Wall Street Journal - Crossword Answers | 2023 03 04

crossword answers
Clue Answer
BEFORE, PALINDROMICALLY ERE
Bee on a break? RESTINGSTINGER
Basketball player who’s just retired? RECENTCENTER
BANJO ACCESSORY STRAP
Artist whose name sounds like a sculpting medium KLEE
Area of about 11 billion acres ASIA
ANNOY AFFECTIONATELY TEASE
DROPS OFF LESSENS
“Sprechen ___ Deutsch?” SIE
CRACKER SPREAD BRIE
Best at an annual Coney Island contest OUTEAT
CORPORATE DIVISION SALES
BIOLOGICAL DETERMINANT GENE
EGYPTIAN SYMBOL OF LIFE ANKH
FIJI ALTERNATIVE EVIAN
CORPULENT OBESE
Car named for an engineer TESLA
Champion firewood stacker? RECORDCORDER
INFORMAL CASUAL
Expanses of eau MERS
Features of many laptops USBPORTS
Fielder’s flub ERROR
Garment joint SEAM
Get access to, as a game level UNLOCK
Gets rid of a shadow, perhaps SHAVES
Big celebrity who faces facts? REALISTALISTER
HINDMOST REAR
HALF OF HISPANIOLA HAITI
FANCY TIE ASCOT
INDULGES HUMORS
FUEL FROM BOGS PEAT
Bill of Rights guardian org ACLU
MUSCAT NATIVE OMANI
GREEN MUPPET OSCAR
HEADED CHAIRED
Blobby beast AMOEBA
___ KHAN AGA
TAKE IN TRICK
“The Martian” org NASA
GO AROUND SKIRT
FLIGHT MAKEUP STAIRS
“This ___ sudden!” ISSO
Direction suffix ERN
MAGIC WORDS CHARMS
Halloween mo OCT
WISPY CLOUDS CIRRI
FEUDAL ESTATE FIEF
“___ luck!” LOTSA
CHICK HOLDER EGG
CIGAR END ETTE
STALEMATE IMPASSE
STREAMLINED AERO
ITTY BIT SKOSH
ZERO NAUGHT
PROPHET SEER
PLY A NEEDLE SEW
REDDISH BROWN RUST
ITTY-BITTY MINI
Alabama governor Kay IVEY
PINDAR PRODUCT ODE
TAKE TO COURT SUE
OIL SOURCE OLIVE
MATCHING SAME
REPROBATE CUR
Inventor from Stockholm NOBEL
Jimmy of “East New York” SMITS
Lamb’s dam EWE
INTENSIFY REVUP
Like Jeff Bezos, of all Americans RICHEST
Makes reductions to PARES
Mall cop on a case? RETAILTAILER
Mote magnet DUSTMOP
Earnings statement PAYSTUB
Number of syllables in “feliz cumpleaños” SEIS
Grist grinders MILLS
BRITISH MIL. HONOR DSO
One who may take a gander GOOSE
Part of a henhouse team? RELAYLAYER
Pint for a pirate GROG
Plug ad nauseam OVERHYPE
BRIC-A-___ BRAC
FILL IN FOR ACTAS
Saint Petersburg’s river NEVA
“Don’t worry” ITSOK
COMPLEX UNIT CONDO
Like 5 (but not V) ARABIC
Tasty butterflies, e.g PASTA
Tea-making tool INFUSER
Thespian’s assignment ROLE
They’re attached to backboards RIMS
Spy’s data INTEL
Toto or Asta TERRIER
Trembling cause FEAR
Tuck, e.g FRIAR
Useful post-shipwreck consultant? REMASTMASTER
Range components: Abbr MTNS
SERPENTINE SNAKY
RED MUPPET ELMO
TUREEN CONTENTS SOUP
PERSONABLE ENGAGING
No longer in play DEAD
PLAY GROUND? ARENA
VERY TOP ACME
LAMB, FOR ONE ESSAYIST
WRECKING BALL? REBARBARER
Yale Bowl rooters ELIS
WEB ADDRESS URL
SECRET PLOTTING INTRIGUE
MUSLIM MYSTIC SUFI
Snap alternative VELCRO
WAS A BUSYBODY PRIED
STATISTICIAN SILVER NATE
Wall work FRESCO
LABEL OWNED BY SONY MUSIC RCA
Lachrymal drop TEAR
You can lend yours or bend someone else’s EAR
WHERE SAILORS GO TOSEA
Rousseau treatise EMILE
SIRED BEGOT
Title for Clouseau: Abbr INSP
Number of syllables in “ciao” UNO
Number of syllables in “guten Tag” DREI
Obstetric measure DUEDATE
Writers Paretsky and Douglass SARAS
Summer clock setting in Del EDT