Wall Street Journal Crossword August 2, 2025 Answers

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Wall Street Journal Crossword August 2, 2025 Answers

This Wall Street Journal puzzle from August 2, 2025 contains 140 total clues—71 across and 69 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	Transition points	CUSPS
6A	Bowler material	FELT
10A	Wise guy	SAGE
14A	One of 100 in Winnie-the-Pooh’s wood	ACRE
18A	Kriegsmarine vessel	UBOAT
19A	Troy story	ILIAD
21A	Wheat pasta of Japanese cuisine	UDON
22A	Blow one’s own horn	BRAG
23A	Smartly old-fashioned	RETRO
24A	Right-hand page of a volume	RECTO
25A	Koi container	POND
26A	Heroic tale	SAGA
27A	Babbling critic?	BROOKREVIEWER
30A	Retire	GOTOBED
32A	Some summer babies	LEOS
33A	Beasts in the “Jurassic Park” films	TREXES
35A	Really amazing	WILD
36A	Leather’s counterpart in a Stevie Nicks song	LACE
39A	Energy	PEP
41A	Yucky gunk	SLIME
42A	“A Sunday Afternoon on the Island of La Grande Jatte” painter	SEURAT
45A	Right-angled bend	ELL
46A	End for smack or switch	EROO
48A	Spill the beans	BLAB
50A	“Goosebumps” writer	STINE
51A	Life coach on social media?	GOALTRENDER
56A	Skyline obscurer	SMOG
58A	Three-time MLB All-Star Longoria	EVAN
59A	What you wish you could do to a disturbing sight	UNSEE
60A	Dorothy, to Em	NIECE
61A	Fivers, informally	ABES
63A	Tel. no. add-on	EXT
64A	Holiday that begins with a Seder	PESACH
66A	Flea market unit	STAND
68A	Brightest star in Scorpius	ANTARES
70A	Dishonest diner employee?	SHORTORDERCROOK
74A	Take in	ABSORB
77A	“Hanging Up” author Ephron	DELIA
78A	Hostility	ANIMUS
82A	What Cortés and Pizarro sought	ORO
83A	Wriggling swimmers	EELS
85A	South American savanna	LLANO
87A	Clear of writing	ERASE
88A	Turkish currency	LIRA
90A	Gable or gambrel, e.g.	ROOF
92A	Road builder?	LANDSCRAPER
94A	Florida’s “Horse Capital of the World”	OCALA
96A	Popular apple variety	GALA
98A	Mambo legend Puente	TITO
99A	Move with effort	LUG
100A	Where to swig a sarsaparilla	SALOON
102A	Freeway entrances	RAMPS
105A	Beast’s abode	DEN
106A	King prawn of the Muppets	PEPE
107A	Bill of fare	MENU
108A	Attacks by force	STORMS
110A	Limburger cheese feature	ODOR
112A	Small cake servings	SLIVERS
115A	Janitor?	BROOMOPERATOR
120A	Needle source	CONIFER
121A	Crewmate of Chekov and Uhura	SULU
123A	Revealing shout	VOILA
124A	Garden guardian	GNOME
125A	Finished	DONE
126A	Important ages	ERAS
127A	Two foursomes	OCTET
128A	Didn’t sit by	ACTED
129A	Banks on runways	TYRA
130A	Rogen of “The Fabelmans”	SETH
131A	Jerry Adler’s role in “The Sopranos”	HESH
132A	Bright colors	NEONS

Down Clues

#	Clue	Answer
1D	Restrain	CURB
2D	Lyft alternative	UBER
3D	Mets slugger Juan	SOTO
4D	Con quest?	PAROLE
5D	Add fuel to	STOKE
6D	Blaze indicator	FIRESIREN
7D	Mtn. statistic	ELEV
8D	Permitted	LEGALLET
9D	Home runs, in sports slang	TATERS
10D	“You Can’t Hurry Love” singers, with “the”	SUPREMES
11D	Commotion	STIR
12D	Dinner summoner	GONG
13D	Provides funding for	ENDOWS
14D	Categorical	ABSOLUTE
15D	Undersea herder?	CRABDRIVER
16D	Word with road or roid	RAGE
17D	“Yikes!”	EGADS
20D	Wooden rod	DOWEL
28D	Unimaginative dog name	ROVERSPOT
29D	Way out	EXIT
31D	Players may break them	TIES
34D	Edmund Pettus Bridge setting	SELMA
36D	Advantage	EDGE
37D	Solo	ALONE
38D	Taxonomic level below phylum	CLASS
40D	Single-minded believer	MONIST
43D	Have ___ to grind	ANAXE
44D	Nomadic quarters	TENTS
47D	Beethoven’s “___ Joy”	ODETO
49D	Pertaining to part of the lung	LOBAR
52D	Tenant’s text	LEASE
53D	Geek	NERD
54D	Online greeting	ECARD
55D	Writer Ruth with three Edgar Awards	RENDELL
57D	Salami source?	GENOA
62D	High guy	STONER
65D	Move like a drone	HOVER
67D	Street in mysteries	DELLA
69D	Iconic anime set in Neo-Tokyo	AKIRA
71D	Make a second record of	RELOG
72D	Mirthful	RIANT
73D	Frank	HONEST
74D	Chocolate-caramel candies from Hershey	ROLOS
75D	Drag racing pro Enders	ERICA
76D	Marine prospector?	CORALMINER
79D	Leaves for Canada?	MAPLE
80D	Deplete	SAP
81D	Twilled fabric	SERGE
84D	Takes to the stratosphere	SOARS
86D	Muscle manipulator	OSTEOPATH
89D	Pain-relieving plant	ALOEVERA
91D	Neighborhood that was home to the Brooklyn Dodgers	FLATBUSH
93D	Publisher Nast	CONDE
95D	Top-tier	ELITE
97D	“The Lincoln Highway” author Towles	AMOR
101D	Cares for	NURSES
103D	Utah city named for a Canadian fur trader	PROVO
104D	Canoodle	SMOOCH
106D	Do some gamboling	PRANCE
109D	Strike à la Samson	SMITE
111D	Heart, e.g.	ORGAN
112D	Unimaginative dog name	ROVERSPOT
113D	Roman historian	LIVY
114D	“Whatever you say”	SURE
116D	Cheers for el toro	OLES
117D	“Rosanna” band	TOTO
118D	Sinister sign	OMEN
119D	Cincinnati squad	THEREDS
122D	Muscle targeted on a rowing machine	LAT

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