'For __ sake!' Crossword Clue

We have the 5-letter answer for 'For __ sake!' crossword clue, last seen in the WSJ Crossword January 8, 2026 puzzle. Sometimes we all need some help finding the answer!

'For __ sake!' Crossword Answer

↓52.

Find more clues, hints, and info below.

Hide

Find more clues, hints, and info below.

Helpful Hints

Hint 1: Clue Definition

SAKE (noun)
1. Japanese alcoholic beverage made from fermented rice; usually served hot
2. a reason for wanting something done

Hint 2: Anagram

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

More WSJ Crossword (1/8/2026) Answers

Across

1. Put on the market

5. Nail polish layer

9. 'Waterloo' group

13. Low lady

14. Croft of video games

15. Moves effortlessly

17. *Accidental trumpet sound

19. UFC and WWE champion Rousey

20. Pulitzer Prize category

21. Eden inhabitant

23. Romeo or Juliet, e.g.

25. They’re sought after

26. Goth on the big screen

27. D.C. figure

28. Signed a ketubah, say

29. Aid in solving some cold cases

30. Bonus, in ads

32. Threatening words

35. Get ready to be shot, and yoga-based instruction for making sense of the marked answers

39. Like drone photography

40. “And here’s the quick version,” in internet posts

43. Trip around the track

46. Power, to Pliny

47. JFK investigators

50. River of Scotland

51. Alcaraz and Sabalenka won it in 2025

53. Not now

55. Noshed on

57. Guitarist’s building block

58. Make ___ of (remember)

59. Get going

62. More reasonable

63. Unfit for growing

64. Fish market feature

65. Lip

66. Current craze

67. Sinewy

All Answers

Down

1. Chocolate pooch

2. Volunteer's words

3. Franchise with nine “episodes”

4. Receipt line

5. Split (apart)

6. Water pusher

7. Drowning out the quarterback, say

8. Sits out, perhaps

9. “Sad but true”

10. Fair in a way

11. Secured, as some debts

12. *Well shoot

16. Kafka’s bug

18. M.D. networks

22. Puppy

23. Olympic sport since 2008

24. Slender-stemmed mushrooms

28. Plethora

31. Words with loss or glance

33. Stephen of "The Crying Game"

34. Superlative suffix

36. Bacchanalia participants

37. Model Shayk

38. Mythical city of gold

41. Part of a wet blanket?

42. ___ Faire (place to dress up and drink mead)

43. Creator of 3-Down

44. Yoga positions, six of which must be removed from the marked answers

45. City between Los Angeles and San Bernardino

48. Withdraw from a union

49. Icy Hot target

53. Fish with blueberry and blood red varieties

54. Centrifuge component

56. Winter Palace user

60. Equip

61. Stab

All Answers