Wall Street Journal Crossword August 6, 2025 Answers

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Wall Street Journal Crossword August 6, 2025 Answers

This Wall Street Journal puzzle from August 6, 2025 contains 78 total clues—37 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	Frequent migrants	BIRDS
6A	Invitation initialism	RSVP
10A	Skinny	BONY
14A	Blazing	AFIRE
15A	Bickering	ATIT
16A	Misses the mark	ERRS
17A	Beginner-level job openings?	NOVICEVACANCIES
20A	Fall starter, perhaps	TRIP
21A	Pieces on a game board	MEN
22A	Dunderheads	OAFS
23A	Voting qualification	AGE
24A	Lousy swimmer in a school?	SINKINGFISH
28A	Wall Street events	MERGERS
30A	As well	ALSO
31A	Sound from a building ledge	COO
32A	The O’Hara homestead	TARA
33A	Take up, maybe	HEM
34A	Email app folder	SENT
35A	Ian McEwan novel, and what’s needed in solving this puzzle?	ATONEMENT
39A	Positioned	PLACED
42A	Top amount, briefly	MAX
43A	Negotiator’s aim	DEAL
46A	Cape northeast of Boston	ANN
47A	Cycle starter	UNI
48A	They played in Shea in the 1960s	BEATLES
51A	Do what Elmer does tirelessly?	BEDEVILBUGS
54A	Obamacare, for short	ACA
55A	Grand Canyon mount	MULE
56A	Ambient music’s Brian	ENO
57A	Like arson scenes	ASHY
58A	Thanksgiving chef’s disaster?	COLLAPSEDTURKEY
62A	“Picnic” playwright	INGE
63A	British aristocrat	EARL
64A	Trap	ENSNARE
65A	Observed	SAW
66A	Altar area	APSE
67A	Some TVs	SONYS

Down Clues

#	Clue	Answer
1D	Small poultry	BANTAM
2D	“It slips my mind”	IFORGET
3D	Monaco’s locale	RIVIERA
4D	Stalactite extender	DRIP
5D	Brief moment	SEC
6D	Team with a mascot named Poe	RAVENS
7D	Was ripe, in a way	STANK
8D	Rapper ___ Mensa	VIC
9D	Sch. fundraiser sponsor	PTA
10D	Buzzless brew	DECAF
11D	Hole in the head?	ORIFICE
12D	Persist	PRESSON
13D	End for count or baron	ESS
18D	Mideast dignitary	EMIR
19D	Launch letdown	NOGO
24D	Pants part	KNEE
25D	Agenda listing	ITEM
26D	Iditarod terminus	NOME
27D	All the rage	HOT
29D	Reunion attendee	ALUM
33D	Spell	HEX
34D	Editor’s override	STET
36D	“Come Away With Us” hotel chain	OMNI
37D	Get just right	NAIL
38D	Contracts for sensitive info	NDAS
39D	Spot for a rat race	LAB
40D	Buttercup’s cousin	ANEMONE
41D	Pamper oneself	INDULGE
44D	Lisa Murkowski, for one	ALASKAN
45D	Dissolute behavior	LECHERY
47D	Iris’s spot in the eye	UVEA
48D	Tidy sum	BUNDLE
49D	Versatile celeb’s achievement	EGOT
50D	“Please let me!”	SAYYES
52D	Pompeo of “Grey’s Anatomy”	ELLEN
53D	Round units?	BEERS
57D	It flows through Tuscany	ARNO
58D	Trans alternative	CIS
59D	Stir-fry bit	PEA
60D	Gullible sort	SAP
61D	Constitution lead-in	USS

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