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Wall Street Journal Crossword Answers & Hints - July 18, 2026

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July 18, 2026

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Across

1.Newman and Oldman, e.g.6 letters7.Dries out, say6 letters13.Request with clasped hands6 letters19.“So true!”6 letters20.Separate the grain from the chaff6 letters21.Request with a proffered fist7 letters22.Motile cell6 letters23.“No Woman, No Cry” genre6 letters24.Pros pretending to be amateurs, e.g.7 letters25.*“Why so quiet?”19 letters28.Letter after Delta4 letters29.Gem from Down Under4 letters30.Muted hue6 letters31.Hand on a hacienda?4 letters34.*Belabor a settled subject13 letters40.Hung in folds6 letters42.Abuela’s abode4 letters43.Sport with training stables called “heya”4 letters44.*Person of interest?7 letters45.Brother in Genesis4 letters47.AOL chats3 letters50.Meditative practice3 letters51.Kimono tie3 letters52.Roman roadway6 letters54.*Farewell tour10 letters58.Lo-cal4 letters60.Major Wall St. index4 letters62.Disney boss until 20056 letters63.“Real mature, guys, real mature!”...and advice for making the starred answers make sense21 letters71.Large-scale ousters6 letters72.Conjugation target4 letters73.First-rate4 letters74.*Tribunals that are complete shams10 letters78.French region bordering Germany and Switzerland6 letters82.Traders’ place3 letters83.Sounds of hesitancy3 letters84.Org. that issues nine-digit IDs3 letters85.“That’s a bummer”4 letters87.*Warm embraces7 letters89.Guac and queso4 letters91.Not rot4 letters93.Person giving ick vibes6 letters94.*“Chillax, dude!”13 letters100.Sicilian postcard subject4 letters101.Depends6 letters102.Monet medium4 letters104.Morse sounds4 letters108.*Inhibition to talking19 letters113.Casey at the bat, in the 1922 World Series7 letters115.Tires out completely6 letters116.Run into the ground6 letters117.Snappy remarks7 letters118.Still in the drafts folder6 letters119.Villain in Disney’s “Beauty and the Beast”6 letters120.Certify6 letters121.Collect salary, in Monopoly6 letters122.Pump figure6 letters

Down

1.Up, in a way5 letters2.Strip for laughs5 letters3.Loyalty that’s pledged, quaintly5 letters4.Choral verse from Sophocles’ “Antigone”8 letters5.Yokel4 letters6.Reach across4 letters7.Barbershop tool5 letters8.What a generous diner might pick up6 letters9.Diamond pattern6 letters10.Toy brand with theme parks4 letters11.Brother in Genesis4 letters12.Climbing guides7 letters13.Journey’s beginning6 letters14.Sprang forward6 letters15.Swallows7 letters16.“Zip-___-Doo-Dah”4 letters17.P.G. Wodehouse title3 letters18.Crop circle makers, supposedly3 letters21.Writing that isn’t well versed?5 letters26.Complimentary coverage, briefly6 letters27.“There it is!”4 letters32.Coding creations4 letters33.Neither masc. nor fem.4 letters35.Outstanding service3 letters36.Flaky mineral4 letters37.Athens aperitif4 letters38.“So true!”4 letters39.Marked with a macron, say4 letters40.“The Many Loves of ___ Gillis” (classic sitcom)5 letters41.Bonnie with a Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award5 letters44.Sprawl4 letters45.Tweak, say6 letters46.Can opener?4 letters47.“You are ___ much trouble!”4 letters48.Course listing4 letters49.Editor’s notation4 letters53.Venomous snake5 letters55.Checkup frequency, perhaps6 letters56.Nascar driver Ty5 letters57.Mlle, in Madrid4 letters59.Spot4 letters61.Off-road ride, for short3 letters64.Tampa Bay gridders4 letters65.Amorous archer4 letters66.Water, to Juan4 letters67.Passenger’s assignment4 letters68.Excite5 letters69.Mandy’s role in “The Princess Bride”5 letters70.Becomes firm4 letters74.Ashley of the “Divergent” movies4 letters75.Only state that doesn’t share any letters with “mackerel”4 letters76.“The Pat McAfee Show” carrier4 letters77.Contractor’s detail4 letters79.What keycards provide6 letters80.Snappy4 letters81.“Desire Under the Elms” protagonist4 letters86.Many a microbrew3 letters88.Whiplash protection8 letters90.“That’s funny...”7 letters91.Boat backbone4 letters92.Became less intense7 letters95.Yard lines?6 letters96.“A Taste of Honey” trumpeter6 letters97.Bowed Baroque instruments5 letters98.Unfetters6 letters99.Alternative to jailing6 letters103.Played slowly5 letters105.It comes from the heart5 letters106.Wore5 letters107.Michelangelo medium5 letters108.Outdoor wedding rental4 letters109.The Gaels of the NCAA4 letters110.Capone nemesis4 letters111.Nation between Benin and Ghana4 letters112.Climate control acronym4 letters113.“I Hate U” R&B artist3 letters114.Tufted bird3 letters

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