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Wall Street Journal Crossword October 8 2026 Answers
15×15 Grid
76 Clues
Updated 12:01 AM ET
Across
1Bold poker bet5
6Handle hard times4
10Novel on which “Clueless” is based4
14“___ Evil”: (1971 Mia Farrow movie)5
15Rock great Clapton4
16Pacer pace4
17Metal-polishing material10
19Airing4
20Considered intrinsically6
21Four duos5
23Elite Navy group5
26Anvil site3
27Utterance from Homer3
29Circles of mushrooms thought to be magical in folklore10
34Arg. neighbor3
35Sicilian peak4
36Chapel topper5
37Zealous4
39Goes under5
41Do a checkout chore4
42“On the Beach” author Shute5
44Diamond with many hits4
45Set of tools3
46Lakota leader at Little Bighorn10
48“Tic Tac Dough” channel, familiarly3
49Where the wild things are3
50Hardly trustworthy5
52Padres Hall of Famer Tony5
54Rum cocktail6
58Apple Intelligence assistance4
59Old wool-packing tool resembling a shovel10
63Secluded area4
64Keep out of sight4
65Suffer defeat, slangily5
66Pixar’s Dory is a blue one4
67Campus south of Golden Gate Pk.4
68Flea market business5
Down
1Between ports4
2NASA landed six of them on the moon4
3Merlot vat waste4
4Sudden arrival6
5“The Quiet American” director Phillip5
6Animation collectible3
7Material for los doblones3
8Quarry3
9Like caves and canyons6
10Bouts of self-indulgence8
11Lion’s pride4
12Aid for working at home4
13Dirt bike’s cousin3
18Gets exasperated6
22Train units4
24Like many Telemundo viewers6
25Oscar-nominated 2025 film7
27Capital founded by William Penn5
28Twins Hall of Famer Tony5
30Devil-may-care6
31Razors may make them5
32Wood feature5
33Dispatched4
34Perch in le parc4
38Like many op art posters8
40Sordid stuff6
43Largest city on the Rhône4
47Osaka’s island6
48Juicer, maybe6
51Airheads5
52River to the Colorado4
53Carolina singer4
55Still buggy, perhaps4
56“God ___ the details”4
57Cornerstone abbr.4
58USMC rank3
60Snap3
61Streaming interruptions3
62Dict. snippet3