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Wall Street Journal Crossword September 11 2026 Answers
21×21 Grid
140 Clues
Updated 12:01 AM ET
Across
1Biblical mounts5
6Thermometers, barometers, etc.7
13Combative frame of mind7
20Fingerprint feature5
21Windpipe7
22Medical condition more common in fiction than in real life7
23Like the I-29 and I-94 highways?13
25Finds hilarious, perhaps7
26Good enough7
27Strong warning, figuratively7
29Forest floor feature4
30For fear that4
31Faucet attachments5
33Hot and dry7
36Blackpool bloke4
37Year in a Kubrick film, in letters3
40Criticized annoyingly4
41Repeat mindlessly3
44Personality test?9
49Secondary emphasis for students majoring in Gorgonzola?11
52Savor6
53Plainly visible7
55Aggrieved feeling6
56Bond, say5
57Engage in revolution4
58Asner and O’Neill3
59Puts in the ground6
60Mammal that yields a perfume ingredient5
61Decimal fraction5
63They may accompany ifs and buts4
64Ball holder3
65Cause of lip irritation, for some?11
69Pump purchase3
72Shoreline structure4
74Bias5
75Bedeck5
77Do some book repair6
80Crowlike bird3
83Bond, say4
84“I will take the Ring, though I do not know the way” speaker5
85Clementine cousin6
86Unyielding7
88Photoshop tool6
89Cruise for drummers?11
91Part of a Latin dance duo?9
93“For shame!”3
94Tropical starch source4
95Ltr. holder3
97Harbor sights4
98Budding7
101Manual audience5
103Hand holders4
107Sign of health4
109Gourmet chips ingredient7
112Ballet need7
114Knocking sound7
117Kinshasa railroad crossing?13
119Womb-related7
120River paddler7
121Gave an edge to5
122Cuts in half7
123“I don’t want to hear the details!”7
124Pieces of punditry5
Down
1Really bad5
2Triangle or trapezoid5
3Does a mailroom chore5
4Crop problem5
5Unappealing food4
6Juicing juice7
7History topic3
8Mother-of-pearl5
9Major split6
10Wheeling’s river4
11Pay for a pad4
12Long stories5
13Disney’s Pumbaa, e.g.7
14Latin lover’s word3
15Gene messenger3
16Prefix suggesting endlessness5
17Poet’s not-quite-rhyming technique9
18Acapulco aunts4
19Boaters, e.g.4
24Uncritically enthusiastic6
28Diamond figures6
32Become harder to climb7
34Worshipful7
35Place back in custody6
36Attack from all sides5
38Seething3
39Words of understanding4
42Somewhat bad4
43Goes astray4
44Belch5
45Bottled spirit?5
46Savory ovoid5
47Ceremony4
48Traveling in an Airstream, say5
50Neither Rep. nor Dem.3
51QB mistakes4
54A fan of4
57Critic’s unit4
62“___ a Liar” (song by the Bee Gees)3
63Game opener4
65Emergency transport7
66Bravo preceder4
67Gibe5
68Like some tuition7
69V member5
70“As You Like It” forest5
71Derisive sound5
72Text in hopes of a reply4
73Precious bars6
75Bushy dos5
76Tiresome task4
77Bob alternative4
78Aphrodite’s offspring4
79Folding money9
80The beginning6
81Coding pioneer Lovelace3
82Hourly rate4
87Former boys3
88Prods6
90Brother of Electra7
92Care for7
96Crass6
99In the know5
100Carpet securers5
102Feed, as a fire5
103Put ___ to (end)5
104Cologne’s river5
105Took part in a stock exchange?5
106Puts in the mail5
107Vittles4
108Sol followers4
110Suds source4
111Taylor-Joy of “Furiosa”4
113Repeat mindlessly4
115Peculiarity3
116Kitchen invader3
118Scout’s brother in “To Kill a Mockingbird”3