WSJ Crossword August 9 2025 Answers (8/9/25)

Our WSJ Crossword August 9, 2025 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 9, 2025 Answers

If you need help solving the WSJ Crossword on 8/9/25, 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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#	Clue
1A	Too-short Wikipedia article
5A	Pond plant
9A	Addressed the court
13A	“Things look pretty bleak”
19A	Starchy Hawaiian staple
20A	Wiener schnitzel base
21A	Campaign worker
22A	Beside, say
23A	Slave girl of opera
24A	Grimm beast
25A	Radar operators?
27A	Fight fixers?
30A	Course hazards
31A	Clue cube
32A	Cuba’s Castro
33A	Was humiliated
35A	Jazz trumpeter Jones
36A	Burglars’ takes
39A	Contradict
41A	Give in to wanderlust
42A	Grub for grunts, briefly
43A	Lash out at
45A	“9-1-1: Lone Star” star
47A	Parent, e.g.
50A	“Your wedding team and everything in between” website
52A	Composer of a symphony known as “The Palindrome”
53A	“Girl almost twice my age” in a 1977 Neil Diamond song
54A	Utterance before doing something daring
56A	Brooklyn-to-Bronx dir.
57A	Short piano piece
58A	Figured (out)
60A	Bluer than blue
62A	Impertinent person
63A	Decline
66A	Sill sunner
68A	Gets the picture
70A	Some appliances
71A	“The Phantom Tollbooth” protagonist
73A	Earned after expenses
75A	Harvard grad
77A	Talks foolishly
79A	Jack Ryan’s org.
81A	Planet’s busiest woman?
85A	Potentially messy party game
86A	Have a cow
88A	Condemned to the scrap yard
89A	Works to get off the injured list
90A	420 symbol
92A	Like matryoshka dolls
93A	First prime
94A	Elbow
95A	Embodiment of love
97A	Novel idea?
98A	Aragonese artist
100A	Begins slowly
102A	Cut again, as the lawn
104A	Stadium cheer
105A	Bank of China Tower designer
106A	Customs declarations?
111A	Boring Catholic services?
114A	“Heavens!”
115A	Disturb
116A	In a breezy manner
117A	“Je t’___” (French valentine phrase)
118A	Russian duo with the 2003 hit “All the Things She Said”
119A	“___ arigato”
120A	Notable exploits
121A	Leave speechless
122A	“Don’t worry about me”
123A	Rung
1D	Wild guess
2D	“Higher” singer Cruz
3D	Karachi language
4D	Incompetent sailors?
5D	Skirt
6D	Made a run for (it)
7D	Scope customer
8D	On the quiet side?
9D	Brewer Frederick
10D	Rapper ___ Nas X
11D	Shorten in the cutting room
12D	Strip
13D	Like a bumbler
14D	They come in green, white and black varieties
15D	In a blue state
16D	Farm-raised sardines?
17D	Parts of hearts
18D	Given drugs
26D	Hardly ubiquitous
28D	Revolting
29D	Big name in shades
34D	Wind and water, e.g.
35D	Attributes
36D	“What ___ God wrought?”
37D	Queens stadium name
38D	Manipulative one
40D	Japanese drama genre
42D	Big butte
44D	Lack of precision
46D	Minnesota’s WNBA team
47D	Performance
48D	Counting rhyme starter
49D	Gathers in
51D	Perfume counter bottles
53D	Fails to
55D	Small denominations
57D	Pocket, say
59D	“Swing ___ Hammer” (Harry Belafonte album)
61D	Early nuclear agcy.
63D	Glowing coal
64D	Worthless talk, slangily
65D	Irish Potato Famine era?
67D	Some Mexican beers
69D	Suggests, to the palate
72D	Site of prime minister Mark Carney’s office
74D	Parsley family herb
76D	“Fire in the hole!”?
78D	Bygone boxcar rider
80D	Skin care brand
82D	Chorus voice
83D	“What, will these hands ___ be clean?”: Lady Macbeth
84D	Whirl
86D	Ad slogan of the 1980s
87D	Attention
90D	Pretends to be
91D	University in the Bronx
94D	Family man
96D	Apparently do
98D	Emergency evacuation kit
99D	Snowboarder’s jump
100D	TV awards
101D	“Ghosts” writer
103D	Character on poison warning stickers
105D	Like some chatter
107D	Naan kin
108D	Tooth part
109D	Performer who might be trapped in a box
110D	Unappetizing gruel
112D	Minor complaint
113D	It’ll never fly

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