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Latest answers — August 21, 2026

All clues for the Friday, August 21, 2026 WSJ Crossword, titled “Nope!” by Zhouqin Burnikel.

PuzzleNope!

ConstructorZhouqin Burnikel

Clues140

Grid21×21

Across

1Diplomatic assignment4 Letters

5Weighs down5 Letters

10Infectious bug4 Letters

14One might get tipped3 Letters

17Contrail makeup5 Letters

19Vengeful swordsman Montoya5 Letters

20Potatoes, in Indian cuisine4 Letters

21Parcel (out)4 Letters

22Long-necked swamp speaker?11 Letters

24Honey-based drink4 Letters

25Around 314, for a circle of radius 104 Letters

26Alamo option7 Letters

27Final glimpse of a forbidding silhouette?11 Letters

30Precocious “Family Guy” character6 Letters

32“That had to hurt!”3 Letters

34Dreyer’s partner3 Letters

35Imposes (upon)6 Letters

36Used to be3 Letters

371982 movie with 2010 and 2025 sequels4 Letters

39One of 265 in the Bronx Zoo4 Letters

41Regional flora and fauna5 Letters

42Two things that meet when applying balm after a workout?13 Letters

45Losses in a ledger6 Letters

47Cynical crime genre4 Letters

48Injures badly5 Letters

49Latin for “load”4 Letters

51Yao in the Basketball Hall of Fame4 Letters

53Having the most pepper icons on the menu, perhaps8 Letters

56Result of a burning desire5 Letters

58Strung along5 Letters

59Take in3 Letters

60Fawn’s kin4 Letters

62Genesis creator4 Letters

64Memorable span3 Letters

65Salon choice without waves or curls?10 Letters

70Drone-based delivery vehicle?10 Letters

73Nintendo avatar3 Letters

74“Whiskey in My Water” country singer Tyler4 Letters

75Place to grab a mocha4 Letters

77___ Lingus3 Letters

78North Pole workers5 Letters

80Factory worker5 Letters

82“You doubt me?”8 Letters

87Garden with a snake problem4 Letters

88Surrender4 Letters

89Saharan stopovers5 Letters

91Modernists4 Letters

93Genre for Björk and Kate Bush6 Letters

95Two-wheeler with cables pulled taut?13 Letters

99Bargain hunters’ finds5 Letters

100Home of Iowa State4 Letters

101Memo starter4 Letters

102Receipt line3 Letters

103Climbing expert6 Letters

105Bestie, in Bordeaux3 Letters

106Youngest king in the Valley of the Kings3 Letters

108Capital on the Hudson6 Letters

110Easy scores during a casual round?11 Letters

113Snitch7 Letters

115Initial cost4 Letters

116Snore-inducing4 Letters

117Perfectly negotiated agreements?11 Letters

121Xmas, for Jimmy Buffett4 Letters

122Southernmost Great Lake4 Letters

123Liquefy in a blender5 Letters

124Sonata section5 Letters

125___ admin (IT pro)3 Letters

126Dirt road tracks4 Letters

127Microscope insert5 Letters

128Drei squared4 Letters

Down

1Piping plastic, for short3 Letters

2Crew member3 Letters

3Enterprise, e.g.9 Letters

4Thus far5 Letters

5Old Milanese money4 Letters

6World’s heaviest snakes9 Letters

7“Likewise!”5 Letters

8Braggart’s attribute3 Letters

9Put in order4 Letters

10They may include only the first levels9 Letters

11Mournful poem5 Letters

12Stadium sound4 Letters

13Tweaks8 Letters

14“How about this...”11 Letters

15Really bothered5 Letters

16Drops from ducts5 Letters

18Sends, as payment6 Letters

21Seafaring8 Letters

23Ralph Vaughan Williams’s “Hugh the Drover,” e.g.5 Letters

28Daughter of Cronus4 Letters

29State of mind4 Letters

30Pond glider4 Letters

31Some food truck fare5 Letters

33Growing business?4 Letters

38“Put your wallet away”4 Letters

40France’s film award5 Letters

41Sultanate on the South China Sea6 Letters

43Gospel singer Campbell5 Letters

44Named as a source5 Letters

46Bouillon brand5 Letters

50Like a busybody4 Letters

52Pest in a cloud4 Letters

54Salon offerings5 Letters

55“Young Frankenstein” role4 Letters

57Elizabethan collar4 Letters

58Cold-fermented beer5 Letters

61Pixar film set during el Día de los Muertos4 Letters

63Chew like a capybara4 Letters

65Hook’s sidekick4 Letters

66Swinton of “Michael Clayton”5 Letters

67Big mouth features11 Letters

68Corp. benefits experts6 Letters

69Stepped (on)4 Letters

71Home page, in a way5 Letters

72Partner in crime5 Letters

76Priest’s advice5 Letters

79ATM feature8 Letters

81Fellows who follow9 Letters

83Practiced mindfulness, say9 Letters

84Bookstore ID4 Letters

85Smooth fruit9 Letters

86Ancient city that lent its name to a Middle Eastern plateau5 Letters

88Utensil that’s full of holes8 Letters

90Mgr.’s underling4 Letters

92Hot, in a way4 Letters

94Daddy, in Durango4 Letters

96Doha dignitary4 Letters

97Really steamed5 Letters

98Where losers dwell6 Letters

103DNA lab items5 Letters

104Good around the house5 Letters

105Challenging H.S. English course5 Letters

107Ultrasound targets5 Letters

109Back with bucks5 Letters

111Revered adviser4 Letters

112Easy victims4 Letters

114Hazel or olive4 Letters

118___-de-sac3 Letters

119End of an academic address3 Letters

120Heir, often3 Letters

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