Wall Street Journal - Crossword Answers | 2022 02 12

crossword answers
Clue Answer
ANNOYING SORT PEST
Basis for some vaccines RNA
“Wonder Woman” villain ARES
“Odyssey” sorceress CIRCE
“I’ll Bet ___ Nice” (Beach Boys song) HES
“I Ain’t Marching Any More” singer Phil OCHS
“Every seat is spoken for,” on B’way SRO
“Easy on Me” singer ADELE
“Don Carlo” composer VERDI
“A Writer’s Life” writer TALESE
BRIEF RESPITE SIESTA
BOORISH CRASS
BASIC FRENCH VERB ETRE
BARELY GETS (BY) EKES
APPROXIMATELY ORSO
Approx. fig EST
ABOUT INRE
1998 SARAH MCLACHLAN HIT ADIA
BLUEGRASS INSTRUMENTS BASSFIDDLES
“Gotcha” ISEE
FORMER FILLY MARE
Billowing blasts GUSTS
Bounded box AREA
Common comment graphic MEME
Common cult leader delusion SAVIORCOMPLEX
Curative elixirs TONICS
Exam for a future public defender, for short LSAT
Feature of 28-Across STAGGERINGDEBT
Feature of 40-Across HOPPINGMAD
DORMANT LATENT
PERIOD OF WORK STINT
BOOT OUST
GOES BY ELAPSES
SETTLE DECIDE
PUT FORWARD POSITED
Boulogne-___-Mer SUR
Apt name for an Uber driver OTTO
DISTORT SKEW
COMPUTER CAPACITY MEMORY
CLOCK FACE DIAL
GLOSSARY ENTRY TERM
STUDIO FEE RENT
OOZE SEEP
BBC CLOCK SETTING GMT
TURN SHARPLY VEER
SPANAKOPITA INGREDIENT FETA
FENCING OPTION EPEE
LOCH OF LEGEND NESS
EXCELLENT MARK APLUS
CONFINES SHUTSIN
DEETS INFO
Crème de la crème ELITE
SOON INABIT
Four Corners people UTES
Feature of 55-Across SKIPPEDROPE
Feature of 23-Across STEPPINGASIDE
PHYSICIST FERMI ENRICO
HIGH SPIRITS PEP
STORIED VOYAGER SINBAD
Curly-haired girl of old comics LITTLELULU
RAPPER/ACTOR ___ DEF MOS
Give preferential treatment to FAVOR
UNDERCOVER OPERATIONS STINGS
SIGHS OF DELIGHT AHS
PATISSERIE WORKERS ICERS
Heavy metal bands? ORES
Jotter’s tool PEN
Like “Romeo and Juliet” TRAGIC
Lisa’s sib BART
Manipulated, as expense figures MASSAGED
Member of a certain septet ASIA
NFL cornerback Burns ARTIE
Number on a vowel tile in Scrabble ONE
Cubs’ home, informally CHITOWN
Pigskin, e.g HIDE
Popcorn purchase TUB
FAKE NOTREAL
Prepared for company CLEANED
Prerequisite for merging in traffic GAP
Queen of Jordan before Queen Rania NOOR
Raymond’s condition in “Rain Man” AUTISM
School mates FISH
Some referendum votes YESES
Spectral indication of a receding galaxy REDSHIFT
Spots, perhaps RASH
Starts to celebrate and ceases? SOFTCS
Station stuff GAS
Stuns to silence AWES
Tablet input devices STYLI
Tea party setting? HARBOR
They’re sometimes inflated EGOS
Top hat or race car, in Monopoly TOKEN
CASUAL DENIAL UNHUNH
What chiromancers read PALMS
GOES TOE-TO-TOE DOESBATTLE
SUMS TOTESUP
REJUVENATION STATION SPA
HULA ACCOMPANIMENT UKE
REGISTER SIGNUP
MORE AVANT-GARDE EDGIER
SOUND, FOR EXAMPLE INLET
PAY UP? RAISE
STADIUM CALL OLE
GOVT.-ISSUED SECURITY TBOND
VIRTUAL PEOPLE SIMS
TROUBLESOME TYKES IMPS
Jewelry buy CHAIN
NEARLY ALLBUT
Small-screen reading TEXT
Lang. of Leipzig GER
Quarters, informally DIGS
Rock box AMP
Hug tightly ENCLASP
Saturn’s largest moon TITAN
TAKE CARE OF TENDTO
What many try to find in Hollywood FAMEANDFORTUNE
Posse people DEPUTIES
Trendy 1980s Manhattan nightclub NELLS
V-J DAY ENDED IT WWII
TOASTED SANDWICH PANINI
Pew separators AISLES
Our, in Abruzzo NOSTRA
Musses TOUSLES