Wall Street Journal Crossword December 12 2023 Answers

ACROSS

• Voting group
  BLOC
• Man with morals
  AESOP
• Die say
  CUBE
• Japanese soup
  MISO
• Susceptible
  PRONE
• Eurasia’s ___ Mountains
  URAL
• Shrinking violet
  WALLFLOWER
• Rip off
  BILK
• Competitions with calves
  RODEOS
• They form diamonds
  BASES
• End for web kiss or nanny
  CAM
• Paradise Lost schemer
  SATAN
• Barrel-aged beverage
  BOURBONWHISKEY
• Send salacious selfies
  SEXT
• Complain
  BLEAT
• Dr.’s org.
  AMA
• Folder feature
  TAB
• Cruet contents
  OIL
• ___ all good
  ITS
• Spot for a shot
  BAR
• Game with a colorful deck
  UNO
• Effort
  DOING
• Destroy financially
  RUIN
• Taking a knee in the end zone say
  DOWNINGTHEBALL
• Dummkopfs
  ASSES
• Persistently pester
  NAG
• Ebb
  GOOUT
• Flimflam
  FAKERY
• Book after Joel
  AMOS
• Big Mac topper
  SESAMESEED
• Slack off
  LAZE
• Address the crowd
  ORATE
• Comrade in arms
  ALLY
• Length times width for a rectangle
  AREA
• Toastable torus
  BAGEL
• Sort
  TYPE

DOWN

• Upscale auto letters
  BMW
• False witness
  LIAR
• Birthplace of NATO secretary general Jens Stoltenberg
  OSLO
• Slice of bologna e.g.
  COLDCUT
• Cool
  APLOMB
• God on a valentine
  EROS
• Plant
  SOW
• It comes after twelve
  ONE
• Apiece
  PER
• Some cigars
  CUBANS
• Exodus author
  URIS
• Hay bundle
  BALE
• Some lodge members
  ELKS
• Chicken’s reaction
  FEAR
• Entices
  BAITS
• NBC weekend show
  SNL
• Raised as an anchor
  AWEIGH
• Yonder thing
  THAT
• Gas-X alternative
  BEANO
• U-shaped river bend
  OXBOW
• Require
  OBLIGE
• Afghanistan’s capital
  KABUL
• CC’ed message e.g.
  EMAIL
• Fish story
  YARN
• Poker game
  STUD
• Shelley or Keats
  ODIST
• They have their pluses and minuses
  IONS
• Some Windows systems
  NTS
• Is furious about
  RAGESAT
• Sartre novel
  NAUSEA
• Canine coat
  ENAMEL
• Cook cookies say
  BAKE
• Big event
  GALA
• WWII general Bradley
  OMAR
• Primordial substance
  OOZE
• Kismet
  FATE
• Depend
  RELY
• Crowdsourced review site
  YELP
• Loudly lament
  SOB
• Period in history
  ERA
• Droop
  SAG
• Springtime egg coating
  DYE