Wall Street Journal Feb 27 2021 "Curses!" Crossword Solutions

 Wall Street Journal - Feb 27 2021 - Curses! Crossword Answers

Clues	Answers
"@#$%! Annie Oakley just had a baby!"	SONOFAGUN
"@#$%! Close those pearly gates!"	FORHEAVENSSAKE
"@#$%! Look what the rabbi just landed!"	HOLYMACKEREL
"@#$%! My bow splintered again!"	FIDDLESTICKS
"@#$%! My steak's too rare, Pop!"	DADBURNIT
"@#$%! Not another Brit Lit class!"	WHATTHEDICKENS
"@#$%! That black hole is sucking them in!"	OHMYSTARS
"@#$%! These veggies are inedible!"	SUFFERINSUCCOTASH
"@#$%! This wake is getting totally out of hand!"	GOODGRIEF
"Consider the task handled"	ONIT
"Glengarry Glen Ross" playwright	MAMET
"Likewise"	DITTO
"Pick me! Pick me!"	OHOHOH
"Sadly, yes"	AFRAIDSO
"The Great Pretender" group, with "the"	PLATTERS
"The Masque of the Red Death" writer	POE
"Twilight" writer Stephenie	MEYER
"Very well..."	OKAYTHEN
@@@	ATS
Bargaining group	UNION
Barry, Robin or Maurice	BEEGEE
Bear Dance participant	UTE
Body image, of a sort	SCAN
Boo-boo	OWIE
Borders	ABUTS
By way of	VIA
Captain whose middle name is Tiberius	KIRK
Card game akin to monte bank	FARO
Carmaker Bugatti	ETTORE
CBD oil source	HEMP
Chicago Outfit boss	CAPONE
Cleaned out, say	BROKE
Close behind	ATHEEL
Considered	DEEMED
Course selection?	MEAL
Dart about	FLIT
Dealer's unit	KILO
Decline	EBB
Docking spot	BERTH
Dudes	BROS
Easy victim	PATSY
England's first poet laureate	DRYDEN
Famous	NOTED
Fencing piece	SLAT
Fishing spot	PIER
Fixes a button, say	SEWS
Former mag mogul	HEF
Freshener scent	PINE
Fruity compounds	ESTERS
Get more	HAVESECONDS
Get out of	EVADE
Girl who's having a ball	DEB
Give off	EMIT
Glades snapper	CROC
Goes on an Amazon tour, say?	SHOPS
Gourmet chips ingredient	SEASALT
Guess alternative	LEE
Gulf War missile	SCUD
Heaps	ALOT
Hitching hope	RIDE
Hole driller	AUGER
Home of minor league baseball's Aces	RENO
Hosp. test	MRI
In ___ (befuddled)	AFOG
Incoherent articulation	RANT
It catches major league fastballs	RADAR
Jah praisers	RASTAS
Juice box accompaniers	BENDYSTRAWS
K2, e.g	PEAK
Kylo ___ ("The Force Awakens" character)	REN
Lab reward	TREAT
Lair for a bear	DEN
Layered snack	OREO
Lend a hand	PITCHIN
Like cobras	HOODED
Like some ports	AGED
Little salamanders	EFTS
Mauna ___	LOA
Met offering	ARIA
Minimal change	CENT
Mordor resident	ORC
Mouth, in slang	KISSER
Muffet's morsels	CURDS
Nickname for "The King of Clay"	RAFA
Not much	ADAB
Obsession	FETISH
Offers as evidence	CITES
Oil producer, perhaps	ARTIST
Parking pros	VALETS
Part of a chain, perhaps	STORE
Partner of 111-Down	AID
Partner of 72-Across	ABET
Passing passions	FADS
Pentathletes' needs	EPEES
People who work on celebrity impressions?	PRTEAMS
Period	DOT
Planet where an egg-shaped spacecraft originated	ORK
Plot devices?	HOES
Praiseful poetry	ODES
Prayer wheel user	LAMA
Prepare to flee	TURNTAIL
Prudent judgment	SENSE
Puppy sounds	YAPS
Put-your-cards-in-order game	RACKO
Puzzle solvers' cries	AHAS
Radisson rival	SHERATON
Ran like crazy	TORE
Ranch strays	DOGIES
Rascal	SCAMP
Reproductive cell	GAMETE
Reserved	SHY
Rodriguez of "Modern Family"	RICO
Senator Collins	SUSAN
She had the title role on "Madam Secretary"	TEALEONI
Shout-out from a sideline player	HIMOM
Singing syllable	TRA
Smart answers	SASS
Something hard to kick	OLDHABIT
Sowing machine	SEEDER
Spa town near London	EPSOM
Spotted	SEEN
Squashed circle	OVAL
Stands for speeches	DAISES
Start of a 1950s campaign slogan	ILIKE
Sun-dried material	ADOBE
Sure competitor	ARRID
Swahili's language family	BANTU
Swift writing	SATIRE
Swoons	FAINTS
That fellow's	HIS
Tour de France stage	ETAPE
Vaccine component	RNA
Verdant	LUSH
Whopper topper	MAYO
Witheringly critical	SCATHING
Without face value, as stock	NOPAR
Word in a Yale fight song	BOOLA
Zero, for one	PLANE
___ & Perrins (Worcestershire sauce brand)	LEA
___ Balls (snack cakes)	SNO