Master the NYT crossword from January 23, 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 (36 clues)
1A: "1. Shopper's mecca"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that a public area set aside as a pedestrian walk
- Similar words include: shopping mall, shopping centre, plaza
- Pattern: ____
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Answer: MALL
2A: "5. Wise ___ owl"
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- Pattern: ____
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Answer: ASAN
3A: "9. Young bull"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that young of domestic cattle
- Similar words include: calfskin, sura
- Pattern: ____
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Answer: CALF
4A: "13. Red as ___"
Solving Hints:
- Pattern: _____
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Answer: ABEET
5A: "15. Tony ___, memorable golfer"
Solving Hints:
- Pattern: ____
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Answer: LEMA
6A: "16. Sheltered at sea"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that on or toward the lee
- Pattern: ____
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Answer: ALEE
7A: "17. His sentence is lengthy"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that a prisoner serving a term of life imprisonment
- Pattern: _____
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Answer: LIFER
8A: "18. Broadway hit of yore, with "The""
Solving Hints:
- Pattern: _________
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Answer: FRONTPAGE
9A: "20. Tropical fish"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that brightly colored tropical freshwater fishes
- Pattern: _____
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Answer: TETRA
10A: "21. Puts in a container"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that enclose in, or as if in, a case
- Similar words include: encase, incase, case
- Pattern: _______
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Answer: ENCASES
11A: "22. Residue"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that the residue that remains when something is burned
- Similar words include: ash tree
- Pattern: ___
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Answer: ASH
12A: "23. Shows fear"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that draw back, as with fear or pain
- Similar words include: quail, funk, flinch
- Pattern: _______
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Answer: CRINGES
13A: "26. "___ for Danny Fisher": Robbins"
Solving Hints:
- Pattern: ______
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Answer: ASTONE
14A: "28. Andrea del ___"
Solving Hints:
- Pattern: _____
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Answer: SARTO
15A: "33. ___ avail"
Solving Hints:
- Pattern: ____
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Answer: TONO
16A: "35. Loni's husband"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that english psychologist whose studies of twins were later said to have used fabricated data (1883-1971)
- Similar words include: Cyril Burt, Cyril Lodowic Burt
- Pattern: ____
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Answer: BURT
17A: "37. Eastern biggies"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that an independent ruler or chieftain (especially in africa or arabia)
- Similar words include: emeer, ameer, emir
- Pattern: _____
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Answer: EMIRS
18A: "38. Lasts"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that put up with something or somebody unpleasant
- Similar words include: last, live on, brook
- Opposite of: enjoy
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Answer: ENDURES
19A: "40. Asseverates"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that report or maintain
- Similar words include: say, allege, aver
- Pattern: _______
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Answer: ALLEGES
20A: "42. Ebbets Field star"
Solving Hints:
- Pattern: _____
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Answer: REESE
21A: "43. Brown, as raw silk"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that a very light brown
- Similar words include: beige
- Pattern: ____
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Answer: ECRU
22A: "45. Stadium in Queens"
Solving Hints:
- Pattern: ____
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Answer: SHEA
23A: "46. Having form without reality"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that an auxiliary verb (such as `can' or `will') that is used to express modality
- Similar words include: modal auxiliary, average, modal verb
- Pattern: _____
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Answer: MODAL
24A: "47. Aboveboard"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that not disposed to cheat or defraud; not deceptive or fraudulent
- Similar words include: true, dependable, fair
- Opposite of: dishonest
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Answer: HONEST
25A: "49. Land holdings"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that everything you own; all of your assets (whether real property or personal property) and liabilities
- Similar words include: estate, land, acres
- Pattern: _______
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Answer: ESTATES
26A: "52. Kind of mask or pipe"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that the state of matter distinguished from the solid and liquid states by: relatively low density and viscosity; relatively great expansion and contraction with changes in pressure and temperature; the ability to diffuse readily; and the spontaneous tendency to become distributed uniformly throughout any container
- Similar words include: bluster, petrol, tout
- Pattern: ___
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Answer: GAS
27A: "55. Oriental"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that lying toward or situated in the east
- Similar words include: easterly
- Opposite of: western
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Answer: EASTERN
28A: "58. Pat or tap"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that the event of something coming in contact with the body
- Similar words include: pinch, speck, relate
- Pattern: _____
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Answer: TOUCH
29A: "60. Behind the scenes"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that a stage area out of sight of the audience
- Similar words include: offstage, wing
- Pattern: _________
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Answer: BACKSTAGE
30A: "62. Gladden"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that fill with high spirits; fill with optimism
- Similar words include: pick up, uplift, intoxicate
- Opposite of: depress
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Answer: ELATE
31A: "63. Lake in Ireland"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that bulky greyish-brown eagle with a short wedge-shaped white tail; of europe and greenland
- Similar words include: white-tailed sea eagle, Haliatus albicilla, gray sea eagle
- Pattern: ____
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Answer: ERNE
32A: "64. Joined"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that fasten or secure with a rope, string, or cord
- Similar words include: even, link up, bond
- Opposite of: untied, disconnect
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Answer: TIED
33A: "65. Fathered"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that make children
- Similar words include: engender, sire, father
- Pattern: _____
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Answer: SIRED
34A: "66. Kind of club"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that great merriment
- Similar words include: gloat, gloating, mirth
- Pattern: ____
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Answer: GLEE
35A: "67. Rival of Henry Ford"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that past times (especially in the phrase `in days of old')
- Similar words include: old
- Pattern: ____
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Answer: OLDS
36A: "68. Tout's concern"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that the likelihood of a thing occurring rather than not occurring
- Similar words include: betting odds
- Pattern: ____
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Answer: ODDS
Down Clues - Strategic Hints (38 clues)
1D: "1. Knights of ___"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that a republic on the island of malta in the mediterranean; achieved independence from the united kingdom in 1964
- Similar words include: Republic of Malta
- Pattern: _____
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Answer: MALTA
2D: "2. "___ Irish Rose""
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that make amends for
- Similar words include: expiate, atone, genus Abies
- Pattern: _____
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Answer: ABIES
3D: "3. Sinistral"
Solving Hints:
- Pattern: __________
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Answer: LEFTHANDED
4D: "4. Ogle's cousin"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that a facial expression of contempt or scorn; the upper lip curls
- Similar words include: sneer
- Pattern: ____
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Answer: LEER
5D: "5. Landon"
Solving Hints:
- Pattern: ___
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Answer: ALF
6D: "6. More tranquil"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that not agitated; without losing self-possession
- Similar words include: unagitated, calm, tranquil
- Pattern: _______
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Answer: SERENER
7D: "7. Surrounded by"
Solving Hints:
- Pattern: _____
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Answer: AMONG
8D: "8. John ___ Garner, former V.P."
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that offensive term for an openly homosexual man
- Similar words include: fairy, pansy, pouf
- Pattern: _____
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Answer: NANCE
9D: "9. Tams"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that a tight-fitting headdress
- Similar words include: jacket crown, crest, jacket
- Pattern: ____
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Answer: CAPS
10D: "10. Amor's wings"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that a flat wing-shaped process or winglike part of an organism
- Similar words include: ala
- Pattern: ____
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Answer: ALAE
11D: "11. Diamond that was rough"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that staying power
- Similar words include: leg, wooden leg, ramification
- Pattern: ____
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Answer: LEGS
12D: "12. Charge"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that a fixed charge for a privilege or for professional services
- Similar words include: tip, bung
- Pattern: ___
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Answer: FEE
13D: "14. Region"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that an extended area of land
- Similar words include: parcel, parcel of land, piece of ground
- Pattern: _____
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Answer: TRACT
14D: "19. Pendent ornament"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that adornment consisting of a bunch of cords fastened at one end
- Pattern: ______
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Answer: TASSEL
15D: "24. Garb for an investiture"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that any loose flowing garment
- Similar words include: gown, drape, vest
- Pattern: ____
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Answer: ROBE
16D: "25. Occupied"
Solving Hints:
- Pattern: _____
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Answer: INUSE
17D: "27. March king"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that a united states bandmaster and composer of military marches (1854-1932)
- Similar words include: March King, John Philip Sousa
- Pattern: _____
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Answer: SOUSA
18D: "29. "Better a ___ of pottage ... ""
Solving Hints:
- Pattern: _____
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Answer: AMESS
19D: "30. College lineman"
Solving Hints:
- Pattern: __________
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Answer: RIGHTGUARD
20D: "31. Sweet bay, e.g."
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that a tall perennial woody plant having a main trunk and branches forming a distinct elevated crown; includes both gymnosperms and angiosperms
- Similar words include: tree diagram, Sir Herbert Beerbohm Tree, shoetree
- Pattern: ____
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Answer: TREE
21D: "32. Greek mountain"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that a mouth or mouthlike opening
- Similar words include: oculus sinister, bone, os
- Pattern: ____
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Answer: OSSA
22D: "33. Six years in the Senate"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that a word or expression used for some particular thing
- Similar words include: full term, terminal figure, condition
- Pattern: ____
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Answer: TERM
23D: "34. ___ -cat (sandlot game)"
Solving Hints:
- Pattern: ____
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Answer: ONEO
24D: "36. Fortuneteller's card"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that any of a set of (usually 72) cards that include 22 cards representing virtues and vices and death and fortune etc.; used by fortunetellers
- Similar words include: tarot card
- Pattern: _____
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Answer: TAROT
25D: "39. Finds new tenants"
Solving Hints:
- Pattern: ______
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Answer: RELETS
26D: "41. Crescent-shaped figure"
Solving Hints:
- Pattern: ____
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Answer: LUNE
27D: "44. Altered"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that cause to change; make different; cause a transformation
- Similar words include: alter, convert, commute
- Opposite of: unchanged, stay
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Answer: CHANGED
28D: "48. Kefauver"
Solving Hints:
- Pattern: _____
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Answer: ESTES
29D: "50. Fracas"
Solving Hints:
- Pattern: _____
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Answer: SETTO
30D: "51. Oregon or Santa Fe"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that a track or mark left by something that has passed
- Similar words include: hang back, get behind, drop behind
- Pattern: _____
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Answer: TRAIL
31D: "53. Performed"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that perform an action, or work out or perform (an action)
- Similar words include: pretend, act as, move
- Opposite of: refrain
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Answer: ACTED
32D: "54. Gets rid of"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that an outbuilding with a single story; used for shelter or storage
- Similar words include: shed, shake off, throw away
- Pattern: _____
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Answer: SHEDS
33D: "55. A peer"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that a british peer ranking below a marquess and above a viscount
- Pattern: ____
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Answer: EARL
34D: "56. Teen woe"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that an inflammatory disease involving the sebaceous glands of the skin; characterized by papules or pustules or comedones
- Pattern: ____
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Answer: ACNE
35D: "57. ___-Ball (amusement-park game)"
Solving Hints:
- Pattern: ____
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Answer: SKEE
36D: "59. Mélange"
Solving Hints:
- Pattern: ____
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Answer: OLIO
37D: "60. What mendicants do"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that call upon in supplication; entreat
- Similar words include: solicit, pray, implore
- Pattern: ___
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Answer: BEG
38D: "61. McMahon and Sullivan"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that a rapid automatic system to detect plastic explosives in passengers' luggage using x-ray technology and computers; designed for use in airports
- Similar words include: male erecticle dysfunction, erectile dysfunction, ED
- Pattern: ___
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Answer: EDS
Puzzle Stats
36 Across
38 Down
74 Total
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