Here are all of the WSJ Crossword hints for May 18 2024 to help you finish it up!
By: Christine Mielke - Published:
Our WSJ Crossword Hints for May 18, 2024 puzzle will help you move through the grid if you’ve found yourself stuck on a 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 Hints, May 18, 2024
You’ll find hints for all of the crossword clues for the WSJ Crossword on 5/18/24. The clues are listed below, and you can click/tap on a clue to go to its page for more detail, including definitions, but if you don’t want to be immediately spoiled, you can reveal letter by letter to still offer yourself more of a challenge before revealing the full solution.
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- 1A. Brand produced by the McIlhenny Company of Louisiana
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- 8A. Deep cut
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- 12A. Castanet, essentially
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- 19A. Suppose so
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- 20A. Speaker output
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- 21A. Head of the military?
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- 22A. Application filing nuisance
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- 23A. Material for a Coast Guard balloon?
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- 25A. Concludes
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- 26A. By and by
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- 28A. “No ___ nada” (“No problem”)
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- 29A. Blood-typing letters
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- 30A. Put into words
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- 31A. Oldsmobile’s last model
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- 32A. Moves up and down
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- 33A. Carefully winnow
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- 34A. Doctor’s job when finishing a C-section?
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- 37A. Angler’s basket
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- 38A. They look like inverted v’s
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- 40A. Kirov coin
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- 41A. Panera array
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- 42A. Tools for prep chefs
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- 43A. Big name in jet skis
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- 45A. Suit in a Spanish card deck
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- 46A. Beginning
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- 47A. Damon of "The Martian"
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- 48A. Admission into the venue for the NFL draft?
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- 53A. Flight component
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- 54A. Complete
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- 56A. Classico alternative
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- 57A. Yr. finish
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- 58A. Sharp competitor
- 60A. Speechless dwarf when he’s feeling more like Grumpy?
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- 63A. Word separator
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- 65A. H look-alike
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- 66A. Hiding place
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- 68A. Oval or octagon
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- 69A. “You are absolutely right!”
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- 70A. Flower whose petals are added to the greens?
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- 74A. Scott in an 1857 decision
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- 75A. Commerce
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- 76A. Six-stringed instrument
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- 77A. Drum kit components
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- 79A. Blotter entries
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- 80A. Sees eye to eye
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- 83A. Aspiration
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- 84A. Flat-topped topper
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- 85A. Some revolvers
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- 86A. Particular liking for overhead decor?
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- 89A. Responsibility
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- 90A. Come to earth
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- 91A. Rapper ___ Ricch
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- 92A. Crunch targets
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- 95A. Favorite
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- 96A. Tie material
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- 97A. Hunter’s hound
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- 99A. Moneyless exchange
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- 100A. Get rid of some of the accord provisions?
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- 104A. Synchronous
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- 106A. Study secondarily
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- 107A. Wherein the world?
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- 108A. Medicine cabinet staple
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- 109A. Lead, e.g.
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- 110A. Call out
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- 111A. Aretha Franklin song spelled out phonetically by the additions to this puzzle’s theme answers
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- 1D. Sonata quartet
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- 2D. Bowl, e.g.
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- 3D. Word before bye
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- 4D. Play makeup
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- 5D. Style influenced by jazz and calypso
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- 6D. Plane figures?
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- 7D. Harmony
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- 8D. Island with a delegate to the House of Representatives
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- 9D. In unison, in scores
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- 10D. Plop down
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- 11D. The masses
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- 12D. Sophisticated
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- 13D. Chorus line?
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- 14D. Bill producer
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- 15D. Holler
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- 16D. Halema‘uma‘u Trail site
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- 17D. Facilitated
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- 18D. Keeps going in Yahtzee
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- 20D. Br–, e.g.
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- 24D. Suspension bridge support
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- 27D. Start for atomic or angular
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- 31D. Fit for sentry duty
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- 32D. Dizzy Gillespie forte
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- 33D. Getting louder, in scores: Abbr.
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- 34D. Disturbing
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- 35D. Tool for prep chefs
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- 36D. Future leaf
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- 37D. Spring bloom
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- 38D. Ralph Vaughan Williams’s “Willow-Wood,” e.g.
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- 39D. Military storehouse
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- 41D. Blow one’s own horn
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- 42D. Singers’ retinues
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- 43D. Buddhist enlightenment
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- 44D. Ides accusation
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- 45D. Authorized
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- 47D. Stan in Cooperstown
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- 49D. Pretentious pancakes
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- 50D. Sushi bar appetizer
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- 51D. Virginia in 1861, e.g.
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- 52D. Play makeup
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- 55D. Hwys. and tpks.
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- 59D. Elvis hits, e.g.
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- 61D. “Did that really just happen?”
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- 62D. Hair line
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- 64D. Equivalence
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- 67D. Big commotions
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- 71D. States
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- 72D. Gru uses one on the moon, in “Despicable Me”
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- 73D. Back down?
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- 75D. Hepburn’s frequent co-star
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- 78D. Yokohama “yes”
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- 79D. Synopsize
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- 80D. Animal shelter sign
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- 81D. Lear’s eldest daughter
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- 82D. Stand-up performance
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- 83D. No longer in the deck, maybe
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- 84D. Hardly a super duper
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- 86D. Retainer payer
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- 87D. Ages conspicuously
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- 88D. Sailing hazard
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- 92D. Enlightened
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- 93D. Rudimentary
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- 94D. Wasn’t frugal
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- 96D. Calf counterpart
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- 97D. Low pitch, perhaps
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- 98D. List-shortening abbr
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- 99D. The Constitution, e.g.
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- 101D. May honoree
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- 102D. Square root of nove
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- 103D. Sunny saison
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- 105D. Second afterthought, in brief
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The WSJ Crossword is a daily crossword puzzle that is published in The Wall Street Journal newspaper and on its website. The puzzle is known for its challenging difficulty level, clever wordplay, and witty themes.
The WSJ Crossword was first introduced in 2008, and has since become a popular source of entertainment and mental stimulation for crossword enthusiasts around the world. The puzzle is created by a team of experienced crossword constructors, who are known for their creativity and skill in the field of crossword puzzles.
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