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Wall Street Journal Crossword July 22 2026 Answers
15×15 Grid
78 Clues
Updated 12:01 AM ET
Across
1Diet target4
5Heating option3
8Like rawhide bones6
14Brand once marketed as “the great national temperance beverage”8
16State of southern Mexico6
17Leap while snowboarding8
18Millionth of a meter6
19“Whine Up” singer DeLuna3
20River past Balmoral Castle3
22“So Big” writer Ferber4
23Help the chef4
25“The Caretaker” playwright6
27“The Hound of the Baskervilles” setting4
28Nicole Kidman’s co-star in 2001’s “Birthday Girl”10
32Lends support4
33Title before Fox or Rabbit4
34Curling need5
35Smelter supply3
36Faith Hill song “Take Me ___ Am”3
37Nondairy milk option3
39Quote the raven?3
40Henhouse sight5
42Stout-bodied fish4
44Sgt.’s superior4
45“You missed your opportunity”10
47Wasatch Range tribe4
48Hold back6
49Harbor, say4
50Choose not to sip4
53“Patience ___ virtue”3
54Cannes companion3
55“Oil my arms, please, oil my elbows” speaker6
57It folds down for a passenger (and an instruction for how to treat several Down answers)8
62Mysterious6
63Simple, as a rocket8
64Creatures6
65Go a round3
66Treat for a chickadee4
Down
1Media monitor, for short3
2Mauna ___3
3Opera division3
4Producers of pastries7
5Acquired4
6Green with Grammys3
7“Sexy” Beatles girl7
8Astronomer’s sighting6
9Yes, in Yokohama3
10Book bit7
11City section4
12Bus. sch. subject4
13Comical Carvey4
15Topper4
21Between stops8
23“The A.B.C. Murders” sleuth6
24Drive in Beverly Hills6
25Numbers on tags8
26Marco Polo’s heading4
27Their name for New Zealand is Aotearoa5
28Common undergrad deg.3
29Pinpoint6
30Peevishly sulking6
31Small amphibians5
36Dispenser of dollars4
38Teddy’s neighbor on Mount Rushmore3
41Summation signs, in math7
43Worked7
44Ark-measuring units7
46Needle sources6
49Band boosters4
50Wild guess4
51Undercover cop’s wear4
52Cuzco people4
54Visa rival, familiarly4
56Crumb bearer3
58Italian count’s start3
59Gold, to chemists3
60“We Bring Good Things to Life” advertiser, once3
61Visitor in a 1982 Spielberg movie3