Master the NYT crossword from January 19, 1990 with our expert hint system. We provide synonyms, antonyms, and strategic clues to help you solve without spoiling the fun.
Puzzle Difficulty: Tricky
Pro Tip: Start with the fill-in-the-blank clues - they're usually the easiest entry points!
Across Clues - Strategic Hints (35 clues)
1A: "1. Brazilian Indians"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that a brittle grey crystalline element that is a semiconducting metalloid (resembling silicon) used in transistors; occurs in germanite and argyrodite
- Similar words include: Gaia, germanium, Ge
- Pattern: ___
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Answer: GES
2A: "4. ___ Clark, U.S. Atty. Gen.: 1967-69"
Solving Hints:
- Pattern: ______
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Answer: RAMSEY
3A: "10. Betty White's role in "Golden Girls""
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that any of many shrubs of the genus rosa that bear roses
- Similar words include: rosiness, uprise, come up
- Opposite of: go to bed, turn in
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Answer: ROSE
4A: "14. Dos Passos trilogy"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that north american republic containing 50 states - 48 conterminous states in north america plus alaska in northwest north america and the hawaiian islands in the pacific ocean; achieved independence in 1776
- Similar words include: America, Army, U.S.A.
- Pattern: ___
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Answer: USA
5A: "15. Practical, as a gadget"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that capable of being put to use
- Similar words include: operable, available, functional
- Pattern: ______
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Answer: USABLE
6A: "16. Place for your dough"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that kitchen appliance used for baking or roasting
- Pattern: ____
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Answer: OVEN
7A: "17. Very pale"
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- Pattern: _______________
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Answer: ASWHITEASASHEET
8A: "20. Two Gentlemen's milieu"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that a city in veneto on the river adige
- Pattern: ______
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Answer: VERONA
9A: "21. Prefix with lace or lock"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that place in a grave or tomb
- Similar words include: bury, lay to rest, inhume
- Pattern: _____
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Answer: INTER
10A: "22. Old Testament character: Gen. 14:13"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that used of a single unit or thing; not two or more
- Similar words include: ane, i, 1
- Pattern: ____
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Answer: ANER
11A: "23. Cubbyhole"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that a state of abeyance or suspended business
- Similar words include: break up, corner, inlet
- Pattern: ______
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Answer: RECESS
12A: "26. Choose a new club member"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that the sound made by a gentle blow
- Similar words include: spigot, knock, strike
- Pattern: ___
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Answer: TAP
13A: "29. Jampan"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that a car that is closed and that has front and rear seats and two or four doors
- Similar words include: saloon, sedan chair
- Pattern: _____
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Answer: SEDAN
14A: "31. Letters on a chasuble"
Solving Hints:
- Pattern: ___
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Answer: IHS
15A: "32. Whimper"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that cry weakly or softly
- Similar words include: mewl, whimper, wail
- Pattern: ____
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Answer: PULE
16A: "33. Tropical fish"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that brightly colored tropical freshwater fishes
- Pattern: _____
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Answer: TETRA
17A: "35. What Stephen King evokes"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that intense and profound fear
- Similar words include: revulsion, repugnance, repulsion
- Pattern: ______
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Answer: HORROR
18A: "37. Phrase from "Keep the Home Fires Burning""
Solving Hints:
- Pattern: _____________
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Answer: ASILVERLINING
19A: "40. African antelope"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that african antelope with ridged curved horns; moves with enormous leaps
- Similar words include: Aepyceros melampus
- Pattern: ______
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Answer: IMPALA
20A: "41. Ingredients for rickeys"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that a caustic substance produced by heating limestone
- Similar words include: lime, slaked lime, burnt lime
- Pattern: _____
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Answer: LIMES
21A: "42. Rip of the films"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that separate or cause to separate abruptly
- Similar words include: snap, buck, displume
- Pattern: ____
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Answer: TORN
22A: "43. Lemon-meringue dessert"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that dish baked in pastry-lined pan often with a pastry top
- Similar words include: Proto-Indo European
- Pattern: ___
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Answer: PIE
23A: "44. Celery unit"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that material consisting of seed coverings and small pieces of stem or leaves that have been separated from the seeds
- Similar words include: chaff, husk, stubble
- Pattern: _____
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Answer: STALK
24A: "48. ___ Lanka"
Solving Hints:
- Pattern: ___
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Answer: SRI
25A: "49. Optic membrane"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that the whitish fibrous membrane (albuginea) that with the cornea forms the outer covering and protection of the eyeball
- Similar words include: sclerotic coat
- Pattern: ______
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Answer: SCLERA
26A: "52. ___ fixe (obsession)"
Solving Hints:
- Pattern: ____
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Answer: IDEE
27A: "53. Early Mexican Indian"
Solving Hints:
- Pattern: _____
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Answer: NAHUA
28A: "55. The Promised Land"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that an ancient country in southwestern asia on the east coast of the mediterranean sea; a place of pilgrimage for christianity and islam and judaism
- Similar words include: Holy Land, Promised Land, Palestine
- Pattern: ______
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Answer: CANAAN
29A: "57. Have jealous or covetous feelings"
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- Pattern: _______________
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Answer: BEGREENWITHENVY
30A: "61. Locale"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that a particular geographical region of indefinite boundary (usually serving some special purpose or distinguished by its people or culture or geography)
- Similar words include: orbit, domain, sphere
- Pattern: ____
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Answer: AREA
31A: "62. Dermal decoration"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that a drumbeat or bugle call that signals the military to return to their quarters
- Pattern: ______
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Answer: TATTOO
32A: "63. Corp. boss"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that the corporate executive responsible for the operations of the firm; reports to a board of directors; may appoint other managers (including a president)
- Similar words include: chief executive officer, chief operating officer
- Pattern: ___
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Answer: CEO
33A: "64. Attire"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that clothing of a distinctive style or for a particular occasion
- Similar words include: enclothe, attire, apparel
- Opposite of: undress
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Answer: GARB
34A: "65. Solar-system model"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that planetarium consisting of an apparatus that illustrates the relative positions and motions of bodies in the solar system by rotation and revolution of balls moved by wheelwork; sometimes incorporated in a clock
- Pattern: ______
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Answer: ORRERY
35A: "66. White-tailed predator"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that bulky greyish-brown eagle with a short wedge-shaped white tail; of europe and greenland
- Similar words include: erne, gray sea eagle, Haliatus albicilla
- Pattern: ___
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Answer: ERN
Down Clues - Strategic Hints (41 clues)
1D: "1. Tropical fruits for jellies"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that small tropical shrubby tree bearing small yellowish fruit
- Similar words include: Psidium littorale, yellow cattley guava, guava
- Pattern: ______
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Answer: GUAVAS
2D: "2. Early ascetic"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that a member of an ascetic jewish sect around the time of jesus
- Pattern: ______
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Answer: ESSENE
3D: "3. Was most irate"
Solving Hints:
- Pattern: ______
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Answer: SAWRED
4D: "4. Bankrupt"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that an irrecoverable state of devastation and destruction
- Similar words include: dilapidation, wrecking, ruining
- Pattern: ____
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Answer: RUIN
5D: "5. "Hitch your wagon to ___": Emerson"
Solving Hints:
- Pattern: _____
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Answer: ASTAR
6D: "6. Ginnie or Sallie chaser"
Solving Hints:
- Pattern: ___
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Answer: MAE
7D: "7. Famed suffragette's monogram"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that an independent agency of the united states government that protects the interests of small businesses and ensures that they receive a fair share of government contracts
- Similar words include: Small Business Administration
- Pattern: ___
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Answer: SBA
8D: "8. Dinsmore, Janis and De Wolfe"
Solving Hints:
- Pattern: ______
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Answer: ELSIES
9D: "9. Brings forth a lamb"
Solving Hints:
- Pattern: _____
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Answer: YEANS
10D: "10. Architect Mies van der ___"
Solving Hints:
- Pattern: ____
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Answer: ROHE
11D: "11. Execute a coup"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that the act of upsetting something
- Similar words include: reverse, vacate, bowl over
- Pattern: ________
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Answer: OVERTURN
12D: "12. Bishop's authority"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that the seat within a bishop's diocese where his cathedral is located
- Similar words include: realize, attend, project
- Pattern: ___
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Answer: SEE
13D: "13. Tolkien creature"
Solving Hints:
- Pattern: ___
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Answer: ENT
14D: "18. Kind of ode"
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- Pattern: ________
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Answer: HORATIAN
15D: "19. Rdwys."
Solving Hints:
- Pattern: ___
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Answer: STS
16D: "24. Emerald Isle, to a Gael"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that a republic consisting of 26 of 32 counties comprising the island of ireland; achieved independence from the united kingdom in 1921
- Similar words include: Republic of Ireland, Irish Republic, Ireland
- Pattern: ____
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Answer: EIRE
17D: "25. Brown or McCarthy"
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- Pattern: _______
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Answer: CHARLIE
18D: "27. Easy as falling off ___"
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- Pattern: ____
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Answer: ALOG
19D: "28. Part of r.p.m."
Solving Hints:
- Pattern: ___
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Answer: PER
20D: "30. Little Dickens heroine"
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- Pattern: ____
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Answer: NELL
21D: "32. Unsullied"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that completely free from dirt or contamination
- Pattern: ________
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Answer: PRISTINE
22D: "34. Dam syst."
Solving Hints:
- Pattern: ___
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Answer: TVA
23D: "35. Play by e. e. cummings"
Solving Hints:
- Pattern: ___
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Answer: HIM
24D: "36. First numbers"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that the smallest whole number or a numeral representing this number
- Similar words include: I, 1, unity
- Pattern: ____
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Answer: ONES
25D: "37. Love, in Lugo"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that (roman mythology) god of love; counterpart of greek eros
- Similar words include: Cupid
- Pattern: ____
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Answer: AMOR
26D: "38. Spaniel type"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that the lowest stone in an arch -- from which it springs
- Similar words include: springer spaniel, impost, springing cow
- Pattern: ________
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Answer: SPRINGER
27D: "39. Reclining one"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that being one more than fifty
- Similar words include: fifty-one, li, 51
- Pattern: ____
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Answer: LIER
28D: "40. "___ a deal!""
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that the branch of engineering that deals with the use of computers and telecommunications to retrieve and store and transmit information
- Similar words include: information technology, IT
- Pattern: ___
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Answer: ITS
29D: "43. Flat; level"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that involving two dimensions
- Similar words include: two-dimensional
- Opposite of: cubic
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Answer: PLANAR
30D: "45. "Ten Cents ___," 1930 song"
Solving Hints:
- Pattern: ______
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Answer: ADANCE
31D: "46. Person taking off"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that someone who leaves
- Similar words include: goer, departer
- Pattern: ______
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Answer: LEAVER
32D: "47. Gambler, Ohio, campus"
Solving Hints:
- Pattern: ______
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Answer: KENYON
33D: "49. Haggard classic"
Solving Hints:
- Pattern: ___
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Answer: SHE
34D: "50. "Were it my ___ fight ... ": Shak."
Solving Hints:
- Pattern: _____
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Answer: CUETO
35D: "51. Thespian"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that a theatrical performer
- Similar words include: doer, thespian, worker
- Pattern: _____
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Answer: ACTOR
36D: "54. Yemeni, e.g."
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that a member of a semitic people originally from the arabian peninsula and surrounding territories who speaks arabic and who inhabits much of the middle east and northern africa
- Similar words include: Arabian
- Pattern: ____
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Answer: ARAB
37D: "56. Sailor's greeting"
Solving Hints:
- Pattern: ____
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Answer: AHOY
38D: "57. Diamond base"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that a flexible container with a single opening
- Similar words include: traveling bag, bulge, pocket
- Pattern: ___
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Answer: BAG
39D: "58. Feminists' goal"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that a period marked by distinctive character or reckoned from a fixed point or event
- Similar words include: epoch, geological era, earned run average
- Pattern: ___
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Answer: ERA
40D: "59. H2O"
Solving Hints:
- Pattern: ___
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Answer: WTR
41D: "60. Suffix with Jersey"
Solving Hints:
- Pattern: ___
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Answer: ITE
Puzzle Stats
35 Across
41 Down
76 Total
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