WSJ Crossword Hints January 4 2024

Our WSJ Crossword Hints for January 4, 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, January 4, 2024

You’ll find hints for all of the crossword clues for the WSJ Crossword on 1/4/24. 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.


  • Word before “out” or after “safe”

  • U.S. Bank Stadium player, familiarly

  • Dark red color

  • Settings for studs

  • Wayfarers’ stops

  • MBA seeker’s class

  • Medicinal plants

  • Treat for winter birds

  • Give up

  • Zoom admonition

  • Goya’s love

  • “Hatikvah” is its anthem

  • San Antonio Spurs coach Popovich

  • 1960s British prime minister Douglas-Home

  • Nikon shooter, in brief

  • Wee

  • “Le petit éléphant” of children’s literature

  • Marian the Librarian, for one

  • It has a lot of spots

  • Fly-by-night business, often

  • Cut off

  • They hang around houses

  • “Juno and the Paycock” playwright

  • 21-Down, south of the border

  • Hindu embodiment of chivalry

  • “Breaking Away” director Peter

  • Start of a pastoral nursery rhyme

  • Frosted flakes

  • Local watering holes, and a hint to a word that can follow eight of this puzzle’s peripheral answers

  • Fork feature

  • Neighbor

  • Ancient land of Asia Minor

  • “Ça m’est ___” (“It doesn’t matter to me”)

  • Plow puller

  • Match up

  • Sushi piece

  • Tore

  • Leaves before the entree, maybe

  • Influence

  • ___ Alto

  • Baseball family name

  • Like some errors

  • Twisty shapes

  • Imagine

  • Not yet delivered

  • Show submission, in a way

  • Abbr. on a town’s welcoming sign

  • Company’s clichéd claim of empathy

  • They once made cold calls

  • Hotel restriction, perhaps

  • What one of the letters in E = mc2 stands for

  • 48-Across, north of the border

  • Mystery or history

  • Atty.’s org.

  • Stripling

  • Flow out

  • Red snapper, at a sushi counter

  • Welcomes the judge

  • Appropriate under the circumstances

  • Old possessive

  • Shape with a focus and directrix

  • Biologist’s eggs

  • “Shiny Happy People” band

  • Screening org.

  • In general

  • Pearl harbor?

  • “Are we done here?”

  • Like Schoenberg’s music

  • Anna who wrote “Black Beauty”

  • Broadway’s Burrows

  • Come to the surface

  • Diva performances

  • Zoom devices

  • Deep blue dye

  • Largest city in the Baltic States

  • Smooth

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.


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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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One of the unique features of the WSJ Crossword is its emphasis on finance and business-related themes. The puzzle often includes clues and answers related to the world of economics, investing, and business news.

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