Wall Street Journal - Jan 13 2022 - "Namedropping" Crossword Puzzle Solution

 Wall Street Journal - Jan 13 2022 - "Namedropping" Crossword Answer

Clues	Answers
"Hamilton" won one in 2015	OBIE
"Here Is Your War" writer Ernie	PYLE
"Where Is the Life That Late ___?" ("Kiss Me Kate" song)	ILED
"___ of the Mind" (Sam Shepard play)	ALIE
1975 Wimbledon champ	ASHE
Adventurer Heyerdahl	THOR
Anglo-Saxon character	RUNE
Attracted	DREW
Babysitter, often	TEEN
Banded stone	ONYX
Blockbuster feature	WIDEAPPEAL
Blubbery beast	SEAL
Canine setting	JAW
Casually dressed	TSHIRTED
Chrysalis, e.g	PUPA
Co. division	DEPT
Consequently	ERGO
Converse	CHAT
Crêperie item	PAN
Cutter crew	TARS
Demonstrate dejection	MOPE
Ensures the failure of	DOOMS
Frisbee, e.g	DISC
Galley item	OAR
Genesis creator	SEGA
Get into	DON
Gill opening	SLIT
Give the slip	LOSE
GM CEO Barra	MARY
Great deal	PILE
Green feature	HOLE
Heels	CADS
Hosp. areas	ORS
Innovative flash	IDEA
It includes Justice and Death	TAROTDECK
It indicates the beats: Abbr	ECG
It precludes crossing party lines	CLOSEDPRIM
James Buchanan or Woodrow Wilson, e.g	PRESBYTERI
Mamoru Oshii’s specialty	ANIME
Many a short-story contest entrant	BUDDINGAUT
Mini buss	PECK
Museum embarrassment	FAKE
Nagasaki’s island	KYUSHU
Napoleon or Nero: Abbr	EMP
Neighbor	ABUT
New York mayor Adams	ERIC
Nice round number?	PAR
Petition for	SEEK
Polish language	EDIT
Post	JOB
Private doctor	MEDIC
Provincial	RUBE
Rack spot	TORTURECHA
Ready for a massage	ACHY
Reduction in hostility	THAW
Runner in the Olympics	SKI
Scoutmaster’s charge	TROOP
Skin soother	ALOE
Sparkly headgear	TIARA
Squadron	UNIT
Still having a shot at winning	INIT
Supermodel Valletta	AMBER
Surname of three of the O.K. Corral combatants	EARP
Swimmer Thorpe	IAN
Terminated	AXED
That’s a wrap	SCARF
Tires make them	RUTS
Top 40 entry	POPRECORD
Topics for historians	ERAS
Towers over	DWARFS
Understood by very few	ESOTE
Untouched area	EDEN
Venture	BET
Volcanic craters	CALDERAS
When things are most desperate	HOUROFNEED
Works on a shift, perhaps	SEWS