Wall Street Journal - Crossword Answers | 2022 12 22

crossword answers
Clue Answer
Promising start to a certain alliance? IDOS
BE DECISIVE OPT
PRAISE EFFUSIVELY GUSH
SMALL FRY TYKE
RELIEF AID
Flashers in clubs STROBES
Heartless person BEAST
INCISE ETCH
Zoological plural frowned on by sticklers OCTOPI
EYE IMPERTINENTLY OGLE
POCKET EARN
Add 20 on 100, say LEAVEATIP
Prepared for a punch TENSED
Requiring loads of attention NEEDY
PAPER PIECES OPEDS
HEART CRUX
100-cent currency EURO
Anakin’s son LUKE
LAST KING OF TROY PRIAM
Marsalis family patriarch ELLIS
Rhode Island’s motto HOPE
Flue flakes ASH
Jazz pianist McCann LES
FOREST FEMALES DOES
APPROPRIATE ANNEX
Qumran Natl. Pk. site ISR
Cuban Missile Crisis org CIA
POPS DAD
Blue books, e.g SMUT
COMMOTION STIR
READY TO DRIVE TEED
Oscar winner for “Goodfellas” PESCI
Dope, datedly PHAT
BIT OF FORCE DYNE
Group of subs BTEAM
Some are cheap SEATS
Put on, as a pedestal SETATOP
FINISH BEHIND LOSETO
REEF RESIDENTS EELS
EXPRESSION FOR OZYMANDIAS SNEER
Anakin’s daughter LEIA
GROUP SURROUNDING A STAR POSSE
Majorca-to-Minorca dir ENE
Some Okefenokee fauna TOADS
Split results EXES
NARROW CUT SLIT
SIGHED WORD ALAS
Frigate frames HULLS
HOME TO A FAMOUS MAUSOLEUM AGRA
Jake Tapper’s employer CNN
“What’s stopping you?” GOAHEAD
TIME OF RECKONING DDAY
2015 HBO biopic starring Queen Latifah BESSIE
Locket features CLASPS
MOB TARGET RAT
This puzzle might not make it at first SENSE
IMPLORE BEG
SOUCHONG ALTERNATIVE PEKOE
Spa town noted for its salts EPSOM
CHARLATAN PHONY
Hardly one-star DELUXE
Breakdown necessities TOWS
SMALL SAMPLE NIP