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Wall Street Journal Crossword August 14 2026 Answers

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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
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