WSJ Crossword Answers Today for April 16

WSJ Crossword Answers Today for April 16

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From the prestigious team at Dow Jones & Company, the WSJ Crossword delivers from 70 to 142 hints and from 70 to 142 words of sophisticated word challenges with distinctive business and financial themes.

Here are the clues and answers to WSJ Crossword for Thursday, Apr. 16, 2026:

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ACROSS Clues with Answers for Today's Crossword

Fictitious

  • The answer is MADEUP

Still

  • The answer is ATREST

Cynthia's "Wicked" co-star

  • The answer is ARIANA

Grimy surroundings

  • The answer is SQUALOR

Lump in the throat

  • The answer is TONSIL

Factor in choosing a foundation

  • The answer is SKINTONE

Piece of hockey equipment

  • The answer is NET

British prime minister between Cameron and Johnson

  • The answer is MAY

1986 memoir with a chapter titled "A Fool in Love"

  • The answer is ITINA

Site of Cyclones home games

  • The answer is AMES

Enter one after the other

  • The answer is PILEIN

Determined

  • The answer is SET

Simple-to-learn card game

  • The answer is WAR

Site of Galileo Galilei Airport

  • The answer is PISA

Shoelace protectors

  • The answer is AGLETS

Like Twister players, typically

  • The answer is ENTWINED

Comedian Martin

  • The answer is MAE

One thrown off course?

  • The answer is DIVOT

Nipper and Chipper's brand

  • The answer is RCA

Below capacity?

  • The answer is UNFIT

Fourth qtr. start

  • The answer is OCT

What people with full plates have

  • The answer is ALOTTODO

LGBTQ activist ___ P. Johnson

  • The answer is MARSHA

2025 Pixar film nominated for Best Animated Feature

  • The answer is ELIO

Chihuahua of cartoons

  • The answer is REN

Match ender, sometimes

  • The answer is ACE

Dig discovery

  • The answer is FOSSIL

Nothing to write home about

  • The answer is OKAY

Show place

  • The answer is STAGE

Go for the gold?

  • The answer is PAN

Yankees owner Steinbrenner

  • The answer is HAL

Nice way to leave?

  • The answer is AUREVOIR

Kin of crimson

  • The answer is CERISE

Mélanie of "Inglourious Basterds"

  • The answer is LAURENT

Favor

  • The answer is PREFER

Trumpeter Herb

  • The answer is ALPERT

What a bargain hunter might be on the lookout for

  • The answer is REDTAG

DOWN Clues with Answers for Today's Crossword

Pilates need

  • The answer is MAT

Unlikely to catch feelings, casually

  • The answer is ARO

Some mealtime programming?

  • The answer is DINNERTV

Lets up

  • The answer is EASES

Bar or rod, e.g.

  • The answer is UNIT

Confidant

  • The answer is PAL

Pollution fig.

  • The answer is AQI

Performing some routine car maintenance?

  • The answer is TUNINGAUTO

"Round and Round" glam metal band

  • The answer is RATT

Kid-lit character possibly inspired by Liza Minnelli

  • The answer is ELOISE

One of 154 by Shakespeare

  • The answer is SONNET

Little rewards

  • The answer is TREATS

Scottish isle

  • The answer is SKYE

Health-conscious emperor?

  • The answer is SALADCAESAR

Unlikely donor

  • The answer is MISER

Blown away

  • The answer is AWED

Job for a nail tech

  • The answer is MANI

Item in an alley

  • The answer is PIN

Existential statement

  • The answer is IAM

Nervous state before trying to sell one's movie plot?

  • The answer is PITCHFEVER

Mardi Gras follower

  • The answer is LENT

Courts

  • The answer is WOOS

Fully committed

  • The answer is ALLIN

Warehouse machine, and the procedure undergone by phrases at 3-, 8-, 16- and 26-Down

  • The answer is FORKLIFT

It can be big, bad or bright

  • The answer is IDEA

One of six for Audra McDonald

  • The answer is TONY

Path of Chinese philosophy

  • The answer is TAO

Dressing part

  • The answer is OIL

Spicy mix

  • The answer is MASALA

Not imagined

  • The answer is ACTUAL

React like a startled stallion

  • The answer is REARUP

React like an angry cat

  • The answer is SPIT

Moved the boat

  • The answer is OARED

"American Gigolo" star

  • The answer is GERE

On this spot

  • The answer is HERE

N.Y. neighbor

  • The answer is ONT

EMT's skill

  • The answer is CPR

Privateer's place

  • The answer is SEA

Bit of work

  • The answer is ERG

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