Wall Street Journal - Crossword Answers | 2022 12 22

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