Wall Street Journal Crossword October 8, 2026 Answers

Below are all the clues for the Thursday, October 8, 2026 Wall Street Journal Crossword, titled “Endless Discussion” by Mike Shenk. Today’s puzzle has a total of 76 crossword clues. Click any clue to reveal its answer, letter count, and past appearances.

ConstructorMike Shenk

Clues76

Grid15×15

Across

1Bold poker bet5 Letters

6Handle hard times4 Letters

10Novel on which “Clueless” is based4 Letters

14“___ Evil”: (1971 Mia Farrow movie)5 Letters

15Rock great Clapton4 Letters

16Pacer pace4 Letters

17Metal-polishing material10 Letters

19Airing4 Letters

20Considered intrinsically6 Letters

21Four duos5 Letters

23Elite Navy group5 Letters

26Anvil site3 Letters

27Utterance from Homer3 Letters

29Circles of mushrooms thought to be magical in folklore10 Letters

34Arg. neighbor3 Letters

35Sicilian peak4 Letters

36Chapel topper5 Letters

37Zealous4 Letters

39Goes under5 Letters

41Do a checkout chore4 Letters

42“On the Beach” author Shute5 Letters

44Diamond with many hits4 Letters

45Set of tools3 Letters

46Lakota leader at Little Bighorn10 Letters

48“Tic Tac Dough” channel, familiarly3 Letters

49Where the wild things are3 Letters

50Hardly trustworthy5 Letters

52Padres Hall of Famer Tony5 Letters

54Rum cocktail6 Letters

58Apple Intelligence assistance4 Letters

59Old wool-packing tool resembling a shovel10 Letters

63Secluded area4 Letters

64Keep out of sight4 Letters

65Suffer defeat, slangily5 Letters

66Pixar’s Dory is a blue one4 Letters

67Campus south of Golden Gate Pk.4 Letters

68Flea market business5 Letters

Down

1Between ports4 Letters

2NASA landed six of them on the moon4 Letters

3Merlot vat waste4 Letters

4Sudden arrival6 Letters

5“The Quiet American” director Phillip5 Letters

6Animation collectible3 Letters

7Material for los doblones3 Letters

8Quarry3 Letters

9Like caves and canyons6 Letters

10Bouts of self-indulgence8 Letters

11Lion’s pride4 Letters

12Aid for working at home4 Letters

13Dirt bike’s cousin3 Letters

18Gets exasperated6 Letters

22Train units4 Letters

24Like many Telemundo viewers6 Letters

25Oscar-nominated 2025 film7 Letters

27Capital founded by William Penn5 Letters

28Twins Hall of Famer Tony5 Letters

30Devil-may-care6 Letters

31Razors may make them5 Letters

32Wood feature5 Letters

33Dispatched4 Letters

34Perch in le parc4 Letters

38Like many op art posters8 Letters

40Sordid stuff6 Letters

43Largest city on the Rhône4 Letters

47Osaka’s island6 Letters

48Juicer, maybe6 Letters

51Airheads5 Letters

52River to the Colorado4 Letters

53Carolina singer4 Letters

55Still buggy, perhaps4 Letters

56“God ___ the details”4 Letters

57Cornerstone abbr.4 Letters

58USMC rank3 Letters

60Snap3 Letters

61Streaming interruptions3 Letters

62Dict. snippet3 Letters

About the October 8, 2026 WSJ Crossword

The Wall Street Journal Crossword for Thursday, October 8, 2026 runs under the title “Endless Discussion” and was constructed by Mike Shenk. It uses a 15×15 grid and contains 76 clues — 37 across and 39 down. Every answer above has been solved and verified by hand.

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Frequently Asked Questions

How many clues are in the October 8, 2026 WSJ Crossword?

This puzzle contains 76 clues — 37 across and 39 down — all listed above with links to individual answer pages.

Who constructed this Wall Street Journal Crossword?

The October 8, 2026 puzzle was constructed by Mike Shenk.

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