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Latest answers — September 25, 2026

All clues for the Friday, September 25, 2026 WSJ Crossword, titled “Rounding Error” by Jem Burch.

PuzzleRounding Error

ConstructorJem Burch

Clues140

Grid21×21

Across

1Canine command5 Letters

6Product of mud compaction5 Letters

11Cinemark competitor3 Letters

14Full of life4 Letters

18Wipe from existence5 Letters

19Lion, leopard or lynx, zoologically5 Letters

20Tapestry producer4 Letters

22Tribe of western New York4 Letters

23“Death on the Nile” and the like?11 Letters

25Backstreet patrollers?9 Letters

27Kazakhstan’s capital6 Letters

28Hollow4 Letters

29Tuna on a sushi menu4 Letters

30Follower of special or black3 Letters

31Maiden name label3 Letters

32Dust-up in the Dove factory?16 Letters

37Prepare for the tub5 Letters

40Fresh4 Letters

41Items on some pedestals4 Letters

42Functions4 Letters

43“Hardwood Classics” network5 Letters

45Wear with straps3 Letters

46Key, e.g.4 Letters

49Bullion piece5 Letters

51New Haven scholars4 Letters

52Soprano from Australia5 Letters

55Strange way to keep burglars out?13 Letters

59Amber-colored wine7 Letters

61Pool problem5 Letters

62“Meh”-evoking4 Letters

63Org. with a five-ring logo3 Letters

64___ Webster (Twain’s “celebrated jumping frog”)4 Letters

65Take-out general3 Letters

66Fielding error by Mickey Moniak?13 Letters

72Pay stub line3 Letters

73Flour for puris and parathas4 Letters

75Cuatro halved3 Letters

76A/C amts.4 Letters

77Crafty knife brand5 Letters

79Prepare for a career change7 Letters

81Some 24-hour fosters?13 Letters

85Quartet in a Scrabble box5 Letters

86Like swampland4 Letters

87Bête ___5 Letters

88Cheery farewell4 Letters

90Clutch item3 Letters

91Shimmery stones5 Letters

93Malek of “Oppenheimer”4 Letters

96The visitors who visited Amahl4 Letters

98Sweeties4 Letters

101Lustrous fabric5 Letters

104Schnitzel serving that might shock you?16 Letters

109“Knives Out” star de Armas3 Letters

110Courtroom fig.3 Letters

111Like bulls, bucks and boars4 Letters

112General vicinity4 Letters

113Lots to buy6 Letters

116Sophisticated style?9 Letters

119Mystifying field features, or a directive for understanding this puzzle’s theme11 Letters

121Watch after4 Letters

122Hubbub4 Letters

123Accommodate5 Letters

124Play setting5 Letters

125Yields to gravity4 Letters

126Heart chart, for short3 Letters

127First name in cosmetics5 Letters

128Lingerie buy5 Letters

Down

1Sonata and Accord, e.g.6 Letters

2Like some spending limits6 Letters

3Airline once run by Eddie Rickenbacker7 Letters

4Cruising4 Letters

5“Smoke Gets in Your Eyes” composer4 Letters

6Army’s counterpart of Navy’s CPO3 Letters

7How some problems must be faced6 Letters

8Historically contested region of Europe6 Letters

9Stay in hiding6 Letters

101958’s Corsair, e.g.5 Letters

11In the style of3 Letters

12Like lava6 Letters

13Statues of substantial size7 Letters

14Moment of time3 Letters

15Some geometry homework6 Letters

16Micro wave?6 Letters

17RSVP tally6 Letters

21Soldier for hire, for short4 Letters

24XXX part?3 Letters

26The solver of this puzzle3 Letters

33Great chaos5 Letters

34Goldfinger’s first name5 Letters

35Surname of Steinbeck’s Cal and Aron5 Letters

36Encouraged6 Letters

38Mediterranean resort5 Letters

39German tank of WWII6 Letters

44Friday’s preceder?3 Letters

45Mayor between Giuliani and de Blasio9 Letters

47Trash talk5 Letters

48Went first3 Letters

50To-do list listing5 Letters

51Conditional word4 Letters

53Katherina’s sister, in “The Taming of the Shrew”6 Letters

54Will of “The Lego Batman Movie”6 Letters

55Where Al Jazeera is based5 Letters

56Loose coat named for a region of Ireland6 Letters

57“You can’t stop me!”6 Letters

58It’s practiced in le palais de justice3 Letters

59Extinct bird of New Zealand3 Letters

60Some carolers5 Letters

63“Gooooooooal!”5 Letters

67Pablo Neruda, e.g.5 Letters

68Bamboozle3 Letters

69Response from a humblebragger4 Letters

70Baltimore paper3 Letters

71Faces in the crowd?6 Letters

74Bitterly cold6 Letters

78Amtrak option5 Letters

80Letters before an alias3 Letters

81Last of 24 letters5 Letters

82Ceremony of remembrance5 Letters

83Silly sort5 Letters

84Femur’s end3 Letters

89“Has it started yet?”7 Letters

92Played for time7 Letters

93Gasps, say6 Letters

94Tennis great Gibson6 Letters

95Doling (out)6 Letters

97Vinegary6 Letters

98Carriers for conquistadors6 Letters

99Patronized a restaurant6 Letters

100Go by6 Letters

102Mean6 Letters

103Stand in opposition to6 Letters

105Brillo and Zillow, for two: Abbr.3 Letters

106“Fiddlesticks!”4 Letters

107Hoard of treasure5 Letters

108Ironman race, for short3 Letters

114Part of QED4 Letters

115Plot measure4 Letters

117Some S&L offerings3 Letters

118Work unit3 Letters

120Epcot center?3 Letters

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