Wall Street Journal - Feb 12 2022 - "Alternate Plans" Crossword Puzzle Solutions

 Wall Street Journal - Feb 12 2022 - "Alternate Plans" Crossword Answers

Clues	Answers
"A Writer's Life" writer	TALESE
"Don Carlo" composer	VERDI
"Easy on Me" singer	ADELE
"Every seat is spoken for," on B'way	SRO
"Gotcha"	ISEE
"I Ain't Marching Any More" singer Phil	OCHS
"I'll Bet ___ Nice" (Beach Boys song)	HES
"Odyssey" sorceress	CIRCE
"Under the Jaguar Sun" author Calvino	ITALO
"Wonder Woman" villain	ARES
1998 Sarah McLachlan hit	ADIA
About	INRE
Absorbed the cost of	ATE
Annoying sort	PEST
Approx. fig	EST
Approximately	ORSO
Apt name for an Uber driver	OTTO
Baker with eight Grammys	ANITA
Barely gets (by)	EKES
Basic French verb	ETRE
Basis for some vaccines	RNA
BBC clock setting	GMT
Billowing blasts	GUSTS
Bluegrass instruments	BASSFIDDLES
Boorish	CRASS
Boot	OUST
Boulogne-___-Mer	SUR
Bounded box	AREA
Brief respite	SIESTA
Bumps, on the air	PREEMPTS
Casual denial	UNHUNH
Clock face	DIAL
Common comment graphic	MEME
Common cult leader delusion	SAVIORCOMPLEX
Computer capacity	MEMORY
Confines	SHUTSIN
Crème de la crème	ELITE
Cubs' home, informally	CHITOWN
Curative elixirs	TONICS
Curly-haired girl of old comics	LITTLELULU
Dash or Butterworth, in stores	MRS
Deets	INFO
Distort	SKEW
Dormant	LATENT
Exam for a future public defender, for short	LSAT
Excel at the comedy club	SLAY
Excellent mark	APLUS
Fake	NOTREAL
Feature of 23-Across	STEPPINGASIDE
Feature of 28-Across	STAGGERINGDEBT
Feature of 40-Across	HOPPINGMAD
Feature of 55-Across	SKIPPEDROPE
Fencing option	EPEE
Flowers with bright rays	ASTERS
Former filly	MARE
Four Corners people	UTES
Get involved, whether welcome or not	WADEIN
Give preferential treatment to	FAVOR
Glossary entry	TERM
Goes by	ELAPSES
Goes toe-to-toe	DOESBATTLE
Govt.-issued security	TBOND
Heavy metal bands?	ORES
High spirits	PEP
Hug tightly	ENCLASP
Hula accompaniment	UKE
Jewelry buy	CHAIN
Jotter's tool	PEN
Lady Grantham's given name on "Downton Abbey"	CORA
Lang. of Leipzig	GER
Like "Romeo and Juliet"	TRAGIC
Lisa's sib	BART
Loch of legend	NESS
Manipulated, as expense figures	MASSAGED
Member of a certain septet	ASIA
Michaels with more Emmy nominations than any other person	LORNE
More avant-garde	EDGIER
More unearthly	EERIER
Mother of Horus	ISIS
Musses	TOUSLES
Nearly	ALLBUT
NFL cornerback Burns	ARTIE
Number on a vowel tile in Scrabble	ONE
Ooze	SEEP
Our, in Abruzzo	NOSTRA
Patisserie workers	ICERS
Pay up?	RAISE
Period of work	STINT
Pew separators	AISLES
Physicist Fermi	ENRICO
Pigskin, e.g	HIDE
Popcorn purchase	TUB
Posse people	DEPUTIES
Prepared for company	CLEANED
Prerequisite for merging in traffic	GAP
Put forward	POSITED
Quarters, informally	DIGS
Queen of Jordan before Queen Rania	NOOR
Rapper/actor ___ Def	MOS
Raymond's condition in "Rain Man"	AUTISM
Register	SIGNUP
Rejuvenation station	SPA
Rock box	AMP
Saturn's largest moon	TITAN
School mates	FISH
Settle	DECIDE
Sighs of delight	AHS
Small-screen reading	TEXT
Some referendum votes	YESES
Soon	INABIT
Sound, for example	INLET
Spanakopita ingredient	FETA
Spectral indication of a receding galaxy	REDSHIFT
Spots, perhaps	RASH
Stadium call	OLE
Starts to celebrate and ceases?	SOFTCS
Station stuff	GAS
Storied voyager	SINBAD
Studio fee	RENT
Stuns to silence	AWES
Sums	TOTESUP
Tablet input devices	STYLI
Take care of	TENDTO
Tea party setting?	HARBOR
They smoke on the job	BEEKEEPERS
They're sometimes inflated	EGOS
Throws toward the stratosphere	LOBS
Toasted sandwich	PANINI
Top hat or race car, in Monopoly	TOKEN
Trendy 1980s Manhattan nightclub	NELLS
Troublesome tykes	IMPS
Turn sharply	VEER
Undercover operations	STINGS
V-J Day ended it	WWII
Virtual people	SIMS
Wanders hither and yon	RANGES
Warrior with two swords	SAMURAI
What chiromancers read	PALMS
What many try to find in Hollywood	FAMEANDFORTUNE
Who's there	FIRST