WSJ Crossword October 18 2025 Answers (10/18/25)

Our WSJ Crossword October 18, 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 October 18, 2025 Answers

If you need help solving the WSJ Crossword on 10/18/25, 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	Site of the Rupa Rupa high jungle
5A	Midsize Nissan model
11A	Upper limit
14A	Poker player’s words
19A	Warning sign
20A	Feudal lords
21A	With 78-Across, SEC school in Oxford
22A	Sink of “The Whale”
23A	*Is clueless about how to perform glute exercises?
26A	It has layers
27A	Least precise
28A	Patient watcher
29A	Bugs, Bamm-Bamm and Bart, e.g.
30A	Delta product
31A	Match divisions
33A	Bourbon barrel material
34A	Forever, it seems
35A	“Coming to America” director John
37A	Cry of discovery
39A	*Team-building exercise for the core?
43A	Stunned reaction letters
44A	Cribbage jack
46A	The common type of it isn’t common, according to Voltaire
48A	Concierge desk handout
49A	*Choosing to do a triceps exercise?
52A	“Ceci n’est pas ___ pipe” (words on a Magritte painting)
53A	Reds fan?
54A	Reasonable
55A	Deuce beater
56A	Not learned
59A	Group of elephants?: Abbr.
60A	Completely unfamiliar
62A	Furtive fellow
64A	Erasure and Eurythmics, e.g.
66A	*Ability to do a deltoid exercise however you want?
70A	Payment choice
71A	Span
72A	U.S. state closest to Europe
73A	“___ favor”
74A	“Hop to it!”
77A	Stops waffling
78A	See 21-Across
82A	Thick with vegetation
84A	Connections
85A	*Prepare a pectoral exercise for someone else?
89A	Tabloid nickname given to the parent of Noah, Maliyah, Isaiah, Nariyah, Jonah, Makai, Josiah and Jeremiah
91A	Uninterrupted transition
92A	Hit letters
93A	Scottish denial
94A	*“That’s one of the best quadriceps exercises I’ve ever seen!”?
96A	Sushi choice
97A	Gets serious, with “up”
99A	La Española, por ejemplo
100A	El ___ (Spanish hero)
102A	Flout
105A	Days of old
106A	Like the verbs “shall” and “might”
108A	Fill in for
110A	Starting points of disc golf holes
112A	Tibia terminus
113A	Have a satisfactory conclusion, and a feature of each starred answer
117A	Jefferson, religiously
118A	Oscar winner Mahershala
119A	Athletes’ reps
120A	Exultant feeling
121A	“¿Dónde ___ Corazón?” (Shakira song)
122A	Talk nonstop
123A	Hit Ctrl+V
124A	Not too many
1D	K-cup, e.g.
2D	Moody music genre
3D	Successfully enticing
4D	Still on the shelf
5D	Backup social media accounts
6D	Social media approvals
7D	Something crossword solvers pay (not paid) attention to
8D	“Truth be told...”
9D	Kitten’s cry
10D	Org.’s kin
11D	Chicken’s lack
12D	U.S. state closest to Asia
13D	Politician Buttigieg
14D	Carbon-14, e.g.
15D	Church precepts
16D	“See you all later!”
17D	Serengeti stalker
18D	Camera part
24D	Making mention of
25D	Status ___
30D	Polynesian nation
32D	Spot for a wheelbarrow
34D	Wading bird
35D	What you saw while sleeping?
36D	Person who’s good at caving?
38D	Singer DiFranco
40D	Gram equivalent
41D	Small iPods
42D	BTS genre
45D	Not absorbed
47D	2015 Masters champ Jordan
50D	Becomes imminent
51D	Makes famous
52D	Messy
57D	“I’ll pass”
58D	Spot for a bad apple?
61D	Spring
62D	“Us too!”
63D	Modern collectible, briefly
65D	1972 Bill Withers hit
66D	It has a big plus
67D	Where Benjamin Netanyahu earned a B.S. in architecture
68D	Ways
69D	Parts of flights
70D	Stick up (for)
73D	Tractor trailer
75D	Grape-growing region of northern Spain
76D	“My treat”
77D	Brunch selections
79D	Part of a person that others can’t see
80D	Cause to jump, maybe
81D	“___ Not There” (1964 hit for the Zombies)
83D	Spicy taco topping
86D	Bio number
87D	Regretted
88D	“In your face!”
90D	Croquet gear
91D	Vacation to Vail, e.g.
95D	Pepsi rival
98D	Small grocery store
101D	Cowboys quarterback Prescott
103D	Deceptive move
104D	“Fiddler on the Roof” role
106D	Put together
107D	Washington bills
108D	Not home
109D	It’s found in bars
111D	Vet’s affliction
114D	SEC school in Athens
115D	Once named
116D	It may slow a golf green

The WSJ Crossword is a daily crossword puzzle that is published in The Wall Street Journal newspaper and on its website. The puzzle is known for its challenging difficulty level, clever wordplay, and witty themes.

The WSJ Crossword was first introduced in 2008, and has since become a popular source of entertainment and mental stimulation for crossword enthusiasts around the world. The puzzle is created by a team of experienced crossword constructors, who are known for their creativity and skill in the field of crossword puzzles.

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