Wall Street Journal Crossword March 29 2023 Answers

ACROSS

• Water bearer
  PIPE
• Bowen of SNL
  YANG
• Built up in a way
  URBAN
• Major provider of traveler’s checks
  AMEX
• Greek portico
  STOA
• The Alchemist author Coelho
  PAULO
• Chooses randomly in a way
  CASTSLOTS
• Boot parts
  HEELS
• Ice cream parlor unit
  SCOOP
• Seriously!
  NOLIE
• Born as
  NEE
• Turn to mush
  ROT
• Party poopers
  KILLJOYS
• Ecstatic feeling
  RAPTURE
• Big fusses
  TODOS
• Plural possessive
  OUR
• Not terrible but not terrific either
  SOSO
• Japanese noodles
  UDON
• Make dear? (and a hint to this puzzle’s circled letters)
  DRIVEUPTHEPRICE
• Other than
  SAVE
• Place that LL Cool J was going back to
  CALI
• Words with profit or loss
  ATA
• Ornamental stone
  AGATE
• Attacks with a lance
  TILTSAT
• Weapon in a Gotham superhero’s arsenal
  BATARANG
• Pro camera initials
  SLR
• Put into service
  USE
• Functions
  MODES
• Ran on the radio
  AIRED
• Tycoon
  NABOB
• Natasha Lyonne series
  POKERFACE
• Birch of Ghost World
  THORA
• Fan favorite
  IDOL
• Money of Milan once
  LIRA
• Philly player
  SIXER
• World’s first official indoor ball brand
  NERF
• Texter’s plenty
  ENUF

DOWN

• Campaign-backing orgs.
  PACS
• Tech debut of 1998
  IMAC
• Cuban coin
  PESO
• Blackmail
  EXTORT
• Fashion initials
  YSL
• Heaps
  ATON
• Unacceptable
  NOTOK
• Starz thriller series with Julia Roberts as Martha Mitchell
  GASLIT
• Sustained
  UPHELD
• Norma ___
  RAE
• Greeting in Granada
  BUENOSDIAS
• Site of some strikes
  ALLEY
• Smoke detectors?
  NOSES
• Not a single person
  SPOUSE
• U.N. agency for workers
  ILO
• What a prankster might drop
  TROU
• Day in Dijon
  JOUR
• Some retinal cells
  RODS
• Certain something
  AURA
• Plush place for watching a game
  PRIVATEBOX
• Telepathic gift
  ESP
• Like some drugs and stocks: Abbr.
  OTC
• Twice tetra
  OCTA
• Orderly
  NEAT
• Brightest star in Lyra
  VEGA
• It might be tipped passed or checked
  HAT
• Yale Bowl cheerers
  ELIS
• It has a supporting role
  PILLAR
• Judo grappling technique
  ARMBAR
• Confucian path
  TAO
• Spike at a cello’s base
  ENDPIN
• Bit of minutiae
  TRIFLE
• Hitters’ gambits
  BUNTS
• Japanese beer
  ASAHI
• Crystal-laden rock
  GEODE
• Hershey brand
  SKOR
• Game stopper
  RAIN
• Sandy color
  ECRU
• Signing maybe
  DEAF
• Mine material
  ORE
• Fantasy figure
  ELF