WSJ Crossword August 16 2025 Answers (8/16/25)

Our WSJ Crossword August 16, 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 August 16, 2025 Answers

If you need help solving the WSJ Crossword on 8/16/25, 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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« August 14 2025 Answers

#	Clue
1A	“Shoot!”
7A	Woolly mammal
13A	Asian region that lent its name to a soft wool
20A	Spiny pet
21A	“Paradise Lost” author
22A	Adopt
23A	Yokel competing in the lumberjacks’ roleo?
25A	Novel set in Dublin on June 16, 1904
26A	Drain of energy
27A	Like some winter weather
28A	Word on Cork coins
30A	Boston bus-and-subway system, familiarly
31A	Labor output?
32A	The Dubliners and the Weavers, e.g.
35A	Stat for an ace
38A	___ avis
39A	Cake makers who specialize in decorating with frosting from a pouch?
44A	Title character of “Little Lord Fauntleroy”
46A	Prospector’s channel
47A	City at the north end of the Ligurian Sea
48A	Feature of Shrek and the Hulk?
51A	Unjust
54A	2023’s “The Boy and the Heron,” e.g.
55A	Manner
56A	Bear, in Bolivia
57A	QB’s blunder
58A	“Adios!”
59A	Words before thing or luck
61A	Trees whose pods are used in Worcestershire sauce
64A	Remove all its seeds, in preparation for making a jack-o’-lantern?
67A	Lack of moral character
69A	“A Midsummer Night’s Dream” role
70A	Lard and tallow, e.g.
74A	Flowed into
75A	Pricing preposition
76A	Tim who writes the Dodsworth children’s books
77A	Malia Obama’s younger sister
78A	Star of MLS’s Inter Miami CF
81A	Penalty for pedaling over the posted limit?
84A	Disgraced bankruptcy filer of 2001
85A	Like some beef
87A	Duds
88A	Didn’t overstay one’s welcome?
91A	Knocks on the noggin
93A	Homer’s neighbor
94A	Trees with red, white and blue varieties
95A	Tawny predator
96A	Proton’s place
100A	Appetizer on a Chinese restaurant platter
101A	Most sensible
103A	Put away
106A	Begin brawling
108A	Lapel decoration at a Russian literature conference?
112A	Charge, as with a responsibility
113A	Where shekels are spent
114A	Ready for departure
115A	Dupes
116A	Deputy who “Rides Again” in a 1939 western
117A	Sketchy strangers
1D	Claiming cry
2D	Liquid in un lago
3D	Behind
4D	Afternoon break
5D	Tattooist’s stock
6D	Rearmost man in an I formation
7D	Small shape-shifter
8D	Needing a good brushing, say
9D	Room to maneuver
10D	Hartsfield-Jackson’s airport code
11D	Doves do it
12D	Sweet and well-behaved
13D	Name on some brewing machines
14D	Out, in a way
15D	Many a le Carré character
16D	Party leader
17D	Go to the dogs?
18D	“Oh, right”
19D	Vacation goal, perhaps
24D	Close
29D	“You didn’t need to tell me”
32D	Narnia’s Mr. Tumnus, for one
33D	Steinbeck’s Tom Joad, e.g.
34D	Gentlemen of Verona
35D	Confident style
36D	Isabel I de Castilla, por ejemplo
37D	Confess to be true
38D	Greet the day
39D	Unsightly spot
40D	Cribbage marker
41D	In conclusion, in Calais
42D	Pub purchase
43D	Cook’s pinch
45D	Moves boundaries, perhaps
46D	Biplane pieces
49D	Fructose and glucose, e.g.
50D	Simple smoke detectors
52D	Gamboling
53D	Home of baseball’s Orix Buffaloes
59D	Low cards in a pinochle deck
60D	Snide snicker
61D	Bombastic
62D	Site of the Souk Jara market
63D	Actually
65D	Feels remorse
66D	Spoiled the surprise, maybe
67D	Fashion’s Geoffrey
68D	Embellish
71D	Welcome warmly
72D	Over yonder
73D	Fully filled
74D	Left the nest
77D	Joins a jury
79D	Word in le dictionnaire
80D	Frost over
81D	Fromagerie choice
82D	Roadhouses
83D	Place to try tostones
86D	Sister website of Tinder
89D	Stand against
90D	Main impacts
91D	How bees go about their lives
92D	Suggestive sign
95D	Cheapskate
96D	Really long time
97D	Fair sight
98D	Quattro doubled
99D	Surrealist Joan
101D	“I didn’t catch that”
102D	Sousaphone cousin
103D	Slightly
104D	Sushi tuna
105D	Closes
107D	Harbor worker
109D	Call on
110D	Fourth-yr. class
111D	Hauler’s measure

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