Wall Street Journal Crossword November 12, 2025 Answers

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Wall Street Journal Crossword November 12, 2025 Answers

This Wall Street Journal puzzle from November 12, 2025 contains 76 total clues—39 across and 37 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	Tops	AONE
5A	Cabo setting	BAJA
9A	Weisshorn, Matterhorn and Breithorn, e.g.	ALPS
13A	Damage control, say	SPIN
14A	Tequila plant	AGAVE
16A	Contemptible creep	JERK
17A	Email app folder	SENT
18A	Dotty character?	LOWERCASEI
20A	Give a shot	INJECT
22A	Tell tale item	ARROW
23A	Night vision?	STARLIGHT
25A	Singh in the World Golf Hall of Fame	VIJAY
29A	Road rescue	TOW
30A	School near Sunset Blvd.	UCLA
31A	Piazza treat	GELATO
32A	Before, poetically	ERE
34A	Bear in the sky	URSA
36A	Park paddler	SWAN
37A	Month between avril and juin	MAI
38A	Cartography collection	ATLAS
39A	Strange	ODD
40A	Cops, colloquially	POPO
41A	In need of charging	DEAD
42A	Time off, for short	RNR
43A	Tears of Joy and Flexed Biceps, e.g.	EMOJIS
45A	After the bell	LATE
47A	Word with black, psy and photo	OPS
50A	Carrier in “Catch Me If You Can”	PANAM
51A	In a difficult position	ONTHESPOT
53A	Inferior	WORSE
55A	Go by	ELAPSE
56A	“Forget what I just said”	STRIKETHAT
60A	“Mary Poppins” prop	KITE
61A	Much of the Earth’s core	IRON
62A	Brand whose website claims “every product is sheep approved”	SERTA
63A	Geraint’s love, in Arthurian legend	ENID
64A	Hitching hope	RIDE
65A	Regrets	RUES
66A	Some LAPD figures	SGTS

Down Clues

#	Clue	Answer
1D	Any of over 11,000 for LeBron James	ASSIST
2D	Accepting of, as new ideas	OPENTO
3D	Shuriken, e.g.	NINJAWEAPON
4D	Reply to rapping	ENTER
5D	Second avenue on a Monopoly board	BALTIC
6D	In the past	AGO
7D	India’s first prime minister	JAWAHARLALNEHRU
8D	Head off	AVERT
9D	WNBA great and author of 2024’s “Dear Black Girls”	AJAWILSON
10D	Guitarist Paul	LES
11D	Historic start?	PRE
12D	Go for a run, perhaps	SKI
15D	Misspeak	ERR
19D	Pirate’s place	COVE
21D	This is not a helpful example (or is it?)	CLUE
24D	Muscle targeted by squats	GLUTE
26D	Spectacular, or a feature of four long Down answers	JAWDROPPING
27D	Somewhat	ATAD
28D	Over there, quaintly	YON
31D	Fastball, in baseball lingo	GAS
33D	Dry Spanish export	RIOJAWINE
35D	Camp David Accords figure	SADAT
37D	Cultural institution on 53rd St.	MOMA
38D	Features of streamers’ cheaper tiers	ADS
40D	Verve	PEP
42D	Film unit	REEL
44D	Reassuring words after a fall	IMOK
46D	Angle symbols, in trig	THETAS
48D	Sticky note	POSTIT
49D	Knights’ mounts	STEEDS
51D	Economist Emily	OSTER
52D	Sushi bar sips	SAKES
54D	Hi-___ graphics	RES
56D	Polite address	SIR
57D	Half of hex-	TRI
58D	Retinal cell	ROD
59D	Processed food?	ATE

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