Wall Street Journal Daily Crossword
Wall Street Journal Crossword Answers & Hints - August 12, 2026
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Puzzle date
August 12, 2026
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Across
1.Black breed5 letters6.Queen in Disney’s “Frozen”4 letters10.Dial in a bathroom4 letters14.Tame unruly eyebrows, e.g.5 letters15.Ship’s spine4 letters16.Princess in Disney’s “Frozen”4 letters17.Stopped spending so much, say10 letters19.Crow’s-nest site4 letters20.Manhunt quarry7 letters21.Mottled mousers7 letters23.Granny Smith descriptor4 letters25.Before sunrise5 letters26.Slow-cooking drumettes over apple wood12 letters32.Strip for chuckles5 letters33.Plans for srs.4 letters34.Dance club VIPs3 letters37.High point4 letters38.Bothersome5 letters40.Keystone State port4 letters41.One end of a royal flush3 letters42.Makeup for a bowler4 letters43.Mescal source5 letters44.Pitcher with a 100-mile-per-hour fastball12 letters47.Alfresco dining spot5 letters50.Japanese legislature4 letters51.Flowery shrubs7 letters54.Batting rarities7 letters59.Make sound4 letters60.Some hard seltzers10 letters62.Easy gait4 letters63.Weapon for Colonel Mustard4 letters64.Arthur Miller’s salesman5 letters65.Hardens4 letters66.Planetary cycle4 letters67.Idyllic spots5 letters
Down
1.Religious recess4 letters2.MLB semifinal round4 letters3.Tex-Mex chip dip, informally4 letters4.The Bruins’ sch.4 letters5.Doubter7 letters6.Anita of “La Dolce Vita”6 letters7.Grazing area3 letters8.Split-off group4 letters9.___-Seltzer4 letters10.Rhythmic Brazilian dances6 letters11.Studio sign5 letters12.Photographer Adams5 letters13.Easy victim5 letters18.Campus figure4 letters22.Pleads4 letters24.Depraved7 letters26.Improvised singing style4 letters27.Sulk4 letters28.Prophetic sign4 letters29.“Kid-tested” cereal3 letters30.Nettle3 letters31.Opposition vote3 letters34.Winnerless outcome4 letters35.Cab Calloway specialty4 letters36.Clairvoyant4 letters38.Stir-fry bit3 letters39.National Mall shader3 letters40.Self-esteem3 letters42.Perch for a polar bear4 letters43.News item7 letters44.Steakhouse choices6 letters45.Nervous laugh6 letters46.Roll call response4 letters47.Concords5 letters48.Blue hue5 letters49.Deck of wands, swords, cups and pentacles5 letters52.Out of kilter4 letters53.Brake part4 letters55.Trudge along4 letters56.Like a horse that hobbles4 letters57.McGregor of “Moulin Rouge!”4 letters58.Tax IDs4 letters61.Microbrew, often3 letters
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