Wall Street Journal Crossword August 4 2026 Answers

1Fist bump3 4Full of energy5 9Blows off steam5 14Commotion3 15Letter on a resistor5 16Old assembly area5 17Operate the camera for a 1994 Bullock/Reeves action movie?9 19Nickname of Hall of Famer Ernie Banks5 20Spun yarn4 21Digest founder Eric4 22Quiet partner5 23Arrange the kliegs and spots for a 1973 Woody Allen movie?12 26Grave6 29The rite answer3 30Put to the test5 31Papers in pots4 34Barclays Center ballers4 38Star pitcher3 39Provide funding for a 2004 James Wan horror movie?7 42Plumeria product3 43Kansas or Alabama, e.g.4 45Planted plots4 46Key5 48Press into service3 50Relaxed6 51Helm a 2012 Denzel Washington movie?12 57“Oh My God” singer5 58Chaplin of “Avatar: Fire and Ash”4 59Terrible time for a toddler4 63University of Louisiana’s ___ Cajuns5 64Hire actors for a 2008 Meryl Streep movie?9 661960s United Nations secretary-general5 67When many take their coffee break5 68Veggie burger protein3 69Numbers5 70Tibet’s capital5 71Passport datum3

1Absurd4 2Sarah McLachlan hit4 3Campaign predictor4 4“Veritas ___ liberabit” (“Truth will set you free”)3 5Call into question6 6Some of them bear crowns5 7Star pitcher?5 8Fills with cargo5 9Ratcheted (up)6 10Accept mutually7 11“For real!”5 12Battle break5 13Fencing choice5 18Rumble5 24Online reference for cinephiles4 25Homer’s middle child4 26Wild guess4 27Black-and-white mammal4 28Bank holding4 31Rocks in slings?3 32Approved3 33Cruiser letters3 35Fitzgerald of jazz4 36Concert merch4 37Position4 40Be complicit4 41In the company of4 44Some swordplay7 47Fight5 49Perfumery products6 50Playing marbles6 51Game with a numbered board5 52Its license plates say “Famous potatoes”5 53Lear’s middle child5 54Kind of point5 55Reluctant5 56Place for online pic posting5 60Gutless sort4 61Double-reed instrument4 62“Come Sail Away” rock group4 65Crime scene evidence3