Wall Street Journal - Crossword Answers | 2022 12 22

crossword answers
Clue Answer
NARROW CUT SLIT
Blue books, e.g SMUT
BE DECISIVE OPT
Anakin’s daughter LEIA
Add 20 on 100, say LEAVEATIP
Anakin’s son LUKE
100-cent currency EURO
APPROPRIATE ANNEX
IMPLORE BEG
SIGHED WORD ALAS
BIT OF FORCE DYNE
Breakdown necessities TOWS
POPS DAD
Flue flakes ASH
CHARLATAN PHONY
Hardly one-star DELUXE
Heartless person BEAST
COMMOTION STIR
Locket features CLASPS
Dope, datedly PHAT
Marsalis family patriarch ELLIS
Oscar winner for “Goodfellas” PESCI
EXPRESSION FOR OZYMANDIAS SNEER
EYE IMPERTINENTLY OGLE
2015 HBO biopic starring Queen Latifah BESSIE
Requiring loads of attention NEEDY
SMALL SAMPLE NIP
PRAISE EFFUSIVELY GUSH
“What’s stopping you?” GOAHEAD
INCISE ETCH
FOREST FEMALES DOES
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
RELIEF AID
SMALL FRY TYKE
PAPER PIECES OPEDS
REEF RESIDENTS EELS
GROUP SURROUNDING A STAR POSSE
Group of subs BTEAM
Prepared for a punch TENSED
Jazz pianist McCann LES
Rhode Island’s motto HOPE
Jake Tapper’s employer CNN
FINISH BEHIND LOSETO
MOB TARGET RAT
READY TO DRIVE TEED
HEART CRUX
POCKET EARN
TIME OF RECKONING DDAY
SOUCHONG ALTERNATIVE PEKOE
Some are cheap SEATS
Some Okefenokee fauna TOADS
Majorca-to-Minorca dir ENE
Promising start to a certain alliance? IDOS
Put on, as a pedestal SETATOP
Qumran Natl. Pk. site ISR
Cuban Missile Crisis org CIA
Frigate frames HULLS
LAST KING OF TROY PRIAM
Flashers in clubs STROBES
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