Master the NYT crossword from January 10, 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 (37 clues)
1A: "1. ___ rule (generally)"
Solving Hints:
- Pattern: ___
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Answer: ASA
2A: "4. "___ of God ... ": Herbert"
Solving Hints:
- Pattern: _____
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Answer: ANACT
3A: "9. Command to a dog"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that be around, often idly or without specific purpose
- Similar words include: pose, ride, model
- Opposite of: arise, stand
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Answer: SIT
4A: "12. Carpentry, for one"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that an ability that has been acquired by training
- Similar words include: attainment, acquisition, accomplishment
- Pattern: _____
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Answer: SKILL
5A: "15. Old Portuguese coin"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that the basic unit of money on sao tome e principe
- Pattern: _____
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Answer: DOBRA
6A: "16. Pub order"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that a general name for beer made with a top fermenting yeast; in some of the united states an ale is (by law) a brew of more than 4% alcohol by volume
- Pattern: ___
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Answer: ALE
7A: "17. Children's game"
Solving Hints:
- Pattern: ___________
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Answer: HIDEANDSEEK
8A: "19. Ballerina Slavenska"
Solving Hints:
- Pattern: ___
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Answer: MIA
9A: "20. Draftsman's tool"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that a thin cylindrical pointed writing implement; a rod of marking substance encased in wood
- Pattern: ______
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Answer: PENCIL
10A: "21. Driver's annoyance"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that a roundabout road (especially one that is used temporarily while a main route is blocked)
- Similar words include: roundabout way
- Pattern: ______
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Answer: DETOUR
11A: "23. Doctrine"
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
12A: "25. Construction piece"
Solving Hints:
- Pattern: _____
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Answer: IBEAM
13A: "26. Emulate what Dixie did in 1861"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that withdraw from an organization or communion
- Similar words include: splinter, break away
- Pattern: ______
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Answer: SECEDE
14A: "29. Aged: Abbr."
Solving Hints:
- Pattern: _____
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Answer: AETAT
15A: "31. Blunder"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that to make a mistake or be incorrect
- Similar words include: stray, slip, drift
- Pattern: ___
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Answer: ERR
16A: "32. Traffic sign"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that the event of something ending
- Similar words include: contain, full point, discontinue
- Opposite of: start, continuant consonant
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Answer: STOP
17A: "34. S. Pacific sea"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that a variable color averaging a deep pink
- Similar words include: red coral, precious coral
- Pattern: _____
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Answer: CORAL
18A: "38. Take hold of"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that a fastener (as a buckle or hook) that is used to hold two things together
- Similar words include: clutches, clutch, clench
- Opposite of: unbuckle, unclasp
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Answer: CLASP
19A: "41. Brazilian coffee"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that the former capital and 2nd largest city of brazil; chief brazilian port; famous as a tourist attraction
- Similar words include: Rio de Janeiro
- Pattern: ___
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Answer: RIO
20A: "42. Jack"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that a deceitful and unreliable scoundrel
- Similar words include: scalawag, varlet, rapscallion
- Pattern: _____
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Answer: KNAVE
21A: "43. Rhythm"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that (music) the speed at which a composition is to be played
- Similar words include: pacing, pace
- Pattern: _____
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Answer: TEMPO
22A: "44. A neighbor of Pol."
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that a former communist country in eastern europe and northern asia; established in 1922; included russia and 14 other soviet socialist republics (ukraine and byelorussia and others); officially dissolved 31 december 1991
- Similar words include: Russia, Soviet Union, Union of Soviet Socialist Republics
- Pattern: ____
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Answer: USSR
23A: "46. Receive"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that a return on a shot that seemed impossible to reach and would normally have resulted in a point for the opponent
- Similar words include: begin, start out, pose
- Opposite of: leave, take away
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Answer: GET
24A: "47. Disturbed"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that an unhappy and worried mental state
- Similar words include: bowl over, broken, disturb
- Pattern: _____
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Answer: UPSET
25A: "49. Late bloomers"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that any of various chiefly fall-blooming herbs of the genus aster with showy daisylike flowers
- Similar words include: aster
- Pattern: ______
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Answer: ASTERS
26A: "52. Fiber for textiles"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that tall perennial herb of tropical asia with dark green leaves; cultivated for the fiber from its woody stems that resembles flax
- Similar words include: Chinese silk plant, ramee, China grass
- Pattern: _____
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Answer: RAMIE
27A: "54. Lays by"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that (sports) the act of preventing the opposition from scoring
- Similar words include: salve, save, bring through
- Pattern: _____
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Answer: SAVES
28A: "56. Story handed down"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that a story about mythical or supernatural beings or events
- Similar words include: fable, caption
- Pattern: ______
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Answer: LEGEND
29A: "57. Hard, unctuous preparation"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that a hard medicated paste made of lard or oil mixed with wax or resin
- Pattern: ______
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Answer: CERATE
30A: "60. Pop star from Nigeria"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that a sweetened beverage of diluted fruit juice
- Similar words include: fruit drink
- Pattern: ___
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Answer: ADE
31A: "61. Amusement for children"
Solving Hints:
- Pattern: ___________
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Answer: JUMPINGROPE
32A: "65. Juan or Domingo"
Solving Hints:
- Pattern: ___
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Answer: SAN
33A: "66. Harsh to the taste"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that strong and sharp
- Similar words include: caustic, acid, sulfurous
- Pattern: _____
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Answer: ACRID
34A: "67. Ruhr city"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that a city in western germany; industrial center of the ruhr
- Pattern: _____
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Answer: ESSEN
35A: "68. Explosive"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that explosive consisting of a yellow crystalline compound that is a flammable toxic derivative of toluene
- Similar words include: trinitrotoluene
- Pattern: ___
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Answer: TNT
36A: "69. Ayes"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that an affirmative
- Similar words include: yes
- Opposite of: no
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Answer: YESES
37A: "70. Tennis unit"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that a group of things of the same kind that belong together and are so used
- Similar words include: coif, curing, sic
- Opposite of: rise
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Answer: SET
Down Clues - Strategic Hints (39 clues)
1D: "1. 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
2D: "2. Omit"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that a gait in which steps and hops alternate
- Similar words include: bound off, cut, skim
- Pattern: ____
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Answer: SKIP
3D: "3. Nurse's ___"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that an officer who acts as military assistant to a more senior officer
- Similar words include: adjutant, aide-de-camp, auxiliary
- Pattern: ____
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Answer: AIDE
4D: "4. Confuse"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that mix up or confuse
- Similar words include: puddle, muddle
- Pattern: _____
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Answer: ADDLE
5D: "5. C.P.A.'s interest"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that a radioactive transuranic element synthesized by bombarding curium with carbon ions; 7 isotopes are known
- Similar words include: atomic number 102, no, nobelium
- Opposite of: yes
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Answer: NOS
6D: "6. Presidential nickname"
Solving Hints:
- Pattern: ___
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Answer: ABE
7D: "7. Commendation or honor"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that money available for a client to borrow
- Similar words include: course credit, accredit, deferred payment
- Opposite of: debit, cash
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Answer: CREDIT
8D: "8. Retract"
Solving Hints:
- Pattern: ________
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Answer: TAKEBACK
9D: "9. S. Pacific island group"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that a constitutional monarchy on the western part of the islands of samoa in the south pacific
- Similar words include: Samoan Islands, Independent State of Samoa, Samoa i Sisifo
- Pattern: _____
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Answer: SAMOA
10D: "10. Latin name for Troy"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that an ancient city in asia minor that was the site of the trojan war
- Similar words include: Ilion, Troy
- Pattern: _____
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Answer: ILIUM
11D: "11. Rip apart"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that a drop of the clear salty saline solution secreted by the lacrimal glands
- Similar words include: snap, deplume, rent
- Pattern: ____
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Answer: TEAR
12D: "13. Festina ___ (make haste slowly)"
Solving Hints:
- Pattern: _____
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Answer: LENTE
13D: "14. Fastened a sneaker"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that spin,wind, or twist together
- Similar words include: enlace, lace up, lace
- Opposite of: untwine, unlaced
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Answer: LACED
14D: "18. Padres and Pirates"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that the cardinal number that is the sum of eight and one
- Similar words include: IX, ball club, club
- Pattern: _____
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Answer: NINES
15D: "22. Wyo.'s ___ Range"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that a member of the large western branch of sioux people which was made up of several groups that lived on the plains
- Similar words include: Teton Dakota, Lakota, Teton Sioux
- Pattern: _____
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Answer: TETON
16D: "24. Followers of a Chinese religion"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that an adherent of any branch of taoism
- Similar words include: Taoist, Tao
- Pattern: _______
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Answer: TAOISTS
17D: "26. Dissenting body"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that a subdivision of a larger religious group
- Similar words include: faction, religious order, religious sect
- Pattern: ____
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Answer: SECT
18D: "27. A wife of Al Jolson"
Solving Hints:
- Pattern: ____
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Answer: ERLE
19D: "28. Pack tightly"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that crowd or pack to capacity
- Similar words include: bone up, wad, jam
- Pattern: ____
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Answer: CRAM
20D: "30. Collection of poems"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that a body of poetry that conveys the traditions of a society by treating some epic theme
- Similar words include: epic poem, epic, heroic poem
- Pattern: ____
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Answer: EPOS
21D: "33. Unfeigned"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that proper alignment; the property possessed by something that is in correct or proper alignment
- Similar words include: genuine, dependable, rightful
- Opposite of: untruthful, false
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Answer: TRUE
22D: "35. Craze"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that a feeling of intense anger
- Similar words include: furore, fury, passion
- Pattern: ____
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Answer: RAGE
23D: "36. State"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that report or maintain
- Similar words include: verify, affirm, assert
- Pattern: ____
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Answer: AVER
24D: "37. "___ Do It," 1928 song"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that a brutal terrorist group active in kashmir; fights against india with the goal of restoring islamic rule of india
- Similar words include: allow, Lashkar-e-Taiba, Lashkar-e-Tayyiba
- Opposite of: disallow, prevent
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Answer: LETS
25D: "39. Froth"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that foam or froth on the sea
- Similar words include: froth, suds
- Pattern: _____
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Answer: SPUME
26D: "40. Fop"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that a vain and talkative person (chatters like a parrot)
- Pattern: ________
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Answer: POPINJAY
27D: "45. Black bird"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that large black bird with a straight bill and long wedge-shaped tail
- Similar words include: prey, Corvus corax, pig
- Pattern: _____
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Answer: RAVEN
28D: "48. Beguile"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that induce to have sex
- Similar words include: make, score
- Pattern: ______
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Answer: SEDUCE
29D: "50. Durable fabric"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that a twilled woolen fabric
- Pattern: _____
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Answer: SERGE
30D: "51. Autocrats"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that a male monarch or emperor (especially of russia prior to 1917)
- Similar words include: tsar, czar, tzar
- Pattern: _____
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Answer: TSARS
31D: "52. Kind of fortification"
Solving Hints:
- Pattern: _____
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Answer: REDAN
32D: "53. Representative"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that an active and efficient cause; capable of producing a certain effect
- Similar words include: broker, agentive role, federal agent
- Pattern: _____
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Answer: AGENT
33D: "55. They turn litmus red"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that any of various water-soluble compounds having a sour taste and capable of turning litmus red and reacting with a base to form a salt
- Similar words include: loony toons, acid, superman
- Pattern: _____
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Answer: ACIDS
34D: "56. Hold out"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that the temporal end; the concluding time
- Similar words include: close, concluding, death
- Opposite of: first
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Answer: LAST
35D: "58. Throw lightly"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that the act of flipping a coin
- Similar words include: chuck, cast away, thrash about
- Pattern: ____
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Answer: TOSS
36D: "59. Fencer's weapon"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that a fencing sword similar to a foil but with a heavier blade
- Pattern: ____
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Answer: EPEE
37D: "62. Miniver or Grundy"
Solving Hints:
- Think of something that a form of address for a married woman
- Similar words include: Mrs., Mr, Mr.
- Pattern: ___
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Answer: MRS
38D: "63. Quiche Lorraine, e.g."
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
39D: "64. Suffix with exist"
Solving Hints:
- Pattern: ___
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Answer: ENT
Puzzle Stats
37 Across
39 Down
76 Total
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