Wall Street Journal - Crossword Answers | 2022 12 22

crossword answers
Clue Answer
Some are cheap SEATS
IMPLORE BEG
Spa town noted for its salts EPSOM
CHARLATAN PHONY
SMALL SAMPLE NIP
Split results EXES
SIGHED WORD ALAS
TIME OF RECKONING DDAY
Locket features CLASPS
MOB TARGET RAT
This puzzle might not make it at first SENSE
Heartless person BEAST
INCISE ETCH
Zoological plural frowned on by sticklers OCTOPI
POCKET EARN
Prepared for a punch TENSED
Requiring loads of attention NEEDY
HEART CRUX
PAPER PIECES OPEDS
Add 20 on 100, say LEAVEATIP
EYE IMPERTINENTLY OGLE
Flashers in clubs STROBES
2015 HBO biopic starring Queen Latifah BESSIE
“What’s stopping you?” GOAHEAD
Jake Tapper’s employer CNN
HOME TO A FAMOUS MAUSOLEUM AGRA
Frigate frames HULLS
NARROW CUT SLIT
Some Okefenokee fauna TOADS
Breakdown necessities TOWS
Hardly one-star DELUXE
SOUCHONG ALTERNATIVE PEKOE
Put on, as a pedestal SETATOP
Group of subs BTEAM
BIT OF FORCE DYNE
Dope, datedly PHAT
Oscar winner for “Goodfellas” PESCI
READY TO DRIVE TEED
COMMOTION STIR
Blue books, e.g SMUT
Marsalis family patriarch ELLIS
LAST KING OF TROY PRIAM
Anakin’s son LUKE
100-cent currency EURO
PRAISE EFFUSIVELY GUSH
SMALL FRY TYKE
BE DECISIVE OPT
Promising start to a certain alliance? IDOS
RELIEF AID
REEF RESIDENTS EELS
EXPRESSION FOR OZYMANDIAS SNEER
Anakin’s daughter LEIA
FINISH BEHIND LOSETO
POPS DAD
Cuban Missile Crisis org CIA
Qumran Natl. Pk. site ISR
APPROPRIATE ANNEX
FOREST FEMALES DOES
Jazz pianist McCann LES
Majorca-to-Minorca dir ENE
GROUP SURROUNDING A STAR POSSE
Rhode Island’s motto HOPE
Flue flakes ASH