Bomb in an idiom about backfiring plans Crossword Clue

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Bomb in an idiom about backfiring plans Crossword Answer

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(noun)
1. an explosive device used to break down a gate or wall

Hint 2: Clue Definitions

IDIOM (noun)
1. an expression whose meanings cannot be inferred from the meanings of the words that make it up
2. a manner of speaking that is natural to native speakers of a language
ABOUT (adverb)
1. used of movement to or among many different places or in no particular direction
2. in or to a reversed position or direction
ABOUT (adjective)
1. on the move

Hint 3: Anagram

Unscramble the letters below to solve for today's answer.
DEPART

More WSJ Crossword (9/5/2026) Answers

Across

1. Music genre for Tokyo’s Yoasobi and Nogizaka46

5. Speaks for, briefly

9. Motrin alternative

14. Corkscrews on tables, e.g.

19. Brand for Brussels griffons

20. Westernmost D-Day beach

21. They fly in an 11-Down

22. Abstractions

23. Dieting and exercising to avoid needing to buy a bigger belt?

26. Disinclined

27. Eurythmics singer Lennox

28. Ceremonial basin

29. At most

31. Cow chow

32. Designer’s draft

34. Deserves

36. Maker of licensed vinyl toy figures

38. Common name for a herding dog

40. Fear-inducing thunderstorm?

44. Asian honorific

47. Ill-suited

50. Make out, in Bath

51. Frolicsome

52. Astonishingly awesome shriek?

55. Astronaut Cooper, familiarly

57. Lab liquids

58. “Freeze the Feeling” beverage brand

59. Happening place?

61. Iridescent gem

63. Asian honorific

64. “The Commitments” writer Doyle

66. Bacteria-infected

68. Place under the seat, say

70. Story of Earth’s longest-living land animal trying to hide its years with a wig?

77. Ancient music halls

78. Goddess of the dawn

79. Carried

80. Flimflam

83. Opposite of “avant”

88. With 44-Down, modest garment

89. Mimicked

91. Replies to a host

93. What a bird feels after crashing into a sheet of glass?

95. Piedmontese wine

97. Grub

99. Nick of “Tropic Thunder”

100. ___ Islas Filipinas

101. Spy tasked with following spouses in their golden years?

104. Crowd-sourced review site

106. Wing

107. Antarctic explorer Shackleton

110. Unsavory

114. Nothing at all

116. Taylor Swift’s “___ Something Bad”

118. Auto-correction?

120. City of Tuscany

121. Ivy in Philly

123. Crew members tending to spinnakers and jibs?

126. Tight headwear

127. A crowd, they say

128. Ivy in New Haven

129. One of a geographic quintet

130. Operatic bass-baritone Simon

131. Iditarod vehicles

132. Passed easily

133. Property paper

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Down

1. Scavengers who sell C-3PO and R2-D2 to Luke’s uncle

2. Core exercise

3. Think out loud

4. Hypothesizes

5. Dark ’n’ Stormy part

6. List wrap-up

7. Yankee Clipper carrier

8. Wax alternative

9. Problem for job-seeking seniors

10. Lowering in rank

11. See 21-Across

12. “Freedom ___ free”

13. Acquitted

14. Hoppy lager

15. Hubbub

16. Members of the genus Hippocampus

17. "So long!"

18. Wan

24. Helper after a crash

25. Teri of “Young Frankenstein”

30. Hypothesize

33. Mathematician Poincaré

35. Inquisitive sort

37. Mr. Kringle

39. History Channel’s highest-rated show

41. Grimm monster

42. Vegetable called bhindi in Pakistan

43. Gosling in Hollywood

44. See 88-Across

45. Big name in copiers

46. ___ la Cité (site of Notre Dame cathedral)

48. Leisurely stroll, in Spanish-speaking areas

49. Hedren of “The Birds”

53. Resulted in

54. ___ luck!

56. Villainous

60. — bind

62. “Stay (I Missed You)” singer Lisa

65. Member of the Jedi High Council

67. Seven-time AL batting champ

69. Clobber

71. Admonished

72. Away

73. Pipe-clearing brand

74. Common neo-grotesque font

75. Most populous country

76. Coach controls

80. Baja resort

81. Iridescent gem

82. “Get a load of this dweeb!”

84. Nights before

85. Flurry

87. Lavishes affection

90. Sad

92. Hit with a jump scare

94. Lament of the vanquished

96. Jacket parts

98. Cranial cavities

102. Is real

103. Advance

105. Ready

108. "So long!"

109. “Dear Mama” rapper

111. Steel plow inventor

112. Navel type

113. Out of fashion

114. Botticelli’s Venus, e.g.

115. NYSE debuts

117. Willy Wonka’s creator

119. Wan

122. Scottish refusal

124. Fury

125. Like diamonds

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