Wall Street Journal - Crossword Answers | 2022 12 22

crossword answers
Clue Answer
“What’s stopping you?” GOAHEAD
2015 HBO biopic starring Queen Latifah BESSIE
Add 20 on 100, say LEAVEATIP
Anakin’s son LUKE
APPROPRIATE ANNEX
Blue books, e.g SMUT
Breakdown necessities TOWS
COMMOTION STIR
Dope, datedly PHAT
EXPRESSION FOR OZYMANDIAS SNEER
NARROW CUT SLIT
INCISE ETCH
LAST KING OF TROY PRIAM
GROUP SURROUNDING A STAR POSSE
REEF RESIDENTS EELS
SMALL FRY TYKE
RELIEF AID
FOREST FEMALES DOES
PRAISE EFFUSIVELY GUSH
POPS DAD
Flue flakes ASH
Group of subs BTEAM
Hardly one-star DELUXE
Heartless person BEAST
Jake Tapper’s employer CNN
Locket features CLASPS
Majorca-to-Minorca dir ENE
Marsalis family patriarch ELLIS
Oscar winner for “Goodfellas” PESCI
Promising start to a certain alliance? IDOS
Put on, as a pedestal SETATOP
Qumran Natl. Pk. site ISR
Requiring loads of attention NEEDY
SMALL SAMPLE NIP
HEART CRUX
SOUCHONG ALTERNATIVE PEKOE
IMPLORE BEG
SIGHED WORD ALAS
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
EYE IMPERTINENTLY OGLE
Cuban Missile Crisis org CIA
CHARLATAN PHONY
BIT OF FORCE DYNE
BE DECISIVE OPT
100-cent currency EURO
HOME TO A FAMOUS MAUSOLEUM AGRA
MOB TARGET RAT
READY TO DRIVE TEED
POCKET EARN
Prepared for a punch TENSED
Jazz pianist McCann LES
Rhode Island’s motto HOPE
TIME OF RECKONING DDAY
Some are cheap SEATS
Some Okefenokee fauna TOADS
Flashers in clubs STROBES
Frigate frames HULLS
FINISH BEHIND LOSETO
PAPER PIECES OPEDS
Anakin’s daughter LEIA