Wall Street Journal - Mar 3 2022 - "Homo Erectus" Crossword Puzzle Solutions

 Wall Street Journal - Mar 3 2022 - "Homo Erectus" Crossword Answers

Clues	Answers
"Ars Amatoria" poet	OVID
"Get a backbone!" (and a feature of four of the puzzle's answers)	MANUP
"Great public schools for every student" org	NEA
"Shoot!"	HECK
"That's what I like" brand	PEPSI
"The Pink Panther Theme" composer	HENRYMCINI
"We should!"	LETS
"Wisdom is organized life" philosopher	IMMUELKANT
Angel in Venezuela, e.g	FALLS
Benzoyl peroxide target	ACNE
Big bore	SNORE
Bind tightly	LASH
Burnett of CNN	ERIN
Chrysler Building style	DECO
City northeast of Düsseldorf	ESSEN
Concert receipts	GATE
Dash dial	TACH
Demanding sort	DIVA
Doctor, Dame or Duke	TITLE
EF5 event	TORNADO
Enabled "All in favor?"	SECONDED
Falafel holder	PITA
First killer whale trained to perform	NAMU
Flock member	EWE
For another time	ANEW
Fork feature	TINE
Fount	SOURCE
Game with multiple balls	LOTTO
Gig part	SET
Gill dubs him "Shark Bait"	NEMO
Glossy surface	ENAMEL
Gossipy Barrett	RONA
Harsh sound	RASP
Heed the bailiff	RISE
How slow people run?	LATE
Hue and cry	ADO
Ilhan in Congress	OMAR
Indiscriminate	RANDOM
It makes waves	SINE
It may be bald	PATE
Journalists' focuses	BEATS
Kia model	RIO
Leon of "Meet Me in St. Louis"	AMES
Like burning rubber	ACRID
Make lovable	ENDEAR
Miscellanies	OLIOS
Modernize, say	REDO
Mushroom or balloon	GROW
Nile wader	IBIS
Noted baseball matronymic	ALOU
Novelist who used the alias Joseph Anton during nine years in hiding	SALMRUSHDIE
Numbers for Nilsson	ARIAS
Oklahoma's "Wheat Capital"	ENID
Org. chart topper	CEO
Paradigm	IDEAL
Prime	AONE
README.TXT, e.g	FILENAME
Rudiments	ABCS
Sally Field's "Places in the Heart" role	EDNA
Schedule opening	SLOT
Scotland's Scridain, e.g	LOCH
Seething state	IRE
Shaped	HEWED
Site of some '60s tours	NAM
Split the tab	GODUTCH
Spotter's declaration	ISEEIT
Street of mysteries	DELLA
Stud spot	NOSE
Test subject	LABRAT
Tiger Woods's ex	ELIN
Trail	LAG
Traveler's lodging	INN
Tribal sage	ELDER
Undermine	ERODE
Waze directive	TURN
Without forethought	IDLY
World leader born in the village of Mvezo	NELSONMDELA
___-majeste	LESE