Wall Street Journal Crossword August 9, 2025 Answers

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Wall Street Journal Crossword August 9, 2025 Answers

This Wall Street Journal puzzle from August 9, 2025 contains 140 total clues—70 across and 70 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	Too-short Wikipedia article	STUB
5A	Pond plant	ALGA
9A	Addressed the court	PLED
13A	“Things look pretty bleak”	ITSBAD
19A	Starchy Hawaiian staple	TARO
20A	Wiener schnitzel base	VEAL
21A	Campaign worker	AIDE
22A	Beside, say	NEARTO
23A	Slave girl of opera	AIDA
24A	Grimm beast	OGRE
25A	Radar operators?	BLIPREADERS
27A	Fight fixers?	BOUTRIGGERS
30A	Course hazards	TRAPS
31A	Clue cube	DIE
32A	Cuba’s Castro	FIDEL
33A	Was humiliated	ATEDIRT
35A	Jazz trumpeter Jones	THAD
36A	Burglars’ takes	HAULS
39A	Contradict	DENY
41A	Give in to wanderlust	ROVE
42A	Grub for grunts, briefly	MRE
43A	Lash out at	ASSAIL
45A	“9-1-1: Lone Star” star	ROBLOWE
47A	Parent, e.g.	REARER
50A	“Your wedding team and everything in between” website	THEKNOT
52A	Composer of a symphony known as “The Palindrome”	HAYDN
53A	“Girl almost twice my age” in a 1977 Neil Diamond song	DESIREE
54A	Utterance before doing something daring	HEREGOES
56A	Brooklyn-to-Bronx dir.	NNE
57A	Short piano piece	SONATINA
58A	Figured (out)	GOT
60A	Bluer than blue	XRATED
62A	Impertinent person	SNIP
63A	Decline	EBB
66A	Sill sunner	PETCAT
68A	Gets the picture	SEESIT
70A	Some appliances	GES
71A	“The Phantom Tollbooth” protagonist	MILO
73A	Earned after expenses	NETTED
75A	Harvard grad	CANTAB
77A	Talks foolishly	BLITHERS
79A	Jack Ryan’s org.	CIA
81A	Planet’s busiest woman?	LOISLANE
85A	Potentially messy party game	EGGTOSS
86A	Have a cow	CALVE
88A	Condemned to the scrap yard	TOTALED
89A	Works to get off the injured list	REHABS
90A	420 symbol	POTLEAF
92A	Like matryoshka dolls	NESTED
93A	First prime	TWO
94A	Elbow	POKE
95A	Embodiment of love	EROS
97A	Novel idea?	STORY
98A	Aragonese artist	GOYA
100A	Begins slowly	EASESIN
102A	Cut again, as the lawn	REMOW
104A	Stadium cheer	OLE
105A	Bank of China Tower designer	IMPEI
106A	Customs declarations?	BORDERFORMS
111A	Boring Catholic services?	BLANDMASSES
114A	“Heavens!”	OHMY
115A	Disturb	UPSET
116A	In a breezy manner	AIRILY
117A	“Je t’___” (French valentine phrase)	AIME
118A	Russian duo with the 2003 hit “All the Things She Said”	TATU
119A	“___ arigato”	DOMO
120A	Notable exploits	GESTES
121A	Leave speechless	STUN
122A	“Don’t worry about me”	ILLGETBY
123A	Rung	STEP

Down Clues

#	Clue	Answer
1D	Wild guess	STAB
2D	“Higher” singer Cruz	TAIO
3D	Karachi language	URDU
4D	Incompetent sailors?	BOATFLAKES
5D	Skirt	MIDI
6D	Made a run for (it)	LEGGED
7D	Scope customer	GARGLER
8D	On the quiet side?	ALEE
9D	Brewer Frederick	PABST
10D	Rapper ___ Nas X	LIL
11D	Shorten in the cutting room	EDITDOWN
12D	Strip	DEPRIVE
13D	Like a bumbler	INEPT
14D	They come in green, white and black varieties	TEAS
15D	In a blue state	SAD
16D	Farm-raised sardines?	BREDHERRING
17D	Parts of hearts	ATRIA
18D	Given drugs	DOSED
26D	Hardly ubiquitous	RARE
28D	Revolting	RISINGUP
29D	Big name in shades	RAYBAN
34D	Wind and water, e.g.	ERODERS
35D	Attributes	TRAITS
36D	“What ___ God wrought?”	HATH
37D	Queens stadium name	ASHE
38D	Manipulative one	USER
40D	Japanese drama genre	NOH
42D	Big butte	MESA
44D	Lack of precision	LOOSENESS
46D	Minnesota’s WNBA team	LYNX
47D	Performance	ACT
48D	Counting rhyme starter	EENIE
49D	Gathers in	REAPS
51D	Perfume counter bottles	TESTERS
53D	Fails to	DOESNOT
55D	Small denominations	SECTS
57D	Pocket, say	STEAL
59D	“Swing ___ Hammer” (Harry Belafonte album)	DAT
61D	Early nuclear agcy.	AEC
63D	Glowing coal	EMBER
64D	Worthless talk, slangily	BILGE
65D	Irish Potato Famine era?	BLIGHTYEARS
67D	Some Mexican beers	TECATES
69D	Suggests, to the palate	TASTESOF
72D	Site of prime minister Mark Carney’s office	OTTAWA
74D	Parsley family herb	DILL
76D	“Fire in the hole!”?	BLASTWORDS
78D	Bygone boxcar rider	HOBO
80D	Skin care brand	OLAY
82D	Chorus voice	ALTO
83D	“What, will these hands ___ be clean?”: Lady Macbeth	NEER
84D	Whirl	EDDY
86D	Ad slogan of the 1980s	COKEISIT
87D	Attention	EAR
90D	Pretends to be	POSESAS
91D	University in the Bronx	FORDHAM
94D	Family man	PAPA
96D	Apparently do	SEEMTO
98D	Emergency evacuation kit	GOBAG
99D	Snowboarder’s jump	OLLIE
100D	TV awards	EMMYS
101D	“Ghosts” writer	IBSEN
103D	Character on poison warning stickers	MRYUK
105D	Like some chatter	IDLE
107D	Naan kin	ROTI
108D	Tooth part	ROOT
109D	Performer who might be trapped in a box	MIME
110D	Unappetizing gruel	SLOP
112D	Minor complaint	NIT
113D	It’ll never fly	EMU

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