Wall Street Journal - Dec 14 2019 - Why Bother?
| Clues | Answers |
| "A Little Priest" from "Sweeney Todd," e.g | DUET |
| "At Seventeen" singer Janis | IAN |
| "Don't budge!" | STAYHERE |
| "Easy to Be Hard" show | HAIR |
| "Evita" lyricist | TIMRICE |
| "Gigi" star | CARON |
| "See if I care!" | SOSUEME |
| "Skedaddle!" | SCAT |
| "Wow!" | GOSH |
| "___ ain't broke..." | IFIT |
| A month abroad | ENERO |
| A pop | EACH |
| Anise-flavored liqueurs | OUZOS |
| Anna and Elsa's quarrel? | FROZENFEUD |
| Arguing | ATIT |
| Artist Chagall | MARC |
| Barcelona boy | NINO |
| Begat | SIRED |
| Beginning | ASOF |
| Belittle | ABASE |
| Berle's avuncular nickname | MILTIE |
| Bigger than med | LGE |
| Boorish | ILLBRED |
| Born in France | NEE |
| Breakfast dish | PORRIDGE |
| Bright and cheery | SUNNY |
| Bring to a boil | ENRAGE |
| Buffalo Bill's surname | CODY |
| Catcher-turned-spy Berg | MOE |
| Cellist with 18 Grammys | YOYOMA |
| Cheshire Cat trademark | GRIN |
| Chu ___ (Chinese philosopher) | HSI |
| Churning out book after book, say | PROLIFIC |
| Cluster | GROUP |
| Colleague of John, Clarence, Ruth, Stephen, Samuel, Elena, Neil and Brett | SONIA |
| Colorful Eurasian birds | BLUETITS |
| Crooner Michael | BOLTON |
| Cruise vehicle | MOVIE |
| Custer's problem at Little Bighorn? | FEWFIGHTERS |
| Directional suffix | ERN |
| Dispatched | SENT |
| Do some brainstorming | IDEATE |
| Do some tailoring | SEW |
| Drive | COMPEL |
| Economize | SCRIMP |
| Empty | BARE |
| Established | SET |
| Exile on Dagobah | YODA |
| Existed in the past | WERE |
| Far from fresh | OLD |
| Fed. biomedical agcy | NIH |
| Flow of agua | RIO |
| Forerunner of Carson and Fallon | PAAR |
| Furious feeling | IRE |
| Garr of "Close Encounters of the Third Kind" | TERI |
| Gave the once-over | EYED |
| Go astray | ERR |
| Got mushy | MELTED |
| Gotham City tycoon | WAYNE |
| Govt. org. that aids entrepreneurs | SBA |
| Grow wider | DILATE |
| Immigrant's subj | ESL |
| Inc. relatives | LLCS |
| Inclined | ASLOPE |
| Inconsistent | SPOTTY |
| Islands dish | POI |
| Japan's prime minister | ABE |
| Keats works | ODES |
| Lennon's love | ONO |
| Like 1954's "A Star Is Born" in 2018 | REMADE |
| Like many radios | AMFM |
| Like some nuts | SALTED |
| Like some salad dressings | ONIONY |
| Like the Fr. "terre" or Ger. "Erde" | FEM |
| Little devils | IMPS |
| Luminary | PERSONAGE |
| Massage locale | SPA |
| Mathematician Turing | ALAN |
| Mediator's position | INBETWEEN |
| Miner's evaluation | OREASSAY |
| Mooch | SPONGE |
| Name that's an Italian number | OTTO |
| Nearsighted ones | MYOPES |
| Norwegian tour guide? | FJORDESCORT |
| Not just see | RAISE |
| Olive or hazel | TREE |
| On the briny | ASEA |
| Onetime co-host of Kathie Lee | REGIS |
| Other, in Oaxaca | OTRA |
| Pallid | WAN |
| Possible result of saying 6-Down | CIVILCASE |
| Posted | STATIONED |
| Printer's dagger | OBELUS |
| Promise | VOW |
| Put out | ISSUED |
| Put to the test | PROVE |
| Reclusive tycoon's favorite color? | HUGHESHUE |
| Response to "Grazie!" | PREGO |
| Retired prof's title | EMERITA |
| Roadies' burdens | AMPS |
| Roll call no-show | AWOL |
| Sanctified | BLEST |
| Score in charades? | MUTEPOINT |
| Scottish baron | THANE |
| Selfish friend | USER |
| Set the pace | LED |
| Shoe insert | ODOREATER |
| Since Jan. 1 | YTD |
| Sinuous fish | EELS |
| Slogan of supporters of Russia's status quo? | NYETCHANGE |
| Smallville girl | LANA |
| Solitary | LONE |
| Some prehistoric sheep? | PRIMORDIALEWES |
| Some socks | ARGYLES |
| Some tomatoes | ROMAS |
| Sound from a cat fancier's phone? | MEWEDRING |
| Sphere opening | STRATO |
| Stag | DATELESS |
| Start of a conclusion | ERGO |
| Still developing | INUTERO |
| Student's focus | MAJOR |
| Sweetums | DEAR |
| Teen fave | IDOL |
| Tennis great Arthur | ASHE |
| To counterpart | FRO |
| Tolkien creature | ENT |
| TV network, e.g | AIRER |
| Underwear fabric | TRICOT |
| Unexciting | DRY |
| University in Bethlehem | LEHIGH |
| Unsavory urges? | GROSSYEARNINGS |
| Vienna premiere of April 1805 | EROICA |
| Volcano near Catania | ETNA |
| Volt squared per watt | OHM |
| Wander aimlessly | GAD |
| Western gambling center | RENO |
| What V-J Day ended | WWII |
| Whopper part | BEEFPATTY |
| Winnebago tribe | OTOE |
| Worker in a garden | BEE |
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