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Wall Street Journal Crossword August 14 2026 Answers
21×21 Grid
140 Clues
Updated 12:01 AM ET
Across
1Bad guy4
5Buyer be where?4
9Rugged cliff4
13Whodunit discovery6
19Garden worker4
20Cor anglais kin4
21Expressive dance4
22Tickled6
23Censorship-fighting org.4
24Give the cold shoulder to Dr. McCoy?9
26Butterfly, e.g.6
27Top competitors, often5
29Baseball great Lefty with a namesake bridge near Oracle Park5
30Pays attention7
31Something usually doubled8
33Revenuers, e.g.4
36Garage sale caveat4
37Loses heart8
38Cowled contingent6
40Aristotle’s “waking dream”4
44Will of “Arrested Development”6
46Use a Shop-Vac instead of a rake?10
49“Walk on the Wild Side” singer7
52Ices6
55Fascinated6
56Places for vows6
57Toe treatment, familiarly4
58Trilled in the heights7
59Roles for stars5
60“No Exit” playwright6
62Without4
63Tennis great Arthur4
64Beard for Daffy, e.g.?11
66Island nation with a Coral Coast4
70Like boars and bucks4
71Rejects with disdain6
72Group of scouts5
73Chilled7
77Author Wiesel4
78Indian loincloths6
79Forward surge6
80Country singer Ronnie6
83Neighborhood west of Encino7
84Snippet of a Motown hit used in another song?10
86Evening event6
88First-year law student4
89“Nice burn!”6
92Spanish turnover8
96Talks incessantly4
99Bread boxes?4
100Where cell phones don’t work8
101Fairbanks in films7
104Place for a barbecue5
106Backgammon piece5
107Skillful6
108“Drive carefully—90% of humans are caused by accident,” e.g.?9
112Sheepskin boots4
113Threaten6
114Boris Godunov, e.g.4
115Crown4
116Fedora material4
117Many a Degas6
118French door part4
119Otherwise4
120Phone bill listing4
Down
1Discontinued, with “out”6
2Epoch that saw the first early primates6
3Finds new tenants for6
4Moral Majority march?11
5Criminal patterns, for short3
6Couldn’t stand8
7Registering the most decibels7
8Carson’s successor4
9Anger6
10Bleed3
11Pub potable3
12Krypton, e.g.3
13“The Myth of Sisyphus” writer5
14Emirati’s neighbor5
15Impertinent remark at a 12-step meeting?9
16Ad Council ads, briefly4
17Trucker’s rig4
18Ideal site4
25In shape4
28Trap setters7
30Item on a to-do list4
32Uses the good china5
34Puck, e.g.4
35Algonquian tribe4
39Some colas, briefly3
41Almond outline4
42Le Pew of cartoon fame4
43Abbr. on a town’s welcoming sign4
45Bounce your booty5
47Currency of (and part of the name of) a West African nation5
48Goals4
49Refrain bit4
50Flamenco cries4
51Jazz setting4
53Many flat screens5
54Snoopy and the Red Baron, say7
57Clip4
58Bhutan bovines4
60Do some pouting4
61Name on a WWII bomber5
62“Auld Lang ___”4
64Russian country house5
65Faucet faults5
66Glaciers and icebergs?11
67Tiny bit4
68Enlist in4
69Res ___ loquitur4
70Assemble in great numbers4
72Attire, informally7
73Middling4
74Soon, to a bard4
75In alignment4
76Top-notch tyrant?9
78Agcy. that pioneered the internet and GPS5
80Dash abbr.3
81“Casablanca” role4
82Mardi Gras follower4
83Play breaks8
85Forest growth4
87Like some unhealthy attachments7
90Current amount6
91H.S. exam4
93Orbital extreme6
94Widget plugged into a computer6
95Bikini trials, informally6
97Rabbit chaser of fiction5
98Dev of “Slumdog Millionaire”5
101Like many a cellar4
102Ancient theaters4
103Coffee dispensers4
105Category4
108“The Racer’s Edge”3
109Botanist Gray3
110Whiff3
111Born, in Bordeaux3