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Wall Street Journal Crossword Answers & Hints - August 8, 2026
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August 8, 2026
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Across
1.Perjury, e.g.5 letters6.Amusing escapade4 letters10.Collezione della Galleria degli Uffizi4 letters14.Mac3 letters17.Dotty6 letters19.Welcome to a mainlander, maybe5 letters21.Precious4 letters22.Call on3 letters23.Courtroom schedule6 letters24.Turkic tongue5 letters25.Mollusk on a menu8 letters27.1919 H. Rider Haggard novel17 letters30.Director Mira, who’s the mother of New York City’s mayor4 letters31.Coordinate with5 letters32.Exclusion-based angst, for short4 letters35.Some gym equipment4 letters39.Sloan deg.3 letters41.Words before “Lover,” “Dollar” and “Man” in song names6 letters43.Flatow of radio’s “Science Friday”3 letters45.“Hurry up and decide!”13 letters49.One of three NHL squads in New York State6 letters52.Creature with a ring of stinging tentacles10 letters53.Daggers, so to speak8 letters55.Refuse to drop6 letters56.Had as one’s boss10 letters60.Friend to François3 letters61.U.S. Army medal3 letters64.Make a mountain out of a molehill, say9 letters66.Site of the George W. Bush Presidential Ctr.3 letters69.Having a very round countenance9 letters72.Sorta suffix3 letters73.Chance for a belt9 letters75.Really enjoy3 letters77.Mag. crew3 letters80.Calliope10 letters83.Sappho’s home6 letters86.Former region of the Spanish Sahara8 letters89.Maxim about the importance of liquidity10 letters92.“Can’t decide!”6 letters93.Beer once advertised as being “for the winners”13 letters96.Facile3 letters97.Beethoven symphony of 18046 letters100.Family member3 letters101.Resort town north of Santa Fe4 letters102.Palace guard, of a sort4 letters105.Middle Eastern capital once called Philadelphia5 letters106.Bit of a shock?4 letters109.Superhero with the catchphrase “Tra-la-laaaa!” (and a hint to the circled letters)17 letters116.Handle8 letters119.Hold in contempt5 letters120.Pressing concern for astronauts?6 letters122.Kooky3 letters123.Frozen Four org.4 letters124.“Well, then I have to go”5 letters125.Financially solvent6 letters126.Since, slangily3 letters127.“Life of Pi” author Martel4 letters128.Figure (out)4 letters129.If tripled, “you get the picture”5 letters
Down
1.You might trip on it3 letters2.“That hurt!”4 letters3.Progress slowly4 letters4.Brand named for a goddess4 letters5.Ohioan who orbited Earth at age 40 and age 775 letters6.“See ya, dude!”8 letters7.“There oughta be ___!”4 letters8.Old newspaper photo section4 letters9.Ukraine’s second-largest city7 letters10.“___ Fideles”6 letters11.Did a farrier’s job6 letters12.It may contain carne asada4 letters13.___ Good Feelings (early 19th-century period)5 letters14.Really irk3 letters15.“For the People Who Serve” grp.3 letters16.Perfecta, for one3 letters18.James in the Blues Hall of Fame4 letters20.Longtime “What’s My Line?” panelist Francis6 letters26.“Citizen Kane” studio3 letters28.Classic shout-out5 letters29.Textile worker4 letters33.Surrealist Joan4 letters34.Layered treat4 letters35.Baryshnikov nickname5 letters36.Starting squad5 letters37.Bolshevik foe7 letters38.Piece of cake4 letters40.Paquin of “The Piano”4 letters42.Words to the audience5 letters44.Invite3 letters46.Lennon’s love3 letters47.Make (one’s way)4 letters48.“___ as the green-growing bud unfolds”: Longfellow3 letters50.Range whose name means “gold mountain” in Mongolian5 letters51.Aligned groups5 letters53.Went astray5 letters54.“Otello” composer5 letters57.One of two found in Georgia5 letters58.Monongahela Natl. Forest location3 letters59.Common Market inits.3 letters62.Political attack, of a sort5 letters63.Brunch cocktail5 letters65.Nickname for Angel Stadium7 letters67.Bungle5 letters68.Out-and-out5 letters70.“Well, what have we here!”3 letters71.Neither go-with3 letters74.Sierra ____5 letters76.Smooth-talking4 letters78.“Tiny Bubbles” singer5 letters79.Some Army NCOs5 letters81.Rhine whine3 letters82.Dornoch denials4 letters84.Night school subj.3 letters85.Revue segment4 letters86.Criticize harshly3 letters87.Mosque figure4 letters88.Director Preminger4 letters90.Ljubljana residents8 letters91.Pay tribute to5 letters93.“La Bohème” heroine4 letters94.“Just watch me!”6 letters95.They play across the border from the Kraken7 letters98.Wicker material6 letters99.Fred Astaire, by birth6 letters103.Knee injury initials3 letters104.Yellowish-brown5 letters107.Nelly Korda’s org.4 letters108.Chewy candy5 letters110.Layout measure4 letters111.Chef Matsuhisa with a chain of namesake restaurants4 letters112.Prohibition backers4 letters113.Mardi Gras city, familiarly4 letters114.Stomped (on)4 letters115.Horse mackerel4 letters116.Gooden of the Mets3 letters117.NYU extension3 letters118.Wood-shaping tool3 letters121.Athenian vowel3 letters
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