Wall Street Journal - Crossword Answers | 2022 12 22

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