WSJ Crossword April 5 2025 Answers (4/5/25)

Our WSJ Crossword April 5, 2025 answers guide should help you finish today’s crossword if you’ve found yourself stuck on a crossword clue. The Wall Street Journal Crossword is a well-known and respected puzzle that appeals to solvers looking for a challenging and thought-provoking experience. The puzzles are created by a team of skilled constructors and are known for their clever clues, intricate wordplay, and challenging themes. The WSJ Crossword is published daily and offers solvers the opportunity to exercise their minds while enjoying a classic form of entertainment.

WSJ Crossword April 5, 2025 Answers

If you need help solving the WSJ Crossword on 4/5/25, we’ve listed all of the crossword clues below so you can find the answer(s) you need. You can search for the clue and then select the appropriate clue to get the answer. We have done it this way so that if you’re just looking for a handful of clues, you won’t spoil other ones you’re working on!

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#	Clue
1A	Crosses to bear, perhaps
7A	___ artery (vessel at the pelvis)
12A	Mushroom grown on a log
20A	Classic sci-fi story anthology of 1950
21A	Any of 17 in Byron’s “Don Juan” (the last unfinished)
22A	Quebec’s eastern neighbor
23A	Cantankerous interstellar cloud?
25A	Kindles, e.g.
26A	Moves through a membrane
27A	Winning coach in Super Bowls VII and VIII
29A	Sister of Charles III
30A	IRS or TSA worker
32A	Cocky claim
33A	Emblematic spirits
35A	Resort hotel amenity
36A	Seasonal hire, e.g.
37A	Questionable hockey equipment?
42A	Taqueria buy
44A	Perfumery products
46A	Bolt in sprints
47A	Some choirboys
48A	Money from a checkout clerk
49A	Italian neorealist director Rossellini
51A	Attacks from the side
53A	Like a C in physics?
54A	Consider
56A	Now or before
57A	Scheming company?
60A	Sheltered, on ships
62A	Jargon suffix
63A	Daughter of cheesecake baker Charlie Lubin
64A	Gives out
67A	By means of
70A	Small stream
71A	Unkempt baseball player?
76A	QB goofs
78A	Green shade
80A	Star in Cetus
81A	Untroubled
82A	Prepare for a bumpy ride
84A	Ill-fated flier
86A	Pseudoscience debunker James
87A	Youngest of Chekhov’s “Three Sisters”
88A	Where hangers hang
89A	Nikki Haley’s alma mater
91A	Seats for sycophants?
94A	Avoided a tag, maybe
95A	Pained cries
96A	Earth mover
97A	Wood texture
99A	Low USN rank
100A	Charger attachment
104A	Paris’s ___ la Paix
105A	Haggis ingredient
107A	Bridget Riley, for one
109A	Spiteful intruder?
114A	Namesake of a Paris airport
115A	Pictionary game piece
116A	Flounder’s kin
117A	Curled up
118A	Iditarod transports
119A	In piles, maybe
1D	Stand-up’s handful
2D	Goof
3D	Classic 1950 film noir
4D	Brothers’ keeper?
5D	High returns
6D	Prevented from progressing
7D	Becomes slick, in a way
8D	Singer signer
9D	Not available
10D	Georgia airport code
11D	Getting by with minimal effort
12D	Hammer and Spade, e.g.
13D	Hog on the highway
14D	Some girders
15D	Fidelity offering
16D	Verbal fanfare
17D	Port of Yemen
18D	“Freak on a Leash” band
19D	Gaelic tongue
24D	Designer Kamali
28D	Led the party
30D	Twin of Artemis
31D	Pump addition
34D	Ready-to-retire pencil
35D	Place for notes
36D	Windows strip
37D	Staves (off)
38D	“Oh, that clears things up”
39D	Make a cameo, say
40D	They may fly over beaches
41D	Deadly-dull event
43D	Audra McDonald’s six
44D	Classic 1953 western
45D	Life’s work
48D	Kicks back
49D	Thing of the past
50D	Some Swiss watches
52D	Paste used in artifical seafood
55D	Breezy courses
58D	Cut-and-dry location
59D	Swift specialty
61D	Keyed in
65D	Arrogant gait
66D	“Beat it!”
67D	Call on
68D	Breezy course, often
69D	Parts of hearts
72D	Stockpile
73D	Man behind the Muppets
74D	Donates the funding for
75D	Coachman’s controls
77D	Beach blanket?
79D	Kept isolated, in corporate jargon
83D	Settles up
85D	Does some charity work
88D	Much in demand
89D	Scale
90D	Managers’ lists
92D	Piercing
93D	Playfully ruffle
94D	Bacchanalia participants
97D	“I have no idea”
98D	Made the grade
99D	“The Dream of Gerontius” composer
100D	Cousins of pollocks
101D	Ready for customers
102D	Prego rival
103D	Camp uniform?
106D	Singer Guthrie
108D	Harbor mover
110D	Feel poorly
111D	Off the hook
112D	Big heart
113D	Ruby or garnet

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