Wall Street Journal - Mar 30 2022 - "Best Play" Crossword Puzzle Solutions

 Wall Street Journal - Mar 30 2022 - "Best Play" Crossword Answers

Clues	Answers
"A Doll's House" role	NORA
"Bye now!"	TATA
Absurd	INANE
Barber's offering	SHAVE
Be in the hole	OWE
Belonging to you and me	OUR
Bicycle gear supplier?	SPROCKETMAN
Bowl's kin	ARENA
Brand that introduced the two-liter bottle	PEPSI
Candy with a patented dispenser	PEZ
Character introduced in Super Mario World	YOSHI
Christmas in Carcassonne	NOEL
Cloudless	FAIR
Composer Satie	ERIK
Earth personification	GAIA
Executed, as a command	RAN
Firefighter, at times	HERO
Fleece feature	NAP
Give ___ go	ITA
Ground for the longest time	FINEST
Hawaii's "Garden Isle"	KAUAI
Homer utterance	DOH
Honors for athletes, and a phonetic hint to this puzzle's theme	ESPYAWARDS
Ill-suited	INAPT
Injury timeout?	SPRAINDELAY
Iron and Bronze, for two	AGES
Italic alternative	ROMAN
Kilmer of "Top Gun"	VAL
Lead singer's delivery	VOCALS
Lose it	ERUPT
Mail, e.g	ARMOR
Maker of Coco Mademoiselle perfume	CHANEL
Melancholy	SAD
Member of the subgenus Hippotigris	ZEBRA
Moving about	ASTIR
Openings	GAPS
Pacific crop	TARO
Pastel?	SPRINGTONE
Perch for a cat burglar	LEDGE
Permissible	LEGAL
Physicist Mach	ERNST
Plant life	FLORA
Play again	REAIR
Procedural TV franchise	CSI
Product touted as "a quantum leap in listening to music" at launch	IPOD
Pulled pork sandwich topping	SLAW
Puts up	ERECTS
Rankle	EATAT
Red 40, for one	DYE
Rotgut	HOOCH
Sanctions, briefly	OKS
Saunter	MOSEY
Seemingly forever	EONS
Sense of self	EGO
Serious suffering	AGONY
Small vessel	VIAL
Soft drink served on a flight?	SPRITEOFPASSAGE
Sort of	INAWAY
Sparkly headwear	TIARA
Steamer, e.g	CLAM
Stipulations	IFS
Strenuous	TIRING
Stuck-up	VAIN
Switch words	ONOFF
Taprooms	PUBS
Target of a 1950s vaccine	POLIO
They can be even, interestingly enough	ODDS
Thinking cap products	IDEAS
Titanic inits	RMS
Title of respect that anagrams to 40-Down	SRI
Title of respect that anagrams to 61-Down	SIR
Tutor, say	TEACH
Unenthusiastic	TEPID
Uninspired	VAPID
Unisex do	AFRO
Unit also called a megagram	TONNE
Yucatan people	MAYAS
___ mater	ALMA