Wall Street Journal - Dec 9 2021 - "Undercover" Crossword Puzzle Solution

 Wall Street Journal - Dec 9 2021 - "Undercover" Crossword Answer

Clues	Answers
“Blame It ___” (1984 romantic comedy)	ONRIO
“La Brea” airer	NBC
“Strange thing is...”	ODDLY
Add to the team	HIRE
Affectionate	TENDER
Ant’s prize	CRUMB
Anvil sound	CLANG
Apple or potato variety	RUSSET
Banish	EXPEL
Bird, e.g	CELTIC
Book of scanned photos?	ISPY
Buddy of “Breakfast at Tiffany’s”	EBSEN
Candidate for a reduced sentence?	RUNON
Catering container	URN
Caught without an umbrella	SOAKED
Close	NIGH
Clunker	DUD
Delivery from a rev	SER
Demonstrate derision	SCOFF
Erosion during a downpour	BRAINWASHED
Expected	DUE
Fire	CAN
Fishy dish for which a Thames island is named	EELPIE
Further on in this text	BELOW
Green acres	LEA
Hardly a lot of	FEW
Hold up	DELAY
Hooter hatcher	BOWLEGGED
Humdrum existence	RUT
Ill-gotten gains	BRIBE
Ill-gotten gains	LUCRE
Imitative of	ALA
Inclined to verbosity	GASSY
Inner ear	COB
Inquisitive interjections	EHS
Like Cinnabon’s cinnamon rolls	ICED
Like some ticket recipients	FINED
Maaco challenges	DENTS
Make merry	ELATE
Mariner’s turn	ATBAT
Mauna ___	KEA
Meeting place of ancient Rome	BATHS
Monarch with gilt feelings	MIDAS
Movement attracting lots of followers	BANDWAGON
Needs a massage	ACHES
Nod off	DROWSE
Noise	BRACKETED
Nut case	SHELL
Outfit	EQUIP
Pacific welcome	ALOHA
Payne known as the “First Lady of the Black Press”	ETHEL
Phila.-to-NYC dir	NNE
Place to pull over in an emergency	BROADSHOULDERED
Put to rest, or what the answers to the clues at 17-, 23-, 37- and 49-Across are	TUCKEDINBED
Realm destroyed in “Thor: Ragnarok”	ASGARD
Rollover target	IRA
Saturate	SOP
Senators’ grp	NHL
Shady	SLY
Shakes of the head	NOS
Show breaks	ADS
Spending limit	CAP
Starts the day	GETSUP
Suggest	OPINE
Swift shark	MAKO
The present day?	XMAS
Timetables, informally	SKEDS
Topples (over)	KEELS
Tops	AONE
Tore	SPED
UFO bunch	ETS
Unfortunate occurrence	MISHAP
Vaccine basis	RNA
Vehicles with tracks	ARMYTANKS
Water colors	AQUAS
Wolf pack members	UBOATS