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Wall Street Journal Crossword August 7 2026 Answers
21×21 Grid
138 Clues
Updated 12:01 AM ET
Across
1Perjury, e.g.5
6Amusing escapade4
10Collezione della Galleria degli Uffizi4
14Mac3
17Dotty6
19Welcome to a mainlander, maybe5
21Precious4
22Call on3
23Courtroom schedule6
24Turkic tongue5
25Mollusk on a menu8
271919 H. Rider Haggard novel17
30Director Mira, who’s the mother of New York City’s mayor4
31Coordinate with5
32Exclusion-based angst, for short4
35Some gym equipment4
39Sloan deg.3
41Words before “Lover,” “Dollar” and “Man” in song names6
43Flatow of radio’s “Science Friday”3
45“Hurry up and decide!”13
49One of three NHL squads in New York State6
52Creature with a ring of stinging tentacles10
53Daggers, so to speak8
55Refuse to drop6
56Had as one’s boss10
60Friend to François3
61U.S. Army medal3
64Make a mountain out of a molehill, say9
66Site of the George W. Bush Presidential Ctr.3
69Having a very round countenance9
72Sorta suffix3
73Chance for a belt9
75Really enjoy3
77Mag. crew3
80Calliope10
83Sappho’s home6
86Former region of the Spanish Sahara8
89Maxim about the importance of liquidity10
92“Can’t decide!”6
93Beer once advertised as being “for the winners”13
96Facile3
97Beethoven symphony of 18046
100Family member3
101Resort town north of Santa Fe4
102Palace guard, of a sort4
105Middle Eastern capital once called Philadelphia5
106Bit of a shock?4
109Superhero with the catchphrase “Tra-la-laaaa!” (and a hint to the circled letters)17
116Handle8
119Hold in contempt5
120Pressing concern for astronauts?6
122Kooky3
123Frozen Four org.4
124“Well, then I have to go”5
125Financially solvent6
126Since, slangily3
127“Life of Pi” author Martel4
128Figure (out)4
129If tripled, “you get the picture”5
Down
1You might trip on it3
2“That hurt!”4
3Progress slowly4
4Brand named for a goddess4
5Ohioan who orbited Earth at age 40 and age 775
6“See ya, dude!”8
7“There oughta be ___!”4
8Old newspaper photo section4
9Ukraine’s second-largest city7
10“___ Fideles”6
11Did a farrier’s job6
12It may contain carne asada4
13___ Good Feelings (early 19th-century period)5
14Really irk3
15“For the People Who Serve” grp.3
16Perfecta, for one3
18James in the Blues Hall of Fame4
20Longtime “What’s My Line?” panelist Francis6
26“Citizen Kane” studio3
28Classic shout-out5
29Textile worker4
33Surrealist Joan4
34Layered treat4
35Baryshnikov nickname5
36Starting squad5
37Bolshevik foe7
38Piece of cake4
40Paquin of “The Piano”4
42Words to the audience5
44Invite3
46Lennon’s love3
47Make (one’s way)4
48“___ as the green-growing bud unfolds”: Longfellow3
50Range whose name means “gold mountain” in Mongolian5
51Aligned groups5
53Went astray5
54“Otello” composer5
57One of two found in Georgia5
58Monongahela Natl. Forest location3
59Common Market inits.3
62Political attack, of a sort5
63Brunch cocktail5
65Nickname for Angel Stadium7
67Bungle5
68Out-and-out5
70“Well, what have we here!”3
71Neither go-with3
74Sierra ____5
76Smooth-talking4
78“Tiny Bubbles” singer5
79Some Army NCOs5
81Rhine whine3
82Dornoch denials4
84Night school subj.3
85Revue segment4
86Criticize harshly3
87Mosque figure4
88Director Preminger4
90Ljubljana residents8
91Pay tribute to5
93“La Bohème” heroine4
94“Just watch me!”6
95They play across the border from the Kraken7
98Wicker material6
99Fred Astaire, by birth6
103Knee injury initials3
104Yellowish-brown5
107Nelly Korda’s org.4
108Chewy candy5
110Layout measure4
111Chef Matsuhisa with a chain of namesake restaurants4
112Prohibition backers4
113Mardi Gras city, familiarly4
114Stomped (on)4
115Horse mackerel4
116Gooden of the Mets3
117NYU extension3
118Wood-shaping tool3
121Athenian vowel3