Wall Street Journal - Crossword Answers | 2023 03 04

crossword answers
Clue Answer
Area of about 11 billion acres ASIA
Artist whose name sounds like a sculpting medium KLEE
Basketball player who’s just retired? RECENTCENTER
Bee on a break? RESTINGSTINGER
Big celebrity who faces facts? REALISTALISTER
Blobby beast AMOEBA
CRACKER SPREAD BRIE
HINDMOST REAR
CORPULENT OBESE
FIJI ALTERNATIVE EVIAN
INFORMAL CASUAL
EGYPTIAN SYMBOL OF LIFE ANKH
CORPORATE DIVISION SALES
BIOLOGICAL DETERMINANT GENE
BEFORE, PALINDROMICALLY ERE
BANJO ACCESSORY STRAP
ANNOY AFFECTIONATELY TEASE
“Sprechen ___ Deutsch?” SIE
“Don’t worry” ITSOK
INDULGES HUMORS
Car named for an engineer TESLA
Champion firewood stacker? RECORDCORDER
Expanses of eau MERS
Fielder’s flub ERROR
Garment joint SEAM
Get access to, as a game level UNLOCK
DROPS OFF LESSENS
WISPY CLOUDS CIRRI
FANCY TIE ASCOT
HALF OF HISPANIOLA HAITI
FUEL FROM BOGS PEAT
INTENSIFY REVUP
GREEN MUPPET OSCAR
HEADED CHAIRED
FEUDAL ESTATE FIEF
Best at an annual Coney Island contest OUTEAT
CHICK HOLDER EGG
Alabama governor Kay IVEY
“___ luck!” LOTSA
Halloween mo OCT
STALEMATE IMPASSE
STREAMLINED AERO
ITTY BIT SKOSH
CIGAR END ETTE
COMPLEX UNIT CONDO
GO AROUND SKIRT
FLIGHT MAKEUP STAIRS
“This ___ sudden!” ISSO
Direction suffix ERN
ITTY-BITTY MINI
REPROBATE CUR
ZERO NAUGHT
PROPHET SEER
MUSCAT NATIVE OMANI
REDDISH BROWN RUST
PINDAR PRODUCT ODE
PLY A NEEDLE SEW
TAKE TO COURT SUE
___ KHAN AGA
TAKE IN TRICK
SERPENTINE SNAKY
RED MUPPET ELMO
TUREEN CONTENTS SOUP
OIL SOURCE OLIVE
PERSONABLE ENGAGING
Inventor from Stockholm NOBEL
Jimmy of “East New York” SMITS
Lamb’s dam EWE
“The Martian” org NASA
Like Jeff Bezos, of all Americans RICHEST
Makes reductions to PARES
Mall cop on a case? RETAILTAILER
Mote magnet DUSTMOP
Number of syllables in “ciao” UNO
Number of syllables in “feliz cumpleaños” SEIS
Number of syllables in “guten Tag” DREI
Grist grinders MILLS
One who may take a gander GOOSE
Part of a henhouse team? RELAYLAYER
Pint for a pirate GROG
Plug ad nauseam OVERHYPE
Gets rid of a shadow, perhaps SHAVES
Features of many laptops USBPORTS
Saint Petersburg’s river NEVA
Snap alternative VELCRO
Earnings statement PAYSTUB
Summer clock setting in Del EDT
Tasty butterflies, e.g PASTA
Tea-making tool INFUSER
Thespian’s assignment ROLE
They’re attached to backboards RIMS
Title for Clouseau: Abbr INSP
FILL IN FOR ACTAS
Trembling cause FEAR
Tuck, e.g FRIAR
Useful post-shipwreck consultant? REMASTMASTER
BRIC-A-___ BRAC
SIRED BEGOT
WEB ADDRESS URL
MATCHING SAME
WAS A BUSYBODY PRIED
PLAY GROUND? ARENA
VERY TOP ACME
LAMB, FOR ONE ESSAYIST
WRECKING BALL? REBARBARER
Yale Bowl rooters ELIS
MAGIC WORDS CHARMS
STATISTICIAN SILVER NATE
MUSLIM MYSTIC SUFI
Bill of Rights guardian org ACLU
No longer in play DEAD
Lachrymal drop TEAR
SECRET PLOTTING INTRIGUE
LABEL OWNED BY SONY MUSIC RCA
Wall work FRESCO
You can lend yours or bend someone else’s EAR
BRITISH MIL. HONOR DSO
Range components: Abbr MTNS
Spy’s data INTEL
Toto or Asta TERRIER
WHERE SAILORS GO TOSEA
Like 5 (but not V) ARABIC
Obstetric measure DUEDATE
Rousseau treatise EMILE
Writers Paretsky and Douglass SARAS