WSJ Crossword May 20 2025 Answers

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Across

• 1A Runway surface Crossword Clue

  Answer: TARMAC

• 10A River to the Caspian Sea Crossword Clue

  Answer: URAL

• 14A Suzuki who will be the first Japanese player in the Baseball Hall of Fame when inducted this July Crossword Clue

  Answer: ICHIRO

• 15A Farewell in Fukushima Crossword Clue

  Answer: SAYONARA

• 17A Strapped for cash Crossword Clue

  Answer: FEELINGTHEPINCH

• 19A Expletive on “Battlestar Galactica” Crossword Clue

  Answer: FRAK

• 20A Not worth debating Crossword Clue

  Answer: MOOT

• 21A Member of the cast Crossword Clue

  Answer: ACTOR

• 22A Tandoor-baked bread Crossword Clue

  Answer: NAAN

• 23A Number after uno and due Crossword Clue

  Answer: TRE

• 24A “Sundown” singer from Ontario Crossword Clue

  Answer: GORDONLIGHTFOOT

• 32A Double-reed instruments Crossword Clue

  Answer: OBOES

• 33A Gorilla or chimpanzee Crossword Clue

  Answer: APE

• 34A Spoil Crossword Clue

  Answer: MAR

• 35A Reason for a flag on the gridiron Crossword Clue

  Answer: LATEHIT

• 38A Produce, as a gland might Crossword Clue

  Answer: SECRETE

• 41A Genre for Fall Out Boy Crossword Clue

  Answer: EMO

• 42A By way of Crossword Clue

  Answer: VIA

• 44A Seth of “The Studio” Crossword Clue

  Answer: ROGEN

• 45A New England resort where grapes aren’t actually cultivated Crossword Clue

  Answer: MARTHASVINEYARD

• 50A “A Beautiful Mind” director Howard Crossword Clue

  Answer: RON

• 51A Archipelago part Crossword Clue

  Answer: ISLE

• 52A Sound portion of a broadcast Crossword Clue

  Answer: AUDIO

• 55A Hudson of “Almost Famous” Crossword Clue

  Answer: KATE

• 56A Was indebted to Crossword Clue

  Answer: OWED

• 60A Begin grinning Crossword Clue

  Answer: BREAKINTOASMILE

• 63A Jerry’s eccentric relative on “Seinfeld” Crossword Clue

  Answer: UNCLELEO

• 64A Credit ___ (Zurich-based financial giant) Crossword Clue

  Answer: SUISSE

• 65A Sounds of disapproval Crossword Clue

  Answer: TSKS

• 66A Start for plop or plunk Crossword Clue

  Answer: KER

• 67A Put on a leash Crossword Clue

  Answer: TETHER

Down

• 1D Spat Crossword Clue

  Answer: TIFF

• 2D Maker of Aspire laptops Crossword Clue

  Answer: ACER

• 3D Perlman of “Cheers” Crossword Clue

  Answer: RHEA

• 4D Makeup of some mustaches Crossword Clue

  Answer: MILK

• 5D NPR host Shapiro Crossword Clue

  Answer: ARI

• 6D Swindler Crossword Clue

  Answer: CONMAN

• 7D Neighbor of Latvia Crossword Clue

  Answer: ESTONIA

• 8D Thailand’s currency Crossword Clue

  Answer: BAHT

• 9D Automatic advance in a tournament Crossword Clue

  Answer: BYE

• 10D Charity that some trick-or-treaters collect for Crossword Clue

  Answer: UNICEF

• 11D Talk wildly Crossword Clue

  Answer: RANT

• 12D With the bow, to a violinist Crossword Clue

  Answer: ARCO

• 13D Cowardly Lion portrayer Bert Crossword Clue

  Answer: LAHR

• 16D Eyeball-bending works Crossword Clue

  Answer: OPART

• 18D Aim Crossword Clue

  Answer: GOAL

• 22D Small snack Crossword Clue

  Answer: NOSH

• 23D Bible pronoun Crossword Clue

  Answer: THEE

• 24D Creature of Jewish folklore Crossword Clue

  Answer: GOLEM

• 25D 2009 Peace Nobelist Crossword Clue

  Answer: OBAMA

• 26D Turbine part Crossword Clue

  Answer: ROTOR

• 27D Scottish river Crossword Clue

  Answer: DEE

• 28D Aid for Uber drivers Crossword Clue

  Answer: GPS

• 29D End of the Greek alphabet Crossword Clue

  Answer: OMEGA

• 30D Western, in old slang Crossword Clue

  Answer: OATER

• 31D Blow up online Crossword Clue

  Answer: TREND

• 36D Infamous czar Crossword Clue

  Answer: IVAN

• 37D “___ better to have loved and lost…” Crossword Clue

  Answer: TIS

• 39D One of Canada’s First Nations Crossword Clue

  Answer: CREE

• 40D “Only the Lonely” singer Orbison Crossword Clue

  Answer: ROY

• 43D Howard Hughes, for one Crossword Clue

  Answer: AVIATOR

• 46D Pre-Olympic events Crossword Clue

  Answer: TRIALS

• 47D English scientist who coined the biological term “cell” Crossword Clue

  Answer: HOOKE

• 48D Analogy phrase Crossword Clue

  Answer: ISTO

• 49D Div. for the Mets and Marlins Crossword Clue

  Answer: NLEAST

• 52D Share a border with Crossword Clue

  Answer: ABUT

• 53D Catering containers Crossword Clue

  Answer: URNS

• 54D Knock flat Crossword Clue

  Answer: DECK

• 55D Scrape site, often Crossword Clue

  Answer: KNEE

• 56D Fail to include Crossword Clue

  Answer: OMIT

• 57D Well-made choice? Crossword Clue

  Answer: WISH

• 59D A couple bucks, maybe Crossword Clue

  Answer: DEER

• 61D Sort Crossword Clue

  Answer: ILK

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