WSJ Crossword August 31 2024 Answers (8/31/24)

Our WSJ Crossword August 31, 2024 answers guide should help you finish today’s crossword if you’ve found yourself stuck on a crossword clue. The Wall Street Journal Crossword is a well-known and respected puzzle that appeals to solvers looking for a challenging and thought-provoking experience. The puzzles are created by a team of skilled constructors and are known for their clever clues, intricate wordplay, and challenging themes. The WSJ Crossword is published daily and offers solvers the opportunity to exercise their minds while enjoying a classic form of entertainment.

WSJ Crossword August 31, 2024 Answers

If you need help solving the WSJ Crossword on 8/31/24, we’ve listed all of the crossword clues below so you can find the answer(s) you need. You can search for the clue and then select the appropriate clue to get the answer. We have done it this way so that if you’re just looking for a handful of clues, you won’t spoil other ones you’re working on!

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« August 29 2024 Answers

#	Clue
1A	Word after paper or money
5A	Designer Jacobs
9A	Parts of hearts
14A	Past imports from Sweden
19A	Certain something
20A	Topic of bargaining
21A	Burrito fill, often
22A	Roast host
23A	Faucet that dispenses Johnnie Walker?
25A	Flee from nannies and kids?
27A	Response to a doubt of ability
28A	“Is it I?” askers
30A	Ground, perhaps
31A	Check for purity
32A	Film container
33A	More pretentious
35A	Ecstatic feeling
37A	Ran out of juice
39A	Bank deposit
40A	Retinoid target
44A	Found
48A	Shipwreck cause, perhaps
50A	Word with standing or waiting
52A	“Da 5 Bloods” director
53A	Backstabbers with medical coverage?
56A	Village whose citizens are into angsty music?
58A	Charade
59A	It’s a long story
60A	Shipwreck cause, perhaps
62A	Rubs out
63A	Crash pro
65A	Forget-me-___ (flowers)
67A	Neckline type
69A	File coating
70A	Those seeking a better deal
73A	Appears in ads for, say
75A	Only performer to twice sweep the Album, Record and Song of the Year Grammys
77A	Rubbish
79A	Middling
80A	Freeze out
83A	Business bigwigs
85A	Chris of Marvel movies
87A	Name meaning “faithful”
89A	Honest fellow
90A	Rodent occupying a London apartment?
92A	Pickpockets’ paradise?
95A	Freund, across the Rhine
96A	Visibility reducer
98A	Pole, e.g.
99A	They treat meat
100A	Hurtful remark
102A	Wasatch Range people
104A	___ leches cake (dessert made with evaporated, condensed and whole milk)
106A	Karaoke need
107A	Forcibly displaces
110A	Lake that sounds like 112-Across
112A	Chilling
116A	Lack of pep
119A	Delights in
121A	Was deeply hurtful
122A	Irresistibly delicious suet?
124A	Watering hole on a wealthy family’s private property?
126A	Zosia of Netflix’s “The Decameron”
127A	Suit
128A	Bohr study
129A	Surrealist Magritte
130A	The seal of the U.S. president includes 63 of them
131A	Big Apple-based 2004 spinoff
132A	Taberna snack
133A	“Should I get ___ of whitewall tires?” (“It’s Still Rock and Roll to Me” lyric)
1D	One of Caesar’s attackers
2D	Industrial Light & Magic founder
3D	Woods’ counterparts
4D	TV retiree of 2024
5D	MLB pitch figure
6D	Sanctuary sight
7D	Brought in
8D	Brazilian dance fighting
9D	Risk being charged as an accessory to
10D	Cybertruck maker
11D	Meet people?
12D	Agitated
13D	Ancient Egyptian symbol of royalty
14D	Transition
15D	Chief Egyptian god
16D	Fruit with a cedilla
17D	Takes the under, say
18D	Informal meeting
24D	NHL team that folded in 2024
26D	Embodiment
29D	Visits dreamland
34D	Sour blue-black fruit
36D	Improv comedy rule of thumb
38D	Hero assembly sites
41D	Near thing
42D	More up-to-date
43D	Wee
44D	Aspiring atty.’s exam
45D	Second word of many limericks
46D	Gets serious hang time, in snowboard lingo
47D	Make the world a better place
49D	“Noises Off,” e.g.
51D	Social customs
54D	It’s “loved by what is best in us,” according to Emerson
55D	Old Dodges sold mostly in rather typical colors
57D	Makes easier to control
61D	Succumb to boredom
64D	“The Planets” composer
66D	Jobs in the computer field
68D	Puts forth
71D	Creepy looks
72D	A large number
74D	Hillary’s maiden name
75D	1990s Britcom, briefly
76D	Stuffed grape leaf
78D	Prepared to pop the question
81D	Its business is picking up
82D	Noteworthy loch
84D	Katana wielder
86D	Takes in
88D	Exhibiting the most smarm
91D	Little dog of “And your little dog, too!”
93D	Risk meltdown
94D	Alternative to listing, in a way
97D	Pointillist pioneer Seurat
101D	Pinball table part
103D	Achiever of tennis’s only Golden Slam (in 1988), familiarly
105D	Afternoon break
108D	Falcons tight end Kyle
109D	Done in
111D	Legally prohibit
113D	Yokels
114D	Ludicrous
115D	Wetland wader
116D	You can bank on them
117D	Whiskey order specification
118D	Jane Austen heroine
120D	Wee
123D	Jimmy Fallon’s employer
125D	Doc bloc

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