Wall Street Journal - Jan 8 2022 - "Letter Carriers" Crossword Puzzle Solution

 Wall Street Journal - Jan 8 2022 - "Letter Carriers" Crossword Answer

Clues	Answers
"Free Guy" star Reynolds	RYAN
"Girl Before a Mirror" painter	PICASSO
"My bad!"	OOPS
"See here, it's a film fish who's put on weight"?	CHUNKYDORY
"Sex for Dummies" author	DRRUTH
"The guys on Tinder are so much alike—it's eye-catching"?	BACHELORPARITY
"___ be my honor"	ITD
Act the loving parent	DOTE
Annoy	PESTER
Bad thing to get from your boss	THEAX
Banned pesticide	DDT
Base man	CAD
Beekeeper's IQ test?	BRAINGAUGE
Behind the times	OLD
Belong	FITIN
Big payroll service co	ADP
Bottom of the barrel	WORST
Brothers' keeper, of a sort	FRIARY
Buckled	CAVED
Burn brightly	BLAZE
Bus. card info	TEL
Buster who played Flash Gordon	CRABBE
Can. joined it in 1990	OAS
Clunker at sea	TUB
Columbus sch	OSU
Conciliatory offering	SOP
Corvette, e.g	COUPE
Cottonwood trees	ALAMOS
Country west of Benin	TOGO
CPR performers	EMTS
Curly-tailed dogs	PUGS
Day break	SIESTA
Deer dad	STAG
Defeat soundly	CREAM
Deliberately avoid	SHUN
Dole (out)	METE
Dorm leaders, briefly	RAS
Earliest phase	ONSET
Ebb	SUBSIDE
Enterprising type	DOER
Famed art deco designer	ERTE
Feel	TEXTURE
Final order, often	DESSERT
Fluctuate wildly	SEESAW
Focus of many a photo	SELF
Found despicable	LOATHED
Gives some lip	SASSES
Grassy marsh plants	SEDGES
Groups with one more member than a 94-Down	OCTETS
Harvard has had one since 1858	GLEECLUB
Honda's luxury division	ACURA
Ideal area	EDEN
Idealistic	UTOPIAN
Ideally	ATBEST
Infallible authorities	ORACLES
Infatuates	BESOTS
Intelligence agency problem	LEAK
It's like a diamond in the sky	KITE
Jazz ensemble, at times	SEPTET
Jazz scene	UTAH
Jazz selections	NUMBERS
Jazz style	BOP
Katharine Hepburn's four	OSCARS
Keep moist in the oven	BASTE
Knot untiers	EXES
Kylo ___ ("The Force Awakens" character)	REN
Like Braille writing	TACTILE
Like bruschetta	TOASTED
Like bungee cords	ELASTIC
Little people	TOTS
Live	EXIST
Long	YEARN
Lummox	OAF
Lusitania's undoing	TORPEDO
Macho guy wearing vivid red? Why not?	ASTUDINSCARLET
Many charitable grps	NGOS
Many middle schoolers	TWEENS
Mil. buffer area	DMZ
More likely to burn	FAIRER
Needed to put money in a jar, perhaps	SWORE
Nighttime streaker	METEOR
NPR's Totenberg	NINA
Oh no! The beer is gone?	VANISHINGPINT
Org. with schedules	IRS
Outlaw trackers	POSSE
Outperform	TOP
Pacific garland	LEI
Pasty	ASHEN
Patronage	AEGIS
Perfect Sleeper brand	SERTA
Pompeo of "Grey's Anatomy"	ELLEN
President, when signing a bill	ENACTOR
Prof's visitor, perhaps	GRAD
Quilter's supply	FABRICS
Rare Scrabble declaration	IPASS
Relevant	APROPOS
Remedies for measles and chickenpox are missing?	SPOTSMEDICINE
Retiring	SHY
Rollover option for a 401(k)	IRA
Serengeti beasts	GNUS
Settled a score	GOTEVEN
Short shorts	HOTPANTS
Show reluctance	DEMUR
Slot in the end of an arrow	NOCK
Small salamander	NEWT
Snitch	STOOLIE
Sorrowful state	DOLOR
Sourpuss	GRUMP
Steady drone	HUM
Suffocating serpents	BOAS
Swallowed greedily	GULPED
Synagogue	SHUL
Tabloid fare	DIRT
Tad's dad in the White House	ABE
Tea leaves show trouble for a matador?	HORNINHISSIDE
They get folks in a sweat	SAUNAS
Threads in shreds	RAGS
Thumb, for one	TOM
Tibia sites	SHINS
Tiki bar orders	MAITAIS
Tim Tebow, when he won the Heisman	GATOR
Toe woe	CORN
Took away	REMOVED
Toward the stern	AFT
Towel end?	ETTE
Twofold	DUAL
Uncouple	DETACH
Understood only by the few	ARCANE
USPS circuit	RTE
Vert. counterpart	HOR
Verve	DASH
Volkswagen luxury division	AUDI
Where many engagements end	ALTARS
Where you might "see table" in a reference book	ATRIGHT
Wildlife park ranger's tool	DARTGUN
Wing it	FLY
Wise guy	SMARTIE
You came in for pressure to get married?	WEDDINGDURESS
Yucky pond coating	SCUM
___ rule	ASA