Wall Street Journal - Oct 2 2021 - "Creature Creep" Crossword Solution

 Wall Street Journal - Oct 2 2021 - "Creature Creep" Crossword Answer

Clues	Answers
"Absolutely!"	YES
"Haystacks" painter	MONET
"Hundo P"	DEF
"Jabberwocky" beginning	TWAS
"Mask up" spot, for short	PSA
"Oh, sure!"	IBET
"Pinky promise me!"	SWEARONIT
"See ya!"	TATA
"We don't know yet," in brief	TBA
"___ My Man" (1975 Supremes song)	HES
17th-century haiku master	BASHO
1986 sequel set on the moon LV-426	ALIENS
2014 British Open winner McIlroy	RORY
Absolute least	BEARMINIMUM
Acquires canines, say	TEETHES
Adelphi address ender	EDU
Alec's "Beetlejuice" co-star	GEENA
Aware of	ONTO
Bailouts	RESCUES
Ballpark fig	EST
Barbershop request	TRIM
Be exceedingly uninteresting	BOARTOTEARS
Beachfront porch	LANAI
Big name in disinfectant wipes	LYSOL
Big ___ (David Ortiz nickname)	PAPI
Biting	MEAN
Blubber	CRY
Bog down	MIRE
Boiling byproduct	VAPOR
Bother	ADO
Breathtaking duo	LUNGS
Brief belief	ISM
Bring on darkness	TERNOFFTHELIGHT
Buddy	PAL
Call from a rooftop	COO
Car museum car	REO
Cardinal topper	CREST
Cardinal topper letters	STL
Carry oneself with swagger	ACTCOOL
Chevys, e.g	GMS
Chipotle choices	BEEFTACOS
Choosing a ticket	VOTING
Color in many retro baseball uniforms	POWDERBLUE
Cricket needs	BATS
D.C. baseballer	NAT
Dallas hoopsters	MAVS
Dallas sch	SMU
Dawn, to Donne	MORN
Defeat soundly	CREAM
Diplomatic agents	EMISSARIES
Disappointed child's whine	BUTMOM
Div. for the Pitt Panthers	ACC
Do a favor	OBLIGE
Dominate	OWN
Duplicitous group	LIARS
Dust collector, for short	VAC
Earthy colour	OCHRE
Eggy Southern desserts	CHESSPIES
Exceedingly	TOO
Express lane unit	ITEM
Feature of a 66-Across	METER
Filling completely	SATING
First-grade athletes	PEEWEES
Fixed	SET
Get hopping mad	SEETHE
Give orders	DICTATE
Goes back to square one	STARTSOVER
Goes off the beaten path	STRAYS
Golfer's handful	TEES
Hacker's triumphant exclamation	WEREIN
Hall of Fame knuckleballer Phil	NIEKRO
Hangout for horseplayers, in brief	OTB
Heated dispute	RHUBARB
In this manner	THUS
Istanbulite, e.g	TURK
It manages the Jet Propulsion Laboratory	CALTECH
It's got a point	SWORD
Job description list	DUTIES
Kamala Harris, vis-à-vis Howard U., e.g	ALUM
Knight address	SIR
Lid topper	EYESHADOW
Like una montaña	ALTA
Link letters	URL
Liverwort's cousin	MOSS
Lot unit	ACRE
Mass email lead-in	HIALL
Material in Pfizer labs	RNA
Monks' covers	COWLS
Muscle ache treatment	ICEWRAP
Music's Puente	TITO
Name that sounds like a meal	STU
Nonnative organisms, as found seven times in this puzzle	INVASIVESPECIES
Olympic hurdler/bobsledder Jones	LOLO
One might be asked "What are the odds?"	TIPSTER
Party leaders	HOSTS
Penthouse amenity	TERRACE
Photographer's flashers	STROBES
Piles	ALOT
Pirate's haul	LOOT
Pixar's first protagonists, e.g	TOYS
Point against	CON
Police court figure	MAGISTRATE
Primitive building material	ADOBE
Quarter, e.g	COIN
Resisted rebelliousness	TOADTHELINE
Rhyming partner of "dined"	WINED
Ride with a 16-Down	CAB
Right-hand person, for short	ASST
Sch. support org	PTA
Scooter in 2005 news	LIBBY
Short	SHY
Side chair's lack	ARMS
Signs of nervousness	TWITCHES
Simile snippet	ASA
Skilled	ABLE
Smooth transition	SEGUE
Smoothie add-in	BERRY
South Sudan splitter	NILE
Spiritual way	TAO
Sports stats bureau	ELIAS
Squeezing (out)	EKING
Stormy state	IRE
Subtle summons	PSST
Take in	DUPE
Tavern in Springfield	MOES
Teachers' org	NEA
Territory between Russia and Siberia on a Risk board	URAL
Texting system palindrome	SMS
Tiny cuts	SLITS
To be, to Bolívar	SER
Top-selling female recording artist of all time, per Guinness	MADONNA
Touchy?	TEXTURAL
Weaves, e.g	HAREEXTENSIONS
West Coast hub	SFO
What une poule lays	OEUF
Where bills get passed, briefly	ATMS
Where the ball gets dropped on a regular basis	GNUYORKCITY
Winner of six Tonys in 2017	DEEREVANHANSEN
Winter air?	NOEL
___ Kong	HONG