Master the NYT crossword from January 02, 1990 with our expert hint system. We provide synonyms, antonyms, and strategic clues to help you solve without spoiling the fun.
Puzzle Difficulty: Medium
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. Lend a hand"
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: serve, supporter, facilitate
- Pattern: ____
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Answer: HELP
2A: "5. Dear soul"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that young sheep
- Similar words include: Elia, Charles Lamb, dear
- Pattern: ____
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Answer: LAMB
3A: "9. Mom's order re eating"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that a wad of something chewable as tobacco
- Similar words include: chewing, plug, cud
- Pattern: ____
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Answer: CHEW
4A: "13. A k a"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that a name that has been assumed temporarily
- Similar words include: false name, assumed name, also known as
- Pattern: _____
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Answer: ALIAS
5A: "15. Big name in essay writing"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that english essayist (1775-1834)
- Similar words include: Charles Lamb, Lamb
- Pattern: ____
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Answer: ELIA
6A: "16. Singing syllables"
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- Pattern: ____
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Answer: LALA
7A: "17. Weather prediction in Aug."
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- Pattern: _______________
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Answer: HAZYHOTANDHUMID
8A: "20. Doctors' org."
Solving Hints:
- Pattern: ___
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Answer: AMA
9A: "21. Licorice flavoring"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that native to egypt but cultivated widely for its aromatic seeds and the oil from them used medicinally and as a flavoring in cookery
- Similar words include: anise plant, Pimpinella anisum, aniseed
- Pattern: _____
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Answer: ANISE
10A: "22. Tear a passion to tatters"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that give expression or emotion to, in a stage or movie role
- Pattern: _____
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Answer: EMOTE
11A: "23. Hide"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that a natural protective body covering and site of the sense of touch
- Similar words include: scramble, pare, tegument
- Pattern: ____
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Answer: SKIN
12A: "24. TV judge"
Solving Hints:
- Pattern: ______
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Answer: WAPNER
13A: "25. "Rodeo," for one"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that a theatrical representation of a story that is performed to music by trained dancers
- Similar words include: concert dance
- Pattern: ______
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Answer: BALLET
14A: "28. Noah Webster's forte"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that the words that are spoken
- Similar words include: language, actor's line, discussion
- Pattern: _____
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Answer: WORDS
15A: "30. Cross as ___"
Solving Hints:
- Pattern: _____
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Answer: ABEAR
16A: "31. As, to some admen"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that a similar kind; ,
- Similar words include: alike, same, care
- Opposite of: unlike, unalike
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Answer: LIKE
17A: "32. Scot's negative"
Solving Hints:
- Pattern: ___
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Answer: NAE
18A: "35. Vacillates"
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- Pattern: _______________
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Answer: BLOWSHOTANDCOLD
19A: "39. Hankering"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that a yearning for something or to do something
- Similar words include: pine, languish, ache
- Pattern: ___
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Answer: YEN
20A: "40. Chichi"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that showily imitative of art or artists
- Pattern: ____
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Answer: ARTY
21A: "41. Grant Wood, e.g."
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that a native or resident of iowa
- Pattern: _____
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Answer: IOWAN
22A: "42. Ostentatiously colorful"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that (britain) a celebratory reunion feast or entertainment held a college
- Similar words include: garish, gimcrack, tacky
- Pattern: _____
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Answer: GAUDY
23A: "44. Thin layer, as of plastic"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that a thin plate or layer (especially of bone or mineral)
- Pattern: ______
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Answer: LAMINA
24A: "45. Happened to"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that become of; happen to
- Similar words include: betide, befall, bechance
- Pattern: ______
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Answer: BEFELL
25A: "48. Phrase re some fast foods"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that a republic on the western coast of africa on the gulf of guinea; formerly under french control
- Similar words include: Togolese Republic
- Pattern: ____
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Answer: TOGO
26A: "49. Solo"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that isolated from others
- Similar words include: entirely, solely, unequaled
- Pattern: _____
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Answer: ALONE
27A: "50. Asparagus unit"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that a long pointed rod used as a tool or weapon
- Similar words include: gig, lance, shaft
- Pattern: _____
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Answer: SPEAR
28A: "52. "Exodus" hero"
Solving Hints:
- Pattern: ___
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Answer: ARI
29A: "55. Weather term in winter"
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- Pattern: _______________
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Answer: WINDCHILLFACTOR
30A: "58. Ore deposit"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that a deposit of valuable ore occurring within definite boundaries separating it from surrounding rocks
- Similar words include: load
- Pattern: ____
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Answer: LODE
31A: "59. Gen. Rob't ___"
Solving Hints:
- Pattern: ____
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Answer: ELEE
32A: "60. Dough; cabbage"
Solving Hints:
- Pattern: _____
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Answer: MOOLA
33A: "61. Celebrity"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that (astronomy) a celestial body of hot gases that radiates energy derived from thermonuclear reactions in the interior
- Similar words include: leading, sensation, starring
- Pattern: ____
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Answer: STAR
34A: "62. Linen source"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that fiber of the flax plant that is made into thread and woven into linen fabric
- Pattern: ____
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Answer: FLAX
35A: "63. J. Edgar's group"
Solving Hints:
- Pattern: ____
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Answer: GMEN
Down Clues - Strategic Hints (43 clues)
1D: "1. Guffaw, guffaw!"
Solving Hints:
- Pattern: ____
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Answer: HAHA
2D: "2. Jack of TV's "The Dakotas""
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that an ancient country in southwestern asia to the east of the tigris river (in what is modern iran); was known for its warlike people
- Similar words include: Susiana
- Pattern: ____
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Answer: ELAM
3D: "3. One of Judy's girls"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that similar to the striped mullet and takes its place in the caribbean region
- Similar words include: Mugil liza
- Pattern: ____
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Answer: LIZA
4D: "4. Be worthwhile"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that something that remunerates
- Similar words include: yield, compensate, earnings
- Opposite of: default
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Answer: PAY
5D: "5. Admit"
Solving Hints:
- Pattern: _____
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Answer: LETIN
6D: "6. "Oh, woe!""
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that a flat wing-shaped process or winglike part of an organism
- Similar words include: ala, unluckily, unfortunately
- Opposite of: luckily, fortunately
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Answer: ALAS
7D: "7. Golconda"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that excavation in the earth from which ores and minerals are extracted
- Pattern: ____
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Answer: MINE
8D: "8. Terrible"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that that which is below standard or expectations as of ethics or decency
- Similar words include: high-risk, tough, unfit
- Opposite of: unregretful, goodness
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Answer: BAD
9D: "9. Small groups"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that a grouping of a number of similar things
- Similar words include: clop, bunch up, constellate
- Pattern: ______
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Answer: CLUMPS
10D: "10. ___ rye (deli offering)"
Solving Hints:
- Pattern: _____
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Answer: HAMON
11D: "11. Upper crust"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that a group or class of persons enjoying superior intellectual or social or economic status
- Similar words include: elite group, elect
- Pattern: _____
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Answer: ELITE
12D: "12. Heron, for one"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that any of many long-legged birds that wade in water in search of food
- Similar words include: wading bird
- Pattern: _____
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Answer: WADER
13D: "14. Millennial Church members"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that a celibate and communistic christian sect in the united states
- Similar words include: Shaker, United Society of Believers in Christ's Second Appearing, mover and shaker
- Pattern: _______
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Answer: SHAKERS
14D: "18. "Step ___!""
Solving Hints:
- Pattern: ____
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Answer: ONIT
15D: "19. Director"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that the upper part of the human body or the front part of the body in animals; contains the face and brains
- Similar words include: caput, straits, pass
- Opposite of: rear, foot
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Answer: HEAD
16D: "23. Picnic salad"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that basically shredded cabbage
- Similar words include: coleslaw
- Pattern: ____
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Answer: SLAW
17D: "24. Songbird"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that english architect who designed more than fifty london churches (1632-1723)
- Similar words include: jenny wren, Sir Christopher Wren
- Pattern: ____
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Answer: WREN
18D: "25. Pamper"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that a very young child (birth to 1 year) who has not yet begun to walk or talk
- Similar words include: mollycoddle, infant, cocker
- Pattern: ____
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Answer: BABY
19D: "26. Competent"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that (usually followed by `to') having the necessary means or skill or know-how or authority to do something
- Similar words include: capable, able-bodied
- Opposite of: unable
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Answer: ABLE
20D: "27. A Spinks"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that a historical area and former kingdom in northwestern spain
- Pattern: ____
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Answer: LEON
21D: "28. Clever"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that combining clever conception and facetious expression
- Pattern: _____
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Answer: WITTY
22D: "29. All right"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that an endorsement
- Similar words include: all right, sanction, fine
- Opposite of: disapprove
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Answer: OKAY
23D: "31. Nobleman's title"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that terms referring to the judeo-christian god
- Similar words include: God Almighty, master, nobleman
- Opposite of: Lady, noblewoman
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Answer: LORD
24D: "32. "___ lay me down ... ""
Solving Hints:
- Pattern: ____
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Answer: NOWI
25D: "33. Bates or King"
Solving Hints:
- Pattern: ____
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Answer: ALAN
26D: "34. Writer Ferber"
Solving Hints:
- Pattern: ____
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Answer: EDNA
27D: "36. Transport by wagon"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that the act of drawing or hauling something
- Similar words include: draw, haulage, cart
- Pattern: ____
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Answer: HAUL
28D: "37. Illustrative sketch"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that a drawing intended to explain how something works; a drawing showing the relation between the parts
- Similar words include: plot
- Pattern: _______
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Answer: DIAGRAM
29D: "38. Singer Perry"
Solving Hints:
- Pattern: ____
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Answer: COMO
30D: "42. Neuter is one"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that a grammatical category in inflected languages governing the agreement between nouns and pronouns and adjectives; in some languages it is quite arbitrary but in indo-european languages it is usually based on sex or animateness
- Similar words include: sexuality, sex, grammatical gender
- Pattern: ______
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Answer: GENDER
31D: "43. Composer Wilder"
Solving Hints:
- Pattern: ____
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Answer: ALEC
32D: "44. Lallygag"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that a shaped mass of baked bread that is usually sliced before eating
- Similar words include: footle, lounge about, lounge
- Pattern: ____
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Answer: LOAF
33D: "45. Cries lustily"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that shout loudly and without restraint
- Similar words include: yawp, bawl, bellow
- Pattern: _____
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Answer: BAWLS
34D: "46. Prufrock's creator"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that british poet (born in the united states) who won the nobel prize for literature; his plays are outstanding examples of modern verse drama (1888-1965)
- Similar words include: T. S. Eliot, Mary Ann Evans, George Eliot
- Pattern: _____
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Answer: ELIOT
35D: "47. Filmdom family name"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that united states film actress and daughter of henry fonda (born in 1937)
- Similar words include: Henry Fonda, Jane Fonda
- Pattern: _____
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Answer: FONDA
36D: "48. Kind of dialed message"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that a character printer connected to a telegraph that operates like a typewriter
- Similar words include: teletype machine, teletypewriter, teleprinter
- Pattern: _____
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Answer: TELEX
37D: "50. Spot for indoor cats"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that structural member consisting of a continuous horizontal timber forming the lowest member of a framework or supporting structure
- Pattern: ____
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Answer: SILL
38D: "51. Entreaty"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that a humble request for help from someone in authority
- Similar words include: supplication
- Pattern: ____
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Answer: PLEA
39D: "52. Minute particle"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that (physics and chemistry) the smallest component of an element having the chemical properties of the element
- Similar words include: corpuscle, speck, mote
- Pattern: ____
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Answer: ATOM
40D: "53. Part"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that the actions and activities assigned to or required or expected of a person or group
- Similar words include: use, part, character
- Pattern: ____
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Answer: ROLE
41D: "54. Bani-Sadr's homeland"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that a theocratic islamic republic in the middle east in western asia; iran was the core of the ancient empire that was known as persia until 1935; rich in oil
- Similar words include: Islamic Republic of Iran, Persia
- Pattern: ____
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Answer: IRAN
42D: "56. A famous Hugh, for short"
Solving Hints:
- Pattern: ___
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Answer: HEF
43D: "57. Gear tooth"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that a subordinate who performs an important but routine function
- Similar words include: sprocket
- Pattern: ___
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Answer: COG
Puzzle Stats
35 Across
43 Down
78 Total
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