Wall Street Journal Crossword August 21 2026 Answers

1Diplomatic assignment4 5Weighs down5 10Infectious bug4 14One might get tipped3 17Contrail makeup5 19Vengeful swordsman Montoya5 20Potatoes, in Indian cuisine4 21Parcel (out)4 22Long-necked swamp speaker?11 24Honey-based drink4 25Around 314, for a circle of radius 104 26Alamo option7 27Final glimpse of a forbidding silhouette?11 30Precocious “Family Guy” character6 32“That had to hurt!”3 34Dreyer’s partner3 35Imposes (upon)6 36Used to be3 371982 movie with 2010 and 2025 sequels4 39One of 265 in the Bronx Zoo4 41Regional flora and fauna5 42Two things that meet when applying balm after a workout?13 45Losses in a ledger6 47Cynical crime genre4 48Injures badly5 49Latin for “load”4 51Yao in the Basketball Hall of Fame4 53Having the most pepper icons on the menu, perhaps8 56Result of a burning desire5 58Strung along5 59Take in3 60Fawn’s kin4 62Genesis creator4 64Memorable span3 65Salon choice without waves or curls?10 70Drone-based delivery vehicle?10 73Nintendo avatar3 74“Whiskey in My Water” country singer Tyler4 75Place to grab a mocha4 77___ Lingus3 78North Pole workers5 80Factory worker5 82“You doubt me?”8 87Garden with a snake problem4 88Surrender4 89Saharan stopovers5 91Modernists4 93Genre for Björk and Kate Bush6 95Two-wheeler with cables pulled taut?13 99Bargain hunters’ finds5 100Home of Iowa State4 101Memo starter4 102Receipt line3 103Climbing expert6 105Bestie, in Bordeaux3 106Youngest king in the Valley of the Kings3 108Capital on the Hudson6 110Easy scores during a casual round?11 113Snitch7 115Initial cost4 116Snore-inducing4 117Perfectly negotiated agreements?11 121Xmas, for Jimmy Buffett4 122Southernmost Great Lake4 123Liquefy in a blender5 124Sonata section5 125___ admin (IT pro)3 126Dirt road tracks4 127Microscope insert5 128Drei squared4

1Piping plastic, for short3 2Crew member3 3Enterprise, e.g.9 4Thus far5 5Old Milanese money4 6World’s heaviest snakes9 7“Likewise!”5 8Braggart’s attribute3 9Put in order4 10They may include only the first levels9 11Mournful poem5 12Stadium sound4 13Tweaks8 14“How about this...”11 15Really bothered5 16Drops from ducts5 18Sends, as payment6 21Seafaring8 23Ralph Vaughan Williams’s “Hugh the Drover,” e.g.5 28Daughter of Cronus4 29State of mind4 30Pond glider4 31Some food truck fare5 33Growing business?4 38“Put your wallet away”4 40France’s film award5 41Sultanate on the South China Sea6 43Gospel singer Campbell5 44Named as a source5 46Bouillon brand5 50Like a busybody4 52Pest in a cloud4 54Salon offerings5 55“Young Frankenstein” role4 57Elizabethan collar4 58Cold-fermented beer5 61Pixar film set during el Día de los Muertos4 63Chew like a capybara4 65Hook’s sidekick4 66Swinton of “Michael Clayton”5 67Big mouth features11 68Corp. benefits experts6 69Stepped (on)4 71Home page, in a way5 72Partner in crime5 76Priest’s advice5 79ATM feature8 81Fellows who follow9 83Practiced mindfulness, say9 84Bookstore ID4 85Smooth fruit9 86Ancient city that lent its name to a Middle Eastern plateau5 88Utensil that’s full of holes8 90Mgr.’s underling4 92Hot, in a way4 94Daddy, in Durango4 96Doha dignitary4 97Really steamed5 98Where losers dwell6 103DNA lab items5 104Good around the house5 105Challenging H.S. English course5 107Ultrasound targets5 109Back with bucks5 111Revered adviser4 112Easy victims4 114Hazel or olive4 118___-de-sac3 119End of an academic address3 120Heir, often3