Confuse

Latest answer — July 28, 2026

40 Across

Make someone’s brains feel a bit scrambled 🥴

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Across

  1. 1Like a phone at 0%
  2. 5Fortunate
  3. 10How children might describe dad jokes
  4. 14Cockney greeting
  5. 15Ladybug prey
  6. 16From the thrift shop, say
  7. 17Good competitor?
  8. 18Mortarboard flingers
  9. 19Really small
  10. 20Summer genre
  11. 22Like 1999 but not 2000
  12. 23Teasing tribute
  13. 24Audiophile’s investment
  14. 26“Lemme! Lemme!”
  15. 28FBI staffer
  16. 29Speech stumbles
  17. 30Places that draw crowds
  18. 33African expanse
  19. 37Glover of “Atlanta”
  20. 38Word on old maps of China
  21. 40Confuse
  22. 41Do the wrong thing
  23. 44Hardly form-fitting
  24. 45Early auto make
  25. 46Noteworthy
  26. 49“I’m With ___” (2016 campaign slogan)
  27. 50Warning letters on some racy forwards
  28. 52Goalie’s goals
  29. 53Houston player, informally
  30. 54Metaphorical component of being organized, and what’s found three times in this grid
  31. 57Millipede maker
  32. 59New Year in Hanoi
  33. 60Antipasto bit
  34. 63Lovers’ rendezvous
  35. 64Rage
  36. 65Actor’s delivery
  37. 66Difficult to make out
  38. 67Vacation rental
  39. 68Beats by a whisker

Down

  1. 1Electric Company card, e.g.
  2. 2Much-impersonated entertainer
  3. 3Met Gala guests, e.g.
  4. 4Gabbana’s partner in fashion
  5. 5Annoyance in some gaming
  6. 6Displaces
  7. 7Landlocked African country
  8. 8Little ones
  9. 9LPGA measures
  10. 10Company in “Severance”
  11. 11Indian or Indonesian
  12. 12High-IQ crew
  13. 13Polish prose
  14. 21Infallible authorities
  15. 23Most impulsive
  16. 25“Zounds!”
  17. 27Finish filming
  18. 30Techniques
  19. 311999 film with Gabriel Byrne as Satan
  20. 32Ripken of baseball fame
  21. 34Alias letters
  22. 35Gordie Howe’s position
  23. 36Rage
  24. 37“Bummer!”
  25. 39Sandwich topped with tzatziki
  26. 41Adaptable
  27. 42Cannes setting
  28. 43Come back from space, say
  29. 47Stop wondering, maybe
  30. 48Org. with a cryptologic museum
  31. 51Oktoberfest fare
  32. 53Well-built
  33. 55Washington or Lincoln
  34. 56Part of a picture?
  35. 57Source of bills
  36. 58Ironman contest, familiarly
  37. 61Migratory formation
  38. 62Mountain road shape

The answer to “Confuse” in the Wall Street Journal crossword is ADDLE — a 5-letter word. It most recently appeared in the Wall Street Journal crossword on July 28, 2026, a Tuesday puzzle, at 40-Across. Below you'll find why that fill fits, every other answer we've recorded for this clue, and links into the puzzle it came from.

“Confuse” answer

ADDLE (5 letters)

Reveal the solution one letter at a time with the tiles above if you'd rather nudge yourself toward it than see the whole word at once. Just want it outright? The answer is ADDLE.

Why the answer is ADDLE

Make someone’s brains feel a bit scrambled 🥴

What does ADDLE mean?

Reading the plain dictionary sense of ADDLE is often the fastest way to see why it answers this clue.

(verb)

  • make (someone) unable to think clearly; confuse
  • (of an egg) become rotten, producing no chick

When else has “Confuse” appeared?

Wall Street Journal reuses clues across dates, sometimes with a different answer depending on the grid. Here's where this exact clue has shown up, and what the answer was each time — handy when you're checking whether today's fill is the only one.

July 28, 2026 (most recent) → ADDLE. We haven't indexed another appearance of this exact clue yet.

Frequently asked questions

What is the answer to “Confuse”?

The answer is ADDLE, a 5-letter word. It most recently appeared in the Wall Street Journal crossword on July 28, 2026.

How many letters is the answer to “Confuse”?

5 letters: ADDLE.

When did this clue appear?

Most recently in the Wall Street Journal crossword on July 28, 2026 (a Tuesday puzzle), at 40-Across.

Can “Confuse” have a different answer?

Yes — Wall Street Journal sometimes reuses a clue with a different solution to fit the grid. The answers we've recorded for each date it appeared are listed above when available.

Where can I find the rest of this day's WSJ answers?

The full grid for July 28, 2026 is on the WSJ answers page, with every clue and answer from that puzzle.

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