WSJ Crossword August 22 2026 Answers (8/22/26)

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WSJ Crossword August 22, 2026 Answers

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« August 21 2026 Answers

#	Clue
1A	Diplomatic assignment
5A	Weighs down
10A	Infectious bug
14A	One might get tipped
17A	Contrail makeup
19A	Vengeful swordsman Montoya
20A	Potatoes, in Indian cuisine
21A	Parcel (out)
22A	Long-necked swamp speaker?
24A	Honey-based drink
25A	Around 314, for a circle of radius 10
26A	Alamo option
27A	Final glimpse of a forbidding silhouette?
30A	Precocious “Family Guy” character
32A	“That had to hurt!”
34A	Dreyer’s partner
35A	Imposes (upon)
36A	Used to be
37A	1982 movie with 2010 and 2025 sequels
39A	One of 265 in the Bronx Zoo
41A	Regional flora and fauna
42A	Two things that meet when applying balm after a workout?
45A	Losses in a ledger
47A	Cynical crime genre
48A	Injures badly
49A	Latin for “load”
51A	Yao in the Basketball Hall of Fame
53A	Having the most pepper icons on the menu, perhaps
56A	Result of a burning desire
58A	Strung along
59A	Take in
60A	Fawn’s kin
62A	Genesis creator
64A	Memorable span
65A	Salon choice without waves or curls?
70A	Drone-based delivery vehicle?
73A	Nintendo avatar
74A	“Whiskey in My Water” country singer Tyler
75A	Place to grab a mocha
77A	___ Lingus
78A	North Pole workers
80A	Factory worker
82A	“You doubt me?”
87A	Garden with a snake problem
88A	Surrender
89A	Saharan stopovers
91A	Modernists
93A	Genre for Björk and Kate Bush
95A	Two-wheeler with cables pulled taut?
99A	Bargain hunters’ finds
100A	Home of Iowa State
101A	Memo starter
102A	Receipt line
103A	Climbing expert
105A	Bestie, in Bordeaux
106A	Youngest king in the Valley of the Kings
108A	Capital on the Hudson
110A	Easy scores during a casual round?
113A	Snitch
115A	Initial cost
116A	Snore-inducing
117A	Perfectly negotiated agreements?
121A	Xmas, for Jimmy Buffett
122A	Southernmost Great Lake
123A	Liquefy in a blender
124A	Sonata section
125A	___ admin (IT pro)
126A	Dirt road tracks
127A	Microscope insert
128A	Drei squared
1D	Piping plastic, for short
2D	Crew member
3D	Enterprise, e.g.
4D	Thus far
5D	Old Milanese money
6D	World’s heaviest snakes
7D	“Likewise!”
8D	Braggart’s attribute
9D	Put in order
10D	They may include only the first levels
11D	Mournful poem
12D	Stadium sound
13D	Tweaks
14D	“How about this...”
15D	Really bothered
16D	Drops from ducts
18D	Sends, as payment
21D	Seafaring
23D	Ralph Vaughan Williams’s “Hugh the Drover,” e.g.
28D	Daughter of Cronus
29D	State of mind
30D	Pond glider
31D	Some food truck fare
33D	Growing business?
38D	“Put your wallet away”
40D	France’s film award
41D	Sultanate on the South China Sea
43D	Gospel singer Campbell
44D	Named as a source
46D	Bouillon brand
50D	Like a busybody
52D	Pest in a cloud
54D	Salon offerings
55D	“Young Frankenstein” role
57D	Elizabethan collar
58D	Cold-fermented beer
61D	Pixar film set during el Día de los Muertos
63D	Chew like a capybara
65D	Hook’s sidekick
66D	Swinton of “Michael Clayton”
67D	Big mouth features
68D	Corp. benefits experts
69D	Stepped (on)
71D	Home page, in a way
72D	Partner in crime
76D	Priest’s advice
79D	ATM feature
81D	Fellows who follow
83D	Practiced mindfulness, say
84D	Bookstore ID
85D	Smooth fruit
86D	Ancient city that lent its name to a Middle Eastern plateau
88D	Utensil that’s full of holes
90D	Mgr.’s underling
92D	Hot, in a way
94D	Daddy, in Durango
96D	Doha dignitary
97D	Really steamed
98D	Where losers dwell
103D	DNA lab items
104D	Good around the house
105D	Challenging H.S. English course
107D	Ultrasound targets
109D	Back with bucks
111D	Revered adviser
112D	Easy victims
114D	Hazel or olive
118D	___-de-sac
119D	End of an academic address
120D	Heir, often

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