Wall Street Journal Crossword August 16, 2025 Answers

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Wall Street Journal Crossword August 16, 2025 Answers

This Wall Street Journal puzzle from August 16, 2025 contains 136 total clues—59 across and 77 down. Below you'll find every clue with its answer and helpful hints. If you're working on a different date, check our Wall Street Journal crossword archive.

Across Clues

#	Clue	Answer
1A	“Shoot!”	DARN
7A	Woolly mammal	ALPACA
13A	Asian region that lent its name to a soft wool	KASHMIR
20A	Spiny pet	IGUANA
21A	“Paradise Lost” author	MILTON
22A	Adopt	ESPOUSE
23A	Yokel competing in the lumberjacks’ roleo?	BUMPKINONALOG
25A	Novel set in Dublin on June 16, 1904	ULYSSES
26A	Drain of energy	SAP
27A	Like some winter weather	SLEETY
28A	Word on Cork coins	EIRE
30A	Boston bus-and-subway system, familiarly	THET
31A	Labor output?	BABY
32A	The Dubliners and the Weavers, e.g.	FOLKIES
35A	Stat for an ace	ERA
38A	___ avis	RARA
39A	Cake makers who specialize in decorating with frosting from a pouch?	BAKINGPIPERS
44A	Title character of “Little Lord Fauntleroy”	CEDRIC
46A	Prospector’s channel	SLUICE
47A	City at the north end of the Ligurian Sea	GENOA
48A	Feature of Shrek and the Hulk?	LIMESKINTONE
51A	Unjust	WRONGFUL
54A	2023’s “The Boy and the Heron,” e.g.	ANIME
55A	Manner	SORT
56A	Bear, in Bolivia	OSO
57A	QB’s blunder	INT
58A	“Adios!”	BYE
59A	Words before thing or luck	NOSUCH
61A	Trees whose pods are used in Worcestershire sauce	TAMARIND
64A	Remove all its seeds, in preparation for making a jack-o’-lantern?	PRIMETHEPUMPKIN
67A	Lack of moral character	BASENESS
69A	“A Midsummer Night’s Dream” role	HERMIA
70A	Lard and tallow, e.g.	FATS
74A	Flowed into	FED
75A	Pricing preposition	PER
76A	Tim who writes the Dodsworth children’s books	EGAN
77A	Malia Obama’s younger sister	SASHA
78A	Star of MLS’s Inter Miami CF	LEOMESSI
81A	Penalty for pedaling over the posted limit?	BIKINGTICKET
84A	Disgraced bankruptcy filer of 2001	ENRON
85A	Like some beef	CORNED
87A	Duds	ATTIRE
88A	Didn’t overstay one’s welcome?	WENTTOBEKIND
91A	Knocks on the noggin	BOPS
93A	Homer’s neighbor	NED
94A	Trees with red, white and blue varieties	SPRUCES
95A	Tawny predator	PUMA
96A	Proton’s place	ATOM
100A	Appetizer on a Chinese restaurant platter	PUPU
101A	Most sensible	WISEST
103A	Put away	SALTED
106A	Begin brawling	GETITON
108A	Lapel decoration at a Russian literature conference?	PUSHKINBUTTON
112A	Charge, as with a responsibility	ENTRUST
113A	Where shekels are spent	ISRAEL
114A	Ready for departure	ABOARD
115A	Dupes	STOOGES
116A	Deputy who “Rides Again” in a 1939 western	DESTRY
117A	Sketchy strangers	RANDOS

Down Clues

#	Clue	Answer
1D	Claiming cry	DIBS
2D	Liquid in un lago	AGUA
3D	Behind	AFT
4D	Afternoon break	NAP
5D	Tattooist’s stock	INKS
6D	Rearmost man in an I formation	TAILBACK
7D	Small shape-shifter	AMOEBA
8D	Needing a good brushing, say	LINTY
9D	Room to maneuver	PLAY
10D	Hartsfield-Jackson’s airport code	ATL
11D	Doves do it	COO
12D	Sweet and well-behaved	ANGELIC
13D	Name on some brewing machines	KEURIG
14D	Out, in a way	ASLEEP
15D	Many a le Carré character	SPY
16D	Party leader	HOST
17D	Go to the dogs?	MUSH
18D	“Oh, right”	ISEE
19D	Vacation goal, perhaps	REST
24D	Close	SHUT
29D	“You didn’t need to tell me”	IKNEW
32D	Narnia’s Mr. Tumnus, for one	FAUN
33D	Steinbeck’s Tom Joad, e.g.	OKIE
34D	Gentlemen of Verona	SIGNORI
35D	Confident style	ECLAT
36D	Isabel I de Castilla, por ejemplo	REINA
37D	Confess to be true	ADMIT
38D	Greet the day	RISE
39D	Unsightly spot	BLOTCH
40D	Cribbage marker	PEG
41D	In conclusion, in Calais	ENFIN
42D	Pub purchase	ROUND
43D	Cook’s pinch	SALT
45D	Moves boundaries, perhaps	REMAPS
46D	Biplane pieces	STRUTS
49D	Fructose and glucose, e.g.	ISOMERS
50D	Simple smoke detectors	NOSES
52D	Gamboling	ROMPING
53D	Home of baseball’s Orix Buffaloes	OSAKA
59D	Low cards in a pinochle deck	NINES
60D	Snide snicker	HEH
61D	Bombastic	TURGID
62D	Site of the Souk Jara market	AMMAN
63D	Actually	INFACT
65D	Feels remorse	REPENTS
66D	Spoiled the surprise, maybe	PEEKED
67D	Fashion’s Geoffrey	BEENE
68D	Embellish	DECORATE
71D	Welcome warmly	ASKIN
72D	Over yonder	THERE
73D	Fully filled	SATED
74D	Left the nest	FLEW
77D	Joins a jury	SITS
79D	Word in le dictionnaire	MOT
80D	Frost over	ICEUP
81D	Fromagerie choice	BRIE
82D	Roadhouses	INNS
83D	Place to try tostones	TAPASBAR
86D	Sister website of Tinder	OKCUPID
89D	Stand against	OPPOSE
90D	Main impacts	BRUNTS
91D	How bees go about their lives	BUSILY
92D	Suggestive sign	OMEN
95D	Cheapskate	PIKER
96D	Really long time	AGES
97D	Fair sight	TENT
98D	Quattro doubled	OTTO
99D	Surrealist Joan	MIRO
101D	“I didn’t catch that”	WHAT
102D	Sousaphone cousin	TUBA
103D	Slightly	ATAD
104D	Sushi tuna	TORO
105D	Closes	ENDS
107D	Harbor worker	TUG
109D	Call on	USE
110D	Fourth-yr. class	SRS
111D	Hauler’s measure	TON

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