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Latest answers — August 28, 2026
All clues for the Friday, August 28, 2026 WSJ Crossword, titled “Set Piece” by Gary Larson & Amy Ensz.
Across
5Agitated state4 Letters
9Iconic 1980s burger5 Letters
14Dramatic singer4 Letters
18Caravan stops5 Letters
19Burner setting4 Letters
20Loud, as a crowd5 Letters
21Big times4 Letters
26Shapiro of NPR3 Letters
27Crocheter’s creation6 Letters
28Ooze4 Letters
29Some singers5 Letters
30Should really not6 Letters
32Hardy works6 Letters
34Jimmies5 Letters
35Italian wine region4 Letters
36Headley of “Coming to America”5 Letters
38Hammer part4 Letters
39String quartet instrument5 Letters
42Verizon acquisition of 20063 Letters
44Without wheels, in a way7 Letters
51“Works for me”7 Letters
53Brave opponent3 Letters
55Acapulco gold3 Letters
56Clothesline alternative5 Letters
57Met expectations?6 Letters
58Spot4 Letters
59Scottish misses7 Letters
61Gold mining troughs7 Letters
63Mediterranean island nation5 Letters
64You can RSVP to them by clicking6 Letters
65Loser to Fischer in 19727 Letters
66President before Jimmy6 Letters
67Ladies of Spain5 Letters
68Like faces on cold days, sometimes7 Letters
69New staffer7 Letters
70Trebek of “Jeopardy!”4 Letters
72Pentathletes use them5 Letters
74Connections3 Letters
75Some NFL sackers3 Letters
76One in it for the long haul7 Letters
79On both banks of7 Letters
81Rank for PBS’s Morse or Tennison3 Letters
83Tennis’s Murray and Roddick5 Letters
84Goals4 Letters
85Fertile soil5 Letters
87Bakery stock4 Letters
91Convenience stores5 Letters
93Monopoly octet6 Letters
96Bunch of scoundrels6 Letters
98Swaggering, maybe5 Letters
99Libertine4 Letters
100Bakery buy6 Letters
103Driller’s org.3 Letters
108Provoke4 Letters
109Blazing5 Letters
110Formally surrender4 Letters
111Buddies5 Letters
112Bull by the sea4 Letters
113Joined the 10K5 Letters
114Has a mortgage4 Letters
115Above4 Letters
Down
1Bull in the sky6 Letters
2Back up6 Letters
3Unimpressed response3 Letters
5Catch, as flies4 Letters
6Approaching4 Letters
7Crested lizard6 Letters
8Accepted standard7 Letters
9Tricky billiards shot5 Letters
10Barbaric5 Letters
11Some stadium features5 Letters
12Bed table item4 Letters
13Amount past due3 Letters
14Taper off7 Letters
15About to explode5 Letters
16“Come on!” in La Paz5 Letters
17Death on the Nile causes, perhaps4 Letters
18President born on an island5 Letters
23Small salamander3 Letters
25Once in a blue moon6 Letters
31Pioneering DVR4 Letters
34They may be collared5 Letters
36Kills, as a dragon5 Letters
37Fabled also-ran4 Letters
40Nonstudio films6 Letters
41Shrek and Fiona, e.g.5 Letters
43Mischievous6 Letters
44Singer Mariah5 Letters
45“Teardrop of India”8 Letters
46Make oneself at home8 Letters
48John of “Face/Off”8 Letters
49Flush8 Letters
50“Live long and prosper” speaker7 Letters
52Eager agreement7 Letters
54Maze stopper7 Letters
58Bollywood garment4 Letters
62Shaped in a shop, in a way6 Letters
63Far from sufficient6 Letters
65It’s a piece of cake5 Letters
66Avarice5 Letters
68Modem measures5 Letters
69Some first-time voters5 Letters
71Cuts back5 Letters
73Sch. support groups4 Letters
76Neptune’s largest moon6 Letters
78Teacher’s deg.4 Letters
80Chapel Hill athlete7 Letters
82“The Bald Soprano” playwright7 Letters
86Forswear6 Letters
88“My pleasure”6 Letters
89Hail Mary instruction6 Letters
90Milky Way ingredients5 Letters
91Organizing expert Kondo5 Letters
92Express through eight states5 Letters
93Bagel-shaped5 Letters
94Startlingly odd5 Letters
95Excited, with “up”5 Letters
96Fragment3 Letters
97Bakery enticement5 Letters
98MLB team VIPs4 Letters
99Tennis’s Nadal, familiarly4 Letters
101Ore source4 Letters
102“Iliad” warrior4 Letters
105Round number, of a sort3 Letters
107Traitorous singer3 Letters
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