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Like: resembling or similar; having the same or some of the same characteristics; often used in combination
Some: quantifier; used with either mass nouns or plural count nouns to indicate an unspecified number or quantity
Chatter: cut unevenly with a chattering tool
Other Wall Street Journal Clues (8/9/25)
1A:
Too-short Wikipedia article
5A:
Pond plant
9A:
Addressed the court
13A:
“Things look pretty bleak”
19A:
Starchy Hawaiian staple
20A:
Wiener schnitzel base
21A:
Campaign worker
22A:
Beside, say
23A:
Slave girl of opera
24A:
Grimm beast
25A:
Radar operators?
27A:
Fight fixers?
30A:
Course hazards
31A:
Clue cube
32A:
Cuba’s Castro
33A:
Was humiliated
35A:
Jazz trumpeter Jones
36A:
Burglars’ takes
39A:
Contradict
41A:
Give in to wanderlust
42A:
Grub for grunts, briefly
43A:
Lash out at
45A:
“9-1-1: Lone Star” star
47A:
Parent, e.g.
50A:
“Your wedding team and everything in between” website
52A:
Composer of a symphony known as “The Palindrome”
53A:
“Girl almost twice my age” in a 1977 Neil Diamond song
54A:
Utterance before doing something daring
56A:
Brooklyn-to-Bronx dir.
57A:
Short piano piece
58A:
Figured (out)
60A:
Bluer than blue
62A:
Impertinent person
63A:
Decline
66A:
Sill sunner
68A:
Gets the picture
70A:
Some appliances
71A:
“The Phantom Tollbooth” protagonist
73A:
Earned after expenses
75A:
Harvard grad
77A:
Talks foolishly
79A:
Jack Ryan’s org.
81A:
Planet’s busiest woman?
85A:
Potentially messy party game
86A:
Have a cow
88A:
Condemned to the scrap yard
89A:
Works to get off the injured list
90A:
420 symbol
92A:
Like matryoshka dolls
93A:
First prime
94A:
Elbow
95A:
Embodiment of love
97A:
Novel idea?
98A:
Aragonese artist
100A:
Begins slowly
102A:
Cut again, as the lawn
104A:
Stadium cheer
105A:
Bank of China Tower designer
106A:
Customs declarations?
111A:
Boring Catholic services?
114A:
“Heavens!”
115A:
Disturb
116A:
In a breezy manner
117A:
“Je t’___” (French valentine phrase)
118A:
Russian duo with the 2003 hit “All the Things She Said”
119A:
“___ arigato”
120A:
Notable exploits
121A:
Leave speechless
122A:
“Don’t worry about me”
123A:
Rung
1D:
Wild guess
2D:
“Higher” singer Cruz
3D:
Karachi language
4D:
Incompetent sailors?
5D:
Skirt
6D:
Made a run for (it)
7D:
Scope customer
8D:
On the quiet side?
9D:
Brewer Frederick
10D:
Rapper ___ Nas X
11D:
Shorten in the cutting room
12D:
Strip
13D:
Like a bumbler
14D:
They come in green, white and black varieties
15D:
In a blue state
16D:
Farm-raised sardines?
17D:
Parts of hearts
18D:
Given drugs
26D:
Hardly ubiquitous
28D:
Revolting
29D:
Big name in shades
34D:
Wind and water, e.g.
35D:
Attributes
36D:
“What ___ God wrought?”
37D:
Queens stadium name
38D:
Manipulative one
40D:
Japanese drama genre
42D:
Big butte
44D:
Lack of precision
46D:
Minnesota’s WNBA team
47D:
Performance
48D:
Counting rhyme starter
49D:
Gathers in
51D:
Perfume counter bottles
53D:
Fails to
55D:
Small denominations
57D:
Pocket, say
59D:
“Swing ___ Hammer” (Harry Belafonte album)
61D:
Early nuclear agcy.
63D:
Glowing coal
64D:
Worthless talk, slangily
65D:
Irish Potato Famine era?
67D:
Some Mexican beers
69D:
Suggests, to the palate
72D:
Site of prime minister Mark Carney’s office
74D:
Parsley family herb
76D:
“Fire in the hole!”?
78D:
Bygone boxcar rider
80D:
Skin care brand
82D:
Chorus voice
83D:
“What, will these hands ___ be clean?”: Lady Macbeth
84D:
Whirl
86D:
Ad slogan of the 1980s
87D:
Attention
90D:
Pretends to be
91D:
University in the Bronx
94D:
Family man
96D:
Apparently do
98D:
Emergency evacuation kit
99D:
Snowboarder’s jump
100D:
TV awards
101D:
“Ghosts” writer
103D:
Character on poison warning stickers
107D:
Naan kin
108D:
Tooth part
109D:
Performer who might be trapped in a box
110D:
Unappetizing gruel
112D:
Minor complaint
113D:
It’ll never fly
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Like some chatter Crossword Clue FAQ
What is the 4-letter answer to "Like some chatter" crossword clue?
The answer to the "Like some chatter" crossword clue is IDLE . This answer contains 4 letters and was confirmed in the Wall Street Journal puzzle.
Which crossword used "Like some chatter" clue?
This crossword clue most recently appeared in the Wall Street Journal puzzle on August 9, 2025 . Daily crossword puzzles often reuse popular clues, so this clue may appear again in future puzzles from the same publication or others.
What is the meaning of IDLE?
The word IDLE means: not in action or at work. This definition provides context for why it fits the crossword clue "Like some chatter".
