WSJ Crossword August 22 2024 Answers

The complete list of answers to the WSJ Crossword published on August 22 2024.

78
Total Clues
39
Total Across
39
Total Down

Clues Across (39 total)

(1)
“Beats me,” wordlessly
(6)
___ favor
(9)
Edwards in Cal., e.g.
(12)
Self-possessed
(14)
Branch of Islam predominant in Iran
(16)
Arm of a starfish
(17)
Spoiled rotten
(18)
Avoidance of pretension
(20)
Ball-bearing item
(21)
National park handouts
(23)
Selectively manage
(24)
Impassioned address
(25)
Like the Capitol
(26)
Drill command
(29)
Brush off
(31)
“___ now the gulf appears in view”: Byron
(34)
Marked by melodrama
(35)
Bear from “darkest Peru”
(37)
Give in to pressure
(38)
Smartens (up)
(40)
Obama’s birthplace
(41)
Coups for a magazine photographer
(43)
Spinning fellow
(44)
Pitch kin
(45)
Props for fops
(47)
Sounds from flocks
(48)
Knave’s loot, in a rhyme
(50)
Buds
(52)
Letters to the editor, often
(54)
Apple variety
(55)
Pulpy beverages, for short
(58)
Coated with dew, perhaps
(60)
Ultimately becomes, and a feature of five Across answers in this grid
(62)
Took in
(63)
Twice penta-
(64)
Having magnitude but not direction
(65)
Spoil
(66)
Fresh from the pool
(67)
Heavy timber

Clues Down (39 total)

(1)
Minor dust-up
(2)
Space on a Sorry! board
(3)
Mature
(4)
Call upon
(5)
Frankfurter spot?
(6)
Letters resembling tridents
(7)
Resistance unit
(8)
They get pulled in the fall
(9)
Whac-A-Mole, e.g.
(10)
___ accompli
(11)
Eight-digit grouping
(13)
Head of the class?
(15)
Donation drive targets
(19)
Furious feeling
(22)
Scoreboard amts.
(24)
Stage platform
(25)
Stoner address
(26)
Berkshire racing town
(27)
Tropical sorbet flavor
(28)
Pitch maker
(30)
Cut follow-up, often
(32)
Tom’s “Mission: Impossible” role
(33)
Gerunds, e.g.
(36)
Social standards
(38)
Partygoer’s casual question
(39)
Electrolyte components
(42)
Letter to the editor, often
(43)
Jack of “City Slickers”
(46)
Luxury hotel feature
(49)
Fitting
(51)
Saloon stock
(52)
Ziggy Stardust’s genre
(53)
British singer Ora
(54)
Petite pest
(55)
Capital on a fjord
(56)
2020 National League batting champ Soto
(57)
Surprisingly nimble
(59)
Ephemeral sculpting medium
(61)
Bit of foundation

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