Wall Street Journal Daily Crossword
Wall Street Journal Crossword Answers & Hints - August 24, 2026
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Puzzle date
August 24, 2026
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Across
1.Spoil the appearance of3 letters4.Tot’s “choo-choo”5 letters9.Pride initials4 letters13.Miners mine it3 letters14.___-Saxon5 letters15.Vowel set5 letters17.Minor criticism3 letters18.Demand a seat up front11 letters20.Korea’s continent4 letters22.New York theater awards5 letters23.Richie’s dad, to the Fonz3 letters24.Phones ping off of them10 letters27.Slinky’s shape4 letters28.Feature of a Vegas “bandit”6 letters29.Pickling liquid5 letters30.Film festival film, often5 letters34.Strokes on the green5 letters35.Star of “Oppenheimer”13 letters39.Pose for a photographer5 letters40.Playfully impertinent5 letters41.Openly asserts5 letters42.High-protein legume6 letters47.Rip apart4 letters48.Clavicle, more familiarly10 letters52.Paintings and sculptures3 letters53.Marisa of “My Cousin Vinny”5 letters54.Spot for a spelunker4 letters55.Character shouted to with a “Hey!” in water treatment ads11 letters59.Make a hem3 letters60.Bee-related5 letters61.Sister’s daughter5 letters62.Org. with wands and scanners3 letters63.Send a racy phone message to4 letters64.Close-up on a map5 letters65.Hog’s hangout3 letters
Down
1.Monte Carlo’s setting6 letters2.Out of bed6 letters3.Fix, as a bathroom floor6 letters4.Tic-___-toe3 letters5.Gene messenger3 letters6.Radiant5 letters7.“Would you look at that!”5 letters8.Soldier’s denial5 letters9.Vientiane’s setting4 letters10.Obtain3 letters11.Sort who can’t keep a secret8 letters12.Like Fisherman’s Wharf in San Francisco8 letters16.Mother’s brothers6 letters19.“___ a real nowhere man...”3 letters21.In the style of3 letters25.Sings like a bird6 letters26.Upscale hotel chain4 letters27.Government overthrow4 letters29.More agile6 letters31.Govt. prosecutors3 letters32.“Not ___ million years!”3 letters33.Bird on Australian coins3 letters35.Scandal-avoiding ploys8 letters36.“That’s the truth”8 letters37.Bawdy4 letters38.Bruins’ sch.4 letters39.Salsa music shaker6 letters43.“SNL” airer3 letters44.Glass-raising tributes6 letters45.Play the market6 letters46.Wiggle room6 letters48.Machinery part3 letters49.Muscat resident5 letters50.His tomb is in Red Square5 letters51.Bartender’s wedges5 letters53.Salon coloring4 letters56.Lenient3 letters57.Good card in blackjack3 letters58.Pickleball court divider3 letters
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