WSJ Crossword Answers (April 2025)

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WSJ Crossword April 3 2025 Answers

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• 1A Head of the tables? Crossword Clue

  Answer: MAITRED

• 8A Consulate’s kin Crossword Clue

  Answer: EMBASSY

• 15A Vest feature Crossword Clue

  Answer: ARMHOLE

• 16A He, she or it Crossword Clue

  Answer: PRONOUN

• 17A Ride that might be a bit of a stretch? Crossword Clue

  Answer: LIIIIIIIIIIIIMO

• 19A Surfer shades Crossword Clue

  Answer: TANS

• 20A “Live Well” retailer Crossword Clue

  Answer: GNC

• 21A Letter-shaped groove Crossword Clue

  Answer: TSLOT

• 24A Honey Crossword Clue

  Answer: BAE

• 25A Holds back, as a news story Crossword Clue

  Answer: SITSON

• 29A Take in Crossword Clue

  Answer: CON

• 30A Where to find personal deets Crossword Clue

  Answer: BIO

• 33A Food that might be pulled off the shelves? Crossword Clue

  Answer: POOOOOOOOOOOORK

• 37A Cobbler’s collection Crossword Clue

  Answer: AWLS

• 38A League honoree Crossword Clue

  Answer: MVP

• 39A Town near Arches and Canyonlands National Parks Crossword Clue

  Answer: MOAB

• 40A Offer that might be extended? Crossword Clue

  Answer: WAAAAAAAARRANTY

• 45A L.A.-to-Sacramento heading Crossword Clue

  Answer: NNW

• 46A Home page with a Bing search bar Crossword Clue

  Answer: MSN

• 47A Three-time Olympic gold medalist Jackie Joyner-___ Crossword Clue

  Answer: KERSEE

• 48A Fresh quality Crossword Clue

  Answer: LIP

• 49A “Holy cow!” Crossword Clue

  Answer: WHOA

• 51A “The Prophecy of Dante” poet Crossword Clue

  Answer: BYRON

• 54A Seattle Slew, e.g. Crossword Clue

  Answer: BAY

• 55A “It’s my treat!” Crossword Clue

  Answer: ONME

• 59A Garment that might run long? Crossword Clue

  Answer: UUUUUUUNDERWEAR

• 63A Small houses of the Southwest Crossword Clue

  Answer: CASITAS

• 64A Food whose name means “little turnips” Crossword Clue

  Answer: RAVIOLI

• 65A Israel’s parliament Crossword Clue

  Answer: KNESSET

• 66A Element in some Christie mysteries Crossword Clue

  Answer: ARSENIC

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• 1D Brewer’s buy Crossword Clue

  Answer: MALT

• 2D Diva’s delivery Crossword Clue

  Answer: ARIA

• 3D Cry from a hacker Crossword Clue

  Answer: IMIN

• 4D Choosing word Crossword Clue

  Answer: THIS

• 5D Piece in le jeu d’échecs Crossword Clue

  Answer: ROI

• 6D Student sporting a Y Crossword Clue

  Answer: ELI

• 7D Lower oneself Crossword Clue

  Answer: DEIGN

• 8D On a massive scale Crossword Clue

  Answer: EPIC

• 9D CT alternative Crossword Clue

  Answer: MRI

• 10D Skater Brian Crossword Clue

  Answer: BOITANO

• 11D Pastis flavoring Crossword Clue

  Answer: ANISE

• 12D Bed material Crossword Clue

  Answer: SOIL

• 13D Sport that takes place in a dohyo Crossword Clue

  Answer: SUMO

• 14D “Guess I will,” in text-speak Crossword Clue

  Answer: YNOT

• 18D Fluid from a well Crossword Clue

  Answer: INK

• 22D Slimy stuff Crossword Clue

  Answer: GOO

• 23D Cry when down to your last card Crossword Clue

  Answer: UNO

• 24D Raspberry relative Crossword Clue

  Answer: BOO

• 25D Beget Crossword Clue

  Answer: SPAWN

• 26D Mamie Eisenhower, e.g. Crossword Clue

  Answer: IOWAN

• 27D According ___ (in compliance with statutes) Crossword Clue

  Answer: TOLAW

• 28D Edmundo of the Phillies Crossword Clue

  Answer: SOSA

• 29D Club in a Manilow hit Crossword Clue

  Answer: COPA

• 30D Unexpected benefits Crossword Clue

  Answer: BOONS

• 31D Seething Crossword Clue

  Answer: IRATE

• 32D Words before an abrupt departure Crossword Clue

  Answer: OKBYE

• 34D Country on the Strait of Hormuz Crossword Clue

  Answer: OMAN

• 35D Some reproductive cells Crossword Clue

  Answer: OVA

• 36D Ilhan in Congress Crossword Clue

  Answer: OMAR

• 41D “It isn’t just my imagination, right?” Crossword Clue

  Answer: AMINUTS

• 42D Memphis menace Crossword Clue

  Answer: ASP

• 43D Former MGM rival Crossword Clue

  Answer: RKO

• 44D Mens ___ Crossword Clue

  Answer: REA

• 48D Any of 18 French kings Crossword Clue

  Answer: LOUIS

• 49D Peaked Crossword Clue

  Answer: WAN

• 50D Tentacled sea creature Crossword Clue

  Answer: HYDRA

• 51D Single Crossword Clue

  Answer: BUCK

• 52D Chengdu coin Crossword Clue

  Answer: YUAN

• 53D Bit of deception Crossword Clue

  Answer: RUSE

• 54D Catch red-handed Crossword Clue

  Answer: BUST

• 55D Tot’s scrape Crossword Clue

  Answer: OWIE

• 56D Really bright Crossword Clue

  Answer: NEON

• 57D Burkina Faso neighbor Crossword Clue

  Answer: MALI

• 58D French director Rohmer Crossword Clue

  Answer: ERIC

• 60D Home of the world’s tallest bldg. Crossword Clue

  Answer: UAE

• 61D Musical gift Crossword Clue

  Answer: EAR

• 62D Campground array Crossword Clue

  Answer: RVS

WSJ Crossword April 2 2025 Answers

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• 1A When Crossword Clue

  Answer: ASSOONAS

• 9A Doesn’t bother Crossword Clue

  Answer: LETSBE

• 15A Reference with an index, perhaps? Crossword Clue

  Answer: POINTOUT

• 16A The ___ Brothers (“Wake Up Little Susie” singers) Crossword Clue

  Answer: EVERLY

• 17A “…you get the picture” Crossword Clue

  Answer: ETCETERA

• 18A Plato, vis-à-vis Aristotle Crossword Clue

  Answer: MENTOR

• 19A Heating unit with light concentrated by a concave mirror Crossword Clue

  Answer: SOLARFURNACE

• 21A Sheltered at sea Crossword Clue

  Answer: ALEE

• 24A Like many foreign films Crossword Clue

  Answer: ARTY

• 25A Low-maintenance houseplants that can thrive with no shade Crossword Clue

  Answer: SUCCULENTS

• 30A Unwanted inbox fill Crossword Clue

  Answer: SPAM

• 34A Before today Crossword Clue

  Answer: AGO

• 35A Marvin of Motown Crossword Clue

  Answer: GAYE

• 36A It comes from the heart Crossword Clue

  Answer: AORTA

• 37A Americans who endure the least rainfall Crossword Clue

  Answer: SOUTHWESTERNERS

• 41A Bass-baritone opera singer Simon Crossword Clue

  Answer: ESTES

• 42A “Shall I compare ___ to a summer’s day…” Crossword Clue

  Answer: THEE

• 43A Looky-___ (customer who browses but doesn’t buy) Crossword Clue

  Answer: LOO

• 44A Players may break them Crossword Clue

  Answer: TIES

• 45A Investment that can keep your house cool Crossword Clue

  Answer: INSULATION

• 48A Hardly exciting Crossword Clue

  Answer: TAME

• 50A Quantities: Abbr. Crossword Clue

  Answer: AMTS

• 51A 2002 summer anthem from Sheryl Crow, and what the answers with circles do, in two ways Crossword Clue

  Answer: SOAKUPTHESUN

• 58A Optimist’s focus Crossword Clue

  Answer: UPSIDE

• 59A Partner of a password Crossword Clue

  Answer: USERNAME

• 63A Stamen’s counterpart in a flower Crossword Clue

  Answer: PISTIL

• 64A Child’s play booster? Crossword Clue

  Answer: STAGEMOM

• 65A Touch and taste, e.g. Crossword Clue

  Answer: SENSES

• 66A Major hits Crossword Clue

  Answer: HOMERUNS

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• 1D Anthropoid animal Crossword Clue

  Answer: APE

• 2D W.C. Fields persona Crossword Clue

  Answer: SOT

• 3D Disclaimer in brackets Crossword Clue

  Answer: SIC

• 4D “Give me a moment…” Crossword Clue

  Answer: ONESEC

• 5D Graham in the Pro Football Hall of Fame Crossword Clue

  Answer: OTTO

• 6D Holiday season, in holiday songs Crossword Clue

  Answer: NOEL

• 7D Vibe Crossword Clue

  Answer: AURA

• 8D Altair or Antares Crossword Clue

  Answer: STAR

• 9D Madagascan mammals Crossword Clue

  Answer: LEMURS

• 10D Tennis great Chris Crossword Clue

  Answer: EVERT

• 11D “Idylls of the King” poet Crossword Clue

  Answer: TENNYSON

• 12D Mexican miss: Abbr. Crossword Clue

  Answer: SRTA

• 13D Voting group Crossword Clue

  Answer: BLOC

• 14D Fictional governess Jane Crossword Clue

  Answer: EYRE

• 20D Butcher’s trimmings Crossword Clue

  Answer: FAT

• 21D How you might purchase “The Lord of the Rings” novels Crossword Clue

  Answer: ASASET

• 22D Bela of horror films Crossword Clue

  Answer: LUGOSI

• 23D Listen, in Lyon Crossword Clue

  Answer: ECOUTE

• 26D Cries of disgust Crossword Clue

  Answer: UGHS

• 27D Miscreants may break it Crossword Clue

  Answer: LAW

• 28D Hurricane center Crossword Clue

  Answer: EYE

• 29D Birds’ boudoirs Crossword Clue

  Answer: NESTS

• 31D Early heat Crossword Clue

  Answer: PRELIM

• 32D Essentially Crossword Clue

  Answer: ATROOT

• 33D Workers with stone faces? Crossword Clue

  Answer: MASONS

• 36D Geometry figure Crossword Clue

  Answer: AREA

• 38D Providers of positive or negative results Crossword Clue

  Answer: TESTKITS

• 39D Day two before Sat. Crossword Clue

  Answer: THU

• 40D Lengthy fish Crossword Clue

  Answer: EEL

• 45D Motivates Crossword Clue

  Answer: IMPELS

• 46D After-tax figure Crossword Clue

  Answer: NET

• 47D Hide worker Crossword Clue

  Answer: TANNER

• 49D War hero-turned-actor Murphy Crossword Clue

  Answer: AUDIE

• 51D Dines late Crossword Clue

  Answer: SUPS

• 52D Mayberry boy Crossword Clue

  Answer: OPIE

• 53D Org.’s kin Crossword Clue

  Answer: ASSN

• 54D Peaceful quiet Crossword Clue

  Answer: HUSH

• 55D “___ perpetua” (Idaho motto) Crossword Clue

  Answer: ESTO

• 56D Baseball feature Crossword Clue

  Answer: SEAM

• 57D Motivate Crossword Clue

  Answer: URGE

• 60D ___ Darya (central Asian river) Crossword Clue

  Answer: AMU

• 61D Day two after Sat. Crossword Clue

  Answer: MON

• 62D Middle of summer? Crossword Clue

  Answer: EMS

WSJ Crossword April 1 2025 Answers

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• 1A Pendulum paths Crossword Clue

  Answer: ARCS

• 5A Softball? Crossword Clue

  Answer: NERF

• 9A 1979 musical that won the Tony Crossword Clue

  Answer: EVITA

• 14A Ankara currency Crossword Clue

  Answer: LIRA

• 15A Swain Crossword Clue

  Answer: BEAU

• 16A Accord, e.g. Crossword Clue

  Answer: SEDAN

• 17A Ready for publication Crossword Clue

  Answer: EDIT

• 18A Whatever’s still left Crossword Clue

  Answer: ALLTHEREST

• 20A Fork over Crossword Clue

  Answer: REMIT

• 22A Canterbury can Crossword Clue

  Answer: LOO

• 23A Pull in at work Crossword Clue

  Answer: MAKE

• 24A Low-risk government security Crossword Clue

  Answer: TREASURYNOTE

• 28A Squirrel away Crossword Clue

  Answer: STASH

• 29A Looked fixedly Crossword Clue

  Answer: PEERED

• 33A Doily material Crossword Clue

  Answer: LACE

• 35A Poseidon’s realm Crossword Clue

  Answer: SEA

• 37A Mealtime lure Crossword Clue

  Answer: AROMA

• 38A Article in Le Monde Crossword Clue

  Answer: UNE

• 39A Shower safety feature Crossword Clue

  Answer: GRABBAR

• 42A Walter Raleigh or Walter Scott Crossword Clue

  Answer: SIR

• 43A Online payment option Crossword Clue

  Answer: VENMO

• 45A Desperate signal Crossword Clue

  Answer: SOS

• 46A Unibrowed Muppet Crossword Clue

  Answer: BERT

• 47A Exercise attire Crossword Clue

  Answer: SWEATS

• 49A Close, as a parka Crossword Clue

  Answer: ZIPUP

• 51A Key White House aide Crossword Clue

  Answer: CHIEFOFSTAFF

• 56A Mark permanently Crossword Clue

  Answer: ETCH

• 59A Lincoln in NYC, e.g. Crossword Clue

  Answer: CTR

• 60A Parts of hearts Crossword Clue

  Answer: ATRIA

• 61A Quick-witted Crossword Clue

  Answer: RAZORSHARP

• 65A Margarita option Crossword Clue

  Answer: SALT

• 66A Utterly absurd Crossword Clue

  Answer: INANE

• 67A Buckshot, e.g. Crossword Clue

  Answer: AMMO

• 68A Inactive Crossword Clue

  Answer: IDLE

• 69A Everglades wader Crossword Clue

  Answer: EGRET

• 70A Cardinal’s base Crossword Clue

  Answer: NEST

• 71A Capone pursuer Crossword Clue

  Answer: NESS

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• 1D On the ball Crossword Clue

  Answer: ALERT

• 2D Equestrian Crossword Clue

  Answer: RIDER

• 3D Area enclosed by yellow tape Crossword Clue

  Answer: CRIMESCENE

• 4D Stuff Crossword Clue

  Answer: SATIATE

• 5D Magic org. Crossword Clue

  Answer: NBA

• 6D Nocturnal fish Crossword Clue

  Answer: EEL

• 7D Wall Street surge Crossword Clue

  Answer: RALLY

• 8D Sofa bed alternative Crossword Clue

  Answer: FUTON

• 9D Language suffix Crossword Clue

  Answer: ESE

• 10D “Girl With a Pearl Earring” painter Crossword Clue

  Answer: VERMEER

• 11D Brainy revelation Crossword Clue

  Answer: IDEA

• 12D Item on a to-do list Crossword Clue

  Answer: TASK

• 13D Pay to play Crossword Clue

  Answer: ANTE

• 19D Ringlike earring Crossword Clue

  Answer: HOOP

• 21D Org. with a 3-1-1 rule Crossword Clue

  Answer: TSA

• 25D Old NATO worry Crossword Clue

  Answer: USSR

• 26D Largest bird in the Americas Crossword Clue

  Answer: RHEA

• 27D Eye lubricant Crossword Clue

  Answer: TEAR

• 30D January 1 event in Pasadena Crossword Clue

  Answer: ROSEPARADE

• 31D Robed ruler Crossword Clue

  Answer: EMIR

• 32D Pub game missile Crossword Clue

  Answer: DART

• 33D Brand for a change Crossword Clue

  Answer: LUVS

• 34D Over again Crossword Clue

  Answer: ANEW

• 36D Six-pack components Crossword Clue

  Answer: ABS

• 39D Dark rock genre Crossword Clue

  Answer: GOTH

• 40D Dunce Crossword Clue

  Answer: BOZO

• 41D “Dream on!” Crossword Clue

  Answer: ASIF

• 44D The speed of sound Crossword Clue

  Answer: MACHONE

• 46D Interrupts Crossword Clue

  Answer: BUTTSIN

• 48D Sets a setter (on) Crossword Clue

  Answer: SICS

• 50D MADD message, e.g. Crossword Clue

  Answer: PSA

• 52D Hawke of Hollywood Crossword Clue

  Answer: ETHAN

• 53D Body build Crossword Clue

  Answer: FRAME

• 54D Pervades Crossword Clue

  Answer: FILLS

• 55D Trio of prophetic goddesses Crossword Clue

  Answer: FATES

• 56D Lake port of Pennsylvania Crossword Clue

  Answer: ERIE

• 57D Piquant taste Crossword Clue

  Answer: TANG

• 58D Bygone Russian ruler Crossword Clue

  Answer: CZAR

• 62D No longer active, as a sgt. or gen. Crossword Clue

  Answer: RET

• 63D Apt. ad listing Crossword Clue

  Answer: RMS

• 64D Poker payoff Crossword Clue

  Answer: POT

WSJ Crossword March 31 2025 Answers

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• 1A Healthful resorts Crossword Clue

  Answer: SPAS

• 5A Novelist Picoult Crossword Clue

  Answer: JODI

• 9A Molts Crossword Clue

  Answer: SHEDS

• 14A James of steam engine fame Crossword Clue

  Answer: WATT

• 15A Bowled over Crossword Clue

  Answer: AWED

• 16A Full range Crossword Clue

  Answer: GAMUT

• 17A James of jazz Crossword Clue

  Answer: ETTA

• 18A Tenants’ protest Crossword Clue

  Answer: RENTSTRIKE

• 20A Feudal lord Crossword Clue

  Answer: LIEGE

• 22A Knighted actor McKellen Crossword Clue

  Answer: IAN

• 23A Sketched Crossword Clue

  Answer: DREW

• 24A Objective for the distant future Crossword Clue

  Answer: LONGTERMGOAL

• 28A Andrea Bocelli’s record label Crossword Clue

  Answer: DECCA

• 29A Chaps Crossword Clue

  Answer: BLOKES

• 33A Whopper lover? Crossword Clue

  Answer: LIAR

• 35A Copacabana city, familiarly Crossword Clue

  Answer: RIO

• 37A Maker of Asteroids games Crossword Clue

  Answer: ATARI

• 38A Travelers’ stop Crossword Clue

  Answer: INN

• 39A Civil War battle site also called Manassas Crossword Clue

  Answer: BULLRUN

• 42A Tattered T-shirt, often Crossword Clue

  Answer: RAG

• 43A Chocolaty brew Crossword Clue

  Answer: MOCHA

• 46A Bit of Morse code Crossword Clue

  Answer: DASH

• 47A Iroquois tribe with namesake silverware Crossword Clue

  Answer: ONEIDA

• 49A Principle Crossword Clue

  Answer: TENET

• 51A Function of police and fire departments Crossword Clue

  Answer: PUBLICSAFETY

• 56A Line of symmetry Crossword Clue

  Answer: AXIS

• 59A Prohibit by law Crossword Clue

  Answer: BAN

• 60A Anne of “You’re Killing Me” Crossword Clue

  Answer: HECHE

• 61A Nicely packaged food sampler Crossword Clue

  Answer: GIFTBASKET

• 65A “Excuse me, but…” Crossword Clue

  Answer: AHEM

• 66A Big name in Indy racing Crossword Clue

  Answer: UNSER

• 67A Maker of Sonic the Hedgehog games Crossword Clue

  Answer: SEGA

• 68A Carryall Crossword Clue

  Answer: TOTE

• 69A Ancient Greek gathering spot Crossword Clue

  Answer: AGORA

• 70A Air freshener’s target Crossword Clue

  Answer: ODOR

• 71A Extend across Crossword Clue

  Answer: SPAN

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• 1D Hunky-dory Crossword Clue

  Answer: SWELL

• 2D Spot for grilling Crossword Clue

  Answer: PATIO

• 3D Truant officer’s concern Crossword Clue

  Answer: ATTENDANCE

• 4D Walk unsteadily Crossword Clue

  Answer: STAGGER

• 5D Jelly container Crossword Clue

  Answer: JAR

• 6D Have to pay Crossword Clue

  Answer: OWE

• 7D Durable fabric Crossword Clue

  Answer: DENIM

• 8D Dog collar attachment Crossword Clue

  Answer: IDTAG

• 9D Cpl.’s superior Crossword Clue

  Answer: SGT

• 10D Tough time of it Crossword Clue

  Answer: HARDLOT

• 11D Qatar’s leader Crossword Clue

  Answer: EMIR

• 12D Durham university Crossword Clue

  Answer: DUKE

• 13D One-pot meal Crossword Clue

  Answer: STEW

• 19D Nose-in-the-air type Crossword Clue

  Answer: SNOB

• 21D “And so forth…” Crossword Clue

  Answer: ETC

• 25D Light beige Crossword Clue

  Answer: ECRU

• 26D Subway track part Crossword Clue

  Answer: RAIL

• 27D Apollo astronaut Shepard Crossword Clue

  Answer: ALAN

• 30D Wood-splitting blow Crossword Clue

  Answer: KARATECHOP

• 31D Noteworthy periods Crossword Clue

  Answer: ERAS

• 32D Exhale sorrowfully Crossword Clue

  Answer: SIGH

• 33D Fancy wheels Crossword Clue

  Answer: LIMO

• 34D Privy to Crossword Clue

  Answer: INON

• 36D Outdated Crossword Clue

  Answer: OLD

• 39D Singer Erykah Crossword Clue

  Answer: BADU

• 40D Campus military grp. Crossword Clue

  Answer: ROTC

• 41D Four Corners tribe Crossword Clue

  Answer: UTES

• 44D Cool dude Crossword Clue

  Answer: HIPSTER

• 46D Losses Crossword Clue

  Answer: DEFEATS

• 48D “Mamma Mia!” group Crossword Clue

  Answer: ABBA

• 50D “Huh-uh” Crossword Clue

  Answer: NAH

• 52D Roundup rope Crossword Clue

  Answer: LASSO

• 53D Tattooed Crossword Clue

  Answer: INKED

• 54D Eighth Greek letter Crossword Clue

  Answer: THETA

• 55D Neighbor of Saudi Arabia Crossword Clue

  Answer: YEMEN

• 56D Water, in Juárez Crossword Clue

  Answer: AGUA

• 57D Word after PED or DEER Crossword Clue

  Answer: XING

• 58D “Should that happen…” Crossword Clue

  Answer: IFSO

• 62D Bikini half Crossword Clue

  Answer: BRA

• 63D Freud’s rational self Crossword Clue

  Answer: EGO

• 64D Paver’s gunk Crossword Clue

  Answer: TAR

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