Wall Street Journal Crossword December 14 2023 Answers

ACROSS

• Rule that ended in 1947
  RAJ
• Deadly African snake
  MAMBA
• Wife of Teddy Roosevelt
  EDITH
• Spacewalk in NASA shorthand
  EVA
• Prepare for play
  TRAIN
• Idris of The Wire
  MELBA
• Not experience as a fun activity
  MISSOUTON
• Poetry competition
  ISLAM
• It’s ___ cause
  ALMOST
• China’s Chou En-___
  LAIN
• Scorecard figures
  PAIRS
• Feral
  UNTEAMED
• Mexicali’s peninsula
  NBAJAM
• Death Star builders
  EMPIRE
• ___ the season…
  TIES
• Simile words
  ASIA
• Newton e.g.
  UNIT
• Stray
  ERR
• More than fume
  RANGE
• Squeak (by)
  EKE
• Ibuprofen target
  PAIN
• For each
  PEER
• Russian ruler of old
  TSAR
• Dream demons
  INCUBI
• Manatee
  SEACOW
• Like low-salt foods for example
  DIETETIC
• His numbers were retired by the Lakers and Heat
  ONEAL
• World Cup call
  MOLE
• Winter wear
  FLEECE
• Did laps
  SWAMI
• Boxer often
  INDOORPET
• Dance party
  RAVEN
• Squirrel’s prize
  ACORN
• Wallach awarded an honorary Oscar in 2010
  ELI
• Hartford mascot
  STAGE
• One of Donald Duck’s nephews
  DEWEY
• Sought a seat
  RAN

DOWN

• Deal with districting changes
  REMAP
• Saint Teresa’s city
  AVILA
• Grain of Thailand
  JASMINERICE
• Greek peak
  MTOSSA
• Stuck in ___
  ARUT
• UPS dropoff spot sometimes
  MAT
• Natural glow?
  BIOLUMINESCENCE
• Former U.N. leader Kofi
  ANNAN
• Godzilla rapper
  EMINEM
• Bouvier ___ Flandres (dog breed)
  DES
• In a bad way
  ILL
• Not yet on the sked
  TBA
• Holiday entree often
  HAM
• Takes up in chemistry
  SORBS
• What a meteor picks up after landing?
  ITE
• The Simpsons store proprietor
  APU
• Warship that made its way through the Across answers but not the Down answers
  MINESWEEPER
• Christensen of Will Trent
  ERIKA
• Hold back
  DETER
• Rattle
  JAR
• Pronto
  ASAP
• Lukewarm
  TEPID
• Isfahan resident
  IRANI
• A Death in the Family author
  AGEE
• Important period
  ERA
• 65-Across for one
  NUT
• Printer fill
  TONER
• Candy heart request
  BEMINE
• Midori on ice
  ITO
• Bunch of bees
  COLONY
• Troy story
  ILIAD
• High-speed Amtrak offering
  ACELA
• Grant access to
  LETIN
• Shout from one having a rough day?
  FORE
• Fourth-yr. group
  SRS
• Cambodia’s Angkor ___
  WAT
• Director DuVernay
  AVA
• Ryan of rom-coms
  MEG
• Market benchmark
  DOW