Wall Street Journal Crossword January 13, 2024, Clues and Answers

ACROSS

• Silent communication syst.
  ASL
• Comic booking
  GIG
• Feature presentation?
  FACE
• Some printers
  HPS
• Cannabis product
  HEMP
• Run
  OPERATE
• Societal problems
  ILLS
• Works at a fair
  ART
• Much-repeated word in air traffic control
  OVER
• I Wonder What the King Is Doing Tonight musical
  CAMELOT
• Canter e.g.
  GAIT
• Way to refer to a duchess
  HERGRACE
• Unprotected quake plan?
  NOFAULTLINEINSURANCE
• Britannia metal component
  TIN
• Put away
  STORE
• 2023 part for Ryan Gosling
  KEN
• Black Sea city resident
  ODESSAN
• Org. whose seal shows a shock of corn and a plow
  USDA
• Burn slightly
  SEAR
• Hand (out)
  DOLE
• Extended time for an appreciative writer?
  THEGRATEFULDEADLINE
• Eye cell
  ROD
• Give the finger?
  POINT
• Andrea ___ (ship that sank in 1956)
  DORIA
• Skywriting’s main topic?
  HEADLINEINTHECLOUDS
• More cunning
  SLYER
• Symbol marking Britain’s National Trails
  ACORN
• Underlying motives
  AGENDAS
• Kept out of sight
  HID
• Heretofore
  ASYET
• Harry & David offering
  PEARS
• He wrote lyrics for many of George’s songs
  IRA
• Reduced to rubble
  INRUINS
• On the ball
  ALERT
• Buccaneer’s bud
  MATEY
• Steps on one’s joke?
  BEATSTOTHEPUNCHLINE
• Written record
  ANNAL
• Parts
  ROLES
• Official lang. of Botswana
  ENG
• AT&T’s guarantee of retro service?
  THEPROMISEDLANDLINE
• African princess of opera
  AIDA
• River to the Moselle
  SAAR
• Difficult obligation
  ONUS
• Improve
  SHAPEUP
• Wonder Woman star Gadot
  GAL
• Jump back maybe
  START
• Butter K-pop group
  BTS
• Energy supplier for everybody?
  POWERLINETOTHEPEOPLE
• Shake the pulp soft drink
  ORANGINA
• ___-a-brac
  BRIC
• The Crime of Sylvestre Bonnard novelist France
  ANATOLE
• One-eyed god
  ODIN
• Frequent Nascar sponsor
  STP
• Specialty
  AREA
• He claimed to have made the Kessel Run in less than 12 parsecs
  HANSOLO
• Fancy do
  FETE
• Single digit?
  TOE
• Six years for a senator
  TERM
• Long in the tooth
  OLD
• Gee whiz!
  MAN

DOWN

• New York congresswoman known by initials
  AOC
• Chihuahua tongue
  SPANISH
• Paper whose first issue cost three francs
  LEMONDE
• Fancy dos
  GALAS
• We Can Work ___ (Beatles song)
  ITOUT
• Amscray!
  GETLOST
• Cover of the Bible?
  FIGLEAF
• Jai ___
  ALAI
• Hoosegow
  CLINK
• First name in cosmetics
  ESTEE
• Grammy-winning violinist Hilary
  HAHN
• Like concert tickets often
  PRESOLD
• Fruit-filled pastry
  STRUDEL
• Dances in circles
  HORAS
• Jazz music’s Gil or Bill
  EVANS
• Masjid al-Haram setting
  MECCA
• Spruce up
  PREEN
• Whistle blower
  REF
• Kaplan Review subj.
  GRE
• Corner
  TREE
• Begin a new paragraph say
  INDENT
• Shaming sound
  TUT
• Reach a consensus
  AGREE
• Media mogul Murdoch
  RUPERT
• Word of honor
  OATH
• Howl with laughter
  ROAR
• Throw in
  ADD
• Beef cut
  LOIN
• Loud racket
  DIN
• Like much chatter
  IDLE
• Day divider
  NOON
• Highbrow
  ERUDITE
• Do ___ to eat a peach?: T.S. Eliot
  IDARE
• Check for purity
  ASSAY
• Annoyance for someone seeking a parking spot
  HYDRANT
• Ted of TV
  LASSO
• Slippery perhaps
  ICY
• Valley of San Francisco
  NOE
• Honoree of an April day
  EARTH
• Meas. syst. that includes the dyne and 99-Down
  CGS
• ___ Inu (Japanese dog breed)
  SHIBA
• Flax product
  LINEN
• Grasshopper’s teacher in a fable
  ANT
• Perks
  PLUSES
• Bard’s twilight
  EEN
• Curve
  ARC
• Bonneville Flats site
  UTAH
• Majorca or Minorca
  ISLE
• Big galoots
  APES
• Care
  MIND
• Saxon leader?
  ANGLO
• Trampled
  TROD
• Respectful tribute
  HOMAGE
• Yale collegian
  ELI
• Spy thriller writer Deighton
  LEN
• Catholic evangelist
  PAULIST
• Criticize without mercy
  RIPINTO
• Capturer of a traffic stop maybe
  DASHCAM
• Past due
  LATE
• Great Plains tribe
  ARAPAHO
• Like D.C.’s Tidal Basin cherries around the beginning of April
  INBLOOM
• Spread made with filberts
  NUTELLA
• End for priest or prophet
  ESS
• Blazing Saddles e.g.
  SPOOF
• Throng
  HORDE
• Keep an eye out for
  AWAIT
• Tubular pasta
  PENNE
• Unit in 58-Down
  ERG
• Up
  ATBAT
• Peter of Casablanca
  LORRE
• Of the kidneys
  RENAL
• ___ fro
  TOAND
• Neck feature
  NAPE
• Layer cake layer
  TIER
• NBA tallies
  PTS
• Very very long time
  EON