Wall Street Journal Jan 2 2021 "New Beginnings" Puzzle Solutions

 Wall Street Journal - Jan 2 2021 - "New Beginnings" Crossword Answers

Clues	Answers
"Don't close the barn door once the horse has run away," e.g.?	STABLESAW
"I ___ Feeling" (Black Eyed Peas hit)	GOTTA
"My Favorite Year" star	OTOOLE
"Not another word!"	CANIT
"Pretty please?"	CANI
"The Discovery of India" writer	NEHRU
"The King and I" setting	SIAM
"The Persistence of Memory" setting	MOMA
"___ luego" ("See you later")	HASTA
1979 Pro Bowl MVP Ahmad	RASHAD
Adorable tot	CUTIE
Allowed	LICIT
As a result	ERGO
As neat as ___	APIN
Auto dealer's offering	LEASE
Avocado or olive	TREE
Avril follower	MAI
Base of the NCAA's Golden Eagles	ORU
Beethoven's "Hammerklavier," for one	PIANOSONATA
Before now	AGO
Bellyaches	GRIPES
Best Musical at the 1977 Tonys	ANNIE
Bit of fiction	LIE
Blanche's sibling	STELLA
Bow to	OBEY
Brewery product	LAGER
Bro's twin, perhaps	SIS
Bury	INTER
Butler's last word	DAMN
Cabs may be found on them	WINELISTS
Chew the scenery	HAMITUP
Chiding sound	TUT
Close group	FRIENDS
Cocky walk	STRUT
Coldhearted	STONY
Collar inserts	STAYS
Computer network's coverage area?	ROUTERSPACE
Contenders at Cannes	FILMS
Craze	FAD
Designer's place	ATELIER
Diamond unit	CARAT
Dirties	SOILS
Do for Prince Valiant	PAGEBOY
Does a bouncer's job	OUSTS
Dressing base	OIL
Eagle's abode	AERIE
Either of two on a vampire bat?	FRIGHTWING
Enlightened	AWARE
Erin Burnett's employer	CNN
Eschewing fancy neckwear?	ASCOTFREE
Figurehead position	PROW
Fills a recent vacancy, say	RELETS
Forget to mention	OMIT
Funny folks	WITS
Gadot who plays Wonder Woman	GAL
Garden ornamental	SPIREA
Glazed square	TILE
Goes on	YAKS
Golf green feature?	SPORTHOLE
Good times	UPS
Hearty dinner	STEW
Helps when one shouldn't	ABETS
Henry VIII's third Catherine	PARR
Hostile group	ENEMY
Hunt's partner	PECK
Ill-fated batter	CASEY
In the neighborhood	ABOUT
Julia with a Drama Desk Award	RAUL
Ketch's kin	YAWL
Knocks more than a few back	TOPES
Layout options	FONTS
Lessen	ABATE
Longbow material	YEW
Maricopa Co.'s state	ARIZ
Music category	POP
New beginning, as spelled by the new beginnings in this puzzle's theme answers	FRESHSTART
Nut case	SHELL
One in a shower	METEOR
Optimistic	ROSECOLORED
Orchestra section	HORNS
Oscar winner Guinness	ALEC
P, sometimes	RHO
Painters of financiers' portraits?	ECONARTISTS
Parts of hearts	ATRIA
Pasta purveyor	TRATTORIA
Pester persistently	HARASS
Play set in a Kansas diner	BUSSTOP
Pole explorer Richard	BYRD
Pound, e.g	COIN
Practices in the ring	SPARS
Products of crimping irons?	HAIRWAVES
PTA meeting place	SCH
Pull some strings?	TUNE
Répondez ___ vous plaît	SIL
Radio type	AMFM
Recliner features	LEGRESTS
Rehearsal request	LINE
Ribs	TEASES
Ring quartet	OPERAS
Roddick with a racket	ANDY
Romantic rendezvous on the Orient Express?	TRAINDATE
Roofer's calculation?	RAFTERMATH
Salt container?	BRIG
Shakespeare's Peaseblossom, Cobweb, Moth or Mustardseed	FAIRY
Shopping cart course	AISLE
Sicilian peak	ETNA
Sinbad finding a way to bind himself to a roc, e.g.?	TURBANMYTH
Sits on the counter, say	COOLS
Ski resort of southern Switzerland	ZERMATT
Slopes	CANTS
Smoke alarm alerts	BEEPS
Spy	SIGHT
Staff worker	AIDE
Starbuck, Queequeg, Tashtego and crewmates	WHALERS
Strike setting	HOME
Sub system	SONAR
Surmounting	ATOP
Sushi bar supply	RICE
Take ___ for the better	ATURN
Takes the helm	STEERS
Tank acronym	SCUBA
They're on the record	GROOVES
Throw that's not quite a ringer	LEANER
Tipsy	LIT
Title teenager in an MTV animated series	DARIA
Toothbrush choice	SOFT
Twisty fish	EEL
Undermine	ERODE
Unneeded embellishment	FRILL
Vestige	TRACE
Was an indulgent grandparent	DOTED
Was dashing?	TORE
Was short	OWED
Wasn't impartial	SIDED
Wee pest	FRUITFLY
Weigh station units	TONS
Without repair	ASIS
Yen	URGE
Yoga equipment	MATS
___ mater	ALMA