Wall Street Journal Crossword August 14, 2026 Answers

Below are all the clues for the Friday, August 14, 2026 Wall Street Journal Crossword, titled “If I Were You” by Gary Larson & Amy Ensz. Today’s puzzle has a total of 140 crossword clues. Click any clue to reveal its answer, letter count, and past appearances.

ConstructorGary Larson & Amy Ensz

Clues140

Grid21×21

Across

1Bad guy4 Letters

5Buyer be where?4 Letters

9Rugged cliff4 Letters

13Whodunit discovery6 Letters

19Garden worker4 Letters

20Cor anglais kin4 Letters

21Expressive dance4 Letters

22Tickled6 Letters

23Censorship-fighting org.4 Letters

24Give the cold shoulder to Dr. McCoy?9 Letters

26Butterfly, e.g.6 Letters

27Top competitors, often5 Letters

29Baseball great Lefty with a namesake bridge near Oracle Park5 Letters

30Pays attention7 Letters

31Something usually doubled8 Letters

33Revenuers, e.g.4 Letters

36Garage sale caveat4 Letters

37Loses heart8 Letters

38Cowled contingent6 Letters

40Aristotle’s “waking dream”4 Letters

44Will of “Arrested Development”6 Letters

46Use a Shop-Vac instead of a rake?10 Letters

49“Walk on the Wild Side” singer7 Letters

52Ices6 Letters

55Fascinated6 Letters

56Places for vows6 Letters

57Toe treatment, familiarly4 Letters

58Trilled in the heights7 Letters

59Roles for stars5 Letters

60“No Exit” playwright6 Letters

62Without4 Letters

63Tennis great Arthur4 Letters

64Beard for Daffy, e.g.?11 Letters

66Island nation with a Coral Coast4 Letters

70Like boars and bucks4 Letters

71Rejects with disdain6 Letters

72Group of scouts5 Letters

73Chilled7 Letters

77Author Wiesel4 Letters

78Indian loincloths6 Letters

79Forward surge6 Letters

80Country singer Ronnie6 Letters

83Neighborhood west of Encino7 Letters

84Snippet of a Motown hit used in another song?10 Letters

86Evening event6 Letters

88First-year law student4 Letters

89“Nice burn!”6 Letters

92Spanish turnover8 Letters

96Talks incessantly4 Letters

99Bread boxes?4 Letters

100Where cell phones don’t work8 Letters

101Fairbanks in films7 Letters

104Place for a barbecue5 Letters

106Backgammon piece5 Letters

107Skillful6 Letters

108“Drive carefully—90% of humans are caused by accident,” e.g.?9 Letters

112Sheepskin boots4 Letters

113Threaten6 Letters

114Boris Godunov, e.g.4 Letters

115Crown4 Letters

116Fedora material4 Letters

117Many a Degas6 Letters

118French door part4 Letters

119Otherwise4 Letters

120Phone bill listing4 Letters

Down

1Discontinued, with “out”6 Letters

2Epoch that saw the first early primates6 Letters

3Finds new tenants for6 Letters

4Moral Majority march?11 Letters

5Criminal patterns, for short3 Letters

6Couldn’t stand8 Letters

7Registering the most decibels7 Letters

8Carson’s successor4 Letters

9Anger6 Letters

10Bleed3 Letters

11Pub potable3 Letters

12Krypton, e.g.3 Letters

13“The Myth of Sisyphus” writer5 Letters

14Emirati’s neighbor5 Letters

15Impertinent remark at a 12-step meeting?9 Letters

16Ad Council ads, briefly4 Letters

17Trucker’s rig4 Letters

18Ideal site4 Letters

25In shape4 Letters

28Trap setters7 Letters

30Item on a to-do list4 Letters

32Uses the good china5 Letters

34Puck, e.g.4 Letters

35Algonquian tribe4 Letters

39Some colas, briefly3 Letters

41Almond outline4 Letters

42Le Pew of cartoon fame4 Letters

43Abbr. on a town’s welcoming sign4 Letters

45Bounce your booty5 Letters

47Currency of (and part of the name of) a West African nation5 Letters

48Goals4 Letters

49Refrain bit4 Letters

50Flamenco cries4 Letters

51Jazz setting4 Letters

53Many flat screens5 Letters

54Snoopy and the Red Baron, say7 Letters

57Clip4 Letters

58Bhutan bovines4 Letters

60Do some pouting4 Letters

61Name on a WWII bomber5 Letters

62“Auld Lang ___”4 Letters

64Russian country house5 Letters

65Faucet faults5 Letters

66Glaciers and icebergs?11 Letters

67Tiny bit4 Letters

68Enlist in4 Letters

69Res ___ loquitur4 Letters

70Assemble in great numbers4 Letters

72Attire, informally7 Letters

73Middling4 Letters

74Soon, to a bard4 Letters

75In alignment4 Letters

76Top-notch tyrant?9 Letters

78Agcy. that pioneered the internet and GPS5 Letters

80Dash abbr.3 Letters

81“Casablanca” role4 Letters

82Mardi Gras follower4 Letters

83Play breaks8 Letters

85Forest growth4 Letters

87Like some unhealthy attachments7 Letters

90Current amount6 Letters

91H.S. exam4 Letters

93Orbital extreme6 Letters

94Widget plugged into a computer6 Letters

95Bikini trials, informally6 Letters

97Rabbit chaser of fiction5 Letters

98Dev of “Slumdog Millionaire”5 Letters

101Like many a cellar4 Letters

102Ancient theaters4 Letters

103Coffee dispensers4 Letters

105Category4 Letters

108“The Racer’s Edge”3 Letters

109Botanist Gray3 Letters

110Whiff3 Letters

111Born, in Bordeaux3 Letters

About the August 14, 2026 WSJ Crossword

The Wall Street Journal Crossword for Friday, August 14, 2026 runs under the title “If I Were You” and was constructed by Gary Larson & Amy Ensz. It uses a 21×21 grid and contains 140 clues — 65 across and 75 down. Every answer above has been solved and verified by hand.

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Frequently Asked Questions

How many clues are in the August 14, 2026 WSJ Crossword?

This puzzle contains 140 clues — 65 across and 75 down — all listed above with links to individual answer pages.

Who constructed this Wall Street Journal Crossword?

The August 14, 2026 puzzle was constructed by Gary Larson & Amy Ensz.

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