Wall Street Journal – May 6 2023 – “By the Nvmbers” Crossword Answers
Wall Street Journal – May 6 2023 – By the Nvmbers
Clues | Answers |
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“Earth in the Balance” author | ALGORE |
“We’re ___ Here!” (album by the Ramones) | OUTTA |
“You Bet Your Life” host since 2021 | LENO |
“___ Have” (2003 #1 hit for Jennifer Lopez with LL Cool J) | ALLI |
1 adviser to a wizard? | IMAGECONSULTANT |
10 counseling sessions for a devilfish? | XRAYTHERAPIES |
100 art galleries? | CHANGINGROOMS |
1000 high-ranking officers besides the obvious ones? | MOTHERSUPERIORS |
5 members of a female bowling league? | VALLEYGIRLS |
50 dark brown face cards? | LUMBERJACKS |
500 pieces of balsa wood? | DRAFTBOARDS |
A planchette is used with it | OUIJA |
Accent | STRESS |
Adorably innocent | ANGELIC |
Amused expression | GRIN |
Amused giggle | HEEHEE |
Arboretum item | TREE |
Arlene and Roald, for two | DAHLS |
Bar supply | ICE |
Baseball brawl | RHUBARB |
Big lug | GALOOT |
Bombastic talk | GAS |
Bottom-row PC key | ALT |
Boxer Mossely who won gold at the Rio Olympics | ESTELLE |
Call from a net judge | LET |
Caramel-colored beverage | COLA |
Case overturned in 2022, familiarly | ROE |
Casual quality | EASE |
Circumference of the track at Churchill Downs | MILE |
Color | DYE |
Common people | MASSES |
Cool, like a cool cat | HEP |
Cost as much as | RUNTO |
Coup groups | JUNTAS |
Creator of Oz | BAUM |
Crunch targets | ABS |
Cry from a verklempt person | OYVEY |
Damage | HARM |
Davis with two Best Actress Oscars | BETTE |
Dawn goddess | EOS |
Demanding constant attention | NEEDY |
Didn’t just giggle | ROARED |
Diner dish | HASH |
Divert | REROUTE |
Energize, as a crowd | AMPUP |
Enjoy greatly | DIG |
Et cetera | ANDSOON |
Even numbers? | TIE |
Experience again | RELIVE |
Fail to field, as a ground ball | BOOT |
Fairway makeup | TURF |
Family boy | SON |
Firmly in place, as beliefs | DEEPSET |
Flourishes | BLOOMS |
Folk music’s Woody | GUTHRIE |
Fourth-yr. students | SRS |
Futile | NOUSE |
Gossip, in slang | TEA |
Great American Ball Park team | REDS |
Harden | ENURE |
Hulk and Thor, for two | AVENGERS |
Impudent talk | LIP |
Internet language that includes “n00b” and “pwn’d” | LEET |
Is on the same page | AGREES |
Isn’t upright | LEANS |
It might be stuck in a trunk | AXHEAD |
It’s next to chlorine on the periodic table | ARGON |
Its lair is called a holt | OTTER |
Jamaican spirits | RUMS |
James Brown album of 1988 | IMREAL |
Clues | Answers |
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Jemison who spent almost eight days in space | MAE |
Katy Perry and Serena Williams are ambassadors for it | UNICEF |
Keys | ISLETS |
Kittenish | PLAYFUL |
Lair | DEN |
Like Afghanistan’s Pashtun people | TRIBAL |
Like some goodbyes | TEARY |
Maker of Coolpix cameras | NIKON |
Marseille monarch | ROI |
Milieu for John Muir | SIERRAS |
Mounts | STEEDS |
Nation on the Gulf of Guinea | TOGO |
Neighbor of Arg. and Braz | BOL |
Neil Diamond hit of 1977 | DESIREE |
No longer with the team, perhaps | TRADED |
Notes at night | TAPS |
Nuisances for neat freaks | MESSES |
Nutrition info abbr | RDA |
Official order | DECREE |
Orchestra setting | PIT |
Pass | ELAPSE |
Paul Anka’s “___ Beso” | ESO |
Penta- doubled | DECA |
Plymouth Rock, essentially | GRANITE |
Practitioner of crystal healing, perhaps | NEWAGER |
Pre-DVR device | VCR |
Prepare to put away, as groceries | UNBAG |
President Bartlet’s nickname, on “The West Wing” | JED |
Prologue follower | ACTI |
Protects from danger | SHELTERS |
Pure | CHASTE |
Puzzle | ENIGMA |
Rank | STATUS |
Region of France, in Roman times | ALSATIA |
Remove with a pinch | NIPOFF |
Request for permission | MAYI |
Resting state | REPOSE |
Router’s creation | GROOVE |
Sacred asp-shaped symbols of the pharaohs | URAEUSES |
Sacred scrolls | TORAHS |
Sailor with a pipe | POPEYE |
Sch. for young ones | ELEM |
Sch. with an annual Mystery Hunt | MIT |
Seas, to Seurat | MERS |
Self-conscious question | ISITME |
Service group, of a sort | CHOIR |
Simile center | ASA |
Soft ball brand | NERF |
Spots for yachts | BASINS |
Stadium attendance | GATE |
Standing on | ATOP |
Stare stupidly, in Britain | GAWP |
Stew | FRET |
Strongly advised | URGED |
Strongly criticize | REVILE |
Swimmer’s count | LAPS |
Swinging spot | HOME |
Tart fruit | SLOE |
They follow cues | ARS |
Title character in Anne Rice’s “The Mummy” | RAMSES |
Topi or toque | HAT |
Touchdown maker | AIRPLANE |
Tubes in torsi | AORTAE |
Unlikely to occur | REMOTE |
Upper limit | CAP |
Visiting Venice, say | ABROAD |
Volt/ampere | OHM |
Ward worker | NURSE |
Welcome | GREET |
Where Excalibur was forged | AVALON |