Wall Street Journal – Aug 24 2021 – “A Remote Possibility” Crossword Answer
Published in Wall Street Journal Crossword.
| Clues | Answers |
| “Bo-ber-ley, bo-na-na fanna, fo-fer-ley” song, with “The” | NAMEGAME |
| “Night” author Wiesel | ELIE |
| “Only Girl (In the World)” singer, to fans | RIRI |
| 401, in old Rome | CDI |
| A person’s inner warmth? | CORETEMPERATURE |
| Area of expertise | DOMAIN |
| Atlas expanse | SEA |
| Bit of information | DATUM |
| Bobbles the ball | ERRS |
| Brand for natural hair | ASIAM |
| Cause of quaking | FEAR |
| Colombian currency | PESO |
| Comics Harvey and Martin | STEVES |
| Computing pioneer Turing | ALAN |
| Deem legit | ALLOW |
| Do some groveling | KOWTOW |
| Dove’s goal | PEACE |
| Ending for racket or rocket | EER |
| Equal (with) | ONPAR |
| Eschew the office, and what you get with the circled words | WORKFROMHOME |
| Extremely relaxed | ZEN |
| Fair | JUST |
| Fencer’s sword | EPEE |
| Foregoing | PRIOR |
| Gibbon, e.g | APE |
| Gramps’s partner | NANA |
| Harlem theater “where stars are born and legends are made” | APOLLO |
| Having trouble | INASPOT |
| His customers include Barney, Carl and Lenny | MOE |
| In ___ of (replacing) | LIEU |
| Inside cover of many a fantasy novel | MAP |
| Joe with less jolt | DECAF |
| Knock on, as a door | RAPAT |
| Lab science, for short | CHEM |
| Lacking in vitality | ANEMIC |
| Last letter | ZEE |
| Letter before iota | THETA |
| Letters on Soviet rockets | CCCP |
| Like Yale, since 1969 | COED |
| Linen source | FLAX |
| Lost after leading, perhaps | BLEW |
| Make reparations | ATONE |
| Music of Mingus, Monk and Metheny | JAZZ |
| Neither partner | NOR |
| No longer are | WERE |
| No longer into | OVER |
| Norway’s king before Harald | OLAV |
| Of a particular race or culture | ETHNIC |
| One of two title characters in a book with one title character | JEKYLL |
| Online address | URL |
| Org. that issues nine-digit numbers | SSA |
| Paid gig | JOB |
| Pair for Gregory Hines | TAPSHOES |
| Pakistan’s second-largest city | LAHORE |
| Patella’s place | KNEE |
| Payment for a hand | ANTE |
| Penetrating | KEEN |
| Peninsula’s opposite | INLET |
| Popular tablets | IPADS |
| Practical dorm hanging | CORKBOARD |
| Practice in which you have to know when to fold ’em? | ORIGAMI |
| Relay team member | ANCHOR |
| Roughly half of babies | SONS |
| Salacious selfies | SEXTS |
| Sheep sound | BAA |
| Sis’s sib | BRO |
| Sluggers’ showcase in the All-Star break | HOMERUNDERBY |
| Smell | ODOR |
| Speaker’s aid | NOTES |
| Sporting summary | RECAP |
| Start to gather energy, like a crowd | COMEALIVE |
| Straightforward | DIRECT |
| Take in | SEE |
| Tears | RIPS |
| Treat with green tea and lemon ice varieties in Japan | OREO |
| ___ culpa | MEA |