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Wall Street Journal Crossword Answers & Hints - September 12, 2026

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September 12, 2026

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Across

1.Biblical mounts5 letters6.Thermometers, barometers, etc.7 letters13.Combative frame of mind7 letters20.Fingerprint feature5 letters21.Windpipe7 letters22.Medical condition more common in fiction than in real life7 letters23.Like the I-29 and I-94 highways?13 letters25.Finds hilarious, perhaps7 letters26.Good enough7 letters27.Strong warning, figuratively7 letters29.Forest floor feature4 letters30.For fear that4 letters31.Faucet attachments5 letters33.Hot and dry7 letters36.Blackpool bloke4 letters37.Year in a Kubrick film, in letters3 letters40.Criticized annoyingly4 letters41.Repeat mindlessly3 letters44.Personality test?9 letters49.Secondary emphasis for students majoring in Gorgonzola?11 letters52.Savor6 letters53.Plainly visible7 letters55.Aggrieved feeling6 letters56.Bond, say5 letters57.Engage in revolution4 letters58.Asner and O’Neill3 letters59.Puts in the ground6 letters60.Mammal that yields a perfume ingredient5 letters61.Decimal fraction5 letters63.They may accompany ifs and buts4 letters64.Ball holder3 letters65.Cause of lip irritation, for some?11 letters69.Pump purchase3 letters72.Shoreline structure4 letters74.Bias5 letters75.Bedeck5 letters77.Do some book repair6 letters80.Crowlike bird3 letters83.Bond, say4 letters84.“I will take the Ring, though I do not know the way” speaker5 letters85.Clementine cousin6 letters86.Unyielding7 letters88.Photoshop tool6 letters89.Cruise for drummers?11 letters91.Part of a Latin dance duo?9 letters93.“For shame!”3 letters94.Tropical starch source4 letters95.Ltr. holder3 letters97.Harbor sights4 letters98.Budding7 letters101.Manual audience5 letters103.Hand holders4 letters107.Sign of health4 letters109.Gourmet chips ingredient7 letters112.Ballet need7 letters114.Knocking sound7 letters117.Kinshasa railroad crossing?13 letters119.Womb-related7 letters120.River paddler7 letters121.Gave an edge to5 letters122.Cuts in half7 letters123.“I don’t want to hear the details!”7 letters124.Pieces of punditry5 letters

Down

1.Really bad5 letters2.Triangle or trapezoid5 letters3.Does a mailroom chore5 letters4.Crop problem5 letters5.Unappealing food4 letters6.Juicing juice7 letters7.History topic3 letters8.Mother-of-pearl5 letters9.Major split6 letters10.Wheeling’s river4 letters11.Pay for a pad4 letters12.Long stories5 letters13.Disney’s Pumbaa, e.g.7 letters14.Latin lover’s word3 letters15.Gene messenger3 letters16.Prefix suggesting endlessness5 letters17.Poet’s not-quite-rhyming technique9 letters18.Acapulco aunts4 letters19.Boaters, e.g.4 letters24.Uncritically enthusiastic6 letters28.Diamond figures6 letters32.Become harder to climb7 letters34.Worshipful7 letters35.Place back in custody6 letters36.Attack from all sides5 letters38.Seething3 letters39.Words of understanding4 letters42.Somewhat bad4 letters43.Goes astray4 letters44.Belch5 letters45.Bottled spirit?5 letters46.Savory ovoid5 letters47.Ceremony4 letters48.Traveling in an Airstream, say5 letters50.Neither Rep. nor Dem.3 letters51.QB mistakes4 letters54.A fan of4 letters57.Critic’s unit4 letters62.“___ a Liar” (song by the Bee Gees)3 letters63.Game opener4 letters65.Emergency transport7 letters66.Bravo preceder4 letters67.Gibe5 letters68.Like some tuition7 letters69.V member5 letters70.“As You Like It” forest5 letters71.Derisive sound5 letters72.Text in hopes of a reply4 letters73.Precious bars6 letters75.Bushy dos5 letters76.Tiresome task4 letters77.Bob alternative4 letters78.Aphrodite’s offspring4 letters79.Folding money9 letters80.The beginning6 letters81.Coding pioneer Lovelace3 letters82.Hourly rate4 letters87.Former boys3 letters88.Prods6 letters90.Brother of Electra7 letters92.Care for7 letters96.Crass6 letters99.In the know5 letters100.Carpet securers5 letters102.Feed, as a fire5 letters103.Put ___ to (end)5 letters104.Cologne’s river5 letters105.Took part in a stock exchange?5 letters106.Puts in the mail5 letters107.Vittles4 letters108.Sol followers4 letters110.Suds source4 letters111.Taylor-Joy of “Furiosa”4 letters113.Repeat mindlessly4 letters115.Peculiarity3 letters116.Kitchen invader3 letters118.Scout’s brother in “To Kill a Mockingbird”3 letters

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