Wall Street Journal - Crossword Answers | 2023 01 07

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