Wall Street Journal - Crossword Answers | 2022 01 08

crossword answers
Clue Answer
BANNED PESTICIDE DDT
Beekeeper’s IQ test? BRAINGAUGE
Can. joined it in 1990 OAS
FLUCTUATE WILDLY SEESAW
CURLY-TAILED DOGS PUGS
FEEL TEXTURE
IDEALLY ATBEST
JAZZ STYLE BOP
DOLE (OUT) METE
Clunker at sea TUB
BUSTER WHO PLAYED FLASH GORDON CRABBE
BUS. CARD INFO TEL
BURN BRIGHTLY BLAZE
BUCKLED CAVED
BELONG FITIN
BASE MAN CAD
ANNOY PESTER
“___ be my honor” ITD
“The guys on Tinder are so much alike—it’s eye-catching”? BACHELORPARITY
Country west of Benin TOGO
Dorm leaders, briefly RAS
Earliest phase ONSET
Enterprising type DOER
Famed art deco designer ERTE
Final order, often DESSERT
Focus of many a photo SELF
Found despicable LOATHED
Grassy marsh plants SEDGES
Harvard has had one since 1858 GLEECLUB
Honda’s luxury division ACURA
Ideal area EDEN
Jazz ensemble, at times SEPTET
Jazz scene UTAH
Jazz selections NUMBERS
“See here, it’s a film fish who’s put on weight”? CHUNKYDORY
“My bad!” OOPS
“Girl Before a Mirror” painter PICASSO
“Free Guy” star Reynolds RYAN
EBB SUBSIDE
LONG YEARN
IDEALISTIC UTOPIAN
DELIBERATELY AVOID SHUN
GIVES SOME LIP SASSES
DEER DAD STAG
DAY BREAK SIESTA
DEFEAT SOUNDLY CREAM
CONCILIATORY OFFERING SOP
SNITCH STOOLIE
Cottonwood trees ALAMOS
Intelligence agency problem LEAK
Columbus sch OSU
Big payroll service co ADP
Infatuates BESOTS
Knot untiers EXES
PATRONAGE AEGIS
Corvette, e.g COUPE
CPR performers EMTS
SHOW RELUCTANCE DEMUR
SMALL SALAMANDER NEWT
WISE GUY SMARTIE
THUMB, FOR ONE TOM
TWOFOLD DUAL
RELEVANT APROPOS
LIVE EXIST
___ RULE ASA
VERVE DASH
PASTY ASHEN
LUMMOX OAF
SYNAGOGUE SHUL
SETTLED A SCORE GOTEVEN
STEADY DRONE HUM
Pompeo of “Grey’s Anatomy” ELLEN
SOURPUSS GRUMP
Like Braille writing TACTILE
Like bruschetta TOASTED
Lusitania’s undoing TORPEDO
Macho guy wearing vivid red? Why not? ASTUDINSCARLET
Many charitable grps NGOS
Mil. buffer area DMZ
More likely to burn FAIRER
Needed to put money in a jar, perhaps SWORE
Nighttime streaker METEOR
Oh no! The beer is gone? VANISHINGPINT
Outlaw trackers POSSE
President, when signing a bill ENACTOR
Prof’s visitor, perhaps GRAD
Quilter’s supply FABRICS
Rare Scrabble declaration IPASS
Remedies for measles and chickenpox are missing? SPOTSMEDICINE
Rollover option for a 401(k) IRA
Serengeti beasts GNUS
Suffocating serpents BOAS
Tabloid fare DIRT
Tea leaves show trouble for a matador? HORNINHISSIDE
They get folks in a sweat SAUNAS
Towel end? ETTE
USPS circuit RTE
Volkswagen luxury division AUDI
Where many engagements end ALTARS
Where you might “see table” in a reference book ATRIGHT
Wildlife park ranger’s tool DARTGUN
You came in for pressure to get married? WEDDINGDURESS
Yucky pond coating SCUM
RETIRING SHY
TIBIA SITES SHINS
TOOK AWAY REMOVED
SWALLOWED GREEDILY GULPED
WING IT FLY
OUTPERFORM TOP
VERT. COUNTERPART HOR
PERFECT SLEEPER BRAND SERTA
TOE WOE CORN
SORROWFUL STATE DOLOR
Threads in shreds RAGS
UNCOUPLE DETACH
TIKI BAR ORDERS MAITAIS
Pacific garland LEI
Little people TOTS
Like bungee cords ELASTIC
NPR’s Totenberg NINA
SHORT SHORTS HOTPANTS
Many middle schoolers TWEENS
Kylo ___ (“The Force Awakens” character) REN