Wall Street Journal Crossword August 19, 2025 Answers

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Wall Street Journal Crossword August 19, 2025 Answers

This Wall Street Journal puzzle from August 19, 2025 contains 76 total clues—35 across and 41 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	Within reach	NEAR
5A	Trick-or-treating wear	MASK
9A	Jones who played Truman Capote in 2006’s “Infamous”	TOBY
13A	Munch Museum locale	OSLO
14A	Concerning	INRE
16A	Resistance units	OHMS
17A	Mallorca, por ejemplo	ISLA
18A	Referendum choice	YESNO
19A	Caterwaul	YOWL
20A	Person who’s driven to a fault?	SEISMOLOGIST
23A	Pic-posting site, familiarly	INSTA
24A	Key location	FLORIDA
28A	“The Name of the Rose” author Umberto	ECO
29A	Person who’s down for the count?	CENSUSTAKER
33A	Rip into shreds	REND
35A	Trip around the track	LAP
36A	Layers	TIERS
37A	Person who’s well-intentioned?	OILTYCOON
41A	Yogurt shop option	ADDIN
44A	Royal possessive	OUR
45A	Paul McCartney and Ringo Starr, for two	SIRS
49A	Person who’s drawn to scale?	MOUNTAINEER
53A	Tiny peeve	NIT
54A	Disquieted feeling	CHAGRIN
55A	“___ Got Mail” (Hanks-Ryan rom-com)	YOUVE
57A	Person who’s bone-headed?	FOSSILHUNTER
61A	Landlocked African country	MALI
64A	Flood protection	LEVEE
65A	Head, in Haiti	TETE
66A	Tibia’s place	SHIN
67A	Net sales	ETAIL
68A	Layered cookie	OREO
69A	Betray disbelief	GAPE
70A	Piece of cake	EASY
71A	Keurig machine inserts	PODS

Down Clues

#	Clue	Answer
1D	More cacophonous	NOISIER
2D	Lifestyle magazine for African-American women	ESSENCE
3D	Janney of Netflix’s “The Diplomat”	ALLISON
4D	Teasing tribute	ROAST
5D	Deli spread	MAYO
6D	Second son	ABEL
7D	Average	SOSO
8D	1970s TV show with a Shaolin monk in the Old West	KUNGFU
9D	Lionel products	TOYTRAINS
10D	“Well, look what we have here!”	OHO
11D	“The Ultimate Driving Machine”	BMW
12D	French fashion inits.	YSL
15D	Plugs away	TOILS
21D	Tahoe runner	MAC
22D	___ voce (quietly)	SOTTO
25D	Mamie’s husband	IKE
26D	German article	DER
27D	Horace’s “___ Poetica”	ARS
30D	Building wing	ELL
31D	Beltway Series player	NAT
32D	Watch via drone, perhaps	SPYON
34D	Getting by, and then some	DOINGFINE
38D	Opening bit	INTRO
39D	Pool tool	CUE
40D	Mined material	ORE
41D	“The Terror” airer	AMC
42D	Holler from Homer	DOH
43D	Singer Lipa	DUA
46D	Nirvana’s final studio album	INUTERO
47D	Transfixed	RIVETED
48D	Boomers’ boomers?	STEREOS
50D	Bridal path	AISLE
51D	Close-up maps	INSETS
52D	Street Fighter protagonist	RYU
56D	Triumphant	ONTOP
58D	“Stripes” director Reitman	IVAN
59D	Sci-fi princess	LEIA
60D	Pitch in	HELP
61D	Umami-enhancing compound	MSG
62D	“I see it now!”	AHA
63D	Rim	LIP

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