Wall Street Journal Crossword February 7 2024 Clues and Answers

ACROSS

• Trouble with sibilants
  LISP
• Venomous African snake
  MAMBA
• Mag. workers
  EDS
• Words before occasion or account
  ONNO
• Counting everything
  INALL
• Old ___ (London theater)
  VIC
• Question to a bargain hunter?
  WHATDIDYOUSAVE
• Slip by
  ELAPSE
• Draws a bead (on)
  HOMESIN
• Basic idea
  GIST
• Boxer for one
  BREED
• Ratio with a range from –1 to +1
  SINE
• Angry surfer’s shout?
  GETOUTOFMYWAVE
• Lode load
  ORE
• Do a maitre d’s job
  SEAT
• Site of the Cyclones’ Jack Trice Stadium
  AMES
• Beseeched
  PLED
• Long term
  LIFE
• Fiorello La Guardia’s wife
  THEA
• Wise guy
  SAGE
• Field worker
  REF
• Question for Mrs. Chappelle after her spouse’s stand-up routine?
  HOWWASYOURDAVE
• Riga resident
  LETT
• Gifted group
  MENSA
• Checked out
  EYED
• Chose to participate
  OPTEDIN
• Gomer Pyle portrayer Jim
  NABORS
• Instruction to a new member of the construction crew?
  YOUREGONNAPAVE
• Alert from the SFPD
  APB
• In poor condition
  SORRY
• Airline guesses briefly
  ETAS
• ___ Misérables
  LES
• Stern with a bow
  ISAAC
• Small denomination
  SECT

DOWN

• More plebeian
  LOWLIER
• How many mistakes are made
  INHASTE
• React when the boss appears
  SNAPTO
• Chef’s collection
  POTS
• Avatar in Nintendo console games
  MII
• Plus
  AND
• Utter chaos
  MAYHEM
• Rare perhaps
  BLOODY
• Former student for short
  ALUM
• Answering with a question maybe
  EVASIVE
• Discovers via guesswork
  DIVINES
• Public to-do
  SCENE
• Creditor
  DEBTEE
• Plant with oil-rich seeds
  SESAME
• Thick and Fluffy Double Chocolatey Waffles brand
  EGGO
• Fork setting
  ROAD
• Small salamander
  EFT
• Supreme Court subj.
  USLAW
• Kit Kat layer
  WAFER
• Mug material
  PEWTER
• Vientiane’s nation
  LAOS
• Invasive animal in Florida
  IGUANA
• His Holiness
  THEPOPE
• Features of some honeymoon suites
  HOTTUBS
• Thesaurus wd.
  SYN
• Battery brand since 1906
  RAYOVAC
• Himalayan giant
  EVEREST
• Mob fighters
  FEDS
• Dora’s friends
  AMIGOS
• Lady of Spain
  SENORA
• Election season event
  DEBATE
• True
  LOYAL
• Lucy’s foil
  DESI
• Galoots
  APES
• Gun-wielding grp.
  NRA
• MSG setting
  NYC