WSJ Crossword May 23 2024 Answers

The complete list of answers to the WSJ Crossword published on May 23 2024.

78
Total Clues
37
Total Across
41
Total Down

Clues Across (37 total)

(1)
Scarecrow filler
(6)
Use colorful language
(10)
Calf site
(13)
Like some stew and coffee
(14)
Handling the task
(15)
Differ
(16)
Pig on Nick Jr.
(17)
*Tedious talk
(19)
China-based online marketplace
(21)
“Hold your horses!”
(22)
*Fancy necktie
(26)
Pigeon sound
(27)
Confucian’s “Book of Changes”
(28)
*Monopoly card
(32)
Hackneyed
(33)
Satirist Mort
(35)
Pollster’s fodder
(36)
Close
(37)
*Heroine of a Hardy book
(40)
Spoil
(41)
Rehab candidates
(43)
Pound pick
(44)
Pool hall item
(46)
*Corrida creature
(48)
Classic bug-assembling game
(49)
Cargo measure
(50)
*Planet not named for a god
(52)
Inundate
(55)
Tombstone name
(56)
*Storehouses
(58)
Fjord, e.g.
(63)
Brother of Athena
(64)
Part
(65)
City about 35 miles from Gainesville
(66)
Second column heading, often
(67)
Brand in freezers
(68)
Kind of situation, and a hint to making sense of the starred answers

Clues Down (41 total)

(1)
Try the tea
(2)
Number in Napoli
(3)
Tear
(4)
Pharaoh’s symbol
(5)
Party line?
(6)
Cranberry-flavored cocktail
(7)
Like some gems and movies
(8)
Address for the boss, perhaps
(9)
Sign maker’s set
(10)
#1 hit for Kenny Rogers
(11)
Presque Isle’s lake
(12)
Peer of theater
(15)
Rejected, in a way
(18)
Grant in the arts
(20)
Arrhythmia indicator, for short
(22)
Most judicious
(23)
Infomercial exhortation
(24)
“You left me no choice”
(25)
Starting score for a soccer team
(28)
Stimulate
(29)
“Broadway Joe”
(30)
And others, in other words
(31)
Cloud over
(33)
Bowl over
(34)
Small crawler
(38)
1985 Bruce Springsteen hit
(39)
Zodiac creature
(42)
Tummy tougheners
(45)
Stolen
(47)
Caramel candy
(48)
One in a pool
(50)
How dogs kiss
(51)
Mitigates
(52)
Noord-Holland town known for its cheese
(53)
First-century emperor
(54)
Singer Stefani
(57)
Tacit approval
(59)
Sgt., e.g.
(60)
Firm focus
(61)
Peyton’s brother
(62)
Camel kin

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