Wall Street Journal Crossword December 16 2023 Solutions

ACROSS

• Fight
  WAGEWAR
• Lots (of)
  AHOST
• Outdoor furniture material
  RATTAN
• Ranch measure
  ACREAGE
• Freak out
  GOAPE
• Leaves
  FOLIAGE
• What the Heimlich maneuver aims to dislodge?
  CHOKINGMATTER
• Fitness legend Jack
  LALANNE
• Royal Botanic Gardens location
  KEW
• Garr of Young Frankenstein
  TERI
• Like a slot machine that always comes up triple fruit?
  CHERRYRIGGED
• Judo degree
  DAN
• Language in which crossword puzzle is pos croesair
  WELSH
• They might go for a few bucks
  DOES
• Mount south of Olympus
  OSSA
• Betray weariness
  SAG
• Beloved author Morrison
  TONI
• Builder of a pouchlike nest
  ORIOLE
• Spots
  ESPIES
• Weary utterance
  ALAS
• Modeling medium
  CLAY
• Little in Lille
  PEU
• Podcast about vichyssoise garnishing?
  CHIVETALKIN
• Picked a side in the battle of the sexes?
  CHOSEBOYS
• Refine
  HONE
• Month renamed from Quintilis by the Roman Senate
  JULY
• Singer Sumac
  YMA
• Name on a combine
  DEERE
• Be shy say
  OWE
• Crush e.g.
  SODA
• London lockups
  GAOLS
• Crane or Swift
  WRITER
• Obsession with wearing gold necklaces?
  CHAINSADDICTION
• Peninsula bordering Manila Bay
  BATAAN
• Kin of moss green
  OLIVE
• Croaky voice
  RASP
• Road rescue
  TOW
• Each EGOT letter represents one
  AWARD
• Two-time Super Bowl MVP Manning
  ELI
• Not just uncommon
  RARE
• Haleakala National Park location
  MAUI
• Target of a string quartet’s fungicide?
  CELLOMOLD
• Origin stories of gullible characters?
  CHUMPSTARTS
• Good cholesterol letters
  HDL
• Sommelier’s specialty
  WINE
• Russell in the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame
  LEON
• Heavy metal subgenre
  THRASH
• DNA source sometimes
  SALIVA
• Canyonlands National Park location
  UTAH
• Passive principle of Chinese philosophy
  YIN
• Cobbler’s collection
  AWLS
• NBC series regular since 2000
  ICET
• Doesn’t stay put
  ROVES
• Mel in Cooperstown
  OTT
• Salsa producers?
  CHUNKDEALERS
• Pearl Harbor National Memorial location
  OAHU
• Flock member
  EWE
• One target of the DPT vaccine
  TETANUS
• Critter handler for a low-budget movie?
  CHEAPWRANGLER
• Let me emphasize this…
  IREPEAT
• Don’t Pass Me By singer
  RINGO
• Eight-line verse
  TRIOLET
• Cutter e.g.
  VESSEL
• Scientists Hahn and Frisch
  OTTOS
• Preordained occasion
  SETDATE

DOWN

• Disappointingly bad in slang
  WACK
• Had a hankering
  ACHED
• Stop being so cowardly!
  GROWASPINE
• Reaction to mice
  EEK
• Checkout annoyance
  WAIT
• Humphrey’s successor
  AGNEW
• Apology impetus
  REGRET
• Ottoman officer
  AGA
• It may have a three-alarm rating
  HOTCHILI
• Solemn or salty words
  OATH
• Small suits
  SPEEDOS
• Slasher movie reaction
  TERROR
• Boisterous laugh
  ROAR
• Dolly Parton’s ___ Can Do
  ALLI
• Book after Hebreus in a Portuguese Bible
  TIAGO
• Some colorful aquarium fish
  TANGS
• Patron of virgins
  AGNES
• We ___ Little Christmas (Mame song)
  NEEDA
• Eschew accompaniment
  FLYSOLO
• The Phantom Tollbooth protagonist
  MILO
• 1990s Labor secretary Robert
  REICH
• Hardly worldly
  NAIVE
• Full of twists and turns
  SNAKY
• Guileless exclamation
  GEE
• ___ Palmas de Gran Canaria
  LAS
• Red remover perhaps
  EYEDROP
• Foxtrot preceder
  ECHO
• Gallery event
  SHOW
• Her feast day is May 30
  STJOAN
• Want to tell me how you’d handle this?
  ANYADVICE
• Pound for one
  POET
• Surname of a literary governess
  EYRE
• False friend
  USER
• Car with a four-ring logo
  AUDI
• Grassy plain
  LLANO
• Colombia’s third-most populous city
  CALI
• Hippie happening
  BEIN
• Fashion
  MODE
• Tails
  SHADOWS
• Sprinting great Devers
  GAIL
• Get lost!
  SCRAM
• Like Chiron among the centaurs
  WISEST
• Weathers of the Rocky films
  CARL
• Snow day ride
  SLED
• Diamond protection
  TARP
• Coffee Cantata composer
  BACH
• Blown away
  AWED
• Towering
  TALL
• Lively whirling dance
  TARANTELLA
• Inning sextet
  OUTS
• One might be well-made
  WISH
• Cost as much as
  RUNTO
• Pixelated plumber
  MARIO
• Soccer star Hamm
  MIA
• Exclusive in dialect
  ONLIEST
• German camera maker
  LEICA
• Much earlier today say
  HOURSAGO
• Commandment possessive
  THY
• It results in a 15-yard penalty
  LATEHIT
• Zipper alternative
  VELCRO
• Openly confess
  AVOW
• Game akin to Black Lady
  HEARTS
• When Claudius and Laertes plot to kill Hamlet
  ACTIV
• Invitation information
  WHERE
• Madrigal accompaniers
  LUTES
• Zipper alternative
  SNAPS
• Order from Mom
  SHARE
• Canary call
  TWEET
• Pants part
  KNEE
• Binary
  DUAL
• Budget allocation
  RENT
• Pound for one
  UNIT
• Deco legend
  ERTE
• Not neg.
  POS
• Mars or Mercury
  GOD