Wall Street Journal Daily Crossword
Latest Wall Street Journal Crossword Answers, Clues & Hints — July 23, 2026
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Puzzle date
July 23, 2026
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Across
1.Diet target4 letters5.Heating option3 letters8.Like rawhide bones6 letters14.Brand once marketed as “the great national temperance beverage”8 letters16.State of southern Mexico6 letters17.Leap while snowboarding8 letters18.Millionth of a meter6 letters19.“Whine Up” singer DeLuna3 letters20.River past Balmoral Castle3 letters22.“So Big” writer Ferber4 letters23.Help the chef4 letters25.“The Caretaker” playwright6 letters27.“The Hound of the Baskervilles” setting4 letters28.Nicole Kidman’s co-star in 2001’s “Birthday Girl”10 letters32.Lends support4 letters33.Title before Fox or Rabbit4 letters34.Curling need5 letters35.Smelter supply3 letters36.Faith Hill song “Take Me ___ Am”3 letters37.Nondairy milk option3 letters39.Quote the raven?3 letters40.Henhouse sight5 letters42.Stout-bodied fish4 letters44.Sgt.’s superior4 letters45.“You missed your opportunity”10 letters47.Wasatch Range tribe4 letters48.Hold back6 letters49.Harbor, say4 letters50.Choose not to sip4 letters53.“Patience ___ virtue”3 letters54.Cannes companion3 letters55.“Oil my arms, please, oil my elbows” speaker6 letters57.It folds down for a passenger (and an instruction for how to treat several Down answers)8 letters62.Mysterious6 letters63.Simple, as a rocket8 letters64.Creatures6 letters65.Go a round3 letters66.Treat for a chickadee4 letters
Down
1.Media monitor, for short3 letters2.Mauna ___3 letters3.Opera division3 letters4.Producers of pastries7 letters5.Acquired4 letters6.Green with Grammys3 letters7.“Sexy” Beatles girl7 letters8.Astronomer’s sighting6 letters9.Yes, in Yokohama3 letters10.Book bit7 letters11.City section4 letters12.Bus. sch. subject4 letters13.Comical Carvey4 letters15.Topper4 letters21.Between stops8 letters23.“The A.B.C. Murders” sleuth6 letters24.Drive in Beverly Hills6 letters25.Numbers on tags8 letters26.Marco Polo’s heading4 letters27.Their name for New Zealand is Aotearoa5 letters28.Common undergrad deg.3 letters29.Pinpoint6 letters30.Peevishly sulking6 letters31.Small amphibians5 letters36.Dispenser of dollars4 letters38.Teddy’s neighbor on Mount Rushmore3 letters41.Summation signs, in math7 letters43.Worked7 letters44.Ark-measuring units7 letters46.Needle sources6 letters49.Band boosters4 letters50.Wild guess4 letters51.Undercover cop’s wear4 letters52.Cuzco people4 letters54.Visa rival, familiarly4 letters56.Crumb bearer3 letters58.Italian count’s start3 letters59.Gold, to chemists3 letters60.“We Bring Good Things to Life” advertiser, once3 letters61.Visitor in a 1982 Spielberg movie3 letters
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