WSJ Crossword March 2nd, 2022 Answers (3/2/22)

The Wall Street Journal publishes a new crossword Monday through Friday and uses a mix of crossword constructors to create interesting puzzles for people to solve. The crossword is 15×15. The Friday Crossword is special and has a “puzzle within a puzzle” that can be solved. They have a special Saturday or weekend-edition crossword that is larger (21×21) than their weekday crosswords and use a mix of acrostics, cryptics, and shapes to add complexity to the weekend puzzle. This post shares all of the answers to the Wall Street Journal Crossword published March 2nd, 2022.

WSJ Crossword March 2nd, 2022 Solution Guide

Here are all of the answers for the WSJ Crossword first published on March 2nd, 2022. You can check out more of our WSJ Crossword Answers for our full coverage. You can click the clue for more information.

Clue	Answer
“Everything Is Illuminated” writer Jonathan Safran ___	FOER
“Groovy!”	FAROUT
“Nonsense!”	PAH
“___ folly to be wise”	TIS
*It can remove a full stop	RUBBER
*It can remove a period	ERASER
*Thing to stop on holiday	POST
*Thing to stop on vacation	MAIL
*Vehicle on a highway	TRUCK
*Vehicle on a motorway	LORRY
*Venue for football	PITCH
*Venue for soccer	FIELD
Alternatives to preserves	COMPOTES
Appear	SEEM
As late as, in ads	TIL
Bollywood gown	SARI
Brazilian metropolis	RIO
Bright color	NEON
Build	ERECT
Bull, in Bogotá	TORO
Burning	AFIRE
Caprese salad ingredient	BASIL
Celestial bodies	ORBS
Clunker	DUD
Compound connector	HYPHEN
Consumed	ATE
Cranberry cocktail	COSMO
Cruise carrier	LINER
Danced loudly	TAPPED
Dawn-to-dusk	ALLDAY
Deep Blue creator	IBM
Disco ___ (“The Simpsons” character)	STU
Early man?	BOY
Either of Carlton Fisk’s clubs, familiarly	SOX
Ended a suit	SETTLED
Face-to-face	INPERSON
Floors	AMAZES
Get even, in a way	REPAY
Group that entertains GIs	USO
Clues	Answers
Handbills	FLIERS
High hairstyle	UPDO
Instrument for quacks?	DUCKCALL
It gets you high overnight	REDEYE
La Scala song	ARIA
Laundromat type	COINOP
Leader of the Jets, in “West Side Story”	RIFF
Leslie Odom Jr.’s “Hamilton” role	BURR
Lukewarm response	MEH
Make a tpyo, say	ERR
Make known	AIR
Michael of “SNL”	CHE
Minuscule	ITSY
Org. once headed by Robert Mueller	FBI
Overseas, like the sets of starred clues	ACROSSTHEPOND
Pantless pig	PORKY
Poisonous	TOXIC
Prado’s home	MADRID
Prepared for a second printing, perhaps	REEDITED
Pronoun with a slash	HESHE
Really smile	BEAM
Risk taker	DARER
Scout’s rider	TONTO
Served, as soup	LADLED
Signify	DENOTE
Social outcast	LEPER
Some loaves	RYES
Spying sites, sometimes	KEYHOLES
Stockpile	HOARD
Tabasco o Chihuahua, por ejemplo	ESTADO
Three-___ sloth	TOED
Toon who spins out of control	TAZ
Trudge	PLOD
Tuna with white flesh	ALBACORE
Via, informally	THRU
Walter Scott title	SIR
Where racers retire?	PIT
Words to live by	MOTTO
___ Speedwagon	REO

If you like the WSJ Crossword, you’ll likely enjoy the NYT Crossword and LA Times Crossword. If you’re still struggling to solve your WSJ crosswords, consider practicing with the Eugene Sheffer and Thomas Joseph dailies first.