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Wall Street Journal Crossword October 20 2026 Answers

Tuesday puzzle · 76 clues · ✓ All answers verified

Below are all 76 clues from the Wall Street Journal Crossword for October 20 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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One of the components of Einstein’s equation41 AcrossReveal answer → Hand makeup55 AcrossReveal answer → Tears410 AcrossReveal answer → Working hard414 AcrossReveal answer → “Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?” playwright515 AcrossReveal answer → Creative flash416 AcrossReveal answer → Passport info417 AcrossReveal answer → Smelling salts?1018 AcrossReveal answer → Monotonous sound520 AcrossReveal answer → “Yeah, that’s better”722 AcrossReveal answer → Problems with young’uns?1223 AcrossReveal answer → Many a middle schooler727 AcrossReveal answer → Press into service328 AcrossReveal answer → Crowning point431 AcrossReveal answer → Play adapted from the works of Capote335 AcrossReveal answer → Official timekeeper of tennis’s U.S. Open536 AcrossReveal answer → Irritation resulting from an insult?1538 AcrossReveal answer → Dance akin to the maxixe542 AcrossReveal answer → Joke around343 AcrossReveal answer → “Shoot!”444 AcrossReveal answer → Make a choice345 AcrossReveal answer → Jackson who sang at JFK’s inaugural ball746 AcrossReveal answer → Under the couch cushions, maybe?1250 AcrossReveal answer → Shoulder adornment755 AcrossReveal answer → Like doves and hawks558 AcrossReveal answer → What got rocker Tom a record?1059 AcrossReveal answer → “Ars Amatoria” poet463 AcrossReveal answer → Entertaining awards feat464 AcrossReveal answer → Squalid dwelling565 AcrossReveal answer → “Those ___ the days”466 AcrossReveal answer → Catch sight of467 AcrossReveal answer → Peaceful places568 AcrossReveal answer → Zen garden stuff469 AcrossReveal answer →

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Chocolate candy with a shell51 DownReveal answer → Missile Command company52 DownReveal answer → Who says?53 DownReveal answer → Court recorder54 DownReveal answer → High school eatery, informally35 DownReveal answer → In the style of36 DownReveal answer → Hitter’s stat37 DownReveal answer → Stuart’s love on “Stuart Fails to Save the Universe”68 DownReveal answer → Avoid a trial69 DownReveal answer → Carnival attractions510 DownReveal answer → Revered one411 DownReveal answer → Crook, in cop show lingo412 DownReveal answer → Lip413 DownReveal answer → Literary master of irony619 DownReveal answer → Triage sites321 DownReveal answer → Sluglike race in the “Star Wars” galaxy424 DownReveal answer → “___-Ca-Dabra” (1974 pop hit)425 DownReveal answer → Had absolutely no talent for726 DownReveal answer → Wrist-to-elbow bone428 DownReveal answer → Breakaway group429 DownReveal answer → Past dates?430 DownReveal answer → Concerning431 DownReveal answer → Thunder sound432 DownReveal answer → Change source433 DownReveal answer → Early bird holder334 DownReveal answer → Sculling tool337 DownReveal answer → Not much to look at639 DownReveal answer → Khartoum’s river440 DownReveal answer → Like “To a Skylark”441 DownReveal answer → Don of “Trading Places”647 DownReveal answer → Drag performer?648 DownReveal answer → “That’s it!”349 DownReveal answer → Like dirt roads, often550 DownReveal answer → Maintains551 DownReveal answer → Maker of Botanical Blossom body wash552 DownReveal answer → Memorial mound of stones553 DownReveal answer → Broke off554 DownReveal answer → Saber’s kin455 DownReveal answer → Cribbage pieces456 DownReveal answer → On457 DownReveal answer → “Now ___ seen everything!”360 DownReveal answer → Chess pieces361 DownReveal answer → Movers on high tracks362 DownReveal answer →

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This page lists every clue from the Wall Street Journal crossword published on Tuesday, October 20, 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.