Wall Street Journal Crossword July 28, 2026 Answers

Below are all the clues for the Tuesday, July 28, 2026 Wall Street Journal Crossword, titled “Bird Is the Word” by Jay Silverman. Today’s puzzle has a total of 77 crossword clues. Click any clue to reveal its answer, letter count, and past appearances.

ConstructorJay Silverman

Clues77

Grid15×15

Across

1Like a phone at 0%4 Letters

5Fortunate5 Letters

10How children might describe dad jokes4 Letters

14Cockney greeting4 Letters

15Ladybug prey5 Letters

16From the thrift shop, say4 Letters

17Good competitor?4 Letters

18Mortarboard flingers5 Letters

19Really small4 Letters

20Summer genre5 Letters

22Like 1999 but not 20003 Letters

23Teasing tribute5 Letters

24Audiophile’s investment6 Letters

26“Lemme! Lemme!”6 Letters

28FBI staffer3 Letters

29Speech stumbles3 Letters

30Places that draw crowds6 Letters

33African expanse6 Letters

37Glover of “Atlanta”6 Letters

38Word on old maps of China6 Letters

40Confuse5 Letters

41Do the wrong thing3 Letters

44Hardly form-fitting5 Letters

45Early auto make3 Letters

46Noteworthy7 Letters

49“I’m With ___” (2016 campaign slogan)3 Letters

50Warning letters on some racy forwards4 Letters

52Goalie’s goals5 Letters

53Houston player, informally4 Letters

54Metaphorical component of being organized, and what’s found three times in this grid11 Letters

57Millipede maker5 Letters

59New Year in Hanoi3 Letters

60Antipasto bit5 Letters

63Lovers’ rendezvous5 Letters

64Rage3 Letters

65Actor’s delivery5 Letters

66Difficult to make out5 Letters

67Vacation rental3 Letters

68Beats by a whisker5 Letters

Down

1Electric Company card, e.g.4 Letters

2Much-impersonated entertainer5 Letters

3Met Gala guests, e.g.5 Letters

4Gabbana’s partner in fashion5 Letters

5Annoyance in some gaming3 Letters

6Displaces7 Letters

7Landlocked African country4 Letters

8Little ones7 Letters

9LPGA measures3 Letters

10Company in “Severance”5 Letters

11Indian or Indonesian5 Letters

12High-IQ crew5 Letters

13Polish prose4 Letters

21Infallible authorities7 Letters

23Most impulsive7 Letters

25“Zounds!”4 Letters

27Finish filming4 Letters

30Techniques5 Letters

311999 film with Gabriel Byrne as Satan9 Letters

32Ripken of baseball fame3 Letters

34Alias letters3 Letters

35Gordie Howe’s position9 Letters

36Rage5 Letters

37“Bummer!”4 Letters

39Sandwich topped with tzatziki4 Letters

41Adaptable7 Letters

42Cannes setting7 Letters

43Come back from space, say7 Letters

47Stop wondering, maybe3 Letters

48Org. with a cryptologic museum3 Letters

51Oktoberfest fare5 Letters

53Well-built5 Letters

55Washington or Lincoln4 Letters

56Part of a picture?4 Letters

57Source of bills3 Letters

58Ironman contest, familiarly3 Letters

61Migratory formation3 Letters

62Mountain road shape3 Letters

About the July 28, 2026 WSJ Crossword

The Wall Street Journal Crossword for Tuesday, July 28, 2026 runs under the title “Bird Is the Word” and was constructed by Jay Silverman. It uses a 15×15 grid and contains 77 clues — 39 across and 38 down. Every answer above has been solved and verified by hand.

The WSJ Crossword publishes a new puzzle every day of the week, with difficulty building across the week. Monday puzzles are the most approachable, while Friday brings the celebrated WSJ contest crossword with a meta answer to crack, and Saturday features the largest grid of the week. Click any clue above to open a dedicated answer page with a letter-by-letter breakdown and every past appearance of that clue.

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Frequently Asked Questions

How many clues are in the July 28, 2026 WSJ Crossword?

This puzzle contains 77 clues — 39 across and 38 down — all listed above with links to individual answer pages.

Who constructed this Wall Street Journal Crossword?

The July 28, 2026 puzzle was constructed by Jay Silverman.

Are these WSJ Crossword answers correct?

Yes. Every answer on WSJCrosswordAnswers.org is solved by hand from the official WSJ grid and cross-checked before publishing. If you spot a discrepancy, please let us know.

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