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Wall Street Journal Crossword August 23 2026 Answers

Sunday puzzle · 74 clues · ✓ All answers verified

Below are all 74 clues from the Wall Street Journal Crossword for August 23 2026. Stuck on one? Click the clue to reveal its verified answer, plus every other answer that clue has had across every publisher in our database.

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Across

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Spoil the appearance of31 AcrossReveal answer → Tot’s “choo-choo”54 AcrossReveal answer → Pride initials49 AcrossReveal answer → Miners mine it313 AcrossReveal answer → ___-Saxon514 AcrossReveal answer → Vowel set515 AcrossReveal answer → Minor criticism317 AcrossReveal answer → Demand a seat up front1118 AcrossReveal answer → Korea’s continent420 AcrossReveal answer → New York theater awards522 AcrossReveal answer → Richie’s dad, to the Fonz323 AcrossReveal answer → Phones ping off of them1024 AcrossReveal answer → Slinky’s shape427 AcrossReveal answer → Feature of a Vegas “bandit”628 AcrossReveal answer → Pickling liquid529 AcrossReveal answer → Film festival film, often530 AcrossReveal answer → Strokes on the green534 AcrossReveal answer → Star of “Oppenheimer”1335 AcrossReveal answer → Pose for a photographer539 AcrossReveal answer → Playfully impertinent540 AcrossReveal answer → Openly asserts541 AcrossReveal answer → High-protein legume642 AcrossReveal answer → Rip apart447 AcrossReveal answer → Clavicle, more familiarly1048 AcrossReveal answer → Paintings and sculptures352 AcrossReveal answer → Marisa of “My Cousin Vinny”553 AcrossReveal answer → Spot for a spelunker454 AcrossReveal answer → Character shouted to with a “Hey!” in water treatment ads1155 AcrossReveal answer → Make a hem359 AcrossReveal answer → Bee-related560 AcrossReveal answer → Sister’s daughter561 AcrossReveal answer → Org. with wands and scanners362 AcrossReveal answer → Send a racy phone message to463 AcrossReveal answer → Close-up on a map564 AcrossReveal answer → Hog’s hangout365 AcrossReveal answer →

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Monte Carlo’s setting61 DownReveal answer → Out of bed62 DownReveal answer → Fix, as a bathroom floor63 DownReveal answer → Tic-___-toe34 DownReveal answer → Gene messenger35 DownReveal answer → Radiant56 DownReveal answer → “Would you look at that!”57 DownReveal answer → Soldier’s denial58 DownReveal answer → Vientiane’s setting49 DownReveal answer → Obtain310 DownReveal answer → Sort who can’t keep a secret811 DownReveal answer → Like Fisherman’s Wharf in San Francisco812 DownReveal answer → Mother’s brothers616 DownReveal answer → “___ a real nowhere man...”319 DownReveal answer → In the style of321 DownReveal answer → Sings like a bird625 DownReveal answer → Upscale hotel chain426 DownReveal answer → Government overthrow427 DownReveal answer → More agile629 DownReveal answer → Govt. prosecutors331 DownReveal answer → “Not ___ million years!”332 DownReveal answer → Bird on Australian coins333 DownReveal answer → Scandal-avoiding ploys835 DownReveal answer → “That’s the truth”836 DownReveal answer → Bawdy437 DownReveal answer → Bruins’ sch.438 DownReveal answer → Salsa music shaker639 DownReveal answer → “SNL” airer343 DownReveal answer → Glass-raising tributes644 DownReveal answer → Play the market645 DownReveal answer → Wiggle room646 DownReveal answer → Machinery part348 DownReveal answer → Muscat resident549 DownReveal answer → His tomb is in Red Square550 DownReveal answer → Bartender’s wedges551 DownReveal answer → Salon coloring453 DownReveal answer → Lenient356 DownReveal answer → Good card in blackjack357 DownReveal answer → Pickleball court divider358 DownReveal answer →

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This page lists every clue from the Wall Street Journal crossword published on Sunday, August 23, 2026. Answers are checked against the completed grid before publishing and live on each clue's own page, so you only see the solutions you ask for. If a clue looks familiar, open it — the same wording often runs in other puzzles with a different answer, and the clue page shows every version we have on record.