Wall Street Journal - Mar 8 2022 - "Last But Not Least" Crossword Puzzle Solutions

 Wall Street Journal - Mar 8 2022 - "Last But Not Least" Crossword Answers

Clues	Answers
“Downton Abbey” title	EARL
“Look Homeward, Angel” author Thomas	WOLFE
“Nothing doing!”	NAH
“The Color Purple” writer Walker	ALICE
“Yes, sorry to say”	AFRAIDSO
1994 action film set on a bus	SPEED
Apiece	PER
Attempt	TRY
Big name in ratings	NIELSEN
Bistro’s kin	CAFE
Brussels-based alliance	NATO
Change, as district borders	REDRAW
Christine of “Chicago Hope”	LAHTI
Comedian O’Brien	CONAN
Comes closer	NEARS
Deep abyss	PIT
Delicacy	TACT
Deuce beater	TREY
Diner dish	SLAW
Exhortation to spare that fly?	DONTSWATIT
From way back when	OLD
Gold, to Guatemalans	ORO
Got through to	REACHED
Hartsfield-Jackson’s airport code	ATL
Highly domesticated amphibian?	LAPFROG
Household brand that’s a tic-tac-toe line	OXO
Ice pack target	ACHE
Iowa State setting	AMES
Jubilation	GLEE
Kwanzaa mo	DEC
Little bouquet	POSY
Motel worker	MAID
Music producer Brian	ENO
NASA mission specialist Jemison	MAE
Neptune’s kingdom	SEAS
Next to	BESIDE
Off-color	SMUTTY
Online stand-in	AVATAR
Ooze	EXUDE
Phone bill extras	FEES
Play for a sap	USE
Popular mirror shape	OVAL
Power unit	WATT
Prosecutor’s deputy: Abbr	ASSTDA
Rights activist Clooney	AMAL
Safe place for me on the water?	MYBLUEHAVEN
Salt	TAR
Scarecrow’s fear	FIRE
Second of two	LATTER
Send for a second opinion	REFER
Soap from washing wingtips?	SHOELATHER
Speaker’s stand	PODIUM
Sport in a ring called a dohyo	SUMO
Spring bloom	DAFFODIL
Subordinate	LESSER
Sulky expression	POUT
Surreptitiously follow family men?	TAILFATHERS
Tennis champ Ashe	ARTHUR
Util. bill	ELEC
Wanderer	NOMAD
Web journal	BLOG
Woman in a wimple	NUN
Worker’s reward	RAISE