Wall Street Journal - Sep 23 2021 - "Puzzle Pieces" Crossword Puzzle Solution

 Wall Street Journal - Sep 23 2021 - Puzzle Pieces Crossword Answer

Clues	Answers
“American Pie” singer Don	MCLEAN
“Bohemian Rhapsody” Oscar winner	MALEK
“Helpful hardware folks” brand	ACE
“I wanna try!”	LEMME
“Top Gun” target	MIG
“Toward Freedom” autobiographer	NEHRU
12-time WNBA All-Star Bird	SUE
24 heures	JOUR
A pop	EACH
Achieve recognition	ARRIVE
Adverb in the “Star Wars” intro crawl	AGO
Afro-Caribbean sound	SKA
Alternative	OTHER
Arabian Peninsula resident	YEMENI
Assistant with a hunch?	IGOR
Assume illegally	USURP
Average citizen	COMMONMAN
Best Buy buys	PCS
Beverage powder marketed as a coffee alternative	POSTUM
Candid	OPEN
Centurion protector	ARMOR
Challenging poser...that rows 3, 5, 11 and 13 have broken	TOUGHNUTTOCRACK
Cloverleaf part	ONRAMP
Co. that pays income taxes	CCORP
Cole Porter’s “___ Sensational”	YOURE
Composer Webern	ANTON
Dev of “Lion”	PATEL
Enabler, of a sort	PERMIT
Evaluate	ASSAY
Excessively enthusiastic	MANIC
Exclamation after a personal victory	IRULE
Firm focus	LAW
Gambling mecca on the South China Sea	MACAO
GM’s Mary Barra, e.g	CEO
Grew more severe	STEEPENED
Grown-up grps	PTAS
Gymnastics star Simone	BILES
Hardly plentiful	MEAGER
Hartsfield, Jackson or La Guardia	MAYOR
Heckling holler	BOO
Hellion	BRAT
Holstein chew	CUD
Hush-hush org	NSA
In complete agreement	ASONE
Initialism that may also end with Q	LGBT
Key of Mozart’s “Eine Kleine Nachtmusik”	GMAJOR
Knowing, as a private joke	INON
Knowledgeable sort	GURU
Less racy	TAMER
Letter-shaped groove	TSLOT
Lexington sch. founded in 1839	VMI
Like many a motto	LATIN
List-ending abbr	ETC
Logan of TV news	LARA
Michelangelo masterwork in St. Peter’s	PIETA
Miles Davis said he was “the best there was of all the bebop piano players”	BUDPOWELL
MLK Day, e.g	MON
Mug for the camera, maybe	ROB
Musical endings	CODAS
Person with plain habits?	NUN
Place de la Bastille location	PARIS
Program listing?	CODE
Pull out all the stops	GOBIG
Raiders quarterback Derek	CARR
Settled down with someone out of one’s league, in slang	MARRIEDUP
Shadows	UMBRAE
Sounds of rebuke	TSKS
Source of Real ID cards	DMV
Spleen	IRE
State house person, for short	REP
Swerves	VEERS
Taiko instruments	DRUMS
Tops	ATMOST
Understands	GETS
Weaken	EBB
Wedge-driving hammer	MAUL
Workers who make lots of calls	UMPS
___-Roman (wrestling category in the Olympics)	GRECO