Wall Street Journal - Crossword Answers | 2022 01 08

crossword answers
Clue Answer
“Free Guy” star Reynolds RYAN
“Girl Before a Mirror” painter PICASSO
“My bad!” OOPS
“See here, it’s a film fish who’s put on weight”? CHUNKYDORY
“The guys on Tinder are so much alike—it’s eye-catching”? BACHELORPARITY
“___ be my honor” ITD
ANNOY PESTER
Beekeeper’s IQ test? BRAINGAUGE
BUS. CARD INFO TEL
Can. joined it in 1990 OAS
FLUCTUATE WILDLY SEESAW
DOLE (OUT) METE
IDEALLY ATBEST
DAY BREAK SIESTA
EBB SUBSIDE
FEEL TEXTURE
JAZZ STYLE BOP
Clunker at sea TUB
BUSTER WHO PLAYED FLASH GORDON CRABBE
BURN BRIGHTLY BLAZE
Country west of Benin TOGO
Dorm leaders, briefly RAS
Earliest phase ONSET
Enterprising type DOER
Famed art deco designer ERTE
Final order, often DESSERT
Focus of many a photo SELF
Honda’s luxury division ACURA
Ideal area EDEN
Jazz ensemble, at times SEPTET
Jazz scene UTAH
Jazz selections NUMBERS
BUCKLED CAVED
WISE GUY SMARTIE
THUMB, FOR ONE TOM
BELONG FITIN
BASE MAN CAD
TWOFOLD DUAL
BANNED PESTICIDE DDT
LIVE EXIST
___ RULE ASA
Intelligence agency problem LEAK
PASTY ASHEN
LUMMOX OAF
SNITCH STOOLIE
Cottonwood trees ALAMOS
CONCILIATORY OFFERING SOP
DEFEAT SOUNDLY CREAM
DEER DAD STAG
GIVES SOME LIP SASSES
DELIBERATELY AVOID SHUN
Columbus sch OSU
IDEALISTIC UTOPIAN
CURLY-TAILED DOGS PUGS
Infatuates BESOTS
Knot untiers EXES
Corvette, e.g COUPE
CPR performers EMTS
SHOW RELUCTANCE DEMUR
SMALL SALAMANDER NEWT
TOE WOE CORN
LONG YEARN
VERVE DASH
SYNAGOGUE SHUL
SETTLED A SCORE GOTEVEN
Big payroll service co ADP
Harvard has had one since 1858 GLEECLUB
Grassy marsh plants SEDGES
Found despicable LOATHED
RELEVANT APROPOS
STEADY DRONE HUM
RETIRING SHY
SOURPUSS GRUMP
TIBIA SITES SHINS
Like Braille writing TACTILE
Like bruschetta TOASTED
Lusitania’s undoing TORPEDO
Macho guy wearing vivid red? Why not? ASTUDINSCARLET
Many charitable grps NGOS
Mil. buffer area DMZ
More likely to burn FAIRER
Needed to put money in a jar, perhaps SWORE
Nighttime streaker METEOR
Oh no! The beer is gone? VANISHINGPINT
Outlaw trackers POSSE
President, when signing a bill ENACTOR
Prof’s visitor, perhaps GRAD
Quilter’s supply FABRICS
Rare Scrabble declaration IPASS
Remedies for measles and chickenpox are missing? SPOTSMEDICINE
Rollover option for a 401(k) IRA
Serengeti beasts GNUS
Suffocating serpents BOAS
Tabloid fare DIRT
Tea leaves show trouble for a matador? HORNINHISSIDE
They get folks in a sweat SAUNAS
Towel end? ETTE
USPS circuit RTE
Volkswagen luxury division AUDI
Where many engagements end ALTARS
Where you might “see table” in a reference book ATRIGHT
Wildlife park ranger’s tool DARTGUN
You came in for pressure to get married? WEDDINGDURESS
Yucky pond coating SCUM
PATRONAGE AEGIS
Little people TOTS
Like bungee cords ELASTIC
Kylo ___ (“The Force Awakens” character) REN
Pompeo of “Grey’s Anatomy” ELLEN
TOOK AWAY REMOVED
SWALLOWED GREEDILY GULPED
WING IT FLY
OUTPERFORM TOP
VERT. COUNTERPART HOR
PERFECT SLEEPER BRAND SERTA
SHORT SHORTS HOTPANTS
SORROWFUL STATE DOLOR
Threads in shreds RAGS
UNCOUPLE DETACH
TIKI BAR ORDERS MAITAIS
Many middle schoolers TWEENS
Pacific garland LEI
NPR’s Totenberg NINA