WSJ Crossword October 18 2025 Answers

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• 1A Site of the Rupa Rupa high jungle Crossword Clue

  Answer: PERU

• 5A Midsize Nissan model Crossword Clue

  Answer: ALTIMA

• 11A Upper limit Crossword Clue

  Answer: CAP

• 14A Poker player’s words Crossword Clue

  Answer: ICALL

• 19A Warning sign Crossword Clue

  Answer: OMEN

• 20A Feudal lords Crossword Clue

  Answer: LIEGES

• 21A With 78-Across, SEC school in Oxford Crossword Clue

  Answer: OLE

• 22A Sink of “The Whale” Crossword Clue

  Answer: SADIE

• 23A *Is clueless about how to perform glute exercises? Crossword Clue

  Answer: DOESNTKNOWSQUAT

• 26A It has layers Crossword Clue

  Answer: ONION

• 27A Least precise Crossword Clue

  Answer: LOOSEST

• 28A Patient watcher Crossword Clue

  Answer: NURSE

• 29A Bugs, Bamm-Bamm and Bart, e.g. Crossword Clue

  Answer: TOONS

• 30A Delta product Crossword Clue

  Answer: SILT

• 31A Match divisions Crossword Clue

  Answer: SETS

• 33A Bourbon barrel material Crossword Clue

  Answer: OAK

• 34A Forever, it seems Crossword Clue

  Answer: EONS

• 35A “Coming to America” director John Crossword Clue

  Answer: LANDIS

• 37A Cry of discovery Crossword Clue

  Answer: AHA

• 39A *Team-building exercise for the core? Crossword Clue

  Answer: GANGPLANK

• 43A Stunned reaction letters Crossword Clue

  Answer: OMG

• 44A Cribbage jack Crossword Clue

  Answer: NOB

• 46A The common type of it isn’t common, according to Voltaire Crossword Clue

  Answer: SENSE

• 48A Concierge desk handout Crossword Clue

  Answer: AREAMAP

• 49A *Choosing to do a triceps exercise? Crossword Clue

  Answer: GOINGFORADIP

• 52A “Ceci n’est pas ___ pipe” (words on a Magritte painting) Crossword Clue

  Answer: UNE

• 53A Reds fan? Crossword Clue

  Answer: WINO

• 54A Reasonable Crossword Clue

  Answer: SANE

• 55A Deuce beater Crossword Clue

  Answer: TREY

• 56A Not learned Crossword Clue

  Answer: INNATE

• 59A Group of elephants?: Abbr. Crossword Clue

  Answer: GOP

• 60A Completely unfamiliar Crossword Clue

  Answer: ALIEN

• 62A Furtive fellow Crossword Clue

  Answer: SNEAK

• 64A Erasure and Eurythmics, e.g. Crossword Clue

  Answer: DUOS

• 66A *Ability to do a deltoid exercise however you want? Crossword Clue

  Answer: FREEDOMOFTHEPRESS

• 70A Payment choice Crossword Clue

  Answer: VISA

• 71A Span Crossword Clue

  Answer: WIDTH

• 72A U.S. state closest to Europe Crossword Clue

  Answer: MAINE

• 73A “___ favor” Crossword Clue

  Answer: POR

• 74A “Hop to it!” Crossword Clue

  Answer: PRONTO

• 77A Stops waffling Crossword Clue

  Answer: OPTS

• 78A See 21-Across Crossword Clue

  Answer: MISS

• 82A Thick with vegetation Crossword Clue

  Answer: LUSH

• 84A Connections Crossword Clue

  Answer: INS

• 85A *Prepare a pectoral exercise for someone else? Crossword Clue

  Answer: WARMTHEBENCH

• 89A Tabloid nickname given to the parent of Noah, Maliyah, Isaiah, Nariyah, Jonah, Makai, Josiah and Jeremiah Crossword Clue

  Answer: OCTOMOM

• 91A Uninterrupted transition Crossword Clue

  Answer: SEGUE

• 92A Hit letters Crossword Clue

  Answer: SRO

• 93A Scottish denial Crossword Clue

  Answer: NAE

• 94A *“That’s one of the best quadriceps exercises I’ve ever seen!”? Crossword Clue

  Answer: WHATAJERK

• 96A Sushi choice Crossword Clue

  Answer: EEL

• 97A Gets serious, with “up” Crossword Clue

  Answer: SOBERS

• 99A La Española, por ejemplo Crossword Clue

  Answer: ISLA

• 100A El ___ (Spanish hero) Crossword Clue

  Answer: CID

• 102A Flout Crossword Clue

  Answer: DEFY

• 105A Days of old Crossword Clue

  Answer: YORE

• 106A Like the verbs “shall” and “might” Crossword Clue

  Answer: MODAL

• 108A Fill in for Crossword Clue

  Answer: ACTAS

• 110A Starting points of disc golf holes Crossword Clue

  Answer: TEEPADS

• 112A Tibia terminus Crossword Clue

  Answer: ANKLE

• 113A Have a satisfactory conclusion, and a feature of each starred answer Crossword Clue

  Answer: WORKOUTINTHEEND

• 117A Jefferson, religiously Crossword Clue

  Answer: DEIST

• 118A Oscar winner Mahershala Crossword Clue

  Answer: ALI

• 119A Athletes’ reps Crossword Clue

  Answer: AGENTS

• 120A Exultant feeling Crossword Clue

  Answer: GLEE

• 121A “¿Dónde ___ Corazón?” (Shakira song) Crossword Clue

  Answer: ESTAS

• 122A Talk nonstop Crossword Clue

  Answer: YAP

• 123A Hit Ctrl+V Crossword Clue

  Answer: PASTED

• 124A Not too many Crossword Clue

  Answer: AFEW

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• 1D K-cup, e.g. Crossword Clue

  Answer: POD

• 2D Moody music genre Crossword Clue

  Answer: EMO

• 3D Successfully enticing Crossword Clue

  Answer: REELINGIN

• 4D Still on the shelf Crossword Clue

  Answer: UNSOLD

• 5D Backup social media accounts Crossword Clue

  Answer: ALTS

• 6D Social media approvals Crossword Clue

  Answer: LIKES

• 7D Something crossword solvers pay (not paid) attention to Crossword Clue

  Answer: TENSE

• 8D “Truth be told…” Crossword Clue

  Answer: IGOTTASAY

• 9D Kitten’s cry Crossword Clue

  Answer: MEW

• 10D Org.’s kin Crossword Clue

  Answer: ASSN

• 11D Chicken’s lack Crossword Clue

  Answer: COURAGE

• 12D U.S. state closest to Asia Crossword Clue

  Answer: ALASKA

• 13D Politician Buttigieg Crossword Clue

  Answer: PETE

• 14D Carbon-14, e.g. Crossword Clue

  Answer: ISOTOPE

• 15D Church precepts Crossword Clue

  Answer: CANONLAW

• 16D “See you all later!” Crossword Clue

  Answer: ADIOSAMIGOS

• 17D Serengeti stalker Crossword Clue

  Answer: LION

• 18D Camera part Crossword Clue

  Answer: LENS

• 24D Making mention of Crossword Clue

  Answer: NOTING

• 25D Status ___ Crossword Clue

  Answer: QUO

• 30D Polynesian nation Crossword Clue

  Answer: SAMOA

• 32D Spot for a wheelbarrow Crossword Clue

  Answer: SHED

• 34D Wading bird Crossword Clue

  Answer: EGRET

• 35D What you saw while sleeping? Crossword Clue

  Answer: LOGS

• 36D Person who’s good at caving? Crossword Clue

  Answer: SOFTIE

• 38D Singer DiFranco Crossword Clue

  Answer: ANI

• 40D Gram equivalent Crossword Clue

  Answer: NANA

• 41D Small iPods Crossword Clue

  Answer: NANOS

• 42D BTS genre Crossword Clue

  Answer: KPOP

• 45D Not absorbed Crossword Clue

  Answer: BORED

• 47D 2015 Masters champ Jordan Crossword Clue

  Answer: SPIETH

• 50D Becomes imminent Crossword Clue

  Answer: NEARS

• 51D Makes famous Crossword Clue

  Answer: RENOWNS

• 52D Messy Crossword Clue

  Answer: UNKEMPT

• 57D “I’ll pass” Crossword Clue

  Answer: NAH

• 58D Spot for a bad apple? Crossword Clue

  Answer: EDEN

• 61D Spring Crossword Clue

  Answer: LEAP

• 62D “Us too!” Crossword Clue

  Answer: SODOWE

• 63D Modern collectible, briefly Crossword Clue

  Answer: NFT

• 65D 1972 Bill Withers hit Crossword Clue

  Answer: USEME

• 66D It has a big plus Crossword Clue

  Answer: FIRSTAIDKIT

• 67D Where Benjamin Netanyahu earned a B.S. in architecture Crossword Clue

  Answer: MIT

• 68D Ways Crossword Clue

  Answer: PATHS

• 69D Parts of flights Crossword Clue

  Answer: RISERS

• 70D Stick up (for) Crossword Clue

  Answer: VOUCH

• 73D Tractor trailer Crossword Clue

  Answer: PLOW

• 75D Grape-growing region of northern Spain Crossword Clue

  Answer: RIOJA

• 76D “My treat” Crossword Clue

  Answer: ONME

• 77D Brunch selections Crossword Clue

  Answer: OMELETTES

• 79D Part of a person that others can’t see Crossword Clue

  Answer: INNERSELF

• 80D Cause to jump, maybe Crossword Clue

  Answer: SCARE

• 81D “___ Not There” (1964 hit for the Zombies) Crossword Clue

  Answer: SHES

• 83D Spicy taco topping Crossword Clue

  Answer: HOTSALSA

• 86D Bio number Crossword Clue

  Answer: AGE

• 87D Regretted Crossword Clue

  Answer: RUED

• 88D “In your face!” Crossword Clue

  Answer: BOOYAH

• 90D Croquet gear Crossword Clue

  Answer: MALLETS

• 91D Vacation to Vail, e.g. Crossword Clue

  Answer: SKITRIP

• 95D Pepsi rival Crossword Clue

  Answer: RCCOLA

• 98D Small grocery store Crossword Clue

  Answer: BODEGA

• 101D Cowboys quarterback Prescott Crossword Clue

  Answer: DAK

• 103D Deceptive move Crossword Clue

  Answer: FEINT

• 104D “Fiddler on the Roof” role Crossword Clue

  Answer: YENTE

• 106D Put together Crossword Clue

  Answer: MADE

• 107D Washington bills Crossword Clue

  Answer: ONES

• 108D Not home Crossword Clue

  Answer: AWAY

• 109D It’s found in bars Crossword Clue

  Answer: SOAP

• 111D Vet’s affliction Crossword Clue

  Answer: PTSD

• 114D SEC school in Athens Crossword Clue

  Answer: UGA

• 115D Once named Crossword Clue

  Answer: NEE

• 116D It may slow a golf green Crossword Clue

  Answer: DEW

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