Wall Street Journal - Crossword Answers | 2022 02 12

crossword answers
Clue Answer
1998 SARAH MCLACHLAN HIT ADIA
ABOUT INRE
ANNOYING SORT PEST
APPROXIMATELY ORSO
Apt name for an Uber driver OTTO
BARELY GETS (BY) EKES
Basis for some vaccines RNA
BOORISH CRASS
BLUEGRASS INSTRUMENTS BASSFIDDLES
GOVT.-ISSUED SECURITY TBOND
BOOT OUST
DORMANT LATENT
FORMER FILLY MARE
BRIEF RESPITE SIESTA
COMPUTER CAPACITY MEMORY
FENCING OPTION EPEE
FAKE NOTREAL
BASIC FRENCH VERB ETRE
Approx. fig EST
“Wonder Woman” villain ARES
“Odyssey” sorceress CIRCE
“I’ll Bet ___ Nice” (Beach Boys song) HES
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
PERIOD OF WORK STINT
SOON INABIT
“I Ain’t Marching Any More” singer Phil OCHS
SUMS TOTESUP
SETTLE DECIDE
REGISTER SIGNUP
PUT FORWARD POSITED
NEARLY ALLBUT
STUDIO FEE RENT
OOZE SEEP
SPANAKOPITA INGREDIENT FETA
PHYSICIST FERMI ENRICO
“Gotcha” ISEE
STORIED VOYAGER SINBAD
“Every seat is spoken for,” on B’way SRO
TAKE CARE OF TENDTO
“Easy on Me” singer ADELE
“Don Carlo” composer VERDI
“A Writer’s Life” writer TALESE
CONFINES SHUTSIN
RAPPER/ACTOR ___ DEF MOS
GLOSSARY ENTRY TERM
GOES BY ELAPSES
CLOCK FACE DIAL
DISTORT SKEW
Boulogne-___-Mer SUR
STADIUM CALL OLE
EXCELLENT MARK APLUS
BBC CLOCK SETTING GMT
Jewelry buy CHAIN
Musses TOUSLES
Pew separators AISLES
CASUAL DENIAL UNHUNH
GOES TOE-TO-TOE DOESBATTLE
DEETS INFO
Crème de la crème ELITE
Saturn’s largest moon TITAN
Give preferential treatment to FAVOR
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
Four Corners people UTES
LOCH OF LEGEND NESS
HIGH SPIRITS PEP
UNDERCOVER OPERATIONS STINGS
MORE AVANT-GARDE EDGIER
V-J DAY ENDED IT WWII
SOUND, FOR EXAMPLE INLET
PAY UP? RAISE
REJUVENATION STATION SPA
VIRTUAL PEOPLE SIMS
TROUBLESOME TYKES IMPS
Quarters, informally DIGS
Small-screen reading TEXT
Lang. of Leipzig GER
Hug tightly ENCLASP
Rock box AMP
SIGHS OF DELIGHT AHS
PATISSERIE WORKERS ICERS
HULA ACCOMPANIMENT UKE
TOASTED SANDWICH PANINI