WSJ Crossword hints and answers for September 11, 2026
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Clues140
Across63
Down77
TitleGo-Betweens
Today’s WSJ Crossword clues, hints & answers
Every clue from this puzzle with a hint and the answer behind separate buttons, so you only see what you need. Click a clue for its own page.
Across
1A
Biblical mounts (5)
Starts with A, ends with SASSES→
6A
Thermometers, barometers, etc. (7)
Starts with S, ends with SSENSORS→
13A
Combative frame of mind (7)
Starts with W, ends with HWARPATH→
20A
Fingerprint feature (5)
Starts with W, ends with LWHORL→
21A
Windpipe (7)
Starts with T, ends with ATRACHEA→
22A
Medical condition more common in fiction than in real life (7)
Starts with A, ends with AAMNESIA→
23A
Like the I-29 and I-94 highways? (13)
Starts with F, ends with GFARGOREACHING→
25A
Finds hilarious, perhaps (7)
Starts with R, ends with TROARSAT→
26A
Good enough (7)
Starts with U, ends with RUPTOPAR→
27A
Strong warning, figuratively (7)
Starts with R, ends with TRIOTACT→
29A
Forest floor feature (4)
Starts with M, ends with SMOSS→
30A
For fear that (4)
Starts with L, ends with TLEST→
31A
Faucet attachments (5)
Starts with H, ends with SHOSES→
33A
Hot and dry (7)
Starts with S, ends with NSAHARAN→
36A
Blackpool bloke (4)
Starts with B, ends with TBRIT→
37A
Year in a Kubrick film, in letters (3)
Starts with M, ends with IMMI→
40A
Criticized annoyingly (4)
Starts with R, ends with ERODE→
41A
Repeat mindlessly (3)
Starts with A, ends with EAPE→
44A
Personality test? (9)
Starts with E, ends with REGOREADER→
49A
Secondary emphasis for students majoring in Gorgonzola? (11)
Starts with A, ends with RASIAGOMINOR→
53A
Plainly visible (7)
Starts with E, ends with TEVIDENT→
55A
Aggrieved feeling (6)
Starts with R, ends with RRANCOR→
56A
Bond, say (5)
Starts with U, ends with EUNITE→
57A
Engage in revolution (4)
Starts with S, ends with NSPIN→
58A
Asner and O’Neill (3)
Starts with E, ends with SEDS→
59A
Puts in the ground (6)
Starts with I, ends with SINTERS→
60A
Mammal that yields a perfume ingredient (5)
Starts with C, ends with TCIVET→
61A
Decimal fraction (5)
Starts with T, ends with HTENTH→
63A
They may accompany ifs and buts (4)
Starts with A, ends with SANDS→
64A
Ball holder (3)
Starts with T, ends with ETEE→
65A
Cause of lip irritation, for some? (11)
Starts with M, ends with GMANGOEATING→
69A
Pump purchase (3)
Starts with G, ends with SGAS→
72A
Shoreline structure (4)
Starts with P, ends with RPIER→
75A
Bedeck (5)
Starts with A, ends with NADORN→
77A
Do some book repair (6)
Starts with R, ends with DREBIND→
80A
Crowlike bird (3)
Starts with D, ends with WDAW→
83A
Bond, say (4)
Starts with F, ends with EFUSE→
84A
“I will take the Ring, though I do not know the way” speaker (5)
Starts with F, ends with OFRODO→
85A
Clementine cousin (6)
Starts with O, ends with EORANGE→
86A
Unyielding (7)
Starts with A, ends with TADAMANT→
88A
Photoshop tool (6)
Starts with E, ends with RERASER→
89A
Cruise for drummers? (11)
Starts with B, ends with EBONGOVOYAGE→
91A
Part of a Latin dance duo? (9)
Starts with T, ends with TTANGOGENT→
93A
“For shame!” (3)
Starts with T, ends with KTSK→
94A
Tropical starch source (4)
Starts with T, ends with OTARO→
95A
Ltr. holder (3)
Starts with E, ends with VENV→
97A
Harbor sights (4)
Starts with T, ends with STUGS→
98A
Budding (7)
Starts with N, ends with TNASCENT→
101A
Manual audience (5)
Starts with U, ends with SUSERS→
103A
Hand holders (4)
Starts with A, ends with SARMS→
107A
Sign of health (4)
Starts with G, ends with WGLOW→
109A
Gourmet chips ingredient (7)
Starts with S, ends with TSEASALT→
112A
Ballet need (7)
Starts with T, ends with ETOESHOE→
114A
Knocking sound (7)
Starts with R, ends with TRATATAT→
117A
Kinshasa railroad crossing? (13)
Starts with C, ends with NCONGOJUNCTION→
119A
Womb-related (7)
Starts with U, ends with EUTERINE→
120A
River paddler (7)
Starts with K, ends with RKAYAKER→
121A
Gave an edge to (5)
Starts with H, ends with DHONED→
122A
Cuts in half (7)
Starts with B, ends with SBISECTS→
123A
“I don’t want to hear the details!” (7)
Starts with S, ends with ESPAREME→
124A
Pieces of punditry (5)
Starts with O, ends with SOPEDS→
Down
1D
Really bad (5)
Starts with A, ends with LAWFUL→
2D
Triangle or trapezoid (5)
Starts with S, ends with ESHAPE→
3D
Does a mailroom chore (5)
Starts with S, ends with SSORTS→
4D
Crop problem (5)
Starts with E, ends with TERGOT→
5D
Unappealing food (4)
Starts with S, ends with PSLOP→
6D
Juicing juice (7)
Starts with S, ends with DSTEROID→
7D
History topic (3)
Starts with E, ends with AERA→
8D
Mother-of-pearl (5)
Starts with N, ends with ENACRE→
9D
Major split (6)
Starts with S, ends with MSCHISM→
10D
Wheeling’s river (4)
Starts with O, ends with OOHIO→
11D
Pay for a pad (4)
Starts with R, ends with TRENT→
12D
Long stories (5)
Starts with S, ends with SSAGAS→
13D
Disney’s Pumbaa, e.g. (7)
Starts with W, ends with GWARTHOG→
14D
Latin lover’s word (3)
Starts with A, ends with OAMO→
15D
Gene messenger (3)
Starts with R, ends with ARNA→
16D
Prefix suggesting endlessness (5)
Starts with P, ends with APERMA→
17D
Poet’s not-quite-rhyming technique (9)
Starts with A, ends with EASSONANCE→
18D
Acapulco aunts (4)
Starts with T, ends with STIAS→
19D
Boaters, e.g. (4)
Starts with H, ends with SHATS→
24D
Uncritically enthusiastic (6)
Starts with R, ends with HRAHRAH→
28D
Diamond figures (6)
Starts with C, ends with SCARATS→
32D
Become harder to climb (7)
Starts with S, ends with NSTEEPEN→
34D
Worshipful (7)
Starts with A, ends with GADORING→
35D
Place back in custody (6)
Starts with R, ends with DREMAND→
36D
Attack from all sides (5)
Starts with B, ends with TBESET→
38D
Seething (3)
Starts with M, ends with DMAD→
39D
Words of understanding (4)
Starts with I, ends with EISEE→
42D
Somewhat bad (4)
Starts with P, ends with RPOOR→
43D
Goes astray (4)
Starts with E, ends with SERRS→
45D
Bottled spirit? (5)
Starts with G, ends with EGENIE→
46D
Savory ovoid (5)
Starts with O, ends with EOLIVE→
47D
Ceremony (4)
Starts with R, ends with ERITE→
48D
Traveling in an Airstream, say (5)
Starts with R, ends with GRVING→
50D
Neither Rep. nor Dem. (3)
Starts with I, ends with DIND→
51D
QB mistakes (4)
Starts with I, ends with SINTS→
54D
A fan of (4)
Starts with I, ends with OINTO→
57D
Critic’s unit (4)
Starts with S, ends with RSTAR→
62D
“___ a Liar” (song by the Bee Gees) (3)
Starts with H, ends with SHES→
63D
Game opener (4)
Starts with A, ends with EANTE→
65D
Emergency transport (7)
Starts with M, ends with CMEDEVAC→
66D
Bravo preceder (4)
Starts with A, ends with AALFA→
68D
Like some tuition (7)
Starts with I, ends with EINSTATE→
69D
V member (5)
Starts with G, ends with EGOOSE→
70D
“As You Like It” forest (5)
Starts with A, ends with NARDEN→
71D
Derisive sound (5)
Starts with S, ends with TSNORT→
72D
Text in hopes of a reply (4)
Starts with P, ends with GPING→
73D
Precious bars (6)
Starts with I, ends with SINGOTS→
75D
Bushy dos (5)
Starts with A, ends with SAFROS→
76D
Tiresome task (4)
Starts with D, ends with GDRAG→
77D
Bob alternative (4)
Starts with R, ends with TROBT→
78D
Aphrodite’s offspring (4)
Starts with E, ends with SEROS→
79D
Folding money (9)
Starts with B, ends with SBANKNOTES→
80D
The beginning (6)
Starts with D, ends with EDAYONE→
81D
Coding pioneer Lovelace (3)
Starts with A, ends with AADA→
82D
Hourly rate (4)
Starts with W, ends with EWAGE→
87D
Former boys (3)
Starts with M, ends with NMEN→
90D
Brother of Electra (7)
Starts with O, ends with SORESTES→
92D
Care for (7)
Starts with N, ends with ENURTURE→
99D
In the know (5)
Starts with A, ends with EAWARE→
100D
Carpet securers (5)
Starts with T, ends with STACKS→
102D
Feed, as a fire (5)
Starts with S, ends with ESTOKE→
103D
Put ___ to (end) (5)
Starts with A, ends with PASTOP→
104D
Cologne’s river (5)
Starts with R, ends with ERHINE→
105D
Took part in a stock exchange? (5)
Starts with M, ends with DMOOED→
106D
Puts in the mail (5)
Starts with S, ends with SSENDS→
107D
Vittles (4)
Starts with G, ends with BGRUB→
108D
Sol followers (4)
Starts with L, ends with ILATI→
110D
Suds source (4)
Starts with S, ends with PSOAP→
111D
Taylor-Joy of “Furiosa” (4)
Starts with A, ends with AANYA→
113D
Repeat mindlessly (4)
Starts with E, ends with OECHO→
115D
Peculiarity (3)
Starts with T, ends with CTIC→
116D
Kitchen invader (3)
Starts with A, ends with TANT→
118D
Scout’s brother in “To Kill a Mockingbird” (3)
Starts with J, ends with MJEM→
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How many clues are in the WSJ Crossword for September 11, 2026?+
140 clues: 63 Across and 77 Down. The puzzle was constructed by David Alfred Bywaters and edited by Mike Shenk.
What are some answers in today’s WSJ Crossword?+
For example: Biblical mounts (ASSES); Thermometers, barometers, etc. (SENSORS); Combative frame of mind (WARPATH).
Who edits the WSJ Crossword?+
Mike Shenk has edited the Wall Street Journal Crossword since its launch.
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