Wall Street Journal Crossword September 6, 2025 Answers

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Wall Street Journal Crossword September 6, 2025 Answers

This Wall Street Journal puzzle from September 6, 2025 contains 138 total clues—61 across and 77 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	Drink with a straw	SIP
6A	Some forensic evidence	DNA
9A	Core muscles	ABS
12A	Manhandles	PAWSAT
18A	Alternative to French, Italian or Russian	RANCH
19A	British rule in colonial India	RAJ
20A	D.C. baseballer	NAT
21A	Electrical accessory	ADAPTOR
23A	Hindenburg disaster cry, ending “Hey!”	OHTHEHUMANITY
26A	Where one shouldn’t drive	HOVLANE
27A	At capacity, briefly	SRO
28A	Crèche trio	MAGI
29A	Former owner of Capitol Records	EMI
30A	Look through a window from outdoors	PEERIN
31A	Advantage	EDGE
33A	Starting a conversation, concluding “Gee!”	BREAKINGTHEICE
38A	Orchestra group	OBOISTS
41A	Buffalo’s summer hrs.	EDT
42A	Celebrates, as the New Year	SEESIN
43A	Heavy reading? Completing all the words? “Eek!”	COFFEETABLEBOOK
46A	Absorbed, as a cost	ATE
49A	Has a go	TRIES
50A	Bygone biscuit brand	UNEEDA
51A	Erich who wrote “Emil and the Detectives”	KASTNER
55A	Bit in a horse’s mouth	OAT
56A	Go out of business	FOLD
57A	“...away go troubles down the drain” advertiser	ROTOROOTER
60A	“Dream on!”	ASIF
63A	Weimaraner warnings	GRRS
64A	“Time is money” and “Love is blind”	MAXIMS
65A	Reagan era “voodoo” policy? Ultimately, “Yes!”	SUPPLYSIDEECONOMICS
71A	Son of William the Conqueror	HENRYI
72A	1974 Gould/Sutherland CIA spoof	SPYS
73A	“Little Shop of Horrors” dentist	ORIN
74A	Choose from the menu	ORDERAMEAL
76A	Calf-length skirt	MIDI
79A	Kissing on the street, briefly	PDA
82A	Exercise control	PRESIDE
83A	Key of Ralph Vaughan Williams’s String Quartet No. 2	AMINOR
85A	It means “ocean” in Mongolian	DALAI
87A	Attention	EAR
88A	Finding after a long search, stopping with “God!”	RUNNINGTOGROUND
92A	Yarn coils	SKEINS
95A	___ Paulo	SAO
96A	It lights up Las Vegas	NEONGAS
97A	Colonial protest winds up: “Nay!”	BOSTONTEAPARTY
102A	Big galoots	APES
103A	Flips one’s lid?	UNCAPS
104A	Citrus drink suffix	ADE
105A	100-cent currency	EURO
107A	Platform for Siri	IOS
110A	Arctic youngster	SEALPUP
112A	“End of discussion!” (or a description of this puzzle’s theme)	ANDTHATSFINAL
115A	Chatterboxes	TALKERS
116A	Tiny	WEE
117A	Country with the most stars on its flag: Abbr.	USA
118A	Nickname of jazz great Earl Hines	FATHA
119A	“You Don’t Own Me” singer Gore	LESLEY
120A	Acid	LSD
121A	Last of a long series	NTH
122A	Pig part	SNOUT

Down Clues

#	Clue	Answer
1D	Big dos	FROS
2D	Co-star of Bolger and Haley	LAHR
3D	Dealing with the situation	ONTOPOFIT
4D	Essen exclamation	ACH
5D	Daughters of Mnemosyne	THEMUSES
6D	Prescription product	DRUG
7D	Coastal desert of Southern Africa	NAMIB
8D	1977 double-platinum Steely Dan album	AJA
9D	Bouncy	ANIMATED
10D	Dyeing art	BATIK
11D	Pig place	STY
12D	Cry of disbelief	PAH
13D	Embraces	HUGS
14D	Greet with a gesture	WAVEHI
15D	Ire	SPLEEN
16D	Asteroids source	ATARI
17D	Bar mixer	SODA
22D	Surrealism’s Magritte	RENE
24D	Dispatch	SEND
25D	Teasingly provoked	NEEDLED
32D	Long sentence	LIFE
34D	Eschew conformity	REBEL
35D	Prefix akin to equi-	ISO
36D	“The Matrix” hero	NEO
37D	Douglas’s “Wall Street” role	GEKKO
38D	Eight, to Augustus	OCTO
39D	Repeated, a Polynesian island	BORA
40D	Rigidly old-fashioned	STUFFY
44D	“I take it that’s ___”	ANO
45D	Rail in a studio	BARRE
46D	Bit of high jinks	ANTIC
47D	Abounds	TEEMS
48D	Blows it	ERRS
52D	Mail, e.g.	ARMOR
53D	“Me too!”	DITTO
54D	Deadly agent	TOXIN
58D	Servant of Sauron	ORC
59D	Chinese food general	TSO
60D	Following, in France	APRES
61D	“Heidi” author Johanna	SPYRI
62D	Troy story	ILIAD
63D	Some appliances	GES
65D	California mission founder Junípero	SERRA
66D	Ready for surgery, perhaps	UNDER
67D	Atlanta-to-Miami dir.	SSE
68D	Bitter brew	IPA
69D	Literature Nobelist with 11 Grammys	DYLAN
70D	Wrinkle-resistant, as a shirt	NOIRON
71D	Defeatist’s lack	HOPE
75D	Excellence	MERIT
76D	Muezzin’s place	MOSQUE
77D	Bullion unit	INGOT
78D	URL component	DOT
79D	Gets power from	PLUGSINTO
80D	Swimmer Vollmer with five Olympic gold medals	DANA
81D	Pitches in	AIDS
84D	Got a wrong number?	MISADDED
85D	Declines in quality	DROPOFFS
86D	Bang-up	AONE
89D	Arles article	UNE
90D	Code-cracking org.	NSA
91D	Clockwork, mostly	GEARS
92D	Pursues	STALKS
93D	“Nightline” newsman	KOPPEL
94D	Make certain	ENSURE
97D	Boom alternative	BUST
98D	First pick in the 1992 NBA draft	ONEAL
99D	Bathroom item	SCALE
100D	Glazier’s pieces	PANES
101D	Bakery staple	YEAST
106D	Its motto is “Industry”	UTAH
108D	Lanikai Beach setting	OAHU
109D	Thin board	SLAT
111D	“Gangnam Style” rapper	PSY
112D	Cobbler’s tool	AWL
113D	Warring nomad	HUN
114D	McKellen of film	IAN

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