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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
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