Wall Street Journal Crossword May 28 2026 Answers

1Major muddle5 6Old jukebox insert4 10GIF alternative4 14Get smart, in a way5 15Name that starts Chronicles4 16Maneuver cautiously4 17What Pandora released5 18Wise mystic4 19Makeup remover4 20Prominent Baltic lodging?14 23Bishop’s bailiwick3 24He told Will Smith, “You’re almost pretty enough to play me”3 25Here comes the sun?4 26Where a Balkan rooster might direct its gaze?12 31Explore the boardwalk5 34Washington’s official marine mammal4 35Hart’s sweetheart3 36Texture4 37Do a season in a sitting, say5 39Sweet-talk4 40What friends might share as they get closer3 41Idyllist4 42Drew in a book5 43Past Central European conflict?12 47Celebrity pug4 48Where you might take notes3 49Pitcher’s pride3 52Join a Central American navy?14 56Watch over4 57Club component4 58Occult utterance5 59At some prior time4 60First nudist colony?4 61Principle5 62Ballpark buy4 63Fresh offering4 64Silent film figure?5

1Vetoes a removal5 2Brightening stars5 3Able to think quickly5 4Gauge reading4 5Buffalo’s place7 6Like half the planet right now6 7Fan fave4 8Three-men- and-a-baby group?4 9Cardinal title8 10Like the writers of “White Christmas” and “The Christmas Song”6 11Like a clown’s smile9 12“Around the Horn” channel4 13“That hadn’t occurred to me!”3 21Typical of3 22Its D.C. headquarters is named for engineer Mary W. Jackson4 26Word with fours and yours3 27Odyssey maker5 28Tenth of a microjoule3 29Reason for some heated road trips4 30Steamy4 31Small set4 32Self-referential4 33Spring ceremony in Ute communities9 37Darts and trivia, e.g.8 38Fiscal org.3 39Corvine squawk3 41Original “Royal Historian of Oz”4 42Greeting accompanied by the anjali mudra hand gesture7 44Scratch one’s head6 45Haying needs6 46“Rugrats” dad3 49Intel gatherer5 50Alignment aid5 51Smallest nation in the European Union5 52Greedy cry4 53Zilch4 54“For” words4 55Center of a bell curve, e.g.4 56RICO target3