Wall Street Journal - February 11 2020 - Private Sector
| Clues | Answers |
| “Deck the Halls” contraction | TIS |
| “Just playing with you!” | IKID |
| “Smooth Operator” singer | SADE |
| “Sure!” | YES |
| “This may not be an appropriate question...” | DAREIASK |
| “You ___ Here” | ARE |
| *Ad question since 1993 | GOTMILK |
| *Expensive cut | FILETMIGNON |
| *Just under the wire | LASTMINUTE |
| *Machine with a revolving drum | CEMENTMIXER |
| *Rite of passage for a Jewish girl | BATMITZVAH |
| 40-Across, in Acapulco | OTRO |
| Advanced in rank | PROMOTED |
| Bar brew | BEER |
| Bar brews | ALES |
| Be in a cast | ACT |
| Bean used to make miso | SOYA |
| Big name in potato products | OREIDA |
| Bit of whiskey | TOT |
| Boiling blood | IRE |
| Bought | PAIDFOR |
| Business VIP | CEO |
| Capitol Hill worker | AIDE |
| Chair designer Charles | EAMES |
| Compete | VIE |
| Count start | ONE |
| Crude group? | OPEC |
| Cube and cone, e.g | SOLIDS |
| Different | OTHER |
| Fabled ocean creatures | MERMEN |
| Facilitates | EASES |
| German automaker | OPEL |
| Granola bit | OAT |
| He broke Ruth’s record in 1974 | AARON |
| He lost the Millennium Falcon to Han | LANDO |
| Heat in the microwave | ZAP |
| High points | ACMES |
| Impressive, slangily | HECKUVA |
| Iridescent gem | OPAL |
| Labor leader? | MOTHER |
| Lane’s Daily Planet co-worker | KENT |
| Like some dorm rooms and divorces | MESSY |
| Linguist Chomsky | NOAM |
| Machu Picchu locale | PERU |
| Made fast | MOORED |
| Major-___ | DOMO |
| Marking on Soviet rockets | CCCP |
| Neighbor of Braz. and Arg | URU |
| Not supporting | ANTI |
| Old anesthetic | ETHER |
| Overtake | GOPAST |
| Party time, maybe | EVE |
| Peculiar | ODD |
| Phone reading | |
| Polite denial | NOSIR |
| Pressure point? | PEER |
| Response to oversharing found in this puzzle’s starred answers | TMI |
| Rude way to chew gum | NOISILY |
| Schwarzenegger, jokingly | AHNOLD |
| Shakespearean sprite | ARIEL |
| Shirkers for workers | GOOFOFFS |
| Singer LaBelle | PATTI |
| Smarted | STUNG |
| Sound of impact | BAM |
| Sporty Chevys | VETTES |
| Stubborn equine | ASS |
| Tolstoy heroine Anna | KARENINA |
| Trendy oil ingredient derived from marijuana | CBD |
| Trying to break a tie, informally | INOT |
| Unfairly manipulated, as the system | GAMED |
| Unit of illuminance | LUX |
| Verse form used by Dante | SESTINA |
| Victim of a 2006 demotion | PLUTO |
| Was of use | AVAILED |
| Was the lead singer of | FRONTED |
| ___ Alamos | LOS |
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