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January 16, 1990 NYT Clues Solutions | XWordHint

Master the NYT crossword from January 16, 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 (37 clues)

1A: "1. Mimic"

4 letters Category: Common Word

Solving Hints:

  • Think of something that someone who copies the words or behavior of another
  • Similar words include: imitator, copycat, emulator
  • Pattern: ____
Click to reveal answer
Answer: APER

2A: "5. Bell and Kettle"

3 letters Category: Common Word

Solving Hints:

  • Think of something that informal terms for a mother
  • Similar words include: mama, mamma, momma
  • Pattern: ___
Click to reveal answer
Answer: MAS

3A: "8. Yearned"

5 letters Category: General Knowledge

Solving Hints:

  • Think of something that feel physical pain
  • Similar words include: yearn, ache, yen
  • Pattern: _____
Click to reveal answer
Answer: ACHED

4A: "13. Brood"

4 letters Category: Abbreviation

Solving Hints:

  • Think of something that someone who wastes time
  • Similar words include: lounger, moon around, dillydallier
  • Pattern: ____
Click to reveal answer
Answer: MOPE

5A: "14. Stone"

4 letters Category: Proper Noun

Solving Hints:

  • Think of something that the dressed hairy coat of a mammal
  • Similar words include: hide, pour, fur
  • Pattern: ____
Click to reveal answer
Answer: PELT

6A: "15. Archie or Grace"

5 letters Category: Wordplay

Solving Hints:

  • Think of something that united states composer of works noted for their use of the american vernacular (1893-1969)
  • Similar words include: Marianne Craig Moore, Dudley Moore, Henry Moore
  • Pattern: _____
Click to reveal answer
Answer: MOORE

7A: "16. Certain test"

4 letters Category: Common Word

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: battery-acid, back breaker, dose
  • Pattern: ____
Click to reveal answer
Answer: ACID

8A: "17. Arab chief"

4 letters Category: General Knowledge

Solving Hints:

  • Think of something that an independent ruler or chieftain (especially in africa or arabia)
  • Similar words include: emeer, amir, ameer
  • Pattern: ____
Click to reveal answer
Answer: EMIR

9A: "18. Cat-___-tails"

5 letters Category: Common Word

Solving Hints:

  • Pattern: _____
Click to reveal answer
Answer: ONINE

10A: "19. Trickery"

10 letters Category: Abbreviation

Solving Hints:

  • Pattern: __________
Click to reveal answer
Answer: HOCUSPOCUS

11A: "22. Pokey"

4 letters Category: General Knowledge

Solving Hints:

  • Think of something that a prominent or sensational but short-lived news event
  • Similar words include: invoke, flurry, shift
  • Pattern: ____
Click to reveal answer
Answer: STIR

12A: "23. Polar or ice follower"

3 letters Category: Proper Noun

Solving Hints:

  • Think of something that a tight-fitting headdress
  • Similar words include: roof, detonator, crownwork
  • Pattern: ___
Click to reveal answer
Answer: CAP

13A: "24. Worker for a company"

8 letters Category: Proper Noun

Solving Hints:

  • Think of something that a worker who is hired to perform a job
  • Opposite of: employer
  • Pattern: ________
Click to reveal answer
Answer: EMPLOYEE

14A: "26. Plotted"

7 letters Category: Proper Noun

Solving Hints:

  • Think of something that form intrigues (for) in an underhand manner
  • Similar words include: intrigue, connive, scheme
  • Pattern: _______
Click to reveal answer
Answer: SCHEMED

15A: "30. Rapid in a river"

5 letters Category: Abbreviation

Solving Hints:

  • Pattern: _____
Click to reveal answer
Answer: SAULT

16A: "31. Chat"

8 letters Category: Common Word

Solving Hints:

  • Think of something that light informal conversation for social occasions
  • Similar words include: gab, chitchat, small talk
  • Pattern: ________
Click to reveal answer
Answer: CAUSERIE

17A: "33. Nodule of stone"

5 letters Category: Common Word

Solving Hints:

  • Think of something that (mineralogy) a hollow rock or nodule with the cavity usually lined with crystals
  • Pattern: _____
Click to reveal answer
Answer: GEODE

18A: "36. Abbr. at Kennedy"

3 letters Category: Common Word

Solving Hints:

  • Pattern: ___
Click to reveal answer
Answer: ARR

19A: "37. Emulates a cheerleader"

5 letters Category: Proper Noun

Solving Hints:

  • Think of something that a loud utterance; often in protest or opposition
  • Similar words include: shout, scream, call
  • Pattern: _____
Click to reveal answer
Answer: YELLS

20A: "40. One-tenth of XXX"

3 letters Category: Abbreviation

Solving Hints:

  • Think of something that the cardinal number that is the sum of one and one and one
  • Similar words include: terzetto, troika, trinity
  • Pattern: ___
Click to reveal answer
Answer: III

21A: "41. Italo ___, Italian Fascist leader"

5 letters Category: General Knowledge

Solving Hints:

  • Pattern: _____
Click to reveal answer
Answer: BALBO

22A: "44. "See ___, alligator""

8 letters Category: Common Word

Solving Hints:

  • Pattern: ________
Click to reveal answer
Answer: YOULATER

23A: "47. Brigham or Robert"

5 letters Category: Wordplay

Solving Hints:

  • Think of something that any immature animal
  • Similar words include: untested, Thomas Young, Loretta Young
  • Opposite of: aged, old
Click to reveal answer
Answer: YOUNG

24A: "50. Altar boy"

7 letters Category: General Knowledge

Solving Hints:

  • Think of something that someone who assists a priest or minister in a liturgical service; a cleric ordained in the highest of the minor orders in the roman catholic church but not in the anglican church or the eastern orthodox churches
  • Pattern: _______
Click to reveal answer
Answer: ACOLYTE

25A: "51. Fortify"

8 letters Category: Common Word

Solving Hints:

  • Think of something that fortify by furnishing with battlements for defense
  • Pattern: ________
Click to reveal answer
Answer: EMBATTLE

26A: "54. Charpoy"

3 letters Category: General Knowledge

Solving Hints:

  • Think of something that a sheath worn to protect a finger
  • Similar words include: camp bed, crib, fingerstall
  • Pattern: ___
Click to reveal answer
Answer: COT

27A: "55. Overwhelm"

4 letters Category: General Knowledge

Solving Hints:

  • Think of something that a disorderly crowd of people
  • Similar words include: mob, root, rabble
  • Pattern: ____
Click to reveal answer
Answer: ROUT

28A: "56. Olio"

10 letters Category: Abbreviation

Solving Hints:

  • Think of something that a motley assortment of things
  • Similar words include: farrago, odds and ends, jumble
  • Pattern: __________
Click to reveal answer
Answer: HODGEPODGE

29A: "61. Standards"

5 letters Category: General Knowledge

Solving Hints:

  • Think of something that a standard or model or pattern regarded as typical
  • Similar words include: norm, average
  • Pattern: _____
Click to reveal answer
Answer: NORMS

30A: "63. Cribs"

4 letters Category: Wordplay

Solving Hints:

  • Think of something that a container; usually has a lid
  • Similar words include: bank identification number, ABA transit number, bin
  • Pattern: ____
Click to reveal answer
Answer: BINS

31A: "64. Evangelist Roberts"

4 letters Category: Proper Noun

Solving Hints:

  • Think of something that an examination conducted by spoken communication
  • Similar words include: unwritten, oral exam, viva
  • Opposite of: anal, aboral
Click to reveal answer
Answer: ORAL

32A: "65. Aunt in "Oklahoma!""

5 letters Category: Proper Noun

Solving Hints:

  • Pattern: _____
Click to reveal answer
Answer: ELLER

33A: "66. Collections of sayings"

4 letters Category: Abbreviation

Solving Hints:

  • Think of something that type genus of the anatidae: freshwater ducks
  • Similar words include: ana, genus Anas, Ana
  • Pattern: ____
Click to reveal answer
Answer: ANAS

34A: "67. Catch a thief"

4 letters Category: Common Word

Solving Hints:

  • Think of something that horny plate covering and protecting part of the dorsal surface of the digits
  • Similar words include: apprehend, collar, nab
  • Pattern: ____
Click to reveal answer
Answer: NAIL

35A: "68. "Just ___": Nancy Reagan"

5 letters Category: Common Word

Solving Hints:

  • Pattern: _____
Click to reveal answer
Answer: SAYNO

36A: "69. Roman household god"

3 letters Category: Abbreviation

Solving Hints:

  • Pattern: ___
Click to reveal answer
Answer: LAR

37A: "70. "___ boy!""

4 letters Category: Common Word

Solving Hints:

  • Pattern: ____
Click to reveal answer
Answer: ATTA

Down Clues - Strategic Hints (39 clues)

1D: "1. Shanghai nurse"

4 letters Category: Abbreviation

Solving Hints:

  • Think of something that a woman hired to suckle a child of someone else
  • Similar words include: maid, housemaid, wetnurse
  • Pattern: ____
Click to reveal answer
Answer: AMAH

2D: "2. Not much, in Mexico"

4 letters Category: Common Word

Solving Hints:

  • Pattern: ____
Click to reveal answer
Answer: POCO

3D: "3. The "Aeneid," e.g."

4 letters Category: Wordplay

Solving Hints:

  • Think of something that a long narrative poem telling of a hero's deeds
  • Similar words include: heroic poem, heroic, epos
  • Pattern: ____
Click to reveal answer
Answer: EPIC

4D: "4. Solves a "weighty" problem"

7 letters Category: General Knowledge

Solving Hints:

  • Think of something that cut down on; make a reduction in
  • Similar words include: abbreviate, slim down, deoxidize
  • Opposite of: expand, blow up
Click to reveal answer
Answer: REDUCES

5D: "5. Off. note"

4 letters Category: Common Word

Solving Hints:

  • Think of something that a written proposal or reminder
  • Similar words include: memoranda, memorandum
  • Pattern: ____
Click to reveal answer
Answer: MEMO

6D: "6. Movie restaurateur"

5 letters Category: Abbreviation

Solving Hints:

  • Pattern: _____
Click to reveal answer
Answer: ALICE

7D: "7. Plays the banjo"

6 letters Category: Wordplay

Solving Hints:

  • Think of something that sound of strumming
  • Similar words include: thrum, strum
  • Pattern: ______
Click to reveal answer
Answer: STRUMS

8D: "8. Latin I word"

3 letters Category: General Knowledge

Solving Hints:

  • Pattern: ___
Click to reveal answer
Answer: AMO

9D: "9. Kind of table"

7 letters Category: Proper Noun

Solving Hints:

  • Think of something that a small table fixed to a wall or designed to stand against a wall
  • Similar words include: cabinet, console table, soothe
  • Pattern: _______
Click to reveal answer
Answer: CONSOLE

10D: "10. Giddy or haughty"

10 letters Category: Proper Noun

Solving Hints:

  • Pattern: __________
Click to reveal answer
Answer: HOITYTOITY

11D: "11. Athlete Banks or Nevers"

5 letters Category: Abbreviation

Solving Hints:

  • Pattern: _____
Click to reveal answer
Answer: ERNIE

12D: "12. Steel-plow inventor"

5 letters Category: Abbreviation

Solving Hints:

  • Think of something that united states industrialist who manufactured plows suitable for working the prairie soil (1804-1886)
  • Similar words include: John Deere
  • Pattern: _____
Click to reveal answer
Answer: DEERE

13D: "14. Piquant"

7 letters Category: Proper Noun

Solving Hints:

  • Think of something that having the piquant burning taste of peppers
  • Pattern: _______
Click to reveal answer
Answer: PEPPERY

14D: "20. Identical"

4 letters Category: General Knowledge

Solving Hints:

  • Think of something that a member of an indigenous nomadic people living in northern scandinavia and herding reindeer
  • Similar words include: Lapp, Lapplander, Sami
  • Opposite of: unlike, other
Click to reveal answer
Answer: SAME

15D: "21. Resort of a sort"

3 letters Category: General Knowledge

Solving Hints:

  • Think of something that a health resort near a spring or at the seaside
  • Similar words include: watering hole, health spa, watering place
  • Pattern: ___
Click to reveal answer
Answer: SPA

16D: "25. Box for fruit"

3 letters Category: Abbreviation

Solving Hints:

  • Think of something that ancient celtic god
  • Similar words include: lugsail, block, lugworm
  • Opposite of: unstuff
Click to reveal answer
Answer: LUG

17D: "26. Plant disease"

4 letters Category: Abbreviation

Solving Hints:

  • Think of something that someone who works (or provides workers) during a strike
  • Similar words include: blackleg, rat, fink
  • Pattern: ____
Click to reveal answer
Answer: SCAB

18D: "27. Pedro's face"

4 letters Category: General Knowledge

Solving Hints:

  • Pattern: ____
Click to reveal answer
Answer: CARA

19D: "28. Tumult"

10 letters Category: Wordplay

Solving Hints:

  • Pattern: __________
Click to reveal answer
Answer: HURLYBURLY

20D: "29. What Caesar cast"

3 letters Category: General Knowledge

Solving Hints:

  • Think of something that a small cube with 1 to 6 spots on the six faces; used in gambling to generate random numbers
  • Similar words include: become flat, pall, break down
  • Opposite of: be born
Click to reveal answer
Answer: DIE

21D: "32. Bridge expert Culbertson"

3 letters Category: Common Word

Solving Hints:

  • Pattern: ___
Click to reveal answer
Answer: ELY

22D: "34. ___ of Worms: 1521"

4 letters Category: Wordplay

Solving Hints:

  • Think of something that a prescribed selection of foods
  • Similar words include: dieting
  • Pattern: ____
Click to reveal answer
Answer: DIET

23D: "35. Ireland, to a Gael"

4 letters Category: General Knowledge

Solving Hints:

  • Think of something that a republic consisting of 26 of 32 counties comprising the island of ireland; achieved independence from the united kingdom in 1921
  • Similar words include: Irish Republic, Republic of Ireland, Ireland
  • Pattern: ____
Click to reveal answer
Answer: EIRE

24D: "38. Mauna ___"

3 letters Category: General Knowledge

Solving Hints:

  • Pattern: ___
Click to reveal answer
Answer: LOA

25D: "39. It has a "sweet smell""

7 letters Category: Proper Noun

Solving Hints:

  • Think of something that an event that accomplishes its intended purpose
  • Similar words include: achiever, succeeder, winner
  • Opposite of: loser, failure
Click to reveal answer
Answer: SUCCESS

26D: "42. Gondoliers"

7 letters Category: Wordplay

Solving Hints:

  • Think of something that someone who drives or rides in a boat
  • Similar words include: boatman, boater, waterman
  • Pattern: _______
Click to reveal answer
Answer: BOATMEN

27D: "43. "Include me ___": Sam Goldwyn"

3 letters Category: Proper Noun

Solving Hints:

  • Think of something that (baseball) a failure by a batter or runner to reach a base safely in baseball
  • Similar words include: come out of the closet, stunned, away
  • Opposite of: safe
Click to reveal answer
Answer: OUT

28D: "45. Chicago attraction"

4 letters Category: Wordplay

Solving Hints:

  • Think of something that fastener consisting of a metal ring for lining a small hole to permit the attachment of cords or lines
  • Similar words include: intertwine, grummet, iteration
  • Opposite of: open circuit, uncoil
Click to reveal answer
Answer: LOOP

29D: "46. City in central Pa."

7 letters Category: Proper Noun

Solving Hints:

  • Think of something that a town in central pennsylvania
  • Pattern: _______
Click to reveal answer
Answer: ALTOONA

30D: "48. Certain degree"

3 letters Category: Wordplay

Solving Hints:

  • Think of something that last or greatest in an indefinitely large series
  • Similar words include: n-th
  • Pattern: ___
Click to reveal answer
Answer: NTH

31D: "49. Worldwide"

6 letters Category: General Knowledge

Solving Hints:

  • Think of something that involving the entire earth; not limited or provincial in scope
  • Similar words include: planetary, worldwide, world
  • Pattern: ______
Click to reveal answer
Answer: GLOBAL

32D: "51. Sea birds"

5 letters Category: General Knowledge

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: _____
Click to reveal answer
Answer: ERNES

33D: "52. Scratch"

5 letters Category: Proper Noun

Solving Hints:

  • Pattern: _____
Click to reveal answer
Answer: MOOLA

34D: "53. Suburb of Minneapolis"

5 letters Category: Abbreviation

Solving Hints:

  • Pattern: _____
Click to reveal answer
Answer: EDINA

35D: "57. Growl"

4 letters Category: Proper Noun

Solving Hints:

  • Pattern: ____
Click to reveal answer
Answer: GNAR

36D: "58. Mild oath"

4 letters Category: Wordplay

Solving Hints:

  • Pattern: ____
Click to reveal answer
Answer: DRAT

37D: "59. Pace"

4 letters Category: General Knowledge

Solving Hints:

  • Think of something that the rate of moving (especially walking or running)
  • Similar words include: pace
  • Pattern: ____
Click to reveal answer
Answer: GAIT

38D: "60. Actress Raines"

4 letters Category: General Knowledge

Solving Hints:

  • Pattern: ____
Click to reveal answer
Answer: ELLA

39D: "62. Hit sign"

3 letters Category: Abbreviation

Solving Hints:

  • Pattern: ___
Click to reveal answer
Answer: SRO

Puzzle Stats

37 Across
39 Down
76 Total

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Puzzle Overview & Difficulty Analysis

Date: Saturday, October 05, 2019

Difficulty Level: Moderate Wednesday Puzzle

Total Clues: 68 (31 Across, 37 Down)

Average Word Length: 5.7 letters

Across Clues Explained - Saturday NYT Crossword October 05, 2019

No. Clue Letters
1A 1. Manhattan's ___ D. Roosevelt Park 4
2A 5. Kunis of "That '70s Show" 4
3A 9. Had a bad feeling 5
4A 14. Added to the ballot, say 9
5A 16. Bulb unit 5
6A 17. Terminal request 9
7A 18. Escalated 5
8A 19. Ruthlessly aggressive 15
9A 21. Fails to be 4
10A 22. Flag carrier with a 17-hour nonstop flight to London 6
11A 23. Winds up 6
12A 26. Peer group 4
13A 27. Egyptian sky god 5
14A 28. Sticky situations 9
15A 33. Disney president who oversaw the Pixar acquisition 4
16A 34. Part of a ream 5
17A 35. Inner tubes, topologically 4
18A 36. "Get over here now!" 9
19A 38. Submerged ridge 5
20A 39. Wait 4
21A 40. "For real?" 6
22A 41. Gave grief, in a way 6
23A 44. Get back 4
24A 45. The Hagia Sophia was built in it 15
25A 50. Triumphant cry 5
26A 51. Not likely to be upset 9
27A 52. One end of the railway in "The Bridge on the River Kwai" 5
28A 53. Euphoric state 9
29A 54. State 5
30A 55. Feature of many a diary 4
31A 56. In a jiffy 4

Let's Solve the Across Clues Together!

Here are helpful hints to solve each clue. Remember, crossword puzzles are like word games - have fun with them!

Clue 1 Across: "1. Manhattan's ___ D. Roosevelt Park"

Quick Info: This answer has 4 letters. It's a medium clue about general knowledge.

Here's how to solve it:

  • The word looks like this: ____
  • Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
  • Ready for the answer? Click here!

    The answer is: SARA

    Great job if you got it right!

Clue 2 Across: "5. Kunis of "That '70s Show""

Quick Info: This answer has 4 letters. It's a medium clue about general knowledge.

Here's how to solve it:

  • The word looks like this: ____
  • Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
  • Ready for the answer? Click here!

    The answer is: MILA

    Great job if you got it right!

Clue 3 Across: "9. Had a bad feeling"

Quick Info: This answer has 5 letters. It's a medium clue about general knowledge.

Here's how to solve it:

  • This could be something that feel physical pain
  • Words that mean the same thing: hurt, ache, suffer
  • The word looks like this: _____
  • Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
  • Ready for the answer? Click here!

    The answer is: ACHED

    Great job if you got it right!

Clue 4 Across: "14. Added to the ballot, say"

Quick Info: This answer has 9 letters. It's a hard clue about general knowledge.

Here's how to solve it:

  • The word looks like this: _________
  • Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
  • Ready for the answer? Click here!

    The answer is: WRITTENIN

    Great job if you got it right!

Clue 5 Across: "16. Bulb unit"

Quick Info: This answer has 5 letters. It's a medium clue about general knowledge.

Here's how to solve it:

  • This could be something that aromatic flower bud of a clove tree; yields a spice
  • Words that mean the same thing: split, clove tree, garlic clove
  • The word looks like this: _____
  • Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
  • Ready for the answer? Click here!

    The answer is: CLOVE

    Great job if you got it right!

Clue 6 Across: "17. Terminal request"

Quick Info: This answer has 9 letters. It's a hard clue about general knowledge.

Here's how to solve it:

  • The word looks like this: _________
  • Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
  • Ready for the answer? Click here!

    The answer is: AISLESEAT

    Great job if you got it right!

Clue 7 Across: "18. Escalated"

Quick Info: This answer has 5 letters. It's a easy clue about general knowledge.

Here's how to solve it:

  • This could be something that move upward
  • Words that mean the same thing: go up, rebel, rise up
  • The opposite would be: go to bed, wane
  • Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
  • Ready for the answer? Click here!

    The answer is: RISEN

    Great job if you got it right!

Clue 8 Across: "19. Ruthlessly aggressive"

Quick Info: This answer has 15 letters. It's a hard clue about general knowledge.

Here's how to solve it:

  • The word looks like this: _______________
  • Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
  • Ready for the answer? Click here!

    The answer is: TAKENOPRISONERS

    Great job if you got it right!

Clue 9 Across: "21. Fails to be"

Quick Info: This answer has 4 letters. It's a medium clue about general knowledge.

Here's how to solve it:

  • The word looks like this: ____
  • Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
  • Ready for the answer? Click here!

    The answer is: ISNT

    Great job if you got it right!

Clue 10 Across: "22. Flag carrier with a 17-hour nonstop flight to London"

Quick Info: This answer has 6 letters. It's a hard clue about general knowledge.

Here's how to solve it:

  • The word looks like this: ______
  • Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
  • Ready for the answer? Click here!

    The answer is: QANTAS

    Great job if you got it right!

Clue 11 Across: "23. Winds up"

Quick Info: This answer has 6 letters. It's a medium clue about general knowledge.

Here's how to solve it:

  • This could be something that the temporal end; the concluding time
  • Words that mean the same thing: fill up, shut, shut down
  • The opposite would be: open
  • Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
  • Ready for the answer? Click here!

    The answer is: CLOSES

    Great job if you got it right!

Clue 12 Across: "26. Peer group"

Quick Info: This answer has 4 letters. It's a medium clue about general knowledge.

Here's how to solve it:

  • This could be something that a body of citizens sworn to give a true verdict according to the evidence presented in a court of law
  • Words that mean the same thing: panel
  • The word looks like this: ____
  • Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
  • Ready for the answer? Click here!

    The answer is: JURY

    Great job if you got it right!

Clue 13 Across: "27. Egyptian sky god"

Quick Info: This answer has 5 letters. It's a medium clue about general knowledge.

Here's how to solve it:

  • This could be something that egyptian solar god with the head of a falcon; the son of osiris and isis
  • The word looks like this: _____
  • Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
  • Ready for the answer? Click here!

    The answer is: HORUS

    Great job if you got it right!

Clue 14 Across: "28. Sticky situations"

Quick Info: This answer has 9 letters. It's a hard clue about general knowledge.

Here's how to solve it:

  • This could be something that a soft wet area of low-lying land that sinks underfoot
  • Words that mean the same thing: mire, morass, quag
  • The word looks like this: _________
  • Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
  • Ready for the answer? Click here!

    The answer is: QUAGMIRES

    Great job if you got it right!

Clue 15 Across: "33. Disney president who oversaw the Pixar acquisition"

Quick Info: This answer has 4 letters. It's a hard clue about general knowledge.

Here's how to solve it:

  • The word looks like this: ____
  • Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
  • Ready for the answer? Click here!

    The answer is: IGER

    Great job if you got it right!

Clue 16 Across: "34. Part of a ream"

Quick Info: This answer has 5 letters. It's a medium clue about general knowledge.

Here's how to solve it:

  • This could be something that a quantity of paper; 24 or 25 sheets
  • The word looks like this: _____
  • Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
  • Ready for the answer? Click here!

    The answer is: QUIRE

    Great job if you got it right!

Clue 17 Across: "35. Inner tubes, topologically"

Quick Info: This answer has 4 letters. It's a medium clue about general knowledge.

Here's how to solve it:

  • This could be something that a ring-shaped surface generated by rotating a circle around an axis that does not intersect the circle
  • Words that mean the same thing: tore, toroid, torus
  • The word looks like this: ____
  • Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
  • Ready for the answer? Click here!

    The answer is: TORI

    Great job if you got it right!

Clue 18 Across: "36. "Get over here now!""

Quick Info: This answer has 9 letters. It's a hard clue about general knowledge.

Here's how to solve it:

  • The word looks like this: _________
  • Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
  • Ready for the answer? Click here!

    The answer is: COMEQUICK

    Great job if you got it right!

Clue 19 Across: "38. Submerged ridge"

Quick Info: This answer has 5 letters. It's a medium clue about general knowledge.

Here's how to solve it:

  • This could be something that a sandbank in a stretch of water that is visible at low tide
  • Words that mean the same thing: shallow, school
  • The word looks like this: _____
  • Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
  • Ready for the answer? Click here!

    The answer is: SHOAL

    Great job if you got it right!

Clue 20 Across: "39. Wait"

Quick Info: This answer has 4 letters. It's a easy clue about general knowledge.

Here's how to solve it:

  • Words that mean the same thing: abide, stay
  • The word looks like this: ____
  • Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
  • Ready for the answer? Click here!

    The answer is: BIDE

    Great job if you got it right!

Clue 21 Across: "40. "For real?""

Quick Info: This answer has 6 letters. It's a hard clue about general knowledge.

Here's how to solve it:

  • The word looks like this: ______
  • Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
  • Ready for the answer? Click here!

    The answer is: THATSO

    Great job if you got it right!

Clue 22 Across: "41. Gave grief, in a way"

Quick Info: This answer has 6 letters. It's a hard clue about general knowledge.

Here's how to solve it:

  • This could be something that answer back in an impudent or insolent manner
  • Words that mean the same thing: sass
  • The word looks like this: ______
  • Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
  • Ready for the answer? Click here!

    The answer is: SASSED

    Great job if you got it right!

Clue 23 Across: "44. Get back"

Quick Info: This answer has 4 letters. It's a medium clue about general knowledge.

Here's how to solve it:

  • This could be something that gather, as of natural products
  • Words that mean the same thing: draw, harvest, glean
  • The word looks like this: ____
  • Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
  • Ready for the answer? Click here!

    The answer is: REAP

    Great job if you got it right!

Clue 24 Across: "45. The Hagia Sophia was built in it"

Quick Info: This answer has 15 letters. It's a expert clue about general knowledge.

Here's how to solve it:

  • The word looks like this: _______________
  • Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
  • Ready for the answer? Click here!

    The answer is: BYZANTINEEMPIRE

    Great job if you got it right!

Clue 25 Across: "50. Triumphant cry"

Quick Info: This answer has 5 letters. It's a medium clue about general knowledge.

Here's how to solve it:

  • The word looks like this: _____
  • Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
  • Ready for the answer? Click here!

    The answer is: IRULE

    Great job if you got it right!

Clue 26 Across: "51. Not likely to be upset"

Quick Info: This answer has 9 letters. It's a hard clue about general knowledge.

Here's how to solve it:

  • The word looks like this: _________
  • Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
  • Ready for the answer? Click here!

    The answer is: TOPSEEDED

    Great job if you got it right!

Clue 27 Across: "52. One end of the railway in "The Bridge on the River Kwai""

Quick Info: This answer has 5 letters. It's a hard clue about geography.

Here's how to solve it:

  • This could be something that a mountainous republic in southeastern asia on the bay of bengal
  • Words that mean the same thing: Union of Burma, Myanmar
  • The word looks like this: _____
  • Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
  • Ready for the answer? Click here!

    The answer is: BURMA

    Great job if you got it right!

Clue 28 Across: "53. Euphoric state"

Quick Info: This answer has 9 letters. It's a hard clue about geography.

Here's how to solve it:

  • The word looks like this: _________
  • Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
  • Ready for the answer? Click here!

    The answer is: CLOUDNINE

    Great job if you got it right!

Clue 29 Across: "54. State"

Quick Info: This answer has 5 letters. It's a easy clue about geography.

Here's how to solve it:

  • This could be something that express in speech
  • Words that mean the same thing: verbalize, utter, verbalise
  • The word looks like this: _____
  • Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
  • Ready for the answer? Click here!

    The answer is: SPEAK

    Great job if you got it right!

Clue 30 Across: "55. Feature of many a diary"

Quick Info: This answer has 4 letters. It's a medium clue about general knowledge.

Here's how to solve it:

  • This could be something that a fastener for a door or lid; a hinged metal plate is fitted over a staple and is locked with a pin or padlock
  • The word looks like this: ____
  • Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
  • Ready for the answer? Click here!

    The answer is: HASP

    Great job if you got it right!

Clue 31 Across: "56. In a jiffy"

Quick Info: This answer has 4 letters. It's a medium clue about general knowledge.

Here's how to solve it:

  • This could be something that in the near future
  • Words that mean the same thing: presently, before long, shortly
  • The word looks like this: ____
  • Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
  • Ready for the answer? Click here!

    The answer is: SOON

    Great job if you got it right!

Solve the Down: NYT Saturday Puzzle October 05, 2019

No. Clue Letters
1D 1. Clock 4
2D 2. Stage highlight 4
3D 3. Reward seeker's concern 4
4D 4. Free 9
5D 5. Accelerator particles 6
6D 6. Like Wile E. Coyote 5
7D 7. Incredible person 4
8D 8. One of the two components of 5-Down 9
9D 9. It stands for something 7
10D 10. First name in westerns 5
11D 11. First of the Minor Prophets 5
12D 12. Medgar who said "You can kill a man, but you can't kill an idea" 5
13D 13. Places for trophies 4
14D 15. Perfect and then some? 6
15D 20. Base boss 5
16D 23. Smart 4
17D 24. Kangaroo, for 22-Across 4
18D 25. City on Utah Lake 4
19D 26. Oomph 5
20D 28. Game with a ball called a quaffle 9
21D 29. Vague expression of empathy 9
22D 30. Ginseng, e.g. 4
23D 31. Times gone by 4
24D 32. Cylindrical construction 4
25D 34. Lull 5
26D 37. Short yardage play, briefly 7
27D 38. Having eaten crow 6
28D 40. Does some course prep? 6
29D 41. Shaved ice ingredient 5
30D 42. Heraldic hue 5
31D 43. Actress Hayek of "Frida" 5
32D 44. Some tow jobs, for short 5
33D 45. Front covers 4
34D 46. Home of The Times-Picayune, informally 4
35D 47. Prefix with -cracy 4
36D 48. Ashcroft's predecessor as attorney general 4
37D 49. Elysium 4

Now Let's Solve the Down Clues!

Down clues go from top to bottom. Use the letters from your across answers to help!

Clue 1 Down: "1. Clock"

Quick Info: This answer has 4 letters. It's a easy clue about general knowledge.

Here's how to solve it:

  • This could be something that a sharp blow
  • The word looks like this: ____
  • Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
  • Ready for the answer? Click here!

    The answer is: SWAT

    Great job if you got it right!

Clue 2 Down: "2. Stage highlight"

Quick Info: This answer has 4 letters. It's a medium clue about general knowledge.

Here's how to solve it:

  • This could be something that an elaborate song for solo voice
  • The word looks like this: ____
  • Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
  • Ready for the answer? Click here!

    The answer is: ARIA

    Great job if you got it right!

Clue 3 Down: "3. Reward seeker's concern"

Quick Info: This answer has 4 letters. It's a medium clue about history.

Here's how to solve it:

  • This could be something that a source of danger; a possibility of incurring loss or misfortune
  • Words that mean the same thing: peril, adventure, put on the line
  • The word looks like this: ____
  • Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
  • Ready for the answer? Click here!

    The answer is: RISK

    Great job if you got it right!

Clue 4 Down: "4. Free"

Quick Info: This answer has 9 letters. It's a medium clue about general knowledge.

Here's how to solve it:

  • The word looks like this: _________
  • Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
  • Ready for the answer? Click here!

    The answer is: ATLEISURE

    Great job if you got it right!

Clue 5 Down: "5. Accelerator particles"

Quick Info: This answer has 6 letters. It's a medium clue about history.

Here's how to solve it:

  • This could be something that an elementary particle responsible for the forces in the atomic nucleus; a hadron with a baryon number of 0
  • Words that mean the same thing: meson, mesotron
  • The word looks like this: ______
  • Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
  • Ready for the answer? Click here!

    The answer is: MESONS

    Great job if you got it right!

Clue 6 Down: "6. Like Wile E. Coyote"

Quick Info: This answer has 5 letters. It's a medium clue about general knowledge.

Here's how to solve it:

  • This could be something that not elegant or graceful in expression
  • Words that mean the same thing: feckless, clumsy, tactless
  • The word looks like this: _____
  • Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
  • Ready for the answer? Click here!

    The answer is: INEPT

    Great job if you got it right!

Clue 7 Down: "7. Incredible person"

Quick Info: This answer has 4 letters. It's a medium clue about general knowledge.

Here's how to solve it:

  • This could be something that a person who has lied or who lies repeatedly
  • Words that mean the same thing: prevaricator
  • The opposite would be: square shooter
  • Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
  • Ready for the answer? Click here!

    The answer is: LIAR

    Great job if you got it right!

Clue 8 Down: "8. One of the two components of 5-Down"

Quick Info: This answer has 9 letters. It's a expert clue about general knowledge.

Here's how to solve it:

  • This could be something that the antiparticle of a quark
  • The word looks like this: _________
  • Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
  • Ready for the answer? Click here!

    The answer is: ANTIQUARK

    Great job if you got it right!

Clue 9 Down: "9. It stands for something"

Quick Info: This answer has 7 letters. It's a hard clue about general knowledge.

Here's how to solve it:

  • This could be something that a word formed from the initial letters of the several words in the name
  • The word looks like this: _______
  • Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
  • Ready for the answer? Click here!

    The answer is: ACRONYM

    Great job if you got it right!

Clue 10 Down: "10. First name in westerns"

Quick Info: This answer has 5 letters. It's a medium clue about general knowledge.

Here's how to solve it:

  • The word looks like this: _____
  • Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
  • Ready for the answer? Click here!

    The answer is: CLINT

    Great job if you got it right!

Clue 11 Down: "11. First of the Minor Prophets"

Quick Info: This answer has 5 letters. It's a medium clue about general knowledge.

Here's how to solve it:

  • This could be something that a minor hebrew prophet (8th century bc)
  • Words that mean the same thing: Book of Hosea
  • The word looks like this: _____
  • Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
  • Ready for the answer? Click here!

    The answer is: HOSEA

    Great job if you got it right!

Clue 12 Down: "12. Medgar who said "You can kill a man, but you can't kill an idea""

Quick Info: This answer has 5 letters. It's a hard clue about general knowledge.

Here's how to solve it:

  • This could be something that united states civil rights worker in mississippi; was killed by a sniper (1925-1963)
  • Words that mean the same thing: Medgar Evers, Medgar Wiley Evers
  • The word looks like this: _____
  • Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
  • Ready for the answer? Click here!

    The answer is: EVERS

    Great job if you got it right!

Clue 13 Down: "13. Places for trophies"

Quick Info: This answer has 4 letters. It's a medium clue about general knowledge.

Here's how to solve it:

  • This could be something that the habitation of wild animals
  • Words that mean the same thing: den, hideaway, hideout
  • The word looks like this: ____
  • Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
  • Ready for the answer? Click here!

    The answer is: DENS

    Great job if you got it right!

Clue 14 Down: "15. Perfect and then some?"

Quick Info: This answer has 6 letters. It's a expert clue about general knowledge.

Here's how to solve it:

  • This could be something that a grammatical category of verbs used to express distinctions of time
  • Words that mean the same thing: tense up, tense, strain
  • The opposite would be: relax, unstrain
  • Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
  • Ready for the answer? Click here!

    The answer is: TENSES

    Great job if you got it right!

Clue 15 Down: "20. Base boss"

Quick Info: This answer has 5 letters. It's a medium clue about general knowledge.

Here's how to solve it:

  • The word looks like this: _____
  • Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
  • Ready for the answer? Click here!

    The answer is: SARGE

    Great job if you got it right!

Clue 16 Down: "23. Smart"

Quick Info: This answer has 4 letters. It's a easy clue about general knowledge.

Here's how to solve it:

  • This could be something that elegance by virtue of being fashionable
  • Words that mean the same thing: voguish, smartness, chicness
  • The word looks like this: ____
  • Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
  • Ready for the answer? Click here!

    The answer is: CHIC

    Great job if you got it right!

Clue 17 Down: "24. Kangaroo, for 22-Across"

Quick Info: This answer has 4 letters. It's a medium clue about general knowledge.

Here's how to solve it:

  • This could be something that a company emblem or device
  • Words that mean the same thing: logotype
  • The word looks like this: ____
  • Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
  • Ready for the answer? Click here!

    The answer is: LOGO

    Great job if you got it right!

Clue 18 Down: "25. City on Utah Lake"

Quick Info: This answer has 4 letters. It's a medium clue about geography.

Here's how to solve it:

  • The word looks like this: ____
  • Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
  • Ready for the answer? Click here!

    The answer is: OREM

    Great job if you got it right!

Clue 19 Down: "26. Oomph"

Quick Info: This answer has 5 letters. It's a easy clue about general knowledge.

Here's how to solve it:

  • This could be something that the liquid part that can be extracted from plant or animal tissue by squeezing or cooking
  • Words that mean the same thing: succus
  • The word looks like this: _____
  • Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
  • Ready for the answer? Click here!

    The answer is: JUICE

    Great job if you got it right!

Clue 20 Down: "28. Game with a ball called a quaffle"

Quick Info: This answer has 9 letters. It's a expert clue about sports.

Here's how to solve it:

  • The word looks like this: _________
  • Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
  • Ready for the answer? Click here!

    The answer is: QUIDDITCH

    Great job if you got it right!

Clue 21 Down: "29. Vague expression of empathy"

Quick Info: This answer has 9 letters. It's a hard clue about general knowledge.

Here's how to solve it:

  • The word looks like this: _________
  • Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
  • Ready for the answer? Click here!

    The answer is: ITHAPPENS

    Great job if you got it right!

Clue 22 Down: "30. Ginseng, e.g."

Quick Info: This answer has 4 letters. It's a medium clue about general knowledge.

Here's how to solve it:

  • This could be something that (botany) the usually underground organ that lacks buds or leaves or nodes; absorbs water and mineral salts; usually it anchors the plant to the ground
  • Words that mean the same thing: stem, ascendant, steady down
  • The opposite would be: descendant
  • Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
  • Ready for the answer? Click here!

    The answer is: ROOT

    Great job if you got it right!

Clue 23 Down: "31. Times gone by"

Quick Info: This answer has 4 letters. It's a medium clue about general knowledge.

Here's how to solve it:

  • This could be something that a period marked by distinctive character or reckoned from a fixed point or event
  • Words that mean the same thing: epoch, era, earned run average
  • The word looks like this: ____
  • Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
  • Ready for the answer? Click here!

    The answer is: ERAS

    Great job if you got it right!

Clue 24 Down: "32. Cylindrical construction"

Quick Info: This answer has 4 letters. It's a medium clue about general knowledge.

Here's how to solve it:

  • This could be something that a cylindrical tower used for storing silage
  • The word looks like this: ____
  • Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
  • Ready for the answer? Click here!

    The answer is: SILO

    Great job if you got it right!

Clue 25 Down: "34. Lull"

Quick Info: This answer has 5 letters. It's a easy clue about general knowledge.

Here's how to solve it:

  • This could be something that a period of calm weather
  • Words that mean the same thing: calm down, still, serenity
  • The opposite would be: active, noisy
  • Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
  • Ready for the answer? Click here!

    The answer is: QUIET

    Great job if you got it right!

Clue 26 Down: "37. Short yardage play, briefly"

Quick Info: This answer has 7 letters. It's a hard clue about abbreviation.

Here's how to solve it:

  • The word looks like this: _______
  • Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
  • Ready for the answer? Click here!

    The answer is: QBSNEAK

    Great job if you got it right!

Clue 27 Down: "38. Having eaten crow"

Quick Info: This answer has 6 letters. It's a medium clue about general knowledge.

Here's how to solve it:

  • This could be something that bring shame or dishonor upon
  • Words that mean the same thing: feign, dishonour, dishonored
  • The opposite would be: honor
  • Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
  • Ready for the answer? Click here!

    The answer is: SHAMED

    Great job if you got it right!

Clue 28 Down: "40. Does some course prep?"

Quick Info: This answer has 6 letters. It's a expert clue about general knowledge.

Here's how to solve it:

  • The word looks like this: ______
  • Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
  • Ready for the answer? Click here!

    The answer is: TEESUP

    Great job if you got it right!

Clue 29 Down: "41. Shaved ice ingredient"

Quick Info: This answer has 5 letters. It's a medium clue about general knowledge.

Here's how to solve it:

  • This could be something that a thick sweet sticky liquid
  • Words that mean the same thing: sirup
  • The word looks like this: _____
  • Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
  • Ready for the answer? Click here!

    The answer is: SYRUP

    Great job if you got it right!

Clue 30 Down: "42. Heraldic hue"

Quick Info: This answer has 5 letters. It's a medium clue about history.

Here's how to solve it:

  • This could be something that a light shade of blue
  • Words that mean the same thing: cerulean, bright blue, sapphire
  • The word looks like this: _____
  • Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
  • Ready for the answer? Click here!

    The answer is: AZURE

    Great job if you got it right!

Clue 31 Down: "43. Actress Hayek of "Frida""

Quick Info: This answer has 5 letters. It's a medium clue about celebrity/entertainment.

Here's how to solve it:

  • The word looks like this: _____
  • Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
  • Ready for the answer? Click here!

    The answer is: SALMA

    Great job if you got it right!

Clue 32 Down: "44. Some tow jobs, for short"

Quick Info: This answer has 5 letters. It's a medium clue about abbreviation.

Here's how to solve it:

  • The word looks like this: _____
  • Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
  • Ready for the answer? Click here!

    The answer is: REPOS

    Great job if you got it right!

Clue 33 Down: "45. Front covers"

Quick Info: This answer has 4 letters. It's a medium clue about general knowledge.

Here's how to solve it:

  • This could be something that top part of an apron; covering the chest
  • Words that mean the same thing: bib, tipple
  • The word looks like this: ____
  • Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
  • Ready for the answer? Click here!

    The answer is: BIBS

    Great job if you got it right!

Clue 34 Down: "46. Home of The Times-Picayune, informally"

Quick Info: This answer has 4 letters. It's a medium clue about general knowledge.

Here's how to solve it:

  • The word looks like this: ____
  • Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
  • Ready for the answer? Click here!

    The answer is: NOLA

    Great job if you got it right!

Clue 35 Down: "47. Prefix with -cracy"

Quick Info: This answer has 4 letters. It's a medium clue about general knowledge.

Here's how to solve it:

  • The word looks like this: ____
  • Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
  • Ready for the answer? Click here!

    The answer is: IDIO

    Great job if you got it right!

Clue 36 Down: "48. Ashcroft's predecessor as attorney general"

Quick Info: This answer has 4 letters. It's a medium clue about history.

Here's how to solve it:

  • This could be something that a city in western nevada at the foot of the sierra nevada mountains; known for gambling casinos and easy divorce and remarriage
  • The word looks like this: ____
  • Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
  • Ready for the answer? Click here!

    The answer is: RENO

    Great job if you got it right!

Clue 37 Down: "49. Elysium"

Quick Info: This answer has 4 letters. It's a easy clue about general knowledge.

Here's how to solve it:

  • This could be something that any place of complete bliss and delight and peace
  • Words that mean the same thing: promised land, Shangri-la, Garden of Eden
  • The word looks like this: ____
  • Still stuck? Remember to use the crossing words to help you!
  • Ready for the answer? Click here!

    The answer is: EDEN

    Great job if you got it right!

Category Breakdown

Category Number of Clues Percentage
General Knowledge 56 82.4%
Geography 4 5.9%
History 4 5.9%
Abbreviation 2 2.9%
Sports 1 1.5%
Celebrity/Entertainment 1 1.5%

Complete Puzzle Statistics

Metric Value
Across Clues 31
Down Clues 37
Total Clues 68
Average Answer Length 5.7 letters
Shortest Answer 4 letters
Longest Answer 15 letters

Fun Tips to Solve Crossword Puzzles!

  • Start with short words first - they're usually easier!
  • Look for clues with blanks to fill in - these are like fill-in-the-blank questions at school
  • When letters cross, they must be the same in both words - this helps you check if you're right!
  • Today is Saturday, and these puzzles are usually moderate level
  • Most clues today are about general knowledge
  • The average word today has about 5 letters
  • Remember: It's okay to take breaks and come back later with fresh eyes!
  • Ask someone for help if you need it - crosswords are more fun with friends!

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Last Updated: September 29, 2025 at 08:39 PM