Wall Street Journal - Crossword Answers | 2022 12 22

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