Wall Street Journal Crossword September 25 2026 Answers

1Canine command5 6Product of mud compaction5 11Cinemark competitor3 14Full of life4 18Wipe from existence5 19Lion, leopard or lynx, zoologically5 20Tapestry producer4 22Tribe of western New York4 23“Death on the Nile” and the like?11 25Backstreet patrollers?9 27Kazakhstan’s capital6 28Hollow4 29Tuna on a sushi menu4 30Follower of special or black3 31Maiden name label3 32Dust-up in the Dove factory?16 37Prepare for the tub5 40Fresh4 41Items on some pedestals4 42Functions4 43“Hardwood Classics” network5 45Wear with straps3 46Key, e.g.4 49Bullion piece5 51New Haven scholars4 52Soprano from Australia5 55Strange way to keep burglars out?13 59Amber-colored wine7 61Pool problem5 62“Meh”-evoking4 63Org. with a five-ring logo3 64___ Webster (Twain’s “celebrated jumping frog”)4 65Take-out general3 66Fielding error by Mickey Moniak?13 72Pay stub line3 73Flour for puris and parathas4 75Cuatro halved3 76A/C amts.4 77Crafty knife brand5 79Prepare for a career change7 81Some 24-hour fosters?13 85Quartet in a Scrabble box5 86Like swampland4 87Bête ___5 88Cheery farewell4 90Clutch item3 91Shimmery stones5 93Malek of “Oppenheimer”4 96The visitors who visited Amahl4 98Sweeties4 101Lustrous fabric5 104Schnitzel serving that might shock you?16 109“Knives Out” star de Armas3 110Courtroom fig.3 111Like bulls, bucks and boars4 112General vicinity4 113Lots to buy6 116Sophisticated style?9 119Mystifying field features, or a directive for understanding this puzzle’s theme11 121Watch after4 122Hubbub4 123Accommodate5 124Play setting5 125Yields to gravity4 126Heart chart, for short3 127First name in cosmetics5 128Lingerie buy5

1Sonata and Accord, e.g.6 2Like some spending limits6 3Airline once run by Eddie Rickenbacker7 4Cruising4 5“Smoke Gets in Your Eyes” composer4 6Army’s counterpart of Navy’s CPO3 7How some problems must be faced6 8Historically contested region of Europe6 9Stay in hiding6 101958’s Corsair, e.g.5 11In the style of3 12Like lava6 13Statues of substantial size7 14Moment of time3 15Some geometry homework6 16Micro wave?6 17RSVP tally6 21Soldier for hire, for short4 24XXX part?3 26The solver of this puzzle3 33Great chaos5 34Goldfinger’s first name5 35Surname of Steinbeck’s Cal and Aron5 36Encouraged6 38Mediterranean resort5 39German tank of WWII6 44Friday’s preceder?3 45Mayor between Giuliani and de Blasio9 47Trash talk5 48Went first3 50To-do list listing5 51Conditional word4 53Katherina’s sister, in “The Taming of the Shrew”6 54Will of “The Lego Batman Movie”6 55Where Al Jazeera is based5 56Loose coat named for a region of Ireland6 57“You can’t stop me!”6 58It’s practiced in le palais de justice3 59Extinct bird of New Zealand3 60Some carolers5 63“Gooooooooal!”5 67Pablo Neruda, e.g.5 68Bamboozle3 69Response from a humblebragger4 70Baltimore paper3 71Faces in the crowd?6 74Bitterly cold6 78Amtrak option5 80Letters before an alias3 81Last of 24 letters5 82Ceremony of remembrance5 83Silly sort5 84Femur’s end3 89“Has it started yet?”7 92Played for time7 93Gasps, say6 94Tennis great Gibson6 95Doling (out)6 97Vinegary6 98Carriers for conquistadors6 99Patronized a restaurant6 100Go by6 102Mean6 103Stand in opposition to6 105Brillo and Zillow, for two: Abbr.3 106“Fiddlesticks!”4 107Hoard of treasure5 108Ironman race, for short3 114Part of QED4 115Plot measure4 117Some S&L offerings3 118Work unit3 120Epcot center?3