Wall Street Journal Crossword Answers January 12, 2024

ACROSS

• Roll in a mailroom
  TAPE
• Surprising win
  UPSET
• Cat or cone lead-in
  SNO
• Golf gaffe
  SLICES
• Cast aloft
  HEFT
• Middle of OOO
  TAC
• A little a little casually
  SORTA
• Always thinking of other people
  SELFLESS
• Reid and Westover for two
  AUTHORS
• Bring up
  STEM
• Highly observant
  KEENEYED
• Snoopy say
  BEAGLE
• Carrier to Ben Gurion International
  ELAL
• Suitor
  BEAU
• Let others partake of
  SHARE
• Foolish
  UNWISE
• Tasty paste
  PATE
• Used as a bench
  SAT
• Latin for man
  HOMO
• Unlikely to take criticism well
  TESTY
• It used to be yours
  THINE
• Rickman of Die Hard
  ALAN
• Any of 79 in a gold atom
  ATNO
• In a spiteful way
  NASTILY
• Not wanting to say what you really think
  DIPLOMATIC
• From Arizona to Arkansas say
  EAST
• Lifesaving device
  EPIPENS
• Not playing favorites
  IMPARTIAL
• Festival or fun run say
  EVENT
• Beanery brew
  JAVA
• Big ray
  MANTA
• Brazilian dance
  LAMBADA
• Business with beds
  INN
• Dark period
  NIGHT
• Laundry amount
  PILE

DOWN

• You’re bad!
  TSK
• Big tuna
  AHI
• Go for the gold?
  VIE
• Discontinue
  CEASE
• Freedom in Swahili
  UHURU
• Word before code or colony
  PENAL
• Fail to respect
  RENEGE
• Early evictee
  ADAM
• Abbr. on business cards
  TEL
• The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo novelist Larsson
  STIEG
• Like some consonants
  PALATAL
• Earth colour
  OCHRE
• ___ Lee Gifford
  KATHIE
• Financial crime
  FRAUD
• Eur. neighbor
  AFR
• Extinguished candles create them
  WAXDRIPS
• …who lived in ___
  ASHOE
• Prepare for a marathon
  TRAIN
• Lot buy
  CAR
• German-speaking capital
  BERN
• Seine stuff
  EAU
• Lodge letters
  BPOE
• Young Sheldon star Armitage
  IAIN
• Basic to Bougie channel
  MTV
• Its numbers include Buenos Aires
  AREA
• Curtain fabric
  VOILE
• Musician Reznor
  TRENT
• Delay your departure
  STAY
• Present presenter
  SANTA
• Under the weather
  ILL
• Related groups
  CLANS
• Selling very well
  HOT
• Penultimate letter
  PSI
• Emperor of Japan 1867-1912
  MEIJI
• Irish national hero de Valera
  EAMON
• Rocky Mountains resort
  ASPEN
• Toffee bar
  SKORS
• One of the black keys
  EBONY
• Buick blemish
  DENT
• Two after JFK
  LBJ
• ___ chi
  TAI
• Kilmer of Top Gun: Maverick
  VAL
• Moody music
  EMO
• They’ve got the Magic
  ORLANDO
• Tiniest bit
  JOT