Wall Street Journal February 3 2024 Clues and Answers

ACROSS

• Truly awesome
  EPIC
• Nintendo worker
  CODER
• Woody’s son
  ARLO
• Slaves of New York writer Janowitz
  TAMA
• Creature on the Mauritius coat of arms
  DODO
• Major shock
  TRAUMA
• Bay mixed with white e.g.
  ROAN
• Turnoff of a sort
  EXIT
• Muscle builder for growing boys and girls?
  TEENPROTEIN
• Smooth-talking
  GLIB
• Isn’t well
  AILS
• Wacky folks
  MANIACS
• Radio cabinet that plays only gospel-tinged R&B?
  SOULCONSOLE
• Tree with samaras
  ELM
• Start of a challenge
  IDARE
• Lack of vitality
  ANEMIA
• Name for a poker fan’s farm business?
  DEUCEPRODUCE
• Electrician often
  WIRER
• Little ones
  RUNTS
• Alternative to a dead-tree edition
  EBOOK
• Watch over
  MIND
• David Tennant e.g.
  SCOT
• Fossilized say
  OLD
• Perry’s star reporter
  LOIS
• Votes from supporters
  AYES
• News agcy. since 1907
  UPI
• Worst off
  NEEDIEST
• Coca-Cola founder Asa Griggs ____
  CANDLER
• Genesis victim
  ABEL
• Astray
  ERRING
• Phone listing put up on the wall?
  TACKEDCONTACT
• Pig proboscis
  SNOUT
• Body part that means little grape
  UVULA
• That profit’s yet to come ___ me and you: Othello
  TWEEN
• Publicist for an engine manufacturer?
  MOTORPROMOTER
• TV’s Durance and Hubbard
  ERICAS
• Responsibility
  ONUS
• Ties up
  SECURES
• Stint in the slammer
  HARDTIME
• Part of a Brit. business name
  LTD
• Go from one state to another in a way
  MELT
• Palette contents
  OILS
• Job
  GIG
• Pekes and pugs
  TOYS
• Zoo barrier
  MOAT
• Standpoint
  ANGLE
• Killers of the Flower Moon people
  OSAGE
• Tannin-rich nut
  ACORN
• Part of an online forum moderator’s job?
  TROLLCONTROL
• Tribe healer
  SHAMAN
• Freight mover
  BARGE
• Argentine aunt
  TIA
• Introductory section of a captain’s journal?
  LOGPROLOGUE
• Wrapped garments
  SARONGS
• Baleful
  EVIL
• Pop singer Alessia
  CARA
• Cause of bragging about one’s box at the opera?
  SEATCONCEIT
• Athlete of whom Andy Warhol said instead of 15 minutes of fame he will have 15 centuries
  PELE
• Jessica’s Rob Roy co-star
  LIAM
• Gradually narrows
  TAPERS
• Hence
  ERGO
• ___ leches cake
  TRES
• Name in the Perry Mason credits
  ERLE
• I was wrong big deal!
  SUEME
• Dispatched
  SENT

DOWN

• Summer setting in D.C.
  EDT
• Pope work
  POEM
• Hypothesis
  IDEA
• Put together
  CONNECT
• Gator’s kin
  CROC
• Filly fare
  OATS
• Expected
  DUE
• Parent company of Capitol Records once
  EMI
• Rifle
  RANSACK
• Join the debate
  ARGUE
• Dog holder
  ROLL
• Not clerical
  LAIC
• Cool with the plan
  ONBOARD
• Interest-piquing ads
  TEASERS
• General truth
  AXIOM
• Thousandth in metric unit names
  MILLI
• Baffled
  ATSEA
• Chaplin persona
  TRAMP
• A whole lot
  PILES
• Vein makeup
  ORE
• Miami-to-NYC heading
  NNE
• Answers after two rings?
  IDOS
• Couple
  DUO
• Aerial footage provider
  DRONE
• Swiss mathematics great
  EULER
• Lead-off performer?
  UNDERSTUDY
• Vintage autos
  REOS
• Notice in passing?
  OBIT
• Brandish
  WIELD
• Locust e.g.
  INSECT
• Affectionate address
  MYDEAR
• Habano
  CUBANCIGAR
• Crude grp.
  OPEC
• Pinball boo-boo
  TILT
• Boosts
  LEGUPS
• Sites for some monitors
  ANKLES
• T. rexes and raptors e.g.
  DINOS
• ___ out? (poker table question)
  INOR
• Get frisky
  CAVORT
• Not quite right perhaps
  ACUTE
• Group in a shell
  ROWERS
• Wiped out in slang
  ATEIT
• Noisy commotion
  TUMULT
• Young Sheldon e.g.
  NERD
• Shelf rattler
  TREMOR
• Shed as skin
  MOLT
• Undeceived by
  ONTO
• Sponge spot
  OCEAN
• Chum
  AMIGO
• Jason of Shrinking
  SEGEL
• Sledding spot
  HILL
• Oscar winner Guinness
  ALEC
• Eye creepily
  OGLE
• Takes a sip of
  SAMPLES
• Mr. Peanut feature
  MONOCLE
• Pinches so to speak
  ARRESTS
• Eggy drink
  NOG
• Burger topper
  ONION
• Attitudes
  STANCES
• Train unit
  CAR
• Sigma follower
  TAU
• Others in Acapulco
  OTROS
• Was out
  SLEPT
• Hummingbirds do it
  HOVER
• Like a tumbler
  AGILE
• Not a player’s best effort
  BGAME
• Supervillain’s base
  LAIR
• Vaccine type
  ORAL
• Pipe part
  STEM
• Lot measure
  ACRE
• American Gigolo star
  GERE
• Speak silently
  SIGN
• Rhône fill
  EAU
• Simian
  APE
• Little one
  TOT