Wall Street Journal Puzzle December 22, 2023, Answers

ACROSS

• Susan who played Laurie Partridge
  DEY
• Pill bottle info
  DOSAGE
• Santa’s lap for a wishful tot
  SEAT
• Copying
  AFTER
• Wandering animal
  STRAY
• Future hawks or doves
  EGGS
• Many a Christmas tree
  FIR
• Home for hens
  COOP
• The casino in Casino
  TANGIERS
• Boozehound
  SOT
• Gray and Hutchinson
  ASAS
• What a shame!
  SOSAD
• New Zealand birds
  KIWI
• Mathematical rings
  TORI
• Fruitcake bit
  NUT
• Sounds from geese
  HONKS
• Silhouettes of swans
  GODET
• Day-___ (fluorescent paint)
  GLO
• Middle-earth meanies
  ORCS
• ___ Daughter (1970 David Lean movie)
  RYANS
• Butlers and maids
  SERVANTS
• Monkey in Disney’s Aladdin
  ABU
• Country singer Clark
  ROY
• Loses color
  FADE
• Yank’s foe
  REB
• Finishes the cupcakes say
  ICES
• Low-voiced ladies
  ALTOS
• Feudal lords
  SEIGNEURS
• How still we see ___ lie (O Little Town of Bethlehem lyric)
  DEEP
• X sometimes
  TIMES
• Yellow
  SPINELESS
• Some Pipers
  APPETISER
• Debtor’s letters
  IOUS
• Layered treat
  OREO
• Report to Mom
  TATTLE
• Saddler’s tool
  AWL
• Whale groups
  PODS
• Perches for drummers
  STOOLS
• Rockin’ Around the Christmas Tree singer Brenda
  LEE

DOWN

• Ludicrous
  CROOKED
• East of Eden director Kazan
  ELIA
• Christmas sweater makeup
  ANGORA
• Stare ___ (honoring of precedent)
  COMINGSOON
• Name of many an Irish pub
  OSHEA
• Starts to wake
  STIRS
• Snowball trajectories
  ARCS
• Slime on Nickelodeon’s Double Dare
  GOO
• Tacky lawn ornaments e.g.
  KITSCH
• Religious offshoots
  SECTS
• Analyst’s concern
  DATA
• In the past
  AGO
• Recipe amt.
  TBS
• ___ the winter of our discontent (Richard III opening)
  NOW
• Stares stupidly
  GAWKS
• Mubarak of Egypt
  HOSNI
• Boxing trainer Dundee
  ANGELO
• Site of some Washington touchdowns
  DULLES
• California champagne brand
  KORBEL
• Nocturnal demons
  INCUBI
• Old autocrats
  TSARS
• Snowy parts of mountains
  NAPES
• Frost
  TIP
• ___ Bay (Antarctic inlet)
  ICE
• Return needs
  TAGS
• Envious critic
  HATER
• Quite snug
  COSY
• Gratifies
  FEEDS
• Sighed words
  ALAS
• Devices that Alexa answers
  ECHOES
• Loyal sidekick of old TV
  TONTO
• Roman censor
  CATO
• Clock part
  GEAR
• Rob of 9-1-1: Lone Star
  LOWE
• Season with 12 days according to a song
  CHRISTMAS
• Fireplace item
  LOG
• Plan for senior yrs.
  IRA
• Ring rock
  GEM
• Back muscle for short
  LAT