Wall Street Journal Crossword January 24 2024 Clues and Answers

ACROSS

• Provoke
  ROUSE
• Skilled
  ABLE
• Many an Al Jazeera viewer
  ARAB
• Fertile spot
  OASIS
• Songwriter sometimes
  POET
• Turbine part
  VANE
• Result of catching an interception or follow-up to contending innocence
  THEDEFENSERESTS
• Whatever…
  SURE
• Old Testament prophet
  AMOS
• Still alive in a paintball game
  UNHIT
• It breaks on the beach
  WAVE
• Zesty flavor
  TANG
• Didn’t get to play or presided over a courtroom
  SATONTHEBENCH
• Grace for example
  PRAYER
• A bit naughty
  RACY
• Shaggy-plumed bird
  EMU
• Tatters
  RAGS
• Its mass is 333000 times that of Earth
  SUN
• River past Warwick
  AVON
• Take in
  EYE
• Stand for a speaker
  DAIS
• Gift
  TALENT
• Succeeding in a pole vault or showing competence in legal knowledge
  PASSINGTHEBAR
• Jazz setting
  UTAH
• Big suit
  EXEC
• Go with the flow
  ADAPT
• Open-top pastry
  TART
• Surrounded by
  AMID
• Swings of a bat or requests of removal from the record
  MOTIONSTOSTRIKE
• Prime minister between Churchill and Macmillan
  EDEN
• Long time in London
  AEON
• Puzzled
  ATSEA
• What the fourth little piggy had
  NONE
• Some have cameo roles
  GEMS
• Potpourri bit
  PETAL

DOWN

• Doesn’t keep
  ROTS
• Obama’s birthplace
  OAHU
• App customer
  USER
• How crabs crawl
  SIDEWAYS
• Jargon suffix
  ESE
• Transitional figures
  APEMEN
• Lead singer for U2
  BONO
• Symbol that shares a key with the comma
  LESSTHAN
• Summer in Sèvres
  ETE
• Get payback for
  AVENGE
• Ill-advised
  RASH
• Against
  ANTI
• Outsmart
  BEST
• It can be curried
  FAVOR
• Share with as an idea one needs feedback on
  RUNBY
• Polished off
  ATE
• Old nuclear regulatory agcy.
  AEC
• Givers of good advice
  SAGES
• Honor system foundation
  TRUST
• Over my dead body!
  NEVER
• Let’s go!
  CMON
• Peck’s partner
  HUNT
• Task for a sous-chef
  PREP
• ___ and the Last Dragon (2021 Disney film)
  RAYA
• Tour around
  SIGHTSEE
• Ordering option
  ALACARTE
• Same goes for me
  DITTO
• Santa ___ winds
  ANA
• Converses via phone
  TEXTS
• 1860s presidential nickname
  ABE
• Belly-up?
  SUPINE
• Long-legged birds
  HERONS
• Word often spoken in unison
  AMEN
• Bygone bird
  DODO
• A diller a dollar ___ o’clock scholar…
  ATEN
• Proton’s place
  ATOM
• Fine spray
  MIST
• Seller of tables and shelves
  IKEA
• Negotiation goal
  DEAL
• Horse put out to pasture
  NAG
• Keg need
  TAP