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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
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