Wall Street Journal Crossword December 2 2022 Answers

ACROSS

• More than expected
  ALOT
• Polite guy
  GENT
• The Maltese Falcon actor
  ASTOR
• Performer who doesn’t need a mike
  MIME
• Blue hue
  AQUA
• One of Alabama’s two
  SCHWA
• Major producer of iron
  IRAN
• Ponder
  MULL
• Didn’t mind one’s own business
  PRIED
• Move swiftly
  DART
• Lions with manes
  MALES
• Finishes up
  ENDS
• Spoken
  ORAL
• Put into service
  USE
• Unlike raincoats
  POROUS
• Books of facts
  ALMANACS
• Flying solo
  ALONE
• Goal of counting sheep
  SLEEP
• Fan setting
  LOW
• Hint on NYPD Blue
  CLUE
• Long-necked lute
  SITAR
• Director Leder
  MIMI
• Austrian A
  EIN
• Unimportant
  MINOR
• Mixed nuts component
  PECAN
• Malbecs and such
  REDWINES
• Food in a Monty Python sketch starring John Cleese
  CHEESE
• Stuff in a stein
  ALE
• Attempt at a basket
  SHOT
• It may be blue or hazel
  IRIS
• It can swallow an octopus whole
  WHALE
• Tablet with a passcode
  IPAD
• Any of Hanukkah’s eight
  NIGHT
• Hmmm…
  ISEE
• Edible seaweed
  NORI
• ___ in peace
  ICOME
• Level
  TIER
• Classic asset to hold
  GOLD
• Number of apples Hippomenes threw
  THREE
• Store since 1867
  SAKS
• Beat it!
  SHOO

DOWN

• Encircled by
  AMID
• Pre-euro money
  LIRA
• Rubáiyát writer
  OMAR
• Easy-to-calculate odds
  TENTOONE
• Beta followers
  GAMMAS
• Add up to
  EQUAL
• Without value
  NULL
• Something to spin
  TALE
• Desert threat
  ASP
• Be choosy with incoming calls
  SCREEN
• Weed out
  THIN
• Was in arrears
  OWED
• CT scan units
  RADS
• Region of ancient Mesopotamia
  SUMER
• Regret
  RUE
• Tree flow
  SAP
• Indiana NBAer
  PACER
• Skate park trick
  OLLIE
• Tournament part
  ROUND
• Choir voices
  ALTOS
• Goneril’s dad
  LEAR
• Walker in a bookstore
  ALICE
• Unconscious states
  COMAS
• Hogs
  SWINE
• Trig function
  SINE
• Fibrous tissue
  SINEW
• Zoom events
  MEETINGS
• A thou thou
  MIL
• Meal in a bowl
  PHO
• Words scrawled on a dirty car window
  WASHME
• Series in a bar
  CHEERS
• Like panthers and Porsches
  SLEEK
• Competitive
  INIT
• Loaded
  RICH
• Mad scientist’s assistant often
  IGOR
• Numbers high on charts
  HITS
• Where the Irtysh and Indus flow
  ASIA
• Beloved bear
  POOH
• The Good Dinosaur role
  ARLO
• Thank You singer
  DIDO
• Kickoff need
  TEE