Wall Street Journal - Crossword Answers | 2022 02 12

crossword answers
Clue Answer
Crème de la crème ELITE
UNDERCOVER OPERATIONS STINGS
BARELY GETS (BY) EKES
Bounded box AREA
Raymond’s condition in “Rain Man” AUTISM
LOCH OF LEGEND NESS
OOZE SEEP
STORIED VOYAGER SINBAD
ANNOYING SORT PEST
BRIEF RESPITE SIESTA
SPANAKOPITA INGREDIENT FETA
SIGHS OF DELIGHT AHS
CLOCK FACE DIAL
Boulogne-___-Mer SUR
Quarters, informally DIGS
“I’ll Bet ___ Nice” (Beach Boys song) HES
“Odyssey” sorceress CIRCE
Billowing blasts GUSTS
Feature of 40-Across HOPPINGMAD
Feature of 55-Across SKIPPEDROPE
Heavy metal bands? ORES
Pigskin, e.g HIDE
Popcorn purchase TUB
Starts to celebrate and ceases? SOFTCS
Station stuff GAS
They’re sometimes inflated EGOS
CASUAL DENIAL UNHUNH
EXCELLENT MARK APLUS
CONFINES SHUTSIN
Four Corners people UTES
Spots, perhaps RASH
Manipulated, as expense figures MASSAGED
Top hat or race car, in Monopoly TOKEN
MORE AVANT-GARDE EDGIER
PATISSERIE WORKERS ICERS
Exam for a future public defender, for short LSAT
Prerequisite for merging in traffic GAP
FORMER FILLY MARE
APPROXIMATELY ORSO
BLUEGRASS INSTRUMENTS BASSFIDDLES
DEETS INFO
Musses TOUSLES
“Easy on Me” singer ADELE
NFL cornerback Burns ARTIE
Some referendum votes YESES
Tea party setting? HARBOR
What chiromancers read PALMS
BBC CLOCK SETTING GMT
RAPPER/ACTOR ___ DEF MOS
PERIOD OF WORK STINT
Curative elixirs TONICS
GOES TOE-TO-TOE DOESBATTLE
GOVT.-ISSUED SECURITY TBOND
Posse people DEPUTIES
“I Ain’t Marching Any More” singer Phil OCHS
Our, in Abruzzo NOSTRA
Hug tightly ENCLASP
Lisa’s sib BART
Give preferential treatment to FAVOR
Common comment graphic MEME
STUDIO FEE RENT
DORMANT LATENT
“Don Carlo” composer VERDI
Pew separators AISLES
Queen of Jordan before Queen Rania NOOR
Cubs’ home, informally CHITOWN
“Every seat is spoken for,” on B’way SRO
BOOT OUST
Number on a vowel tile in Scrabble ONE
GLOSSARY ENTRY TERM
PHYSICIST FERMI ENRICO
“Wonder Woman” villain ARES
Saturn’s largest moon TITAN
HULA ACCOMPANIMENT UKE
Basis for some vaccines RNA
Feature of 28-Across STAGGERINGDEBT
VIRTUAL PEOPLE SIMS
SOON INABIT
COMPUTER CAPACITY MEMORY
ABOUT INRE
Apt name for an Uber driver OTTO
Feature of 23-Across STEPPINGASIDE
GOES BY ELAPSES
REGISTER SIGNUP
NEARLY ALLBUT
REJUVENATION STATION SPA
BASIC FRENCH VERB ETRE
“A Writer’s Life” writer TALESE
Lang. of Leipzig GER
1998 SARAH MCLACHLAN HIT ADIA
Curly-haired girl of old comics LITTLELULU
Like “Romeo and Juliet” TRAGIC
TROUBLESOME TYKES IMPS
HIGH SPIRITS PEP
SETTLE DECIDE
PAY UP? RAISE
TAKE CARE OF TENDTO
SOUND, FOR EXAMPLE INLET
Tablet input devices STYLI
Small-screen reading TEXT
PUT FORWARD POSITED
Jotter’s tool PEN
Jewelry buy CHAIN
Stuns to silence AWES
TOASTED SANDWICH PANINI
FAKE NOTREAL
Prepared for company CLEANED
V-J DAY ENDED IT WWII
SUMS TOTESUP
Common cult leader delusion SAVIORCOMPLEX
BOORISH CRASS
Rock box AMP
DISTORT SKEW
TURN SHARPLY VEER
School mates FISH
Member of a certain septet ASIA
STADIUM CALL OLE
“Gotcha” ISEE
Spectral indication of a receding galaxy REDSHIFT
FENCING OPTION EPEE
Trendy 1980s Manhattan nightclub NELLS
Approx. fig EST
What many try to find in Hollywood FAMEANDFORTUNE