Wall Street Journal Puzzle January 27, 2024, Answers

ACROSS

• They keep diamonds dry
  TARPS
• Syrup source
  MAPLE
• Bart Simpson’s bus driver
  OTTO
• Frida Kahlo to Diego Rivera (and vice versa)
  MUSE
• Childish refrain?
  EIEIO
• Rose garden pest
  APHID
• Chicken tikka masala go-with
  NAAN
• Tennis great Arthur
  ASHE
• That fast food joint’s name means ‘The Crazy Chicken’? Hilarious!
  ELPOLLOLOCO
• Turquoise e.g.
  BLUEGREEN
• Delivery possibility
  SON
• Common place to find jumper cables
  TRUNK
• It was great chatting again Gorgeous. Until we do this again…
  PRETTYLADY
• Stay Alive in Act II of Hamilton e.g.
  REPRISE
• What did ewe say?
  BAAS
• Elvis’s middle name
  ARON
• Fragrant compound
  ESTER
• Path for a drip
  IVLINE
• Beethoven creation
  SONATA
• The document would have taken forever without this program’s templates. It really came through!
  MICROSOFTWORD
• Group whose members are J-Hope Jimin Jin Jungkook RM Suga and V
  BTS
• Call in tennis
  LET
• Sessanta minuti
  ORA
• Sign up
  ENLIST
• Shoe front
  TOE
• Decree
  FIAT
• Insensitive sort
  JERK
• Unstable particle
  PION
• Easy basket
  TIPIN
• Film unit
  FRAME
• Owing
  INDEBTTO
• The best American writer? The author of ‘Beloved’ if you ask me.
  TONIMORRISON
• Number of hills in ancient Rome
  VII
• Slugger’s stat
  RBI
• Star pitcher
  ACE
• Org. for motorists
  AAA
• Which prime minister preceded Theresa May? Who gives a rip?
  DAVIDCAMERON
• Hoarders
  PACKRATS
• Some signs
  OMENS
• Serve on a silver platter maybe
  CATER
• Loughlin of Full House
  LORI
• Chilly powder
  SNOW
• Veers unexpectedly
  ZAGS
• Off the hook
  LIT
• Br– and F– e.g.
  ANIONS
• Wed. preceder
  TUE
• H look-alike
  ETA
• Many a graduation attendee
  DAD
• A stunning collapse: once toast of the town now total outcast? I can’t believe it!
  FALLFROMGRACE
• He received 26 Oscars
  DISNEY
• Matlin of CODA
  MARLEE
• Octal base
  EIGHT
• Sleeping spot after a tiff
  SOFA
• Satyrs’ celebration
  ORGY
• Was a tributary of
  FEDINTO
• You upchucked at your sister’s coming-of-age ceremony? You really didn’t need to share that!
  BATMITZVAH
• A group of them is a skulk
  FOXES
• Blonde star de Armas
  ANA
• Unusual sort
  RAREBREED
• What am I bungeeing off of? Only the tallest building in the world…. Psych!
  BURJKHALIFA
• Eye shade producer?
  IRIS
• Pavarotti piece
  ARIA
• Game leader
  EMCEE
• Galileo e.g.
  PISAN
• Omar of Love & Basketball
  EPPS
• Polo participant
  PONY
• Juicy bits
  DEETS
• Admission
  ENTRY

DOWN

• Souvenir shirt
  TEE
• Isn’t well
  AILS
• Where you might see a 7-Down
  REPORTCARD
• Trailblazer
  PIONEER
• Sun in San Juan
  SOL
• New Zealand people
  MAORI
• Top mark on a 3-Down
  APLUS
• Give a perfunctory effort
  PHONEITIN
• Snazzy guitar riff
  LICK
• Tokyo once
  EDO
• Conforming to expectations
  ONBRAND
• Thy Neighbor’s Wife author
  TALESE
• Like a tripwire
  TAUT
• All you need to get hooked in beverage ads
  ONETASTE
• He played Vito
  MARLON
• Mishandle documents?
  USEANALIAS
• Cast off
  SHED
• Choosing rhyme start
  EENY
• Copier tray abbr.
  LTR
• Greek deli buys
  GYROS
• Connect as phone and earbuds
  PAIR
• Debate side
  PRO
• Drunk as a skunk
  BLOTTO
• One might be winking or crying
  EMOJI
• Source of a fatal attraction?
  SIREN
• Jettas and Tiguans e.g.
  VWS
• Whisper from a Spanish lover
  TEAMO
• When some news airs
  ATTEN
• Bacteria-ridden
  SEPTIC
• Say no more
  ONIT
• It helps prevent kitchen slips
  FLOORMAT
• U2 frontman
  BONO
• With much to do and not enough hours to do it
  TIMEPOOR
• Dominicans e.g.
  FRIARS
• NBA’s Love and Durant
  KEVINS
• Start for instant or uproar
  INAN
• Shot for short
  PIC
• Expletive on Battlestar Galactica
  FRAK
• Auction actions
  BIDS
• Lose oomph
  TIRE
• Target of Black Lives Matter
  RACISM
• Get into a pool
  BET
• Nodded off
  DOZED
• Valued violin
  AMATI
• Where to visit Paris and Luxor
  VEGASSTRIP
• What’s way off base?
  ACID
• How much lore is passed down
  ORALLY
• Florence divider
  ARNO
• Voldemort or Sauron e.g.
  ANTAGONIST
• Fencing score
  TOUCH
• Like port
  SWEET
• Animating spirit
  LIFEFORCE
• Prepare to snare
  LAYATRAP
• Nats’ div.
  NLE
• It shocks you to your core briefly
  DEFIB
• Discoverer of electromagnetic induction
  FARADAY
• Frustrated cry
  ARGH
• Start for X Y Z or Alpha
  GEN
• ADHD treatment
  RITALIN
• Promise made by some applicators
  NOMESS
• Start an occupation?
  MOVEIN
• Sam Darnold e.g.
  EXJET
• Hockey players’ feints
  DEKES
• Kinda
  ISH
• Gooey cheese
  BRIE
• It turned 65 in 2023
  AARP
• Sad score
  ZERO
• Be furious
  FUME
• Miles away
  AFAR
• Garden division
  BED
• Act like
  APE
• Whichever
  ANY