Wall Street Journal - Crossword Answers | 2023 01 07

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