Wall Street Journal - Jul 30 2022 - Addled Crossword Puzzle Solutions

 Wall Street Journal - Jul 30 2022 - Addled Crossword Answers

Clues	Answers
"Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness" director	RAIMI
"How was ___ know?"	ITO
"I'd say..." in texts	IMO
"I'm ___" (Ed Sheeran song)	AMESS
"It was worth ___"	ATRY
"Money ___ object"	ISNO
"Old Possum's Book of Practical Cats" writer	ELIOT
Aaron Copland ballet	RODEO
Acquiesce	ACCEDE
Alpine abode	CHALET
Another name for the piranha	CARIBE
Artistic creations	OPUSES
Assistants for authors	TYPISTS
Atlanta university	EMORY
Auditory assaults	DINS
Bellinger of the Dodgers	CODY
Berth in a tournament clinched?	OPENSEALED
Big gulp	CHUG
Bit of fiction	LIE
Block for the stock	SALTLICK
Boosters boost it	MORALE
Boxer's assistant blending in with others?	SECONDCOMINGLED
Brand with a Frosted Lemonade flavor	ICEE
Brotherhood since 1868	ELKS
Canal features	LOCKS
Ceremonial practice	RITE
Cheapen	DEBASE
Chestnuts, e.g	HORSES
Chestnuts, e.g	STEEDS
Chicken ___ (buttery dish)	KIEV
Chum	BESTBUD
Chum	PAL
Collapses under pressure	GIVES
Connects to a space station on a return trip	REDOCKS
Course	ROUTE
Creature in Liberty Mutual commercials	EMU
Crucifix sent down an alley?	CROSSBOWLED
Culmination	ACME
Decrease	DIP
Digression	ASIDE
Distiller's product was a failure?	GINFIZZLED
Dune buggy addition	ROLLBAR
Earn a timeout, maybe	ACTUP
Elizabeth of "Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness"	OLSEN
Excedrin alternative	ADVIL
Extend, as a line	REELOUT
Fanatical followings	CULTS
Fashion designer Posen	ZAC
First perfect number	SIX
Flooring decor choice sorted out?	CARPETTACKLED
Flynn of films	ERROL
Fruit preserved in brine?	CHERRYPICKLED
Fruit salad components	MELONBALLS
Go around	ORBIT
Good for planting, perhaps	LOAMY
High pts	MTS
Hoe target	WEED
Hot	SEXY
Human rights activist Clooney	AMAL
Inconsequential item	TRIFLE
Infant scurried away?	BABYBUSTLED
Invites	ASKS
Italian wine area	ASTI
Krypton, for one	GAS
Laundry challenge	STAIN
Lessen gradually	EBB
Like some auto trim	CHROMED
Like some markers	GENETIC
Limping, say	LAME
List-shortening abbr	ETAL
Longtime Yankees announcer Allen	MEL
Lower in social status	DECLASS
Maintenance	UPKEEP
Make a lot	PAVE
Manipulative fellow	USER
Match makeup	SETS
Mendes of "Hitch"	EVA
Menswear designer Behar	IKE
Moochers	SPONGES
Mother of Castor and Pollux	LEDA
Not of the highest quality	SUBOPTIMAL
Now or before	EVER
Off the hook	LIT
Official agreement	ASSENT
Old Testament book	EZRA
One and only	SOLE
Opposite in character	POLAR
Otherwise	ELSE
P at the Parthenon	RHO
Painter's paste	GESSO
Pentathletes wield them	EPEES
Pics on pecs	TATS
Pivotal	KEY
Plains tribe	KANSA
Player on a golf course	GARY
Potential embryo	OVUM
Preceding time	EVE
Prepares to fire	AIMS
Pride letters	LGBT
Private doctors	MEDICS
Radio operator committed larceny?	HAMBURGLED
Rafter's challenge	RAPIDS
Ran out	LAPSED
Reference words	SEEALSO
Regular hexahedron	CUBE
Retailer begun as a seller of fishing gear	ORVIS
Run-scoring out, for short	SAC
Sauce thickener	ROUX
Scale	CLIMB
Scott of "Hawaii Five-0"	CAAN
Shop tool bent under pressure?	SAWBUCKLED
Show interrupters	ADS
Skeptical reactions	SNORTS
Skin soother	LOTION
Space	ROOM
Spicy Mexican marinade	ADOBO
Stand	RISE
Stephen of "The Crying Game"	REA
Surface	EXTERNAL
Sympathetic words	ICARE
Tank top	TURRET
These, in Tours	CES
They should be washed on a gentle cycle	DELICATES
They're easily swayed	PUSHOVERS
Thurman of films	UMA
Title cocker spaniel in a Disney film	LADY
Title princess in a Gilbert and Sullivan opera	IDA
Too precious for words	CUTESY
Toothpaste choice	GEL
Trained team	CADRE
Tureen fill	SOUP
UFO crew	ETS
Verb for Latin lovers	AMO
Well-versed sort	POET
Winning World Series manager in 1996, 1998, 1999 and 2000	TORRE
Won back	RETAKEN
Word of honor	VOW
Word that's ironically a trochee	IAMB
Yield to wanderlust	ROVE
You can part with them	COMBS