Master the NYT crossword from January 06, 1990 with our expert hint system. We provide synonyms, antonyms, and strategic clues to help you solve without spoiling the fun.
Puzzle Difficulty: Moderate
Pro Tip: Start with the fill-in-the-blank clues - they're usually the easiest entry points!
Across Clues - Strategic Hints (39 clues)
1A: "1. Guthrie's restaurateur"
Solving Hints:
- Pattern: _____
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Answer: ALICE
2A: "6. Worn away"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that having an irregularly notched or toothed margin as though gnawed
- Similar words include: toothed, jagged, jaggy
- Pattern: _____
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Answer: EROSE
3A: "11. Pep-rally word"
Solving Hints:
- Pattern: ___
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Answer: RAH
4A: "14. "___ Attraction," 1987 movie"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that bringing death
- Similar words include: fateful, black, calamitous
- Opposite of: nonfatal
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Answer: FATAL
5A: "15. Belief"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that a religious doctrine that is proclaimed as true without proof
- Similar words include: dogma
- Pattern: _____
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Answer: TENET
6A: "16. Abilene-to-Fort Worth dir."
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that the compass point midway between northeast and east
- Similar words include: east northeast
- Pattern: ___
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Answer: ENE
7A: "17. Colorful Boston matriarch"
Solving Hints:
- Pattern: ___________
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Answer: ROSEKENNEDY
8A: "19. Genetic initials"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that (biochemistry) a long linear polymer found in the nucleus of a cell and formed from nucleotides and shaped like a double helix; associated with the transmission of genetic information
- Similar words include: desoxyribonucleic acid, deoxyribonucleic acid
- Pattern: ___
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Answer: DNA
9A: "20. Namesakes of explorer Johnson"
Solving Hints:
- Pattern: ____
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Answer: OSAS
10A: "21. Squealer"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that any of various long-tailed rodents similar to but larger than a mouse
- Similar words include: betray, fink, shit
- Pattern: ___
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Answer: RAT
11A: "22. Funnybone tickler"
Solving Hints:
- Pattern: ______
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Answer: AMUSER
12A: "24. Yvette's boyfriend"
Solving Hints:
- Pattern: ___
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Answer: AMI
13A: "26. Filled the larder"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that have on hand
- Similar words include: stock up, carry, stocked with
- Pattern: _______
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Answer: STOCKED
14A: "27. Hug"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that the act of clasping another person in the arms (as in greeting or affection)
- Similar words include: embracement, sweep up, adopt
- Pattern: _______
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Answer: EMBRACE
15A: "31. Noted German pathologist: 1809-85"
Solving Hints:
- Pattern: _____
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Answer: HENLE
16A: "32. Female ruff"
Solving Hints:
- Pattern: ___
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Answer: REE
17A: "33. Tied securely"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that beat severely with a whip or rod
- Similar words include: strap, lather, lash
- Opposite of: unlash
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Answer: LASHED
18A: "35. College in Mich."
Solving Hints:
- Pattern: ____
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Answer: ALMA
19A: "38. Tin or copper"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that any of several chemical elements that are usually shiny solids that conduct heat or electricity and can be formed into sheets etc.
- Similar words include: metallic element, metallic, alloy
- Opposite of: nonmetallic
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Answer: METAL
20A: "40. Yellow or Checker follower"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that a compartment at the front of a motor vehicle or locomotive where driver sits
- Similar words include: taxi, cabriolet, hack
- Pattern: ___
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Answer: CAB
21A: "41. Stage direction"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that to come or go into
- Similar words include: move into, get in, insert
- Opposite of: drop out, exit
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Answer: ENTER
22A: "42. Envelope abbr."
Solving Hints:
- Pattern: ____
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Answer: ATTN
23A: "43. Milk: Comb. form"
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- Pattern: ______
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Answer: GALACT
24A: "45. Bit for Fido"
Solving Hints:
- Pattern: ___
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Answer: ORT
25A: "46. Writer of "White Shadows""
Solving Hints:
- Pattern: _____
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Answer: YODER
26A: "48. Boot"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that someone who is being trained
- Pattern: _______
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Answer: TRAINEE
27A: "50. Inn name, too often"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that a drop of dew
- Pattern: _______
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Answer: DEWDROP
28A: "52. Nav. vessel designation"
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, the States, United States of America
- Pattern: ___
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Answer: USS
29A: "53. Assume control again"
Solving Hints:
- Pattern: ______
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Answer: REHEAD
30A: "54. Doctrine"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that a belief (or system of beliefs) accepted as authoritative by some group or school
- Similar words include: doctrine, philosophical system, school of thought
- Pattern: ___
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Answer: ISM
31A: "56. Entertainer Lane"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that a french abbot
- Pattern: ____
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Answer: ABBE
32A: "60. The Greatest"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that united states prizefighter who won the world heavyweight championship three times (born in 1942)
- Similar words include: Muhammad Ali, Cassius Marcellus Clay, Cassius Clay
- Pattern: ___
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Answer: ALI
33A: "61. Colorful singer"
Solving Hints:
- Pattern: ___________
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Answer: PEARLBAILEY
34A: "64. N.Y. opera house"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that come together
- Similar words include: see, foregather, assemble
- Opposite of: diverge
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Answer: MET
35A: "65. Locke opus"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that an analytic or interpretive literary composition
- Similar words include: prove, try, examine
- Pattern: _____
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Answer: ESSAY
36A: "66. Fermata"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that a time interval during which there is a temporary cessation of something
- Similar words include: interruption, suspension, intermit
- Pattern: _____
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Answer: PAUSE
37A: "67. "Violets ___ blue""
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that a unit of surface area equal to 100 square meters
- Similar words include: ar, constitute, exist
- Opposite of: differ
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Answer: ARE
38A: "68. "___ Daughter," 1970 film"
Solving Hints:
- Pattern: _____
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Answer: RYANS
39A: "69. Bobby Fischer's game"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that weedy annual native to europe but widely distributed as a weed especially in wheat
- Similar words include: chess game, Bromus secalinus, cheat
- Pattern: _____
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Answer: CHESS
Down Clues - Strategic Hints (39 clues)
1D: "1. A hairdo"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that a rounded thickly curled hairdo
- Similar words include: Afro hairdo
- Pattern: ____
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Answer: AFRO
2D: "2. Thai neighbor"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that a mountainous landlocked communist state in southeastern asia; achieved independence from france in 1949
- Similar words include: Laotian, Lao People's Democratic Republic, Lao
- Pattern: ____
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Answer: LAOS
3D: "3. "___ Long Way to Tipperary""
Solving Hints:
- Pattern: ____
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Answer: ITSA
4D: "4. Lyricist for Gershwin's "Swanee""
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that conqueror of gaul and master of italy (100-44 bc)
- Similar words include: Gaius Julius Caesar, Sidney Caesar, Sid Caesar
- Pattern: ______
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Answer: CAESAR
5D: "5. He has a Grand Exalted Ruler"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that large northern deer with enormous flattened antlers in the male; called `elk' in europe and `moose' in north america
- Similar words include: Alces alces, Cervus elaphus, red deer
- Pattern: ___
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Answer: ELK
6D: "6. Sicilian firebox"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that an inactive volcano in sicily; last erupted in 1961; the highest volcano in europe (10,500 feet)
- Similar words include: Mount Etna, Mt Etna, bunsen
- Pattern: ____
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Answer: ETNA
7D: "7. Lease"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that a payment or series of payments made by the lessee to an owner for use of some property, facility, equipment, or service
- Similar words include: let, snag, take
- Pattern: ____
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Answer: RENT
8D: "8. A follower"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that the smallest whole number or a numeral representing this number
- Similar words include: nonpareil, matchless, unity
- Pattern: ___
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Answer: ONE
9D: "9. Anesthetized"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that cause to be calm or quiet as by administering a sedative to
- Similar words include: tranquilize, sedate, tranquillize
- Opposite of: stimulate
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Answer: SEDATED
10D: "10. Base word"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that a simple form inferred as the common basis from which related words in several languages can be derived by linguistic processes
- Similar words include: root
- Pattern: ______
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Answer: ETYMON
11D: "11. Colorful comedian"
Solving Hints:
- Pattern: __________
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Answer: REDSKELTON
12D: "12. "Bonne ___!""
Solving Hints:
- Pattern: _____
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Answer: ANNEE
13D: "13. Got the word"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that perceive (sound) via the auditory sense
- Similar words include: pick up, try, take heed
- Pattern: _____
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Answer: HEARD
14D: "18. Heath"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that any plant of the genus erica
- Similar words include: true heath
- Pattern: _____
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Answer: ERICA
15D: "23. Bruin of the Pac Ten"
Solving Hints:
- Pattern: _____
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Answer: UCLAN
16D: "25. Shopping center"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that a public area set aside as a pedestrian walk
- Similar words include: center, shopping mall, shopping centre
- Pattern: ____
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Answer: MALL
17D: "26. Jewish month"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that the fifth month of the civil year: the eleventh month of the ecclesiastical year in the jewish calendar (in january and february)
- Similar words include: Shevat
- Pattern: ______
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Answer: SHEBAT
18D: "27. Writer Calderon"
Solving Hints:
- Pattern: ____
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Answer: ERMA
19D: "28. Miler's milieu"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that a meeting at which a number of athletic contests are held
- Similar words include: see, fitting, foregather
- Opposite of: diverge
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Answer: MEET
20D: "29. Colorful Golden Girl"
Solving Hints:
- Pattern: __________
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Answer: BETTYWHITE
21D: "30. Steep slope"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that a steep artificial slope in front of a fortification
- Similar words include: scarp, escarpment, protective embankment
- Pattern: ______
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Answer: ESCARP
22D: "34. Bandleader Kemp"
Solving Hints:
- Pattern: ___
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Answer: HAL
23D: "36. Pure and simple"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that a small pond of standing water
- Similar words include: simple, bare
- Pattern: ____
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Answer: MERE
24D: "37. Prado offering"
Solving Hints:
- Pattern: ____
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Answer: ARTE
25D: "39. Battery terminal"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that a positively charged electrode by which electrons leave an electrical device
- Opposite of: cathode
- Pattern: _____
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Answer: ANODE
26D: "41. An anagram for seat"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that a terrorist organization organized in 1959 by student activists who were dissatisfied with the moderate nationalism of the traditional basque party; want to create an independent homeland in spain's western pyrenees
- Similar words include: eta, Basque Fatherland and Liberty, ETA
- Pattern: ____
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Answer: ETAS
27D: "43. Science of earth measurement"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that the branch of geology that studies the shape of the earth and the determination of the exact position of geographical points
- Pattern: _______
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Answer: GEODESY
28D: "44. Toaster ort"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that a very small quantity of something
- Similar words include: git, lowlife, stinkpot
- Pattern: _____
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Answer: CRUMB
29D: "47. Fabric merchant"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that a dealer in fabrics and sewing materials (and sometimes in clothing and drygoods)
- Pattern: ______
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Answer: DRAPER
30D: "49. O.T. book"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that (old testament) the first of the major hebrew prophets (8th century bc)
- Similar words include: Book of Isaiah
- Pattern: ______
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Answer: ISAIAH
31D: "50. Pinter product"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that a dramatic work intended for performance by actors on a stage
- Similar words include: dramatic play, play, dramatic event
- Pattern: _____
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Answer: DRAMA
32D: "51. He might say: "That's a moray!""
Solving Hints:
- Pattern: _____
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Answer: EELER
33D: "54. An OPEC land"
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
34D: "55. Stallone and Stone"
Solving Hints:
- Pattern: ____
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Answer: SLYS
35D: "57. Colorful comedian Ben"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that blue color or pigment; resembling the color of the clear sky in the daytime
- Similar words include: blueish, bluing, blasphemous
- Pattern: ____
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Answer: BLUE
36D: "58. Catfish Row gal"
Solving Hints:
- Pattern: ____
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Answer: BESS
37D: "59. Poet's "windows of the soul""
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that opinion or judgment
- Similar words include: eye, centre, oculus
- Pattern: ____
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Answer: EYES
38D: "62. "End ___ Man": Willingham"
Solving Hints:
- Pattern: ___
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Answer: ASA
39D: "63. Common headache med."
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that (military) an armored vehicle (usually equipped with caterpillar treads) that is used to transport infantry
- Similar words include: armoured personnel carrier, armored personnel carrier
- Pattern: ___
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Answer: APC
Puzzle Stats
39 Across
39 Down
78 Total
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