valley city	ESSEN
Sandwiches for dessert	OREOS
Scrabble piece	TILE
Second person	EVE
Select	OPT
Shows signs of life	STIRS
Sidesteps	EVADES
Singer Horne	LENA
Site of Chicago touchdowns	OHARE
Skips a ceremony	ELOPES
Spurs	IMPELS
String quartet member	VIOLA
Successor of Claudius	NERO
Survey choice	OTHER
Sushi wrapper	NORI
Teakettles?	WHISTLEPOTS
Tetley competitor	LIPTON
This pulls a bit	REIN
Those with clout	INS
Threaten to topple	TEETER
Thundering	AROAR
Tournament rounds	SEMIS
Ukr., once	SSR
Unescorted cotillion attendee?	SINGLEDEB
Vardon Trophy org	PGA
Vitamin bottle info	RDA
Waste maker	HASTE
White's role on "The Mary Tyler Moore Show"	NIVENS
Without a clue	ATSEA
Wrath	IRE
Yarn	TALE
You can count in it	BASETEN
___-Freez (soft-serve brand)	TASTEE