Wall Street Journal - August 8 2020 - Crossword Puzzle Solutions

 Wall Street Journal Puzzle - Aug 8 2020 - B-Listers Crossword Answers

Clues	Answers
"I second that!"	AMEN
"In all probability..."	ODDSARE
"Is it just ___..."	MEOR
"Jingle Bells" preposition	OER
"Phew! Someone open a window!"	ITSHOT
"Ruffneck" rapper MC ___	LYTE
"___ durn tootin'!"	YER
Accepts, as terms	AGREESON
Alaska's longest river	YUKON
Andean bearer	LLAMA
Basketball but not football	ORB
Beat by a narrow margin	NIP
Behind	REAR
Burrowing rodents	VOLES
Candidate's focus	RACE
Capable of being drawn out	TENSILE
Chap	OLDBOY
Chart template	PIE
Chocolate-caramel candy	ROLO
Classic car	REO
Cliched	BANAL
Collection of paint swatches?	BLENDINGLIBRARY
Colosseum greeting	AVE
Contradict	BELIE
Copacabana Beach setting	RIO
Costa ___	RICA
Country singer Tillis	MEL
Cracker spread	BRIE
Creaks, squeaks and shrieks	NOISES
D.C.-area airport	BWI
Daddy, in Durango	PAPI
Day-___	GLO
Deg. for a barrister	LLB
Deteriorates	ROTS
Disease preventer, in slang	VAX
Dresser's kin	BUREAU
Dyeing site	VAT
Egg cells	OVA
Extra mins. in games	OTS
Factory	MILL
Fella	GUY
Fiddled (with)	TOYED
Figure taking a bow?	EROS
Final Four org	NCAA
Finds a new tenant for	RELETS
First-aid product prefix	MEDI
FX letters	CGI
Galoot	APE
General assemblies?	ARMIES
Gillette brand	ATRA
Goal	AIM
Golden Crispers! brand	OREIDA
Graceful antelopes	IMPALAS
Graffiti?	BLIGHTREADING
Grammy-winning "Weird Al" song	EATIT
Guileless state	NAIVETE
H look-alike	ETA
Hauling measure	TON
Headwear for Picasso	BERET
High school subj	ENG
Hillside house asset	VIEW
Home of Triple-A baseball's Rainiers	TACOMA
Honey-do list item	TASK
Hue's partner	CRY
In sequence	ORDERED
Intent look	STARE
JFK guess	ETD
Juan's wife	EVA
Leaves to turn	PAGES
Letters of urgency	ASAP
Lhasa ___	APSO
Like some bills and hills	STEEP
Like some foreign films	DUBBED
Like some monks	COWLED
Like the "Odyssey"	HOMERIC
Long	YEARN
Lose it	GOMAD
Luxurious country residence	VILLA
Madrid monarchs	REYES
Maker of short suits	SPEEDO
Many tour guides	NATIVES
Matchmaker's prattling about being "made for each other"?	CHEMISTRYBLAB
Middle weight?	SPARETIRE
Modern-day hieroglyphic	EMOJI
Move quickly	HIE
Move, to real estate pros	RELO
Muddy up	ROIL
NASA's Grissom	GUS
Neighborhood	ENVIRONS
Neurologist's printouts, briefly	EEGS
No longer in effect	VOID
NYPD figures	SGTS
Officiant at Boris and Natasha's wedding?	BLESSEROFTWOEVILS
Oil stain under the car?	PARKINGBLOT
Ornamental swimmers	KOI
Oscar winner as Mercury	MALEK
Paint can direction	STIR
Parts of planes	NOSES
Pass the hat	SOLICIT
Pickers pick them	BANJOS
Play to ___ (draw)	ATIE
Polite reply to a schoolmarm	YESM
Poorly hit fly ball at Wrigley Field?	CHICAGOBLOOP
Possible courses of events	SCENARIOS
Post-holdup question	AMILATE
Proud motto of a spicy food restaurant?	NEVERNEVERBLAND
Quite a bit	OODLES
Radar operator's duty?	BLIPSERVICE
Rash description, perhaps	ITCHY
Ready the machete, say	HONE
Roadside assistance org	AAA
Rooster's mate	HEN
Rubbery substances	LATEXES
See 54-Across	ERNST
Sick, in rap slang	ILLIN
Sierra Nevada resort	TAHOE
Signs of things to come	OMENS
Singer Rawls	LOU
Singer with the 2015 #1 hit "Cheerleader"	OMI
Singer's quavery effect	TREMOLO
Snoozefest	BORE
Solution for shaking hands?	MITTENS
Somewhat hostile	AVERSE
Sorrowful sigh	ALAS
South African settler	BOER
Spike with a screenplay Oscar	LEE
Spirit	PEP
Stronghold	CITADEL
Subsides	EBBS
Suit properly	BEFIT
Support payers, at times	EXES
Szubanski of "Babe"	MAGDA
Terra ___	COTTA
Texter's "Beats me"	IDK
Tom Hanks comedy	BIG
Training session for would-be online posters?	BLOGGINGCAMP
Troop troupe, briefly	USO
Underwear initials	BVD
Unwanted email	SPAM
With 106-Down, German Dadaist	MAX
With proficiency	ADEPTLY
Wrong	AMISS