Wall Street Journal Crossword February 1, 2024, Answers
ACROSS
- Apply with a spatula say
DAUB
- Spoonbill or stork
WADER
- Sharpen
WHET
- Humor writer Bombeck
ERMA
- Piercing
ACUTE
- City about 200 miles southeast of Honolulu
HILO
- Old kids’ TV show featuring Mr. Moose and Mr. Bunny Rabbit
CAPTAINKANGAROO
- Ballot mailer
ABSENTEE
- Gift
TALENT
- Energy drink suffix
ADE
- Showed up
CAME
- Ghosts at times
SCARERS
- Place to work on figures
ICERINK
- Its anthem is Hen Wlad Fy Nhadau
WALES
- Print measures
PICAS
- Feel remorse over
RUE
- Made like
APED
- Spelunking enthusiast
CAVER
- Candle holder of a sort
CAKE
- Soft shoe for short
MOC
- Less hesitant
SURER
- Suite spot
HOTEL
- Like a nervous person’s stomach
INKNOTS
- Meditation goal
ONENESS
- Andy Taylor’s boy
OPIE
- Capp and Capone
ALS
- Madison or Park
AVENUE
- Some fortified wines
MADEIRAS
- Medium for secret messages and a hint to making sense of 12 Down answers
DISAPPEARINGINK
- Polite address
MAAM
- Bring about
INCUR
- Do say
NOTE
- Turn violently
SLUE
- Blissful spots
EDENS
- Worry
STEW
DOWN
- Twice penta-
DECA
- Dhow sailor generally
ARAB
- Call makers
UMPS
- Like some African foxes
BATEARED
- Fire extinguisher
WAITER
- Top club
ACNE
- Expected
DUKE
- H look-alike
ETA
- Alamo service
RENTACAR
- The Pequod e.g.
WHALER
- Take on
HIRE
- Musk of X
ELON
- Horn output
TOOT
- Lake Titicaca setting
ANDES
- Series components
GAMES
- Foe of Mark Antony
CICERO
- Learned to crawl say
SWAMI
- Crime syndicate honcho
CAPON
- Oscar winner Guinness
ALECK
- Few and far between
SPARSE
- Merit
IRATE
- Banjos’ cousins
NUKES
- Sargasso Sea creatures
KEELS
- ___ had it!
IVE
- Adorable tot
CUTIEPIE
- Delivers
CONSIGNS
- Get the last of as gravy
SOPUP
- Hunt for roles?
HELEN
- Generic
NONAME
- Low points
NADIRS
- USN bigwigs
ADMS
- Medicine container
VIAL
- Jacob’s twin
ESAU
- Cook’s spice
MACE
- Make ___ for it (flee)
ARUN
- Nonsense
RIOT
- Stopped fasting
ANTE
- Patch things up perhaps
SKEW
- Close