WSJ Crossword December 13 2025 Answers (12/13/25)

Our WSJ Crossword December 13, 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 December 13, 2025 Answers

If you need help solving the WSJ Crossword on 12/13/25, 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	Course for coll.-bound students
8A	Winter falls
14A	Bit of facial hair, slangily
20A	Art director’s creations
21A	Et follower
22A	Reacted to a gut-buster
23A	“Well, Mr. Jennings, that fashion consists of florals, ruffles and ribbons”
25A	Activating, as a missile
26A	Burglar alarm component
27A	Highlands sight
28A	Hamlet’s motivation
30A	Cough drop brand whose ads feature yodeling
32A	“Well, Mr. Danson, you’re supposed to make a toast honoring the family matriarch”
33A	“Well, Ms. de Armas, there’s a reason nobody’s wearing shirts”
37A	Big dipper?
38A	It’s bad to be stuck in one
39A	Bender for a spender
40A	“I Love Lucy” episodes, now
42A	Droop
43A	Tabloid fodder
47A	10-time Silver Slugger Award winner, familiarly
48A	Complements
49A	Sound from an impact
50A	Ham carrier
51A	Containing more than a few F-bombs, maybe
53A	Key of Beethoven’s “Eroica”
55A	Deprived (of)
56A	Hotel bathroom amenity
60A	“Well, Ms. Winslet, no one is surprised you won the Oscar”
62A	Company that offers little training
64A	Dresser’s kin
65A	“Well, Mr. Brady, there’s a reason you were a victim of internet fraud”
70A	Pulmonary ailment
75A	“Livin’ With the Blues” singer
76A	Bobby in a Janis Joplin song
78A	Wyoming range
79A	Protective bank
80A	Steamed bun in Chinese cuisine
81A	Bad way to be led
85A	Blasting agents
86A	Mend together
87A	Direction suffix
88A	Boat holder
89A	Dried coconut meat
90A	Sex Pistols song dissing the label that dropped them
91A	Discouraging words
92A	“Well, Mr. Newton, there’s an easy way to keep in touch with your teammates”
94A	“Well, Ms. Gadot, let me explain what ‘wet blanket’ implies”
99A	Seaside Italian resort
100A	Getting misty, in a way
101A	Be proactive
102A	“Yeah, right!”
107A	Husk-wrapped dish
108A	“Well, Mr. Paul, there’s a solution to not getting lost on your north-of-the-border tour”
111A	Some Dior dresses
112A	Like goat hoofs
113A	Troubled
114A	Put back on the market
115A	“Present!”
116A	Field of vision?
1D	Swiss heights
2D	Reduce
3D	Blue hue
4D	Clark’s co-worker
5D	Brilliant celestial displays
6D	Introduce to the mix
7D	Allentown-to-Phila. direction
8D	Erudite bunch
9D	Maker of D-Lux cameras
10D	Inscribe
11D	“A mouse!”
12D	Noah of “The Daily Show”
13D	More reasonable
14D	Carpet from the ’70s
15D	Attacked with vigor, as a gift
16D	“Jeez!”
17D	Hollywood’s Eastwood
18D	Therefore
19D	Barely beat out
24D	Copied exactly
29D	Text sequence whose frequency you can check in a Google “Viewer”
31D	Hand unit
32D	Notes after mis
33D	Bygone Russian royals
34D	TV’s Winfrey
35D	Beginning beginning?
36D	Coat with moisture
37D	Switch type
41D	Beehive State athlete
42D	Titan circles it
43D	Poorly lit
44D	Notion
45D	Break in relations
46D	Pledge drive gift
48D	Spaniard’s cheer
49D	Pack, as groceries
50D	Applicant’s page
52D	Take out
54D	Ad ___
55D	Aesthete’s appreciation
57D	Sing like a dove
58D	Shrinking superhero
59D	Name on the Padres’ ballpark
61D	Food writer Drummond
63D	Captain’s record
65D	Arlo Guthrie’s genre
66D	Yemen port
67D	Stubbs who provided Audrey’s voice in “Little Shop of Horrors”
68D	Editor’s “keep it”
69D	Partner of ways
71D	Preminger and Dix
72D	Inappropriate, in a way
73D	Start for mural or muscular
74D	State of northeast India
77D	“Cancel” key
80D	Part of BYOB
82D	It sank in Havana Harbor in 1898
83D	Pax ___(uneasy peace)
84D	Shriveling sea
87D	Container of deep green eggs
88D	Onetime Moviefone owner
89D	Prevailing conditions
90D	Submits a paperless return
91D	Flamethrower fuel
93D	“Assuming it’s okay with you...”
94D	Rose essence
95D	Tennis champ Fraser
96D	Language of Sri Lanka
97D	Turk’s neighbor
98D	Big name in Italian fashion
99D	Tree with catkins
101D	Make roads
103D	Blueprint detail
104D	Radius neighbor
105D	Back end
106D	Right turn from norte
109D	Japanese drama
110D	Formerly named

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