Wall Street Journal Crossword November 20, 2025 Answers

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Wall Street Journal Crossword November 20, 2025 Answers

This Wall Street Journal puzzle from November 20, 2025 contains 76 total clues—37 across and 39 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	Particular places	LOCI
5A	Driver on film sets	ADAM
9A	Guitarist’s clamp	CAPO
13A	Prayer leader	IMAM
14A	Pound division	CAGE
15A	Beverage aisle selections	COLAS
16A	Counties, abroad	SAPPHIRES
18A	Move toward	ROACH
19A	Introductory piece	PRELUDE
20A	Body of water that once contained over 1,000 islands	ARALSEA
22A	Like Haydn’s Symphony No. 46	INB
23A	Words with diet or date	ONA
24A	Keep informed	RISE
27A	Deceiving	APPLYINGTO
34A	Bumbler’s utterance	OOPS
35A	Verifiable	TRUE
36A	Couldn’t get enough of	ATEUP
37A	Lowly cardinal	ONE
38A	Piece of property	CHATTEL
40A	Don’t-discuss document, for short	NDA
41A	Personal record	DIARY
43A	Russian legislature	DUMA
44A	Saw, e.g.	TOOL
45A	Windshield-clearing gadget	SCRAPPAPER
47A	Comes into view	EARS
48A	Money for sr. years	IRA
49A	“Bad cholesterol” letters	LDL
51A	Web designers	SPIDERS
55A	Scaly pets	IGUANAS
59A	Placates by acceding to demands	EASES
60A	Wandering, or greenlighting, or a hint to four rows in this grid	APPROVING
62A	Asserts to be the case	AVERS
63A	Trick	RUSE
64A	“Law & Order: SVU” regular	ICET
65A	Some Old Navy buys	TEES
66A	“About ___” (Nick Hornby novel)	ABOY
67A	Altar exchange	VOWS

Down Clues

#	Clue	Answer
1D	Trouble with sibilants	LISP
2D	Poet Khayyám	OMAR
3D	Cod, e.g.	CAPE
4D	Suggests	IMPLIES
5D	Tubful in a darkroom	ACIDBATH
6D	Be bold	DARE
7D	Historic time	AGE
8D	Where the A’s and Cubs hold spring training	MESA
9D	Auto radiator fill	COOLANT
10D	“Sad to say...”	ALAS
11D	Betray nervousness	PACE
12D	Org. with a Whistleblower Protection Program	OSHA
15D	Skull-related	CRANIAL
17D	Fifth-century marauder	HUN
21D	Lichtenstein in MoMA	ROY
24D	Crosses in churches	ROODS
25D	Order with volutes	IONIC
26D	Dill pickle quarter	SPEAR
28D	Milanese fashion house	PRADA
29D	Hang, say	PUTUP
30D	Volunteer’s offer	LETME
31D	Italy’s busiest port	GENOA
32D	Elizabeth I’s house	TUDOR
33D	Shimmering stones	OPALS
38D	Tree in the foreground of “The Starry Night”	CYPRESS
39D	Bergamot-flavored tea	EARLGREY
42D	Vegas footballers	RAIDERS
44D	Rabin Square setting	TELAVIV
46D	Hole number	PAR
50D	Performing pair	DUO
51D	Unicycle part	SEAT
52D	Make a lot	PAVE
53D	“Oh, got it!”	ISEE
54D	Singer Bareilles	SARA
55D	___ facto	IPSO
56D	Single-named singer who sang with the Velvet Underground	NICO
57D	Fresh	ANEW
58D	Some NYPD officers	SGTS
61D	Place for a pint	PUB

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