Wall Street Journal Crossword January 20 2024 Clues and Answers

ACROSS

• Specialty of Baltimore’s L.P. Steamers
  CRAB
• Procure
  GRAB
• Translator’s challenge
  SLANG
• Dancing Queen group
  ABBA
• Stitch partner in film
  LILO
• Ancient alphabetic character
  RUNE
• Spoke essentially
  RADIUS
• Alert
  WARN
• We try harder company
  AVIS
• Phillies baseman Bohm
  ALEC
• Billfold for Barney Rubble?
  STONEWALLET
• Jamaican exports
  RUMS
• Trade show presentations
  DEMOS
• Removes every trace of
  ERASES
• Malcolm X director
  LEE
• Title character with a pug named Weenie
  ELOISE
• Orphan girl in The Last Days of Pompeii
  IONE
• Twisty shapes
  ESSES
• Harris and Helms
  EDS
• Guiding principle shared by many civic groups?
  TENETOFCLUBS
• Sudden burst of speed or energy
  SPURT
• Compound used in plastics
  STYRENE
• NYPD Blue co-creator Steven
  BOCHCO
• Like volume measures
  CUBIC
• Approaches
  NEARS
• Hurricane-tracking agcy.
  NOAA
• Singer Easton
  SHEENA
• Latin dance
  MAMBO
• Bulls or Bears e.g.
  TEAM
• Radio agreement
  WILCO
• Bygone Swedish import
  SAAB
• Author Nin
  ANAIS
• Way off
  AFAR
• Omani money
  RIAL
• Food fig.
  RDA
• Toaster waffle brand
  EGGO
• Very very straight?
  SUPERHETERO
• Clock part
  DIAL
• Hindu honorific
  SRI
• Serpents on sarcophagi
  ASPS
• Lena of Chocolat
  OLIN
• Taxi co-star of Hirsch DeVito and Henner
  DANZA
• Clock sound
  TICK
• Front wheel adjustment
  TOEIN
• High-fat regimen
  KETO
• Barely beats
  EDGES
• Filmed again
  REMADE
• Fruity drinks
  ADES
• Creator of the Sneetches
  SEUSS
• Be bombastic
  ORATE
• Fusses over one’s looks
  PREENS
• End of mankind?
  SAPIENS
• Kidney-related
  RENAL
• Booster stage?
  ROCKETBOTTOM
• Moo goo gai pan pan
  WOK
• Mosque figures
  IMAMS
• Cry out
  WAIL
• Natural gas component
  ETHANE
• Absorbed as a cost
  ATE
• Capital of Bahrain
  MANAMA
• Back biter
  MOLAR
• Town east of Buffalo
  ELMA
• Riding crop to a dominatrix?
  FETISHSTICK
• Confessional recital
  SINS
• Pinocchio at times
  LIAR
• Arduous journey
  TREK
• Fashion model Moss
  LOTTIE
• Coast on the Big Island
  KONA
• Blanched
  PALE
• Your majesty
  SIRE
• Demanding much attention
  NEEDY
• Pack
  STOW
• Lentil e.g.
  SEED

DOWN

• Some reds
  CLARETS
• Small stream
  RIVULET
• Split fee
  ALIMONY
• More demanding
  BOSSIER
• Many learn to read in it
  GRADEONE
• Hold power
  RULE
• Lacking in vitality
  ANEMIC
• 2005 Get Shorty sequel
  BECOOL
• Fourth-yr. group
  SRS
• Past due
  LATE
• Find darling
  ADORE
• Many quinceañera attendees
  NINAS
• Seems that way
  GUESSSO
• Leather piercer
  AWL
• Proper posture for the Bolshoi?
  BALLETBEARING
• Whippet or Weimaraner e.g.
  BREED
• Chips in
  ANTES
• Four-game World Series e.g.
  SWEEP
• Per se
  ASSUCH
• Give the cold shoulder
  SNUB
• Hearing aides
  STENOS
• Black in poetry
  EBON
• Impressive act
  FEAT
• Trash hauler
  SCOW
• Wishes undone
  RUES
• Scrunchies
  HAIRTIES
• Salsa spec
  CALIENTE
• Bewildered
  INADAZE
• Mystic doctrines
  CABALAS
• Materialize after vanishing say
  REAPPEAR
• Spot for the cautious
  SAFESIDE
• Musician’s chance to shine
  SOLO
• Baton wielder
  MAESTRO
• More peeved
  ANGRIER
• Agent for Lakers legend Earvin Johnson?
  MAGICMARKETER
• Pre-med course
  BIO
• Fold spindle or mutilate
  MAR
• Token in The Game of Life
  CAR
• Density symbol
  RHO
• Fill
  SATE
• For the Boys subj.
  USO
• Antlered animal
  ELK
• Dear old guy
  DAD
• Malevolent leader
  DESPOT
• Fashion model Moss
  KATE
• At no time in poetry
  NEER
• Boot
  OUST
• Casual wear
  DENIMS
• Falling flakes
  SNOW
• Portable cutter
  SABERSAW
• Expects
  PLANSON
• Ponzi scheme e.g.
  SCAM
• That improves things
  ITHELPS
• List-ending phrase
  ETALIAE
• Woman e.g.
  NONMALE
• Did a hatchet job on
  SMEARED
• Title boy in a Menotti opera
  AMAHL
• Stands for business
  KIOSKS
• Page of The Umbrella Academy
  ELLIOT
• Floats on the breeze
  WAFTS
• Cheri of SNL
  OTERI
• Not shiny
  MATTE
• Belt in the Bible
  SMITE
• Battery contents
  ACID
• ___ Domini
  ANNO
• Mamie’s man
  IKE
• E or G e.g.
  KEY