Wall Street Journal - Crossword Answers | 2022 12 22

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