Master the NYT crossword from January 26, 1990 with our expert hint system. We provide synonyms, antonyms, and strategic clues to help you solve without spoiling the fun.
Puzzle Difficulty: Challenging
Pro Tip: Start with the fill-in-the-blank clues - they're usually the easiest entry points!
Across Clues - Strategic Hints (37 clues)
1A: "1. Life-jacket stuffing"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that a plant fiber from the kapok tree; used for stuffing and insulation
- Similar words include: white silk-cotton tree, Ceiba pentandra, vegetable silk
- Pattern: _____
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Answer: KAPOK
2A: "6. Respond to an S O S"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that the activity of contributing to the fulfillment of a need or furtherance of an effort or purpose
- Similar words include: facilitate, assistance, service
- Pattern: ____
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Answer: HELP
3A: "10. How wild ones run"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that frenzied as if possessed by a demon
- Similar words include: murderously, possessed, demoniacal
- Pattern: ____
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Answer: AMOK
4A: "14. Solo"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that isolated from others
- Similar words include: solo, only, solitary
- Pattern: _____
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Answer: ALONE
5A: "15. Kind of code"
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: arena, expanse, region
- Pattern: ____
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Answer: AREA
6A: "16. Tidal wave"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that a person who evokes boredom
- Similar words include: eagre, assume, carry
- Opposite of: interest
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Answer: BORE
7A: "17. Prepares potatoes, in a way"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that grains used as food either unpolished or more often polished
- Similar words include: Sir Tim Rice, Elmer Reizenstein, Timothy Miles Bindon Rice
- Pattern: _____
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Answer: RICES
8A: "18. Religious lore"
Solving Hints:
- Pattern: _________
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Answer: HIEROLOGY
9A: "20. Jaunty"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that marked by up-to-dateness in dress and manners
- Similar words include: dapper, spruce, raffish
- Pattern: ______
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Answer: RAKISH
10A: "22. G. O'Hara's pop song: 1918"
Solving Hints:
- Pattern: _______
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Answer: KKKKATY
11A: "23. Milton's serpent monster"
Solving Hints:
- Pattern: ______
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Answer: ELLOPS
12A: "25. Down a comestible"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that take in solid food
- Similar words include: exhaust, consume, rust
- Pattern: ___
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Answer: EAT
13A: "26. Naïve"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that characterized by an inability to mask your feelings; not devious
- Similar words include: uncultured, uncultivated, ingenuous
- Opposite of: disingenuous, artful
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Answer: ARTLESS
14A: "28. Tried for lofty goals"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that have an ambitious plan or a lofty goal
- Similar words include: aim, shoot for, draw a bead on
- Pattern: _______
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Answer: ASPIRED
15A: "32. Where to borrow bks."
Solving Hints:
- Pattern: ___
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Answer: LIB
16A: "33. Manila measures"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that a large quantity of written matter
- Similar words include: ream
- Pattern: _____
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Answer: REAMS
17A: "35. Eight-ball material"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that a hard smooth ivory colored dentine that makes up most of the tusks of elephants and walruses
- Similar words include: pearl, off-white, tusk
- Pattern: _____
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Answer: IVORY
18A: "36. Conductor Buketoff"
Solving Hints:
- Pattern: ____
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Answer: IGOR
19A: "38. Hungarian "cubist""
Solving Hints:
- Pattern: _____
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Answer: RUBIK
20A: "40. French magazine"
Solving Hints:
- Pattern: ____
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Answer: ELLE
21A: "41. Angry fan"
Solving Hints:
- Pattern: _____
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Answer: BOOER
22A: "43. Long-eared S.A. rodents"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that hindu god of death; opposite of kama
- Similar words include: Mara, mara, Dolichotis patagonum
- Pattern: _____
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Answer: MARAS
23A: "45. Celtic Neptune"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that the sea personified; father of manannan; corresponds to welsh llyr
- Similar words include: Lir
- Pattern: ___
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Answer: LER
24A: "46. Annoying"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that so lacking in interest as to cause mental weariness; ; ; ; ; ; - edmund burke; ; - mark twain
- Similar words include: boring, dull, tedious
- Pattern: _______
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Answer: IRKSOME
25A: "48. Tyrannize"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that come down on or keep down by unjust use of one's authority
- Similar words include: crush, suppress, persecute
- Pattern: _______
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Answer: OPPRESS
26A: "50. Piper's due"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that something that remunerates
- Similar words include: give, devote, bear
- Opposite of: default
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Answer: PAY
27A: "51. Like some bills"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that without payment
- Similar words include: amateur, recreational, volunteer
- Opposite of: paid
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Answer: UNPAID
28A: "52. Coincide in part"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that a representation of common ground between theories or phenomena
- Similar words include: intersection, convergence, lap
- Pattern: _______
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Answer: OVERLAP
29A: "55. Mail suits"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that protective covering made of metal and used in combat
- Similar words include: armour, armor
- Pattern: ______
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Answer: ARMORS
30A: "58. Typical Tyson triumphs"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that a very attractive or seductive looking woman
- Similar words include: beauty, sweetheart, kayo
- Pattern: _________
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Answer: KNOCKOUTS
31A: "60. Carroll's "slithy ___""
Solving Hints:
- Pattern: _____
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Answer: TOVES
32A: "61. Moola"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that informal terms for money
- Similar words include: shekels, moolah, dough
- Pattern: ____
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Answer: GELT
33A: "62. Deer: Ger."
Solving Hints:
- Pattern: ____
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Answer: REHE
34A: "63. "While memory holds ___ ... ": Shak."
Solving Hints:
- Pattern: _____
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Answer: ASEAT
35A: "64. Bikini tops"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that an undergarment worn by women to support their breasts
- Similar words include: bra, brassiere, bandeau
- Pattern: ____
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Answer: BRAS
36A: "65. Limned"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that united states actor (born in ireland); father of georgiana emma barrymore (1827-1862)
- Similar words include: draw off, trace, take in
- Opposite of: push, repel
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Answer: DREW
37A: "66. Kin of wimps"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that an insignificant student who is ridiculed as being affected or boringly studious
- Similar words include: nerd, dweeb, swot
- Pattern: _____
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Answer: NERDS
Down Clues - Strategic Hints (37 clues)
1D: "1. Bassist Gary ___"
Solving Hints:
- Pattern: ____
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Answer: KARR
2D: "2. Suffix for margin or Saturn"
Solving Hints:
- Pattern: ____
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Answer: ALIA
3D: "3. Soft-cover volume"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that your personal financial means
- Similar words include: pocket book, purse, handbag
- Pattern: __________
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Answer: POCKETBOOK
4D: "4. Oona or Tip"
Solving Hints:
- Pattern: ______
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Answer: ONEILL
5D: "5. "Big Red Bus" author"
Solving Hints:
- Pattern: _______
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Answer: KESSLER
6D: "6. Gotcha!"
Solving Hints:
- Pattern: ___
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Answer: HAH
7D: "7. Actors Estrada and Rhodes"
Solving Hints:
- Pattern: _____
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Answer: ERIKS
8D: "8. Amaryllis family member"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that plant having a large slender white bulb and flat overlapping dark green leaves; used in cooking; believed derived from the wild allium ampeloprasum
- Similar words include: Allium porrum, scallion
- Pattern: ____
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Answer: LEEK
9D: "9. Inventor of celluloid"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that place temporarily
- Similar words include: park
- Pattern: ______
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Answer: PARKES
10D: "10. ___ absolute (construction oft used by Caesar)"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that the case indicating the agent in passive sentences or the instrument or manner or place of the action described by the verb
- Similar words include: ablative case
- Pattern: ________
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Answer: ABLATIVE
11D: "11. Debatable"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that a hypothetical case that law students argue as an exercise
- Similar words include: arguable, deliberate, debatable
- Pattern: ____
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Answer: MOOT
12D: "12. Bacchic party"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that any act of immoderate indulgence
- Similar words include: splurge, debauch, debauchery
- Pattern: ____
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Answer: ORGY
13D: "13. Lock's buddy"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that metal device shaped in such a way that when it is inserted into the appropriate lock the lock's mechanism can be rotated
- Similar words include: paint, primal, key fruit
- Opposite of: atonality
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Answer: KEY
14D: "19. Giraffe's cousin"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that similar to the giraffe but smaller with much shorter neck and stripe on the legs
- Similar words include: Okapia johnstoni
- Pattern: _____
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Answer: OKAPI
15D: "21. Fire extinguisher"
Solving Hints:
- Pattern: _____
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Answer: HOSER
16D: "24. Psalm, to a prêtre"
Solving Hints:
- Pattern: ______
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Answer: PSAUME
17D: "26. Ironclad defense, usually"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that (law) a defense by an accused person purporting to show that he or she could not have committed the crime in question
- Similar words include: exculpation, excuse, self-justification
- Pattern: _____
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Answer: ALIBI
18D: "27. Harshness"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that something hard to endure
- Similar words include: asperity, grimness, severeness
- Pattern: _____
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Answer: RIGOR
19D: "28. " ... arms/Are strong ___ bands": Longfellow"
Solving Hints:
- Pattern: ______
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Answer: ASIRON
20D: "29. Reinvested in C.D.'s, e.g."
Solving Hints:
- Pattern: __________
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Answer: ROLLEDOVER
21D: "30. Novelist Gardner et al."
Solving Hints:
- Pattern: _____
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Answer: ERLES
22D: "31. Cloth colorers"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that someone whose job is to dye cloth
- Similar words include: dyer
- Pattern: _____
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Answer: DYERS
23D: "34. President of Gabon: 1961-67"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that a master's degree in business
- Similar words include: Master in Business Administration, Master in Business
- Pattern: ___
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Answer: MBA
24D: "37. Social payment"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that (often used with `pay') a formal expression of esteem
- Similar words include: respectfulness, prise, value
- Opposite of: disesteem, disrespect
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Answer: RESPECTS
25D: "39. Greek letter"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that the 10th letter of the greek alphabet
- Pattern: _____
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Answer: KAPPA
26D: "42. "Masters Without Slaves" author"
Solving Hints:
- Pattern: _____
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Answer: ROARK
27D: "44. Frugal"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that a resident of sparta
- Similar words include: severe, ascetic, ascetical
- Pattern: _______
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Answer: SPARTAN
28D: "47. Petruchio, to Kate"
Solving Hints:
- Pattern: ______
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Answer: MYLORD
29D: "49. Having cracks and crevices"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that having a surface covered with a network of cracks and small crevices
- Pattern: ______
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Answer: RIMOSE
30D: "51. Kaufman's "___ Down Staircase""
Solving Hints:
- Pattern: _____
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Answer: UPTHE
31D: "52. Lollapalooza"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that in operation or operational
- Similar words include: unrivalled, unitary, i
- Opposite of: off
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Answer: ONER
32D: "53. Palm or sole"
Solving Hints:
- Pattern: ____
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Answer: VOLA
33D: "54. Violinist Leopold"
Solving Hints:
- Pattern: ____
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Answer: AUER
34D: "56. Peruse"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that something that is read
- Similar words include: translate, register, learn
- Pattern: ____
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Answer: READ
35D: "57. J.F.K. speedsters"
Solving Hints:
- Pattern: ____
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Answer: SSTS
36D: "58. U.S.S.R. security police"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that formerly the predominant security police organization of soviet russia
- Similar words include: Soviet KGB, Committee for State Security
- Pattern: ___
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Answer: KGB
37D: "59. Stitch"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that fasten by sewing; do needlework
- Similar words include: run up, stitch, tailor
- Pattern: ___
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Answer: SEW
Puzzle Stats
37 Across
37 Down
74 Total
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