Wall Street Journal - Crossword Answers | 2022 05 17

crossword answers
Clue Answer
Drives, for a time LEASES
TEENSY WEE
ACTUALLY EXISTING INESSE
HUMOR WIT
SIMON OF DURAN DURAN LEBON
McKellen of “Gods and Monsters” IAN
NEWSPAPER SECTION ARTS
Observe Ramadan, say FAST
Site of a French endurance race LEMANS
DEMAND INSIST
THE EMERALD ISLE ERIN
What’s shaking? SALT
SUBSIDED EBBED
WASHROOM, FOR SHORT LAV
Cravat accessory TIEBAR
FREE FROM WORRIES EASY
SOME HALFTIME PERFORMERS MASCOTS
Pugs and Pomeranians, e.g TOYS
MAY HONOREES MOMS
LITERATURE NOBELIST GORDIMER NADINE
Navigates a precarious situation TREADSCAREFULLY
Two scents? ODORS
NOT NATURAL, IN A WAY DYED
“Legally Blonde” heroine ELLE
ASIAN LANGUAGE LAO
ODD COUPLE? DEES
TOOK A SPILL ATEIT
Dark-furred marten SABLE
SINGER GRANDE, TO FANS ARI
CHART TYPE PIE
Endorse on a screen ESIGN
CHANEY OF SILENT FILMS LON
Rep.’s counterpart SEN
___ de coeur (impassioned appeal) CRI
Unspecific ordinal NTH
Roman Empire raider HUN
Hermione at Hogwarts GRANGER
EGG MASS ROE
Performer on a wire, as described by 16-, 26-, 43- and 55-Across ACROBAT
Word after parking or auction LOT
STAMP OUT END
“Who am ___ say?” ITO
Hip-hop group from Hollis, Queens RUNDMC
RESISTANCE UNITS OHMS
“No Time to Die” co-star de Armas ANA
RED SOX MANAGER ALEX CORA
BORDERS ABUTS
Centaur who mentored Achilles CHIRON
Manages competing interests STRIKESABALANCE
FANCIFUL ILLUSORY
Mauna ___ (highest mountain, if measured from its underwater base) KEA
ILL-FATED NOTTOBE
Devoured, as a Thanksgiving turkey FEASTEDON
Low-tech smoke detectors NOSES
STANDS IN FOR ACTSAS
Was picked up, in a way UBERED
Like herding cats USELESS
GREG EVANS COMIC STRIP LUANN
Pride sound? ROAR