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Wall Street Journal Crossword Answers & Hints - September 19, 2026
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September 19, 2026
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Across
1.Rudimentary seed5 letters6.Bad winner, perhaps7 letters13.Share shelter7 letters20.Three-by-three box in a sudoku puzzle5 letters21.Bawl out7 letters22.Way back when7 letters23.Sharply defined paint job?13 letters25.Criticized mercilessly7 letters26.“Give ___ go”3 letters27.Maze walls, perhaps6 letters28.Showed curiosity5 letters30.Words with discount or disadvantage3 letters31.Private dinner4 letters33.Like poblano peppers4 letters34.Where Columbus established his La Navidad settlement5 letters36.Put out4 letters37.Suit4 letters38.Cross-referencing word3 letters39.Triangular, soft, flapping in the breeze?12 letters42.Courser control4 letters44.Disposable phone6 letters45.Sewer scurrier3 letters46.Song sung by Miss Congeniality?13 letters50.Island nation west of Fiji7 letters54.Rubs the wrong way5 letters55.Play reviewer3 letters56.Convinced4 letters57.Cacophony3 letters58.Yard sign verb5 letters59.Only European Union city to host the Summer Olympics three different years5 letters61.Turn outward5 letters62.“The Beverly Hillbillies” role3 letters63.Lewis of “Matlock”4 letters64.Occupied apartments?11 letters66.Rise dramatically4 letters67.Funerary vase3 letters68.Image Awards org.5 letters69.Aspen attire5 letters70.Not quite right, maybe5 letters71.Forest female3 letters72.Check out creepily4 letters73.Drone, e.g.3 letters74.Hemsworth who plays Thor5 letters75.Back, in a way7 letters77.The very chivalrous Mick Jagger and Keith Richards?13 letters82.Wellness grp.3 letters83.Knocked off6 letters84.Louisville’s river4 letters85.Unoccupied apartments?12 letters89.___ gratia (by the grace of God)3 letters90.Some daily temps4 letters94.Platte River people4 letters95.Hopper in Hollywood5 letters96.Blanchett with two Oscars4 letters97.Careless mistake4 letters98.Payment promise3 letters99.Jor-El’s portrayer in 2013’s “Man of Steel”5 letters101.Blackbird family member6 letters103.Groom’s words3 letters104.“That’s cheating!”7 letters106.Guy who steadfastly refuses to get help with directions?13 letters110.“The Honeymooners” creator7 letters111.Use as a resource7 letters112.Heavy hitters in Hollywood5 letters113.Sonnet sections7 letters114.Forty winks7 letters115.Grayish5 letters
Down
1.Punctual6 letters2.Whirl of water6 letters3.Discontent6 letters4.Cariou of “Sweeney Todd”3 letters5.Leave one’s mark on4 letters6.Illustrator’s color effect8 letters7.Newbery Medal winner Madeleine6 letters8.Was decisive5 letters9.Parentheses, essentially4 letters10.Excessively3 letters11.“Creazione di ___” (Sistine fresco)3 letters12.Lawyer’s fee8 letters13.Willow spike6 letters14.Fairy tale baddie4 letters15.Bowler’s place4 letters16.Pompous sort3 letters17.“Grand” place near Florida6 letters18.“Makes sense to me”6 letters19.Yet6 letters24.Surrounds6 letters29.Michelin reward4 letters32.Harsh sound7 letters34.Sage, e.g.4 letters35.Last Stuart monarch4 letters36.Question from the betrayed4 letters39.Fill with, as oxygen6 letters40.Refrain snippets6 letters41.Light yellow-brown5 letters43.Toward the sunrise4 letters44.Complaint from a con6 letters46.Suite start7 letters47.Banking device7 letters48.Gathered gradually7 letters49.Subtle distinction6 letters50.Battery pioneer Alessandro5 letters51.Recess7 letters52.Most-searched “how to” subject, ahead of “how to kiss”7 letters53.Strip7 letters56.Like some poetry6 letters59.Rembrandt who painted Washington and Jefferson5 letters60.Letters on many racing cars3 letters61.Elaborate meal6 letters64.Appends6 letters65.Dark-furred martens6 letters66.Defeats decisively7 letters68.Bellini opera5 letters70.Opera opening4 letters76.Electrical units4 letters77.Diner sign promise8 letters78.Like two peas in ___4 letters79.Where Pizarro died4 letters80.In direct confrontation8 letters81.The UPS logo, e.g.6 letters83.Regatta team4 letters85.What’s happening6 letters86.Peter of “The Lion in Winter”6 letters87.Bus map depictions6 letters88.Lemon tree features6 letters89.Elegantly small6 letters91.Countess in “Twelfth Night”6 letters92.Least narrow6 letters93.Like many convertibles6 letters96.Common origami creation5 letters99.Lawyer’s job4 letters100.Chaotic scene4 letters101.Drop4 letters102.Focus of Taylor Swift’s last tour4 letters105.Lard or suet3 letters107.Morse code sound3 letters108.Protagonist of a Satyajit Ray film trilogy3 letters109.Suffering3 letters
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