One doing a lot of heavy lifting? crossword clue
50 Down · WSJ Crossword, August 16, 2026 · 6 letters
Explanation
The answer to “One doing a lot of heavy lifting?” is GYMRAT. It appears as 50 Down in the Wall Street Journal crossword of August 16, 2026, a Sunday puzzle titled “Corrode Test” by Zhouqin Burnikel, and it fills 6 squares running top to bottom from row 10, column 4 of the 15×15 grid.
The question mark at the end of the clue signals wordplay: the surface reading is a misdirection, and the answer fits a punning or figurative sense of the words. The entry begins with G and ends with T, and contains 1 vowel and 5 consonants. If you are working from the crossings, two or three confirmed letters from the Across entries should be enough to lock it in. Weekend puzzles follow the same conventions as the weekday grids, pitched a notch above midweek, so expect the rest of this grid to be pitched at the same level.
Past appearances
GYMRAT has not appeared as an answer in any other WSJ puzzle in our index, which runs from May 2026 onward. It will be listed here the next time it turns up.