WSJ Crossword Answers Today

Full WSJ Crossword answer list for today

Every clue from today's grid next to its solution — the same answers as the board above, in one plain list you can scan without tapping.

Today's WSJ Crossword answers

Today's solution appears above, laid out clue by clue — every Across answer followed by every Down answer, exactly as the grid reads. Because a full crossword shares so many crossings, one wrong letter can block a whole corner, so we list each answer separately: reveal only the one you need and keep solving the rest yourself. The grid is confirmed and refreshed daily as soon as the puzzle is published.

What is the WSJ Crossword?

The Wall Street Journal Crossword is the paper's daily puzzle, free to play at wsj.com/games/crosswords with no subscription needed. Edited by Mike Shenk, it runs a classic American 15×15 through the week and a larger themed grid at the end of it. The house style is polished and fair rather than punishing — plenty of wordplay, a recognisable business and finance streak in the cluing, and themes that reward spotting the trick early. That combination has made it one of the most-solved daily crosswords in the country, and the reason solvers so often want just one answer confirmed without seeing the rest of the grid.

The Friday contest crossword

The WSJ's best-known quirk is its Friday contest puzzle, or “meta.” Solving the grid is only step one: the finished puzzle hides a further answer — a word or phrase you have to extract from it — which you then submit as your contest entry. Because entries stay open until Sunday night, the Journal doesn't publish the solution until the contest closes, so a freshly-released contest grid genuinely has no answers available anywhere yet. We publish the full grid on this page as soon as the WSJ releases it, which means contest days fill in a few days after the puzzle first appears.

How the WSJ Crossword compares to other dailies

It shares the same 15×15 shape as the other big American dailies, with its own voice and cadence:

Tips for solving the WSJ Crossword

• Read the title. WSJ puzzles are titled, and the title is a genuine hint at the theme — often the fastest way into the long answers.
• Expect the business angle. Market, company and finance references show up more here than at other papers, so lean into them when a clue feels ambiguous.
• Start with the fill-in-the-blanks. They're the quickest points and flood the grid with crossing letters.
• On contest Fridays, watch the theme entries. The meta answer is usually extracted from them, so they repay a second look once the grid is full.
• Use the solver for one answer. Our crossword solver reveals a single clue's answer from your known letters, without spoiling the rest.

Browse past WSJ Crossword answers

Every previous WSJ Crossword is archived on this page by date, with its full across and down solutions — handy for checking yesterday's grid or one you set aside. The archive updates automatically each day, so it stays complete without spoiling the current day. Stuck on a single clue, our crossword solver will reveal just that answer.