Wall Street Journal Daily Crossword
Wall Street Journal Crossword Answers & Hints - July 16, 2026
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July 16, 2026
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Across
1.Reaches out with one’s fingers5 letters6.Royal forest grazers5 letters11.Actors Helms and Harris, for two3 letters14.“Schitt’s Creek” matriarch5 letters15.Welcome at Daniel K. Inouye International5 letters16.Works on walls3 letters17.What Billy Joel claimed to be, in a 1984 Top 10 hit11 letters19.Twins pitcher Bradley3 letters20.“You went there!”6 letters21.Bro5 letters23.Guadalajara greeting7 letters26.Dirty stuff6 letters27.Two-wheel sport3 letters28.Casual affirmative5 letters31.Obsessive fan, in slang4 letters32.Give away the twist, say5 letters35.Construction crew8 letters37.Columbus sponsor9 letters40.Restaurant workers’ assignments8 letters43.Dynamite inventor5 letters47.Addams family nickname4 letters48.Courtroom statements5 letters51.Nickname on 1952 posters3 letters52.Venerated objects6 letters54.Like much salt7 letters57.Playground retort5 letters58.Reap6 letters60.“What’s your plan?”3 letters61.Encampment site of 1778, and a hint to what was done three times in this puzzle11 letters66.Busy bother3 letters67.Duck, maybe5 letters68.Cocky way to solve a crossword puzzle5 letters69.Bounced check abbr.3 letters70.Shankar pieces5 letters71.“So help me!”5 letters
Down
1.“OMG, enough!”3 letters2.Ages upon ages3 letters3.Mark, as a survey3 letters4.Brownies bunch5 letters5.Borat portrayer’s first name5 letters6.Montana moniker6 letters7.Resort near Park City4 letters8.Easy victory4 letters9.Article in many rap song titles3 letters10.Yemen’s largest city5 letters11.Destroy gradually7 letters12.Strip speeder7 letters13.Canada’s easternmost provincial capital7 letters18.“Mi casa ___ casa”4 letters22.High-priority task6 letters23.Many early picks in the NFL draft3 letters24.Worker at home3 letters25.Start for biology or skeleton3 letters26.Flightless bird4 letters29.Big holdup5 letters30.Catering container3 letters33.Words before “Isn’t Love” and “Was a Movie” in song titles6 letters34.Gift at Daniel K. Inouye International3 letters36.“Anderson Cooper 360” network3 letters38.Hopping herbivores4 letters39.Cold case aid3 letters40.Michael with a Super Bowl ring and Daytime Emmys7 letters41.Steering system bars7 letters42.Very many7 letters44.Profession, informally3 letters45.Scratch (out)3 letters46.Was in front3 letters49.Staff additions6 letters50.Maker of Bravia TVs4 letters53.Cabaret cost5 letters55.Shocking treatment by an ER doc5 letters56.Poetic justice5 letters58.Swigging sound4 letters59.Hawkeye portrayer4 letters62.Copying3 letters63.D&D, for one3 letters64.Earth, in combinations3 letters65.Close3 letters
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