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Wall Street Journal Crossword March 4 2023 Answers

ACROSS

• Writers Paretsky and Douglass

  SARAS
• Feudal estate

  FIEF

• Summer clock setting in Del.

  EDT

• Complex unit

  CONDO
• Take in

  TRICK

• Secret plotting

  INTRIGUE

• Indulges

  HUMORS
• Bee on a break?

  RESTINGSTINGER

• Like 5 (but not V)

  ARABIC

• Capital that holds the Atatürk Forest Farm and Zoo

  ANKARA
• Fuel from bogs

  PEAT

• Number of syllables in guten Tag

  DREI

• Saint Petersburg’s river

  NEVA
• Earnings statement

  PAYSTUB

• Mall cop on a case?

  RETAILTAILER

• Pint for a pirate

  GROG
• Terse directions for the receptionist

  LETEMIN

• Number of syllables in ciao

  UNO

• Gets rid of a shadow perhaps

  SHAVES
• Streamlined

  AERO

• Artist whose name sounds like a sculpting medium

  KLEE

• Basketball player who’s just retired?

  RECENTCENTER
• Magic words

  CHARMS

• ___ luck!

  LOTSA

• Hindmost

  REAR
• Muslim mystic

  SUFI

• Cracker spread

  BRIE

• Itty bit

  SKOSH
• Tea-making tool

  INFUSER

• Thespian’s assignment

  ROLE

• Part of a henhouse team?

  RELAYLAYER
• Wrecking ball?

  REBARBARER

• Alabama governor Kay

  IVEY

• Stalemate

  IMPASSE
• Was a busybody

  PRIED

• Itty-bitty

  MINI

• React to a dog in the road

  VEER
• This ___ sudden!

  ISSO

• One who may take a gander

  GOOSE

• I’m telling you that’s who!

  SAYSME
• Champion firewood stacker?

  RECORDCORDER

• Statistician Silver

  NATE

• Bill of Rights guardian org.

  ACLU
• Best at an annual Coney Island contest

  OUTEAT

• Lamb’s dam

  EWE

• Like Jeff Bezos of all Americans

  RICHEST
• Philanthropic spots briefly

  PSAS

• Useful post-shipwreck consultant?

  REMASTMASTER

• Mote magnet

  DUSTMOP
• Yale Bowl rooters

  ELIS

• Number of syllables in feliz cumpleaños

  SEIS

• Garment joint

  SEAM
• Blobby beast

  AMOEBA

• Snap alternative

  VELCRO

• Big celebrity who faces facts?

  REALISTALISTER
• Get access to as a game level

  UNLOCK

• Personable

  ENGAGING

• Annoy affectionately

  TEASE
• Tasty butterflies e.g.

  PASTA

• British mil. honor

  DSO

• The Martian org.

  NASA
• Corporate division

  SALES

DOWN

• Banjo accessory

  STRAP

• Play ground?

  ARENA

• Fraught with danger

  RISKY
• Fill in for

  ACTAS

• Go around

  SKIRT

• One of the first fruits cultivated by humans

  FIG
• Title for Clouseau: Abbr.

  INSP

• Cigar end

  ETTE

• Tuck e.g.

  FRIAR
• Chick holder

  EGG

• Obstetric measure

  DUEDATE

• Toto or Asta

  TERRIER
• Reprobate

  CUR

• Muscat native

  OMANI

• Inventor from Stockholm

  NOBEL
• Take the wheel

  DRIVE

• Green Muppet

  OSCAR

• Spy’s data

  INTEL

• Half of Hispaniola

  HAITI

• Zero

  NAUGHT

• Red Muppet

  ELMO

• Bric-a-___

  BRAC

• Lachrymal drop

  TEAR

• Egyptian symbol of life

  ANKH

• Plug ad nauseam

  OVERHYPE

• Biological determinant

  GENE

• Web address

  URL

• He chooses the red pill over the blue pill

  NEO

• Halloween mo.

  OCT

• Serpentine

  SNAKY

• Flight makeup

  STAIRS

• It’s across the Strait of Belle Isle from Newfoundland

  LABRADOR

• Fielder’s flub

  ERROR

• Rousseau treatise

  EMILE

• Lamb for one

  ESSAYIST

• Direction suffix

  ERN

• Wispy clouds

  CIRRI

• Prophet

  SEER

• Take to court

  SUE

• Features of many laptops

  USBPORTS

• Trembling cause

  FEAR

• Oil source

  OLIVE

• Matching

  SAME

• Wall work

  FRESCO

• They’re attached to backboards

  RIMS

• Fiji alternative

  EVIAN

• Lotte of From Russia With Love

  LENYA

• You can lend yours or bend someone else’s

  EAR

• Sired

  BEGOT

• Sprechen ___ Deutsch?

  SIE

• Tureen contents

  SOUP

• Pindar product

  ODE

• Ply a needle

  SEW

• Before palindromically

  ERE

• Expanses of eau

  MERS

• Reddish brown

  RUST

• No longer in play

  DEAD

• Informal

  CASUAL

• Very top

  ACME

• Headed

  CHAIRED

• Drops off

  LESSENS

• Don’t worry

  ITSOK

• Car named for an engineer

  TESLA

• Intensify

  REVUP

• Kagan on the Court

  ELENA

• Grist grinders

  MILLS

• Fancy tie

  ASCOT

• Wear the crown

  REIGN

• Jimmy of East New York

  SMITS

• Where sailors go

  TOSEA

• Smith’s concern

  METAL

• Corpulent

  OBESE

• Makes reductions to

  PARES

• Area of about 11 billion acres

  ASIA

• Range components: Abbr.

  MTNS

• Label owned by Sony Music

  RCA

• In the past

  AGO

• ___ Khan

  AGA