Wall Street Journal - Crossword Answers | 2022 12 22

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