Wall Street Journal Crossword September 5, 2025 Answers

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Wall Street Journal Crossword September 5, 2025 Answers

This Wall Street Journal puzzle from September 5, 2025 contains 76 total clues—35 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	Deep, in a way	BASS
5A	Supporter of the heavens	ATLAS
10A	Service roads?	PAVE
14A	Malodorous	RIPE
15A	Macbeth, e.g.	THANE
16A	Cardinals catcher Herrera	IVAN
17A	Handy skill when figuring gas mileage	ARITHMETIC
19A	Look after	TEND
20A	Go for	CHOOSE
21A	“12 Angry Men” star	FONDA
22A	Senator Klobuchar	AMY
24A	Booklet in a glove compartment	USERSMANUAL
27A	Associates	COHORTS
29A	Loop at a luau	LEI
30A	Angled part	ELL
31A	Bugs or Bullwinkle	TOON
32A	Underground network	ROOTS
34A	Item on which the hand positions were traditionally taught by a pair of clock positions	STEERINGWHEEL
40A	Snow day gliders	SLEDS
41A	Shortly, to Shakespeare	ANON
43A	Q neighbor	TAB
46A	Number on a tarot deck’s Chariot card	VII
47A	Refusing to be persuaded	ADAMANT
50A	Auto motors popularized in the 1960s	VSIXENGINES
53A	Unimpressed utterance	MEH
54A	Sprawling stories	SAGAS
55A	Finish of a rugby match	NOSIDE
57A	Israel’s Abba	EBAN
58A	Place where you might find some lemons	USEDCARLOT
62A	“Slaves of New York” author Janowitz	TAMA
63A	In more pain	SORER
64A	Brainy sort	NERD
65A	Site for Charon’s ferry	STYX
66A	Fidgety	EDGY
67A	Dedicated works	ODES

Down Clues

#	Clue	Answer
1D	Thirdlove product	BRA
2D	Melody	TUNE
3D	Chips choice	SPICYHOT
4D	Meyers of NBC	SETH
5D	Tops	MAX
6D	Important papers	THESES
7D	Subsequently	AFTER
8D	Singer DiFranco	ANI
9D	Min. part	SEC
10D	Scaling spike	PITON
11D	Pennsylvania or Park	AVENUE
12D	Home wrecker, of a sort	VANDAL
13D	Definitive thing	ENDALL
18D	Day division	HOUR
21D	Grammy-winning George Michael album	FAITH
22D	Do something	ACT
23D	Cattle calls	MOOS
25D	Spell of grueling work	SLOG
26D	Cat call	MEOW
28D	Bills in tills	ONES
32D	Some hosp. staffers	RNS
33D	Clothes line	SEAM
35D	Rivendell residents	ELVES
36D	Chestnut checker	REIN
37D	Hipster’s “got it!”	IDIG
38D	Like graniteware	ENAMELED
39D	Solitary	LONE
42D	Ultimate	UTMOST
43D	Best Buy buys	PCS
44D	Comparatively blind	ASABAT
45D	Crime with multiple partners	BIGAMY
47D	Battery parts	ANODES
48D	Catch sight of, quaintly	DESCRY
49D	Globe expanse	ASIA
51D	Antianxiety brand	XANAX
52D	Stationary	INERT
56D	Villain on Crab Key	DRNO
58D	NATO member	USA
59D	Pluto, to Saturn	SON
60D	Metal source	ORE
61D	NFL scores	TDS

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