Wall Street Journal - Crossword Answers | 2022 12 22

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