Wall Street Journal Dec 5 2020 "Rising Expectations" Crossword Solutions

 Wall Street Journal - Dec 5 2020 - "Rising Expectations" Crossword Answers

Clues	Answers
"Darby ___ and the Little People" (1959 Disney film)	OGILL
"Is it just ____..."	MEOR
"Maniac Magee" author Jerry	SPINELLI
"Portlandia" network	IFC
"Splendor in the Grass" writer	INGE
"The Red Turtle" genre	ANIME
"Trinity" novelist	URIS
2011 Saoirse Ronan action film	HANNA
44-Down, en francais	MER
Abbr. on a remote	VOL
Affectedly highbrow	ARTSY
Ancient capital of Syria	ANTIOCH
Astonished exclamation	BYGEORGE
Bad way to be thrown	FORALOSS
Baking powder component	SODIUM
Banned apple spray	ALAR
Barometer variety	ANEROID
Baseball card brand	FLEER
Beginning	ONSET
Big furniture retailer	IKEA
Big name in mops and brooms	OCEDAR
Bill stamp	PAID
Blockhead	DOPE
Blue state	SORROW
Butter square	PAT
Casino calculation	ODDS
Chain with a giraffe mascot	TOYSRUS
Civil War site of Virginia	MANASSAS
Climber's worry	SLIP
Crafts website	ETSY
D-Day crafts	LSTS
Declare definitively	AVER
Ditties for cowpokes?	ROUNDUPNUMBERS
Down	CHUG
Dr.'s specialty	MED
Easter basket staple	PEEPS
Embassy worker	ATTACHE
Enlightenment philosopher Denis	DIDEROT
Euros replaced them	LIRE
Exaggerated devotion	PIETISM
Expanse	SEA
Famed Southern soul record label	STAX
Final authority	SAYSO
First of a series of 24	ALPHA
Flammable dummy	EFFIGY
Football stat	RUSHING
Form-related	MODAL
Former British protectorate	ADEN
Frazier foe	ALI
Genesis victim	ABEL
Ginormous	HUGE
Goalie's bane	SCORER
Hamm and Farrow	MIAS
Hindu embodiment of chivalry	RAMA
Hole in the head	SINUS
Hutch's partner	STARSKY
In seventh heaven	ECSTATIC
Indivisible	ONE
It's danced in Argentina	THETANGO
Jester's performance?	STANDUPINCOURT
JFK served in it	USN
John Deere machine	BALER
Knight's address	SIR
Like Cheerios	OATY
Lucy's love	DESI
Managed-care grps	HMOS
Manilow maiden	LOLA
Matchmaking group?	SETUPCAMP
McConnell's predecessor as Senate majority leader	REID
Memorial Day solo	TAPS
Mineral suffix	ITE
Minus	LESS
Moon goddess	LUNA
Moscow money	RUBLE
Musical acuity	EAR
No man's lands, briefly	DMZS
North Dakota city	MINOT
Not masc. or fem	NEUT
Obsolete desktop item	ROLODEX
Oscar winner Dianne	WIEST
Outfit for a Nascar driver?	GETUPTOSPEED
Overhead trains	ELS
P.D. James specialty	MYSTERY
Palmer with four green jackets	ARNOLD
People in power	INS
Perfect	INERRANT
Pickle or jam	SPOT
Pitts of "Life With Father"	ZASU
Police trainee	CADET
Pops	PAS
Reckless	RASH
Rely on	TRUSTIN
Response to goo	ICK
River ferried by Charon	STYX
River of Flanders	YSER
Robbery caught on security cameras?	HOLDUPUNDERSCRUTINY
Rolled in flour and saueed in butter, as sole	MEUNIERE
Sanders in the Pro Football Hall of Fame	DEION
See 104-Across	PASTMISTAKES
Shut (up)	PENT
Sicilian volcano	MTETNA
Sister brand of Westin	SHERATON
Sit for a spell	REST
Skater Midori	ITO
Skating jumps	AXELS
Skin	PARE
Some kind of nut	ACORN
Some whiskeys	RYES
Spicy-hot mainstay of Chinese cuisine	CHILIOIL
Spiritual path	ZEN
Squeezing (out)	EKING
Stick in the water	OAR
Stop running	DIE
Summer treat	ICEE
Sushi staple	TUNA
Talk back to	SASS
Terminate	CEASE
The Ponte Vecchio spans it	ARNO
They can't be choosers	BEGGARS
They're often bitter	ALES
Ticked off	SORE
Titan orbits it	SATURN
Tragedy	SADSTORY
Type type, for short	ITAL
Unit of work	ERG
Urgent request	PLEA
Warbled	SANG
Wasn't straight	LIED
Waters down	THINS
Where loonies and toonies are spent	CANADA
Whoop-de-do	STIR
Wilts	SAGS
Wirehair of film	ASTA
With 117-Across, concealer to hide scars?	MAKEUPFOR
Withdrawn	SHY
Word after ruby or sapphire in hummingbird names	THROATED
Worker for free, often	INTERN
World view	MAP
Wow	AMAZE
You might pick up a few pointers here	POUND