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Latest answers — October 12, 2026

All clues for the Monday, October 12, 2026 WSJ Crossword, titled “Covered Costs” by Aaron Ullman.

PuzzleCovered Costs

ConstructorAaron Ullman

Clues78

Grid15×15

Across

1What your heart might skip5 Letters

6Facts and figures4 Letters

10Problem for a sound engineer4 Letters

141929 stock market event5 Letters

15Sounds from awed people4 Letters

16Thailand neighbor4 Letters

17Game night strictures10 Letters

19Singer-songwriter Tori4 Letters

20God among the Avengers4 Letters

21Probing question6 Letters

23American marsupial6 Letters

261974 pop hit “___-Ca-Dabra”4 Letters

27“Diet Pepsi” singer Addison ___3 Letters

29Wall climber3 Letters

30Coming-of-age ceremonies for some girls11 Letters

33Yammer4 Letters

35Modern, in Munich3 Letters

36Supply for brewers and bakers5 Letters

37Häagen-Dazs flavor11 Letters

41Its highest point is Mount Katahdin5 Letters

43Vernacular ending3 Letters

44Initialism that might add Q at the end4 Letters

47Theorist with no sphere of influence?11 Letters

51West End washroom3 Letters

52Rock blaster3 Letters

53Small singing groups4 Letters

54Drip coffee with a shot of espresso6 Letters

56Groups of glitterati6 Letters

58Frenchman’s female friend4 Letters

59Airborne annoyance4 Letters

60Unexpected costs, as found in four of this puzzle’s answers10 Letters

65Bay State gridiron team, familiarly4 Letters

66Different, in Durango4 Letters

67Des Moines denizen, e.g.5 Letters

68Regretting a workout, maybe4 Letters

69Sunshine State baseball team4 Letters

70Just learning about5 Letters

Down

1Austrian’s exclamation3 Letters

2Frat bud3 Letters

3Water in the Loire3 Letters

4Helpers, for short5 Letters

5Boston nickname6 Letters

6Relentlessly gloomy4 Letters

7IM pioneer3 Letters

81960s-’70s procedural series starring Efrem Zimbalist Jr.6 Letters

9Forcefully declare6 Letters

10Its first flight went from Switzerland to Israel4 Letters

11Replay analyst’s concern11 Letters

12Exuberant cries7 Letters

13Covert WWII org.3 Letters

18Itinerant people of Europe6 Letters

22“Straight Outta Compton” rapper5 Letters

23Cherry discard3 Letters

24Potential embryos3 Letters

25“Ariel” poet11 Letters

26Spell binders?7 Letters

28Contractor’s fig.3 Letters

31___ Aviv3 Letters

32Osso buco meat4 Letters

34Philosopher Immanuel4 Letters

38Requires5 Letters

39Volcanic spew3 Letters

40“Pass over some suds”6 Letters

41Advanced theater deg.3 Letters

42Fact-filled book7 Letters

45“Golly!”3 Letters

46One of 18 for a frog3 Letters

48One who does the write thing6 Letters

49Bilingual Muppet on “Sesame Street”6 Letters

50Control, as spending6 Letters

55“Moll Flanders” writer5 Letters

57Wee4 Letters

58Commotions4 Letters

59Sch. stat3 Letters

61Like some humor and some weather3 Letters

62“Blecch!”3 Letters

63Chow down3 Letters

64Winter product prefix3 Letters

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