Wall Street Journal - Crossword Answers | 2022 02 12

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