Wall Street Journal - Crossword Answers | 2022 02 12

crossword answers
Clue Answer
ANNOYING SORT PEST
FAKE NOTREAL
BRIEF RESPITE SIESTA
FORMER FILLY MARE
BOOT OUST
BLUEGRASS INSTRUMENTS BASSFIDDLES
DORMANT LATENT
BOORISH CRASS
Basis for some vaccines RNA
BASIC FRENCH VERB ETRE
BARELY GETS (BY) EKES
Apt name for an Uber driver OTTO
APPROXIMATELY ORSO
Approx. fig EST
ABOUT INRE
COMPUTER CAPACITY MEMORY
1998 SARAH MCLACHLAN HIT ADIA
“Wonder Woman” villain ARES
“Odyssey” sorceress CIRCE
“I’ll Bet ___ Nice” (Beach Boys song) HES
“I Ain’t Marching Any More” singer Phil OCHS
“Gotcha” ISEE
Four Corners people UTES
Billowing blasts GUSTS
Bounded box AREA
Common comment graphic MEME
Common cult leader delusion SAVIORCOMPLEX
Cubs’ home, informally CHITOWN
Curative elixirs TONICS
Curly-haired girl of old comics LITTLELULU
Exam for a future public defender, for short LSAT
Feature of 28-Across STAGGERINGDEBT
Feature of 40-Across HOPPINGMAD
Feature of 55-Across SKIPPEDROPE
“Every seat is spoken for,” on B’way SRO
PERIOD OF WORK STINT
SOON INABIT
“Easy on Me” singer ADELE
SETTLE DECIDE
“Don Carlo” composer VERDI
PUT FORWARD POSITED
NEARLY ALLBUT
“A Writer’s Life” writer TALESE
DISTORT SKEW
CLOCK FACE DIAL
GOES BY ELAPSES
GLOSSARY ENTRY TERM
CONFINES SHUTSIN
Boulogne-___-Mer SUR
EXCELLENT MARK APLUS
PATISSERIE WORKERS ICERS
BBC CLOCK SETTING GMT
FENCING OPTION EPEE
CASUAL DENIAL UNHUNH
DEETS INFO
Crème de la crème ELITE
Give preferential treatment to FAVOR
SPANAKOPITA INGREDIENT FETA
PHYSICIST FERMI ENRICO
TURN SHARPLY VEER
LOCH OF LEGEND NESS
STUDIO FEE RENT
OOZE SEEP
HIGH SPIRITS PEP
STADIUM CALL OLE
Quarters, informally DIGS
STORIED VOYAGER SINBAD
UNDERCOVER OPERATIONS STINGS
SIGHS OF DELIGHT AHS
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
Pigskin, e.g HIDE
Popcorn purchase TUB
Posse people DEPUTIES
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
What chiromancers read PALMS
HULA ACCOMPANIMENT UKE
TOASTED SANDWICH PANINI
RAPPER/ACTOR ___ DEF MOS
MORE AVANT-GARDE EDGIER
V-J DAY ENDED IT WWII
SOUND, FOR EXAMPLE INLET
PAY UP? RAISE
REJUVENATION STATION SPA
Musses TOUSLES
Small-screen reading TEXT
VIRTUAL PEOPLE SIMS
Lang. of Leipzig GER
Hug tightly ENCLASP
Saturn’s largest moon TITAN
Rock box AMP
TROUBLESOME TYKES IMPS
Jewelry buy CHAIN
Pew separators AISLES
What many try to find in Hollywood FAMEANDFORTUNE
Trendy 1980s Manhattan nightclub NELLS
Our, in Abruzzo NOSTRA
TAKE CARE OF TENDTO
GOES TOE-TO-TOE DOESBATTLE
GOVT.-ISSUED SECURITY TBOND
SUMS TOTESUP
Feature of 23-Across STEPPINGASIDE
REGISTER SIGNUP