Wall Street Journal Crossword September 27, 2025 Answers

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Wall Street Journal Crossword September 27, 2025 Answers

This Wall Street Journal puzzle from September 27, 2025 contains 142 total clues—62 across and 80 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	Rattle on	JABBER
7A	Harbors, maybe	ABETS
12A	“The White Lotus” network	HBO
15A	Typical sweat lodge shape	DOME
19A	Make a claim	ALLEGE
20A	Enduring, as a rough patch	RIDINGOUT
22A	Monopoly token retired in 2013	IRON
23A	Biblical garment that’s the focus of an Andrew Lloyd Webber musical	COATOFMANYCOLORS
25A	Toward l’Arctique	NORD
26A	NBA MVP before LeBron	KOBE
27A	God of love	EROS
28A	Perp chasers	COPS
29A	Rattles off	NAMES
30A	Company with a spokesduck	AFLAC
32A	Attorney general Bondi	PAM
33A	“A Walk to Wachusett” essayist	THOREAU
35A	Shoemaker Blahnik	MANOLO
39A	Appetizer often made with shrimp and lemongrass	THAITOMYUMSOUP
42A	Song popularized by Elvis in “Blue Hawaii”	ALOHAOE
44A	Sushi fish	EEL
45A	Golf course halves	NINES
46A	Skirt length	MIDI
47A	1960s psychedelic	LSD
49A	Promotes heavily	TOUTS
51A	Start, slangily	GITGO
56A	In the very near future	ATSOMEPOINTSOON
60A	Not this	THAT
61A	Groundskeeper’s purchase	SOD
62A	Scathingly disparage	TRASH
63A	Accept, as terms	AGREETO
66A	Home to Nebraska’s largest airport	EASTOMAHA
70A	Material for a screened porch’s screens	PATIOMESH
72A	Attorney, at times	PLEADER
73A	British nobles	EARLS
76A	Rhetorical question, often	AMI
77A	Bob Dylan or Dylan Thomas	POET
78A	1979 documentary subtitled “Isaac Stern in China”	FROMMAOTOMOZART
85A	Throat malady	STREP
87A	Got off the fence	OPTED
88A	Hoppy brew	IPA
89A	Logical start?	IDEO
90A	Oscar-nominated soundtrack composer Mosseri	EMILE
93A	Hush-hush grp.	CIA
95A	Rondeau trio	STANZAS
97A	Flowers whose stark whiteness is due to complete lack of chlorophyll	PHANTOMORCHIDS
103A	Motown baseballers	TIGERS
104A	Totally loses it	HASACOW
105A	Part of 88-Across	ALE
106A	Galleria dell’Accademia statue	DAVID
108A	Pal	AMIGO
109A	Analogy words	ISTO
111A	Existed	WAS
112A	Cooler brand	YETI
116A	“Knives Out” writer/director Johnson	RIAN
117A	Scientific feat first accomplished in 1932, as well as seven times in this puzzle	SPLITTINGTHEATOM
121A	Literature Nobelist Tokarczuk	OLGA
122A	Like some vacation cottages	BEACHSIDE
123A	Gofer’s work	ERRAND
124A	Bit of drudgery	SLOG
125A	USN bigwig	ADM
126A	Drawn-out tales	SAGAS
127A	Fill-in-the-blanks story	MADLIB

Down Clues

#	Clue	Answer
1D	Tool in a trunk	JACK
2D	Curry potato	ALOO
3D	Spill the beans	BLAB
4D	___ noire	BETE
5D	Sense of self	EGO
6D	One calling the shots	REF
7D	Noted debarking spot	ARARAT
8D	“Chocolat” star Juliette	BINOCHE
9D	Brand whose apostrophe is an ice cream cone	EDYS
10D	Spasm	TIC
11D	Ski resort transport	SNOCAT
12D	Something to jump through	HOOP
13D	Ellen with an Oscar	BURSTYN
14D	Fifth qtrs.	OTS
15D	Kuwaiti cash	DINARS
16D	Start of Juliet’s monologue	OROMEO
17D	Doctor in an H.G. Wells novel	MOREAU
18D	Brings to a conclusion	ENDSUP
21D	Grab hold of	GLOMONTO
24D	Singer Tormé	MEL
29D	Indication on a Chinese menu	NOMSG
30D	In the style of	ALA
31D	“Good one! I believed you!”	FOOLEDME
32D	Plane figures	PILOTS
34D	Shade	HUE
35D	Cry from a crib	MAMA
36D	Set down gently	ALIT
37D	Endorsements	NODS
38D	Brutus Buckeye’s school	OHIOSTATE
40D	CVS Health subsidiary	AETNA
41D	Soybean paste	MISO
43D	Telepath’s claim	ESP
48D	Acts in the past?	DOTH
50D	Show to a seat, slangily	USH
52D	Not taking the standard deduction	ITEMIZING
53D	Quaker’s pronoun	THEE
54D	Heaters	GATS
55D	“Alternatively,” in a text	OTOH
57D	Spirit	MOOD
58D	Investment that may be rolled over	IRA
59D	D.C. baseballer	NAT
64D	Paul of “The Holdovers”	GIAMATTI
65D	Dallas quarterback Tony	ROMO
66D	Omar of “House”	EPPS
67D	Tons	ALOT
68D	Future expert	SEER
69D	Pound sound	ARF
70D	Oslo Accords signer	PLO
71D	European wine region	ASTI
73D	911 responder	EMT
74D	Don of “Trading Places”	AMECHE
75D	Circle spokes	RADII
79D	Caramel candy	ROLO
80D	Extravagantly theatrical	OPERATIC
81D	Word with black or special	OPS
82D	Wood-shaping tool	ADZ
83D	Bring up	REAR
84D	Fling	TOSS
86D	Chain that offers grooming services	PETCO
91D	Pasture sound	MOO
92D	“What a day!”	IMWIPED
94D	Book extras	ADDENDA
96D	Assistance	HELPINGHAND
97D	Lighthouse that was one of the Seven Wonders of the Ancient World	PHAROS
98D	Co-star of Ford and Fisher	HAMILL
99D	Strong-flavored cheese	ASIAGO
100D	“Enough, I get it already!”	NAGNAG
101D	Dust collectors	CLOTHS
102D	Three-stripers	SARGES
107D	Check out	VET
110D	Close in anger	SLAM
111D	Kristen of “The Martian”	WIIG
112D	Site for some sales	YARD
113D	Abbr. that cuts things short	ETAL
114D	“Beloved” writer Morrison	TONI
115D	Site for casts, briefly	IMDB
117D	Mom-and-pop lending agcy.	SBA
118D	JFK group	TSA
119D	Take up	HEM
120D	Notable period	ERA

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