Wall Street Journal - Jan 7 2023 - Loaded Language

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Clues Answers
“Big Brown” UPS
“Enough!” NOMORE
“Gimme five!” UPTOP
“Ha!” in a text LOL
“How We Do (Party)” singer Rita ORA
“La Cage ___ Folles” AUX
“Miss Independent” singer NEYO
“Quit ___ bellyachin’!” YER
“Rebecca” writer du Maurier DAPHNE
“Schitt’s Creek” motel clerk STEVIE
“Sprechen ___ Deutsch?” SIE
“What ___!” (“How groovy!”) AGAS
“You said it, sister!” AMEN
A ___ (theoretical) PRIORI
Actors Epps and Sy OMARS
Always, poetically EER
Anklebones TARSI
Appear SEEM
Approx. number EST
Astronomical alignment SYZYGY
Attends informally AUDITS
Bass, for one ALE
Besotted boyfriend? TIGHTSQUEEZE
Biceps and sartorius, for two FLEXORS
Bill additions FEES
Bison setting PRAIRIE
Bit of Eden apparel FIGLEAF
Blast HOOT
Boil SEETHE
Boiling HOPPINGMAD
Bond component ATOM
Bravo, in Barcelona OLE
Brief remembrance OBIT
Business ltr. insert ENC
Chu ___ (Chinese philosopher) HSI
Close SHUT
Colleague of Ketanji ELENA
Colorful band SPECTRUM
Cpl. or Sgt NCO
Crèche figures MAGI
David nicknamed “Big Papi” ORTIZ
Device with a Bionic chip IPHONE
Dict. info ETYM
Difficult journey, informally SCHLEP
Disrupts completely UPENDS
Dreaded fellow, perhaps RASTA
Early ABC show GMA
Enjoy Aspen SKI
Excavation target ORE
Feminine suffix ENNE
Fixed with a needle SEWN
Forgo a ceremony ELOPE
Get the most efficiency from OPTIMIZE
Gives the old college try HASAGO
Goatherd in “Heidi” PETER
Green roll SOD
Hall of Fame halfback Gale SAYERS
HMO participants DRS
Hollywood, familiarly THEBIZ
Hutchinson of the Detroit Lions AIDAN
I, in Innsbruck ICH
In a bit ANON
Innings for closers NINTHS
Inter ___ ALIA
Intoxicated interpretation? LOOSETRANSLATION
Iolani Palace home OAHU
Jai ___ ALAI
Like a sampan OARED
Like some casks OAKEN
Long time follower? NOSEE
Clues Answers
Mag. workers EDS
Many an emailed form PDF
Maya Angelou’s “And Still ___” IRISE
Motes SPECKS
Muse of lyric poetry ERATO
Muted PALE
Narrow peninsula SPIT
Nonpareil candy SNOCAP
Numb noggin? WETNOODLE
Object of Cupid’s affection PSYCHE
Odd duck MISFIT
Oiled Rembrandt? FLYINGDUTCHMAN
Oklahoma city ENID
On the seabed, maybe SUNKEN
Only Martina and Chris won more Open Era singles matches than she did STEFFI
Overly sentimental SOPPY
Palm with edible berries ACAI
Parks who was the first woman to lie in honor in the Capitol ROSA
Peacenik DOVE
Pelvic bones ILIA
Per ___ DIEM
Pitched places TENTS
Pixilated pub quiz, perhaps? STIFFCOMPETITION
Plastered plug? BLINDSPOT
Pompeo of “Grey’s Anatomy” ELLEN
Pop SODA
Pound’s kin DOGSHELTER
Pound, e.g UNIT
Preferred pronoun for some SHE
Prepare for baling MOW
Promoted pawn, often QUEEN
Proposes as a price ASKS
Protection AEGIS
Puts in the mail? ARMORS
Radiates EMITS
Rapid river thaw ICERUN
Rapper who co-starred in 2003’s “The Italian Job” MOSDEF
Reddish brown SEPIA
Render speechless STUPEFY
Ride-or-die buds BFFS
Rider of a black horse named Tornado ZORRO
Ring in libraries LARDNER
Sauce in a falafel sandwich TAHINI
Score datum TEMPO
Screeds RANTS
Seal predator ORCA
Shortening brand CRISCO
Site of Hyundai’s headquarters SEOUL
Sloshed sourpusses? STEWEDPRUNES
Sound of Washington PUGET
Sticker DECAL
Stocking stuffers? FEET
Strong singing voice, slangily PIPES
Subsequently LATERON
Succotash bite LIMA
Suffix for Austin or Dallas ITE
Tearoom mat TATAMI
Terse verse HAIKU
To date YET
Try to trim DIET
UFO crew ETS
Uptown dir. in Manhattan NNE
Vessel that passed the Sirens ARGO
Victim in a Jacques-Louis David painting MARAT
Visiting Echo Park, say INLA
Washington from Chestnut Grove, Virginia MARTHA
Went headfirst, perhaps SLIDIN
Winner of the first ATP Player of the Year award ASHE
Wrecked New Year’s promise? HIGHRESOLUTION
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