Wall Street Journal Crossword September 16 2026 Answers

1Full of guile4 5Bit parts?4 9Miles per hour, e.g.5 141973 French Open champ Nastase4 15Openly state4 16Egg producer5 17Celebrated Southern chef Lewis4 18“State Fair” setting4 19Ring around a watch face5 20Magnet for controversy12 23Sought-after7 24Animated greetings, often6 28Playfully pick on3 29Eight, to Augustus4 31Deposit in some banks3 32Important acid type5 35A+ student9 37Brother of Jackie, Jermaine, Marlon and Michael4 38Having a faraway dreamy look5 39Campbell of “Scream”4 40Rainbow-colored treats9 42Acclivities5 43Academic extension3 44Flight records4 45Close-mouthed3 462022 World Series champs6 48Overcome, as an upsetting experience7 52Spy satellites, and a hint to 20-, 35- and 40-Across, given their second halves12 55Somewhat5 58Ammonia feature4 59Redecorate4 60Bolt with speed5 61Exclusion anxiety, briefly4 62Gendered suffix4 63What you might go out with5 64Bass line?4 65Hockey fake-out4

1Catch flies, say5 2“My Girl,” e.g.5 3Places for peds5 4“So you’ve said”9 5Made headway6 6Duck, say5 7Promgoer’s purchase4 8Gala giveaway4 9Titular 1987 cyborg7 10Vegan cosmetics brand5 11Whirling Looney Tunes character, for short3 12Seething state3 13Olive with a skinny shape3 21Rush, e.g.4 22Take another crack at5 25Ring borders5 26Ambition5 27French Open champ of 1990, 1991 and 19925 29Some native Nebraskans5 30Recycling bin items4 32Befuddled5 33Pays attention to5 34Words after slug, spit or sweat5 35“My Girl,” e.g.4 36Like an aerial view9 38Cause of hundreds of collisions in Alaska annually5 41Sickly sweet7 42Namesake of baseball’s postseason MVP award4 45Chevy subcompacts discontinued in 20016 47Sticky stuff5 48Garden figure5 49United5 50Real stinker5 51Melville’s first novel5 53Remote location, perhaps4 54Revered one4 55Sine ___ non3 56Charger standard3 57Help for some breakdown sufferers3