Wall Street Journal Crossword February 8, 2024, Answers

ACROSS

• Judges wear them
  PROBES
• Villain with more lines than the title character
  IAGO
• Political Victory Fund org.
  NRA
• Bishop e.g.
  RELATE
• Abandon one’s principles
  SPELLOUT
• Fairy king
  OBERON
• Like the cheetah among land animals
  SEEDIEST
• Though death be poor it ___ mortal woe: Richard II
  ENDSA
• Surname of the It’s Your Thing brothers
  ISLEY
• Bitter brews
  ALES
• Egypt and Syria once: Abbr.
  UAR
• Go down
  SET
• Escape character in many programming languages
  BACKSPLASH
• It’s a long story
  SAGA
• Be parsimonious
  SCRIM
• Coup target
  ETAT
• Move up and down
  BOB
• Largest of the Ryukyu Islands
  OKINAWA
• Crustacean used in a creamy soup
  SHECRAB
• Stand band
  REM
• Become firm
  JELL
• Roofing material
  SLATE
• Playoff passes
  BYES
• They’re parallel to the equator
  PLATITUDES
• Lt.’s superior
  CAT
• What boys will be
  MEN
• Workers in gardens
  BEES
• Pasta shape
  ELBOW
• Positions at bridge tables
  EASTS
• Topographical map depiction
  TERRAPIN
• Swindled
  TOOKIN
• Gutter attachment
  RAINSOUT
• Pulitzer winner Welty
  EUDORA
• Heart chart for short
  EKG
• Sheet edges
  HEMS
• Express approval of and if reparsed a hint to making sense of five pairs of answers
  PRAISE

DOWN

• Debate side
  PRO
• Confederate soldier familiarly
  REB
• Bullring cheer
  OLE
• Sight at a nudist colony
  BARESKIN
• School near Windsor
  ETON
• Parody
  SENDUP
• She voices Spider-Woman in Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse
  ISSARAE
• King Kong for one
  APE
• How about that!
  GEE
• My Guy or My Girl e.g.
  OLDIE
• Coward of the theater
  NOEL
• Trick
  RUSE
• Case worker for short
  ATTY
• Puts on the market
  LISTS
• Mineo in movies
  SAL
• Draw in
  ABSORB
• Obsequious sort
  LACKEY
• Phishing e.g.
  ECRIME
• Ayatollah’s predecessor
  SHAH
• Lt.’s subordinate
  SMAJ
• Aves. and blvds.
  STS
• Rub the wrong way
  ABRADE
• Chin adornment
  GOATEE
• Sisters’ overseer
  ABBESS
• Research task
  TEST
• Betrayed sorrow
  WEPT
• Inclusive word
  ALL
• It may be used to remove red wine stains
  CLUBSODA
• Feels regret about
  LAMENTS
• Look down on
  SCORN
• Infuser contents
  TEA
• Foot part
  INSTEP
• Inundated
  AWASH
• Being to Sartre
  ETRE
• Pipe problem
  LEAK
• Carrier cooler
  BRIG
• See the sights
  TOUR
• The Mystery of Marie Roget author
  POE
• Element suffix
  IUM
• Pond fauna
  KOI
• Org. with schedules
  IRS
• Scot’s refusal
  NAE