Wall Street Journal - Nov 15 2021 - "Defensive Position" Crossword Puzzle Solution

Wall Street Journal - Nov 15 2021 - "Defensive Position" Crossword Solution

Clues	Answers
"B ___ boy"	ASIN
"The Little Mermaid" mermaid	ARIEL
"You've gotta be kidding me!"	COMEON
A party to	INON
Adele hit that won Grammys for Song and Record of the Year	HELLO
Airy prefix	ATMO
Arsonist or kidnapper, for example	FELON
Avoid restaurant crowds, perhaps	EATIN
Before long, to poets	ANON
Blow up on Twitter	TREND
Boat deck wood	TEAK
Bone in the leg	TIBIA
Bonehead	IDIOT
Bonehead	TWIT
Brand with tiger ads	ESSO
Brought into the world	BORN
Business offering Brazilians	WAXINGSALON
By word of mouth	ORAL
Called out to	HAILED
Cancel key	ESC
Carpentry tools	SAWS
Cheeky talk	SASS
Chevy hybrid	VOLT
Cigar dangler	ASH
Clark from Smallville	KENT
Coexisting campus/off-campus community	TOWNANDGOWN
Corrosive stuff	ACID
Costa ___	RICA
Dieter Jack of rhyme	SPRAT
Disapproving sounds	TSKS
Downward Dog or Reverse Warrior	ASANA
Eggs in labs	OVA
Faith factions	SECTS
Final, for one	TEST
Follow, as advice	ACTON
Fragrance	SMELL
Fragrances	ODORS
Garlic-seasoned mayo	AIOLI
Gender pronoun option	SHE
Clues	Answers
Get into a defensive position, and what we do in this grid	CIRCLETHEWAGONS
Glass vessel	VIAL
Grain husks separated by threshing	CHAFF
Great anger	IRE
Hoods for monks	COWLS
Humpbacks' annual journeys to polar waters	WHALEMIGRATIONS
Jason's ship	ARGO
Key just above D	EFLAT
Key lime or coconut cream	PIE
Latin poet	OVID
Like a discreet motel	NOTELL
Like rowboats	OARED
Lotion ingredient	ALOE
Loud lament	SOB
Many a Moroccan	ARAB
Meadow measure	ACRE
Org. that issues emergency authorizations for vaccines	FDA
Part of a pod cast?	PEA
Parts of trees and teeth	ROOTS
Penn with a pair of Oscars	SEAN
Plant with fronds	FERN
Plays nine ball, say	SHOOTSPOOL
Possum of the funny papers	POGO
Rapper who's a regular on "Law & Order: SVU"	ICET
Repeated sound	ECHO
Roman goddess of peace	PAX
Russian novelist Maxim	GORKI
Singer Tormé	MEL
Site of stitching	SEAM
Six-legged groups?	TRIOS
Some Little League coaches	DADS
Stereo precursor	MONO
Suit fabric	TWILL
Terrier type	WIREHAIRED
They may clash	EGOS
Topaz or tourmaline	GEM
TV's Perlman or Seehorn	RHEA
Watchdog's warnings	GROWLS
Work with the teeth	CHEW