Wall Street Journal Crossword December 20 2023 Answers

ACROSS

• Symbol on viola sheet music
  CCLEF
• Wire screen
  MESH
• Way to sway
  FRO
• Kansas governor Kelly
  LAURA
• Debussy opus
  LAMER
• Three-letter voucher
  IOU
• Hot Tickle Me toys of the 1996 Christmas season
  ELMOS
• Hit’s pairing on a 45
  BSIDE
• Balderdash
  ROT
• Elite groups
  ALISTS
• That being the case
  ERGO
• Visitors from the stars for short
  ETS
• Letter on a dreidel
  NUN
• See 5-Down
  TALKER
• Be in the red
  OWE
• Twitched
  SPASMED
• Erogenous zone named for a German gynecologist
  GSPOT
• Spoilers on cars’ front chassis
  AIRDAMS
• Boat propeller
  OAR
• Popular carol whose first phrase can be hummed using the circled pitches (from top to bottom)
  JOYTOTHEWORLD
• Delivery giant
  UPS
• Letter writing some think
  LOSTART
• Camera aperture number
  FSTOP
• Wild
  UNTAMED
• Colorado’s ___ Mountain Tribal Park
  UTE
• Fix a hasty gift-wrapping job maybe
  RETAPE
• Yeoman’s yes
  AYE
• Pop
  DAD
• Collection from Horace
  ODES
• Rechargeable rides
  EBIKES
• Muscle car in a 1964 song
  GTO
• Decisive times
  DDAYS
• Boston-to-Washington speedster
  ACELA
• Seine substance
  EAU
• Paddock parents
  SIRES
• Having bumps
  NODED
• Banned pesticide
  DDT
• Direction from which los Reyes Magos came
  ESTE
• Benjamin’s bill
  CNOTE

DOWN

• Prepares for guests
  CLEANS
• Promote from the minors
  CALLUP
• Midsize Chevy of the 1990s
  LUMINA
• Cupid to the Greeks
  EROS
• With 25-Across expert at snowing
  FAST
• Angels’ grp.
  MLB
• Where a painting may come to life?
  EASEL
• Annoying grin
  SMIRK
• Maze wall sometimes
  HEDGE
• Gem also known as a girasol
  FIREOPAL
• Faith for unfaithful e.g.
  ROOTWORD
• Get-go
  OUTSET
• Corporate shuffle for short
  REORG
• Waxy organic compound
  STEROL
• Augment
  ADDTO
• Approval
  SAYSO
• Bay State research univ.
  MIT
• More or less informally
  SORTA
• I see sounds
  AHS
• Had a rendezvous
  METUP
• Song popularized by Al Jolson
  SWANEE
• Not much at all
  JUSTATAD
• Chose Don’t send me email
  OPTEDOUT
• Meal scrap
  ORT
• Falsified as figures
  FUDGED
• Nudges into action
  PRODS
• Get by
  MAKEDO
• Place for a lace
  EYELET
• Infamous marquis
  DESADE
• Redmayne of The Theory of Everything
  EDDIE
• Symbol of sadness
  TEARS
• Thus far
  ASYET
• En ___ (in full court)
  BANC
• Pic to click
  ICON
• Istanbul-to-Bethlehem dir.
  SSE