Wall Street Journal Daily Crossword
Wall Street Journal Crossword Answers & Hints - September 26, 2026
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September 26, 2026
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Across
1.Canine command5 letters6.Product of mud compaction5 letters11.Cinemark competitor3 letters14.Full of life4 letters18.Wipe from existence5 letters19.Lion, leopard or lynx, zoologically5 letters20.Tapestry producer4 letters22.Tribe of western New York4 letters23.“Death on the Nile” and the like?11 letters25.Backstreet patrollers?9 letters27.Kazakhstan’s capital6 letters28.Hollow4 letters29.Tuna on a sushi menu4 letters30.Follower of special or black3 letters31.Maiden name label3 letters32.Dust-up in the Dove factory?16 letters37.Prepare for the tub5 letters40.Fresh4 letters41.Items on some pedestals4 letters42.Functions4 letters43.“Hardwood Classics” network5 letters45.Wear with straps3 letters46.Key, e.g.4 letters49.Bullion piece5 letters51.New Haven scholars4 letters52.Soprano from Australia5 letters55.Strange way to keep burglars out?13 letters59.Amber-colored wine7 letters61.Pool problem5 letters62.“Meh”-evoking4 letters63.Org. with a five-ring logo3 letters64.___ Webster (Twain’s “celebrated jumping frog”)4 letters65.Take-out general3 letters66.Fielding error by Mickey Moniak?13 letters72.Pay stub line3 letters73.Flour for puris and parathas4 letters75.Cuatro halved3 letters76.A/C amts.4 letters77.Crafty knife brand5 letters79.Prepare for a career change7 letters81.Some 24-hour fosters?13 letters85.Quartet in a Scrabble box5 letters86.Like swampland4 letters87.Bête ___5 letters88.Cheery farewell4 letters90.Clutch item3 letters91.Shimmery stones5 letters93.Malek of “Oppenheimer”4 letters96.The visitors who visited Amahl4 letters98.Sweeties4 letters101.Lustrous fabric5 letters104.Schnitzel serving that might shock you?16 letters109.“Knives Out” star de Armas3 letters110.Courtroom fig.3 letters111.Like bulls, bucks and boars4 letters112.General vicinity4 letters113.Lots to buy6 letters116.Sophisticated style?9 letters119.Mystifying field features, or a directive for understanding this puzzle’s theme11 letters121.Watch after4 letters122.Hubbub4 letters123.Accommodate5 letters124.Play setting5 letters125.Yields to gravity4 letters126.Heart chart, for short3 letters127.First name in cosmetics5 letters128.Lingerie buy5 letters
Down
1.Sonata and Accord, e.g.6 letters2.Like some spending limits6 letters3.Airline once run by Eddie Rickenbacker7 letters4.Cruising4 letters5.“Smoke Gets in Your Eyes” composer4 letters6.Army’s counterpart of Navy’s CPO3 letters7.How some problems must be faced6 letters8.Historically contested region of Europe6 letters9.Stay in hiding6 letters10.1958’s Corsair, e.g.5 letters11.In the style of3 letters12.Like lava6 letters13.Statues of substantial size7 letters14.Moment of time3 letters15.Some geometry homework6 letters16.Micro wave?6 letters17.RSVP tally6 letters21.Soldier for hire, for short4 letters24.XXX part?3 letters26.The solver of this puzzle3 letters33.Great chaos5 letters34.Goldfinger’s first name5 letters35.Surname of Steinbeck’s Cal and Aron5 letters36.Encouraged6 letters38.Mediterranean resort5 letters39.German tank of WWII6 letters44.Friday’s preceder?3 letters45.Mayor between Giuliani and de Blasio9 letters47.Trash talk5 letters48.Went first3 letters50.To-do list listing5 letters51.Conditional word4 letters53.Katherina’s sister, in “The Taming of the Shrew”6 letters54.Will of “The Lego Batman Movie”6 letters55.Where Al Jazeera is based5 letters56.Loose coat named for a region of Ireland6 letters57.“You can’t stop me!”6 letters58.It’s practiced in le palais de justice3 letters59.Extinct bird of New Zealand3 letters60.Some carolers5 letters63.“Gooooooooal!”5 letters67.Pablo Neruda, e.g.5 letters68.Bamboozle3 letters69.Response from a humblebragger4 letters70.Baltimore paper3 letters71.Faces in the crowd?6 letters74.Bitterly cold6 letters78.Amtrak option5 letters80.Letters before an alias3 letters81.Last of 24 letters5 letters82.Ceremony of remembrance5 letters83.Silly sort5 letters84.Femur’s end3 letters89.“Has it started yet?”7 letters92.Played for time7 letters93.Gasps, say6 letters94.Tennis great Gibson6 letters95.Doling (out)6 letters97.Vinegary6 letters98.Carriers for conquistadors6 letters99.Patronized a restaurant6 letters100.Go by6 letters102.Mean6 letters103.Stand in opposition to6 letters105.Brillo and Zillow, for two: Abbr.3 letters106.“Fiddlesticks!”4 letters107.Hoard of treasure5 letters108.Ironman race, for short3 letters114.Part of QED4 letters115.Plot measure4 letters117.Some S&L offerings3 letters118.Work unit3 letters120.Epcot center?3 letters
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