Wall Street Journal - Crossword Answers | 2023 01 07

crossword answers
Clue Answer
Actors Epps and Sy OMARS
“Miss Independent” singer NEYO
“What ___!” (“How groovy!”) AGAS
“Schitt’s Creek” motel clerk STEVIE
ANKLEBONES TARSI
“Gimme five!” UPTOP
“Ha!” in a text LOL
“How We Do (Party)” singer Rita ORA
Attends informally AUDITS
“Big Brown” UPS
ALWAYS, POETICALLY EER
APPROX. NUMBER EST
“You said it, sister!” AMEN
FEMININE SUFFIX ENNE
Brief remembrance OBIT
Business ltr. insert ENC
BOIL SEETHE
Colorful band SPECTRUM
Besotted boyfriend? TIGHTSQUEEZE
BLAST HOOT
CLOSE SHUT
Bill additions FEES
Excavation target ORE
APPEAR SEEM
Hall of Fame halfback Gale SAYERS
Colleague of Ketanji ELENA
ENJOY ASPEN SKI
David nicknamed “Big Papi” ORTIZ
Difficult journey, informally SCHLEP
“Rebecca” writer du Maurier DAPHNE
Bison setting PRAIRIE
Bit of Eden apparel FIGLEAF
Biceps and sartorius, for two FLEXORS
BASS, FOR ONE ALE
GREEN ROLL SOD
Disrupts completely UPENDS
OVERLY SENTIMENTAL SOPPY
Dreaded fellow, perhaps RASTA
Forgo a ceremony ELOPE
Hollywood, familiarly THEBIZ
MUTED PALE
“Sprechen ___ Deutsch?” SIE
___ DE LA CITÉ ILE
POP SODA
“Quit ___ bellyachin’!” YER
“La Cage ___ Folles” AUX
“Enough!” NOMORE
BOND COMPONENT ATOM
Cpl. or sgt NCO
IN A BIT ANON
BOILING HOPPINGMAD
JAI ___ ALAI
EARLY ABC SHOW GMA
HMO PARTICIPANTS DRS
Crèche figures MAGI
BRAVO, IN BARCELONA OLE
REDDISH BROWN SEPIA
STICKER DECAL
PROTECTION AEGIS
Chu ___ (Chinese philosopher) HSI
SOUND OF WASHINGTON PUGET
INTER ___ ALIA
OKLAHOMA CITY ENID
MUSE OF LYRIC POETRY ERATO
Innings for closers NINTHS
ASTRONOMICAL ALIGNMENT SYZYGY
Iolani Palace home OAHU
Like a sampan OARED
I, IN INNSBRUCK ICH
Dict. info ETYM
UFO CREW ETS
Object of Cupid’s affection PSYCHE
RADIATES EMITS
Pitched places TENTS
SUBSEQUENTLY LATERON
RENDER SPEECHLESS STUPEFY
PER ___ DIEM
Promoted pawn, often QUEEN
Plastered plug? BLINDSPOT
PELVIC BONES ILIA
Intoxicated interpretation? LOOSETRANSLATION
Maya Angelou’s “And Still ___” IRISE
Sauce in a falafel sandwich TAHINI
Score datum TEMPO
Screeds RANTS
Site of Hyundai’s headquarters SEOUL
Rapper who co-starred in 2003’s “The Italian Job” MOSDEF
Nonpareil candy SNOCAP
Succotash bite LIMA
Suffix for Austin or Dallas ITE
Tearoom mat TATAMI
Try to trim DIET
Numb noggin? WETNOODLE
Oiled Rembrandt? FLYINGDUTCHMAN
Washington from Chestnut Grove, Virginia MARTHA
Went headfirst, perhaps SLIDIN
STOCKING STUFFERS? FEET
MOTES SPECKS
PREFERRED PRONOUN FOR SOME SHE
TO DATE YET
PROPOSES AS A PRICE ASKS
LIKE SOME CASKS OAKEN
LONG TIME FOLLOWER? NOSEE
Peacenik DOVE
SEAL PREDATOR ORCA
ODD DUCK MISFIT
Many an emailed form PDF
Pound, e.g UNIT
SHORTENING BRAND CRISCO
NARROW PENINSULA SPIT
MAG. WORKERS EDS
Pompeo of “Grey’s Anatomy” ELLEN
Pixilated pub quiz, perhaps? STIFFCOMPETITION
Pound’s kin DOGSHELTER
Ride-or-die buds BFFS
Wrecked New Year’s promise? HIGHRESOLUTION
Prepare for baling MOW
Rider of a black horse named Tornado ZORRO
Ring in libraries LARDNER
Sloshed sourpusses? STEWEDPRUNES
Strong singing voice, slangily PIPES
Victim in a Jacques-Louis David painting MARAT
Visiting Echo Park, say INLA
Terse verse HAIKU
Uptown dir. in Manhattan NNE