Wall Street Journal Crossword March 8 2023 Answers

ACROSS

• 2022 Super Bowl champs
  LARAMS
• In Search of Lost Time writer
  PROUST
• Down beats?
  EMORAP
• Shows reverence for in a way
  BOWSTO
• *Blood sports?
  VAMPIRERELAYS
• Response to some name-calling
  HERE
• Ballroom dance move
  DIP
• Play it once Sam for old times’ sake speaker
  ILSA
• Growler filler
  ALE
• *New employees at a gaming company?
  SEGASIGNEES
• He may make a killing making a killing
  HITMAN
• Aladdin’s simian sidekick
  ABU
• Canine-care deg.
  DDS
• Composer Webern
  ANTON
• Diamond sides
  FACETS
• *Fond pre-sleep words to one’s bunny slope companions?
  GOODNIGHTSKIS
• Broadsides
  TBONES
• Grant Wood for one
  IOWAN
• Chem. or bio.
  SCI
• Fossey subject
  APE
• Air
  MELODY
• *Simba’s uncle prepared for battle?
  ARMOREDSCAR
• Versatile truck for short
  UTE
• Spring
  LEAP
• Wild group initially
  NHL
• Mountains
  ALOT
• College musicians making shapes on the field or do what this puzzle does to the once-recognizable starred phrases
  SCRAMBLEBANDS
• Exactly
  TOATEE
• Julia Louis-Dreyfus’s Veep role
  SELINA
• Nice round figure
  SPHERE
• Meager
  SCANTY

DOWN

• Tearing down
  LEVELING
• Almond-flavored liqueur
  AMARETTO
• 1960 Summer Olympics host
  ROME
• Dadaist who went by both Hans and Jean
  ARP
• Initial
  MAIDEN
• Parsley unit
  SPRIG
• Retro hip beer initially
  PBR
• Sea urchin eggs
  ROE
• Symbol of wisdom
  OWL
• Bolt on a track
  USAIN
• Did salon work
  STYLED
• Searched messily
  TOSSED
• Antipollution org.
  EPA
• You’re a riot!
  HAHA
• Pompous sort
  ASS
• Place to walk on water
  SANDBAR
• Goldman’s partner
  SACHS
• Likely story
  IBET
• Less fainthearted
  GUTSIER
• Practically irrelevant
  MOOT
• Made pay
  FINED
• Epoch
  AGE
• Drinking toast
  SKOL
• Hard pass
  NOPE
• Bad idea buddy
  IWOULDNT
• Alas…
  SADTOSAY
• Negative from Nikita
  NYET
• Pizzeria owner in Do the Right Thing
  SAL
• Wave peaks
  CRESTS
• Dragnet declaration
  IMACOP
• Bordeaux wine
  MALBEC
• Her first book club choice was The Deep End of the Ocean
  OPRAH
• NBC fixture since 1975
  SNL
• Pursuit of a mate?
  CHESS
• Have ___ (be connected)
  ANIN
• Downed
  ATE
• La ___ des Caraïbes
  MER
• Sacramento newspaper
  BEE
• In imitation of
  ALA