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January 23, 1990 NYT Clues Solutions | XWordHint

Published on Tuesday, January 23, 1990 • Daily puzzle hints • Crossword clues © The New York Times

Master the NYT crossword from January 23, 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 (36 clues)

1A: "1. Shopper's mecca"

4 letters Category: General Knowledge

Solving Hints:

  • Think of something that a public area set aside as a pedestrian walk
  • Similar words include: shopping mall, shopping centre, plaza
  • Pattern: ____
Click to reveal answer
Answer: MALL

2A: "5. Wise ___ owl"

4 letters Category: General Knowledge

Solving Hints:

  • Pattern: ____
Click to reveal answer
Answer: ASAN

3A: "9. Young bull"

4 letters Category: Proper Noun

Solving Hints:

  • Think of something that young of domestic cattle
  • Similar words include: calfskin, sura
  • Pattern: ____
Click to reveal answer
Answer: CALF

4A: "13. Red as ___"

5 letters Category: Abbreviation

Solving Hints:

  • Pattern: _____
Click to reveal answer
Answer: ABEET

5A: "15. Tony ___, memorable golfer"

4 letters Category: General Knowledge

Solving Hints:

  • Pattern: ____
Click to reveal answer
Answer: LEMA

6A: "16. Sheltered at sea"

4 letters Category: Abbreviation

Solving Hints:

  • Think of something that on or toward the lee
  • Pattern: ____
Click to reveal answer
Answer: ALEE

7A: "17. His sentence is lengthy"

5 letters Category: Wordplay

Solving Hints:

  • Think of something that a prisoner serving a term of life imprisonment
  • Pattern: _____
Click to reveal answer
Answer: LIFER

8A: "18. Broadway hit of yore, with "The""

9 letters Category: General Knowledge

Solving Hints:

  • Pattern: _________
Click to reveal answer
Answer: FRONTPAGE

9A: "20. Tropical fish"

5 letters Category: Proper Noun

Solving Hints:

  • Think of something that brightly colored tropical freshwater fishes
  • Pattern: _____
Click to reveal answer
Answer: TETRA

10A: "21. Puts in a container"

7 letters Category: Common Word

Solving Hints:

  • Think of something that enclose in, or as if in, a case
  • Similar words include: encase, incase, case
  • Pattern: _______
Click to reveal answer
Answer: ENCASES

11A: "22. Residue"

3 letters Category: Abbreviation

Solving Hints:

  • Think of something that the residue that remains when something is burned
  • Similar words include: ash tree
  • Pattern: ___
Click to reveal answer
Answer: ASH

12A: "23. Shows fear"

7 letters Category: Proper Noun

Solving Hints:

  • Think of something that draw back, as with fear or pain
  • Similar words include: quail, funk, flinch
  • Pattern: _______
Click to reveal answer
Answer: CRINGES

13A: "26. "___ for Danny Fisher": Robbins"

6 letters Category: General Knowledge

Solving Hints:

  • Pattern: ______
Click to reveal answer
Answer: ASTONE

14A: "28. Andrea del ___"

5 letters Category: General Knowledge

Solving Hints:

  • Pattern: _____
Click to reveal answer
Answer: SARTO

15A: "33. ___ avail"

4 letters Category: General Knowledge

Solving Hints:

  • Pattern: ____
Click to reveal answer
Answer: TONO

16A: "35. Loni's husband"

4 letters Category: General Knowledge

Solving Hints:

  • Think of something that english psychologist whose studies of twins were later said to have used fabricated data (1883-1971)
  • Similar words include: Cyril Burt, Cyril Lodowic Burt
  • Pattern: ____
Click to reveal answer
Answer: BURT

17A: "37. Eastern biggies"

5 letters Category: General Knowledge

Solving Hints:

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

18A: "38. Lasts"

7 letters Category: Common Word

Solving Hints:

  • Think of something that put up with something or somebody unpleasant
  • Similar words include: last, live on, brook
  • Opposite of: enjoy
Click to reveal answer
Answer: ENDURES

19A: "40. Asseverates"

7 letters Category: Common Word

Solving Hints:

  • Think of something that report or maintain
  • Similar words include: say, allege, aver
  • Pattern: _______
Click to reveal answer
Answer: ALLEGES

20A: "42. Ebbets Field star"

5 letters Category: General Knowledge

Solving Hints:

  • Pattern: _____
Click to reveal answer
Answer: REESE

21A: "43. Brown, as raw silk"

4 letters Category: General Knowledge

Solving Hints:

  • Think of something that a very light brown
  • Similar words include: beige
  • Pattern: ____
Click to reveal answer
Answer: ECRU

22A: "45. Stadium in Queens"

4 letters Category: Wordplay

Solving Hints:

  • Pattern: ____
Click to reveal answer
Answer: SHEA

23A: "46. Having form without reality"

5 letters Category: General Knowledge

Solving Hints:

  • Think of something that an auxiliary verb (such as `can' or `will') that is used to express modality
  • Similar words include: modal auxiliary, average, modal verb
  • Pattern: _____
Click to reveal answer
Answer: MODAL

24A: "47. Aboveboard"

6 letters Category: Common Word

Solving Hints:

  • Think of something that not disposed to cheat or defraud; not deceptive or fraudulent
  • Similar words include: true, dependable, fair
  • Opposite of: dishonest
Click to reveal answer
Answer: HONEST

25A: "49. Land holdings"

7 letters Category: Proper Noun

Solving Hints:

  • Think of something that everything you own; all of your assets (whether real property or personal property) and liabilities
  • Similar words include: estate, land, acres
  • Pattern: _______
Click to reveal answer
Answer: ESTATES

26A: "52. Kind of mask or pipe"

3 letters Category: Wordplay

Solving Hints:

  • Think of something that the state of matter distinguished from the solid and liquid states by: relatively low density and viscosity; relatively great expansion and contraction with changes in pressure and temperature; the ability to diffuse readily; and the spontaneous tendency to become distributed uniformly throughout any container
  • Similar words include: bluster, petrol, tout
  • Pattern: ___
Click to reveal answer
Answer: GAS

27A: "55. Oriental"

7 letters Category: Abbreviation

Solving Hints:

  • Think of something that lying toward or situated in the east
  • Similar words include: easterly
  • Opposite of: western
Click to reveal answer
Answer: EASTERN

28A: "58. Pat or tap"

5 letters Category: General Knowledge

Solving Hints:

  • Think of something that the event of something coming in contact with the body
  • Similar words include: pinch, speck, relate
  • Pattern: _____
Click to reveal answer
Answer: TOUCH

29A: "60. Behind the scenes"

9 letters Category: Wordplay

Solving Hints:

  • Think of something that a stage area out of sight of the audience
  • Similar words include: offstage, wing
  • Pattern: _________
Click to reveal answer
Answer: BACKSTAGE

30A: "62. Gladden"

5 letters Category: Proper Noun

Solving Hints:

  • Think of something that fill with high spirits; fill with optimism
  • Similar words include: pick up, uplift, intoxicate
  • Opposite of: depress
Click to reveal answer
Answer: ELATE

31A: "63. Lake in Ireland"

4 letters Category: Proper Noun

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: ERNE

32A: "64. Joined"

4 letters Category: General Knowledge

Solving Hints:

  • Think of something that fasten or secure with a rope, string, or cord
  • Similar words include: even, link up, bond
  • Opposite of: untied, disconnect
Click to reveal answer
Answer: TIED

33A: "65. Fathered"

5 letters Category: Proper Noun

Solving Hints:

  • Think of something that make children
  • Similar words include: engender, sire, father
  • Pattern: _____
Click to reveal answer
Answer: SIRED

34A: "66. Kind of club"

4 letters Category: Abbreviation

Solving Hints:

  • Think of something that great merriment
  • Similar words include: gloat, gloating, mirth
  • Pattern: ____
Click to reveal answer
Answer: GLEE

35A: "67. Rival of Henry Ford"

4 letters Category: Common Word

Solving Hints:

  • Think of something that past times (especially in the phrase `in days of old')
  • Similar words include: old
  • Pattern: ____
Click to reveal answer
Answer: OLDS

36A: "68. Tout's concern"

4 letters Category: Common Word

Solving Hints:

  • Think of something that the likelihood of a thing occurring rather than not occurring
  • Similar words include: betting odds
  • Pattern: ____
Click to reveal answer
Answer: ODDS

Down Clues - Strategic Hints (38 clues)

1D: "1. Knights of ___"

5 letters Category: Proper Noun

Solving Hints:

  • Think of something that a republic on the island of malta in the mediterranean; achieved independence from the united kingdom in 1964
  • Similar words include: Republic of Malta
  • Pattern: _____
Click to reveal answer
Answer: MALTA

2D: "2. "___ Irish Rose""

5 letters Category: Wordplay

Solving Hints:

  • Think of something that make amends for
  • Similar words include: expiate, atone, genus Abies
  • Pattern: _____
Click to reveal answer
Answer: ABIES

3D: "3. Sinistral"

10 letters Category: Wordplay

Solving Hints:

  • Pattern: __________
Click to reveal answer
Answer: LEFTHANDED

4D: "4. Ogle's cousin"

4 letters Category: General Knowledge

Solving Hints:

  • Think of something that a facial expression of contempt or scorn; the upper lip curls
  • Similar words include: sneer
  • Pattern: ____
Click to reveal answer
Answer: LEER

5D: "5. Landon"

3 letters Category: Abbreviation

Solving Hints:

  • Pattern: ___
Click to reveal answer
Answer: ALF

6D: "6. More tranquil"

7 letters Category: Common Word

Solving Hints:

  • Think of something that not agitated; without losing self-possession
  • Similar words include: unagitated, calm, tranquil
  • Pattern: _______
Click to reveal answer
Answer: SERENER

7D: "7. Surrounded by"

5 letters Category: Proper Noun

Solving Hints:

  • Pattern: _____
Click to reveal answer
Answer: AMONG

8D: "8. John ___ Garner, former V.P."

5 letters Category: Common Word

Solving Hints:

  • Think of something that offensive term for an openly homosexual man
  • Similar words include: fairy, pansy, pouf
  • Pattern: _____
Click to reveal answer
Answer: NANCE

9D: "9. Tams"

4 letters Category: Common Word

Solving Hints:

  • Think of something that a tight-fitting headdress
  • Similar words include: jacket crown, crest, jacket
  • Pattern: ____
Click to reveal answer
Answer: CAPS

10D: "10. Amor's wings"

4 letters Category: Proper Noun

Solving Hints:

  • Think of something that a flat wing-shaped process or winglike part of an organism
  • Similar words include: ala
  • Pattern: ____
Click to reveal answer
Answer: ALAE

11D: "11. Diamond that was rough"

4 letters Category: General Knowledge

Solving Hints:

  • Think of something that staying power
  • Similar words include: leg, wooden leg, ramification
  • Pattern: ____
Click to reveal answer
Answer: LEGS

12D: "12. Charge"

3 letters Category: Wordplay

Solving Hints:

  • Think of something that a fixed charge for a privilege or for professional services
  • Similar words include: tip, bung
  • Pattern: ___
Click to reveal answer
Answer: FEE

13D: "14. Region"

5 letters Category: Abbreviation

Solving Hints:

  • Think of something that an extended area of land
  • Similar words include: parcel, parcel of land, piece of ground
  • Pattern: _____
Click to reveal answer
Answer: TRACT

14D: "19. Pendent ornament"

6 letters Category: Abbreviation

Solving Hints:

  • Think of something that adornment consisting of a bunch of cords fastened at one end
  • Pattern: ______
Click to reveal answer
Answer: TASSEL

15D: "24. Garb for an investiture"

4 letters Category: Abbreviation

Solving Hints:

  • Think of something that any loose flowing garment
  • Similar words include: gown, drape, vest
  • Pattern: ____
Click to reveal answer
Answer: ROBE

16D: "25. Occupied"

5 letters Category: Common Word

Solving Hints:

  • Pattern: _____
Click to reveal answer
Answer: INUSE

17D: "27. March king"

5 letters Category: Common Word

Solving Hints:

  • Think of something that a united states bandmaster and composer of military marches (1854-1932)
  • Similar words include: March King, John Philip Sousa
  • Pattern: _____
Click to reveal answer
Answer: SOUSA

18D: "29. "Better a ___ of pottage ... ""

5 letters Category: Proper Noun

Solving Hints:

  • Pattern: _____
Click to reveal answer
Answer: AMESS

19D: "30. College lineman"

10 letters Category: Common Word

Solving Hints:

  • Pattern: __________
Click to reveal answer
Answer: RIGHTGUARD

20D: "31. Sweet bay, e.g."

4 letters Category: Abbreviation

Solving Hints:

  • Think of something that a tall perennial woody plant having a main trunk and branches forming a distinct elevated crown; includes both gymnosperms and angiosperms
  • Similar words include: tree diagram, Sir Herbert Beerbohm Tree, shoetree
  • Pattern: ____
Click to reveal answer
Answer: TREE

21D: "32. Greek mountain"

4 letters Category: Abbreviation

Solving Hints:

  • Think of something that a mouth or mouthlike opening
  • Similar words include: oculus sinister, bone, os
  • Pattern: ____
Click to reveal answer
Answer: OSSA

22D: "33. Six years in the Senate"

4 letters Category: Common Word

Solving Hints:

  • Think of something that a word or expression used for some particular thing
  • Similar words include: full term, terminal figure, condition
  • Pattern: ____
Click to reveal answer
Answer: TERM

23D: "34. ___ -cat (sandlot game)"

4 letters Category: Common Word

Solving Hints:

  • Pattern: ____
Click to reveal answer
Answer: ONEO

24D: "36. Fortuneteller's card"

5 letters Category: Common Word

Solving Hints:

  • Think of something that any of a set of (usually 72) cards that include 22 cards representing virtues and vices and death and fortune etc.; used by fortunetellers
  • Similar words include: tarot card
  • Pattern: _____
Click to reveal answer
Answer: TAROT

25D: "39. Finds new tenants"

6 letters Category: Proper Noun

Solving Hints:

  • Pattern: ______
Click to reveal answer
Answer: RELETS

26D: "41. Crescent-shaped figure"

4 letters Category: Wordplay

Solving Hints:

  • Pattern: ____
Click to reveal answer
Answer: LUNE

27D: "44. Altered"

7 letters Category: Common Word

Solving Hints:

  • Think of something that cause to change; make different; cause a transformation
  • Similar words include: alter, convert, commute
  • Opposite of: unchanged, stay
Click to reveal answer
Answer: CHANGED

28D: "48. Kefauver"

5 letters Category: Abbreviation

Solving Hints:

  • Pattern: _____
Click to reveal answer
Answer: ESTES

29D: "50. Fracas"

5 letters Category: Common Word

Solving Hints:

  • Pattern: _____
Click to reveal answer
Answer: SETTO

30D: "51. Oregon or Santa Fe"

5 letters Category: Wordplay

Solving Hints:

  • Think of something that a track or mark left by something that has passed
  • Similar words include: hang back, get behind, drop behind
  • Pattern: _____
Click to reveal answer
Answer: TRAIL

31D: "53. Performed"

5 letters Category: Common Word

Solving Hints:

  • Think of something that perform an action, or work out or perform (an action)
  • Similar words include: pretend, act as, move
  • Opposite of: refrain
Click to reveal answer
Answer: ACTED

32D: "54. Gets rid of"

5 letters Category: Common Word

Solving Hints:

  • Think of something that an outbuilding with a single story; used for shelter or storage
  • Similar words include: shed, shake off, throw away
  • Pattern: _____
Click to reveal answer
Answer: SHEDS

33D: "55. A peer"

4 letters Category: Abbreviation

Solving Hints:

  • Think of something that a british peer ranking below a marquess and above a viscount
  • Pattern: ____
Click to reveal answer
Answer: EARL

34D: "56. Teen woe"

4 letters Category: Abbreviation

Solving Hints:

  • Think of something that an inflammatory disease involving the sebaceous glands of the skin; characterized by papules or pustules or comedones
  • Pattern: ____
Click to reveal answer
Answer: ACNE

35D: "57. ___-Ball (amusement-park game)"

4 letters Category: Common Word

Solving Hints:

  • Pattern: ____
Click to reveal answer
Answer: SKEE

36D: "59. Mélange"

4 letters Category: General Knowledge

Solving Hints:

  • Pattern: ____
Click to reveal answer
Answer: OLIO

37D: "60. What mendicants do"

3 letters Category: Wordplay

Solving Hints:

  • Think of something that call upon in supplication; entreat
  • Similar words include: solicit, pray, implore
  • Pattern: ___
Click to reveal answer
Answer: BEG

38D: "61. McMahon and Sullivan"

3 letters Category: Common Word

Solving Hints:

  • Think of something that a rapid automatic system to detect plastic explosives in passengers' luggage using x-ray technology and computers; designed for use in airports
  • Similar words include: male erecticle dysfunction, erectile dysfunction, ED
  • Pattern: ___
Click to reveal answer
Answer: EDS

Puzzle Stats

36 Across
38 Down
74 Total

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Wednesday, January 8, 2025

27452 Wed Jan 08, 2025 NY Times Crossword Clues Hints

Across Clues :

1. Suddenly stopped moving, 6. Japanese noodle, 10. Pronoun that's falling into disuse, 14. Japanese noodle soup, 15. Chicago paper, familiarly, with "the", 16. Virtue signal?, 17. In plain sight, 18. The devil's workshop, it's said, 20. Hiccup, 22. Like tres and cuatro relative to uno and dos, 23. Shade of black, 24. Pasture sound, 27. Casserole topped with guacamole or sour cream, 31. They elevate a choir's performance, 33. www addresses, 34. Comedian's stage performance, 37. Talk excessively, 39. State leader?, 40. Relating to form, 41. Burst of energy, 44. Actress Skye of "Say Anything …", 45. Hole near a sole, 46. Corridor, 48. Surveyor's measure, 49. Home plate is the "fourth" one, 52. Michelle Obama, to Craig Robinson, for short, 53. Common volleyball combo … or 20-, 34- and 41-Across together, 58. Most tacky, 61. Wrinkle remover, 62. Dad humor, perhaps, 63. Bread in a tandoor, 64. Papal vestment, 65. Sacrifice a fly?, 66. Younger Stark daughter on "Game of Thrones", 67. Book often shelved on its side

Down Clues :

1. Word on a gift tag, 2. Shankar who performed at Woodstock, 3. Black cat, maybe, 4. "Fiddler on the Roof" star, 5. Catch in a sting, 6. Soup recipe instruction, 7. Surgeon, informally, 8. Shire resident, 9. Héloise's lover, 10. "Kapow!", 11. Ancient Chinese dynasty, 12. Word with style or fashioned, 13. Sept. and Oct., 19. Element named after the Greek word for "sun", 21. Pitchfork-shaped letters, 24. Place to pick daisies, 25. Mysterious knowledge, 26. Rick of Rickrolling fame, 27. Earl of food storage fame, 28. Southwestern gully, 29. Attacked, as by a tiger, 30. Shakespearean dying words, 32. Party pooper, 35. Flight board posting: Abbr., 36. Near, 38. Personification of darkness, in Greek myth, 42. Cross-country runner's asset, 43. Big ___ (Seton Hall's conference), 47. Portugal's capital, in Portugal, 50. Warrior's weapon, 51. Assignment often graded with a red pen, 53. Not quite broken, say, 54. Mountain above Vulcan's forge, 55. Right-leaning type?: Abbr., 56. Nut that's a source of caffeine, 57. Noneternal flames?, 58. Loops in, in a way, 59. It's not one of the five W's, 60. The "E" of B.C.E.

Break down the NYT Crosswords: January 08, 2025

Let's go into the puzzle, starting with the across clues and answers, followed by the down clues and answers.

Wed Jan 08, 2025 NY Times Crossword Clues Hints
Wed Jan 08, 2025 NY Times Crossword Clues Hints


Across Clues with Answers:

  • The clue is 1. Suddenly stopped moving. Can you find the Answer?

    Here is a hint. It is a word with exactly (5 letters)

    The answer: FROZE

    Possible Answer : freeze_down, suspend, freeze_out, block, immobilise, stop_dead, freeze, immobilize

    Possible Opposite Answer : boil, unblock, unfreeze


  • The clue is 6. Japanese noodle. Can you find the Answer?

    Here is a hint. It is a word with exactly (4 letters)

    The answer: SOBA


  • The clue is 10. Pronoun that's falling into disuse. Can you find the Answer?

    Here is a hint. It is a word with exactly (4 letters)

    The answer: WHOM


  • The clue is 14. Japanese noodle soup. Can you find the Answer?

    Here is a hint. It is a word with exactly (5 letters)

    The answer: RAMEN


  • The clue is 15. Chicago paper, familiarly, with "the". Can you find the Answer?

    Here is a hint. It is a word with exactly (4 letters)

    The answer: TRIB


  • The clue is 16. Virtue signal?. Can you find the Answer?

    Here is a hint. It is a word with exactly (4 letters)

    The answer: HALO

    Possible Answer : annulus, halo, doughnut, aureole, ring, gloriole, anchor_ring, glory, aura, nimbus


  • The clue is 17. In plain sight. Can you find the Answer?

    Here is a hint. It is a word with exactly (5 letters)

    The answer: OVERT

    Possible Answer : open, overt

    Possible Opposite Answer : covert


  • The clue is 18. The devil's workshop, it's said. Can you find the Answer?

    Here is a hint. It is a word with exactly (9 letters)

    The answer: IDLEHANDS


  • The clue is 20. Hiccup. Can you find the Answer?

    Here is a hint. It is a word with exactly (12 letters)

    The answer: MINORPROBLEM


  • The clue is 22. Like tres and cuatro relative to uno and dos. Can you find the Answer?

    Here is a hint. It is a word with exactly (3 letters)

    The answer: MAS

    Possible Answer : Master_of_Arts, MA, momma, mom, mummy, AM, mama, mamma, mum, Artium_Magister, milliampere, Massachusetts, Bay_State, mA, Old_Colony, mammy, mommy, ma


  • The clue is 23. Shade of black. Can you find the Answer?

    Here is a hint. It is a word with exactly (4 letters)

    The answer: COAL

    Possible Answer : coal, ember, char


  • The clue is 24. Pasture sound. Can you find the Answer?

    Here is a hint. It is a word with exactly (3 letters)

    The answer: MAA


  • The clue is 27. Casserole topped with guacamole or sour cream. Can you find the Answer?

    Here is a hint. It is a word with exactly (7 letters)

    The answer: TACOPIE


  • The clue is 31. They elevate a choir's performance. Can you find the Answer?

    Here is a hint. It is a word with exactly (6 letters)

    The answer: RISERS

    Possible Answer : riser_pipe, riser_pipeline, riser, riser_main


  • The clue is 33. www addresses. Can you find the Answer?

    Here is a hint. It is a word with exactly (4 letters)

    The answer: URLS

    Possible Answer : URL, universal_resource_locator, uniform_resource_locator


  • The clue is 34. Comedian's stage performance. Can you find the Answer?

    Here is a hint. It is a word with exactly (10 letters)

    The answer: STANDUPACT


  • The clue is 37. Talk excessively. Can you find the Answer?

    Here is a hint. It is a word with exactly (5 letters)

    The answer: PRATE

    Possible Answer : blabber, prattle, tattle, gabble, chin_music, palaver, maunder, clack, gibber, chatter, piffle, twaddle, blether, idle_talk, tittle-tattle, blab, prate


  • The clue is 39. State leader?. Can you find the Answer?

    Here is a hint. It is a word with exactly (3 letters)

    The answer: TRI


  • The clue is 40. Relating to form. Can you find the Answer?

    Here is a hint. It is a word with exactly (5 letters)

    The answer: MODAL

    Possible Answer : modal_verb, modal_auxiliary, average, modal_auxiliary_verb, modal


  • The clue is 41. Burst of energy. Can you find the Answer?

    Here is a hint. It is a word with exactly (10 letters)

    The answer: POWERSURGE


  • The clue is 44. Actress Skye of "Say Anything …". Can you find the Answer?

    Here is a hint. It is a word with exactly (4 letters)

    The answer: IONE


  • The clue is 45. Hole near a sole. Can you find the Answer?

    Here is a hint. It is a word with exactly (6 letters)

    The answer: EYELET

    Possible Answer : cringle, grommet, grummet, eyelet, eyehole, loop


  • The clue is 46. Corridor. Can you find the Answer?

    Here is a hint. It is a word with exactly (7 letters)

    The answer: HALLWAY

    Possible Answer : hall, hallway


  • The clue is 48. Surveyor's measure. Can you find the Answer?

    Here is a hint. It is a word with exactly (3 letters)

    The answer: ROD

    Possible Answer : rod, gat, retinal_rod, pole, rod_cell, perch


  • The clue is 49. Home plate is the "fourth" one. Can you find the Answer?

    Here is a hint. It is a word with exactly (4 letters)

    The answer: BASE

    Possible Answer : foot, stem, theme, baseborn, immoral, foundation, alkali, ground, home, cornerstone, nucleotide, lowly, stand, bag, root, basis, radical, base, al-Qaeda, al-Qa'ida, root_word, fundament, establish, understructure, found, substructure, humble, al-Qaida, infrastructure, base_of_operations, floor, free-base, mean, groundwork, radix, meanspirited, Qaeda, Base, basal, pedestal


  • The clue is 52. Michelle Obama, to Craig Robinson, for short. Can you find the Answer?

    Here is a hint. It is a word with exactly (3 letters)

    The answer: SIS

    Possible Answer : Si, Systeme_International, International_System, International_System_of_Units, silicon, SI_unit, si, SI_system, te, sister, Systeme_International_d'Unites, SI, ti, sis, atomic_number_14

    Possible Opposite Answer : brother


  • The clue is 53. Common volleyball combo … or 20-, 34- and 41-Across together. Can you find the Answer?

    Here is a hint. It is a word with exactly (12 letters)

    The answer: BUMPSETSPIKE


  • The clue is 58. Most tacky. Can you find the Answer?

    Here is a hint. It is a word with exactly (9 letters)

    The answer: CHEESIEST

    Possible Answer : cheesy, cheap, chintzy, punk, tinny, sleazy, bum, crummy


  • The clue is 61. Wrinkle remover. Can you find the Answer?

    Here is a hint. It is a word with exactly (5 letters)

    The answer: BOTOX

    Possible Answer : Botox, botulinum_toxin_A


  • The clue is 62. Dad humor, perhaps. Can you find the Answer?

    Here is a hint. It is a word with exactly (4 letters)

    The answer: CORN

    Possible Answer : corn_whisky, Zea_mays, maize, clavus, corn_whiskey, corn, Indian_corn, edible_corn


  • The clue is 63. Bread in a tandoor. Can you find the Answer?

    Here is a hint. It is a word with exactly (4 letters)

    The answer: NAAN

    Possible Answer : naan, nan


  • The clue is 64. Papal vestment. Can you find the Answer?

    Here is a hint. It is a word with exactly (5 letters)

    The answer: ORALE


  • The clue is 65. Sacrifice a fly?. Can you find the Answer?

    Here is a hint. It is a word with exactly (4 letters)

    The answer: SWAT

    Possible Answer : swat


  • The clue is 66. Younger Stark daughter on "Game of Thrones". Can you find the Answer?

    Here is a hint. It is a word with exactly (4 letters)

    The answer: ARYA


  • The clue is 67. Book often shelved on its side. Can you find the Answer?

    Here is a hint. It is a word with exactly (5 letters)

    The answer: ATLAS

    Possible Answer : map_collection, atlas_vertebra, Atlas, atlas, telamon, book_of_maps


Down Clues and Answers:

  • The clue is 1. Word on a gift tag. Can you find the Answer?

    Here is a hint. It is a word with exactly (4 letters)

    The answer: FROM

  • The clue is 2. Shankar who performed at Woodstock. Can you find the Answer?

    Here is a hint. It is a word with exactly (4 letters)

    The answer: RAVI

  • The clue is 3. Black cat, maybe. Can you find the Answer?

    Here is a hint. It is a word with exactly (4 letters)

    The answer: OMEN

    Possible Answer: augur, Oman, predict, forecast, prognostication, foretell, omen, bode, prefigure, prognosticate, auspicate, portent, presage, prognostic, Sultanate_of_Oman, foreshadow, Muscat_and_Oman, portend, prodigy, betoken

  • The clue is 4. "Fiddler on the Roof" star. Can you find the Answer?

    Here is a hint. It is a word with exactly (10 letters)

    The answer: ZEROMOSTEL

  • The clue is 5. Catch in a sting. Can you find the Answer?

    Here is a hint. It is a word with exactly (6 letters)

    The answer: ENTRAP

    Possible Answer: trammel, ensnare, trap, entrap, set_up, snare, frame

  • The clue is 6. Soup recipe instruction. Can you find the Answer?

    Here is a hint. It is a word with exactly (4 letters)

    The answer: STIR

    Possible Answer: stir, conjure, splash, invoke, bustle, excite, arouse, conjure_up, shift, call_down, call_forth, put_forward, budge, agitate, stimulate, shake_up, hustle, fuss, shake, raise, touch, bring_up, flurry, ado, evoke

  • The clue is 7. Surgeon, informally. Can you find the Answer?

    Here is a hint. It is a word with exactly (5 letters)

    The answer: ORDOC

  • The clue is 8. Shire resident. Can you find the Answer?

    Here is a hint. It is a word with exactly (5 letters)

    The answer: BILBO

  • The clue is 9. Héloise's lover. Can you find the Answer?

    Here is a hint. It is a word with exactly (7 letters)

    The answer: ABELARD

    Possible Answer: Abelard, Peter_Abelard, Pierre_Abelard

  • The clue is 10. "Kapow!". Can you find the Answer?

    Here is a hint. It is a word with exactly (4 letters)

    The answer: WHAM

    Possible Answer: wham, wallop, whop, whack

  • The clue is 11. Ancient Chinese dynasty. Can you find the Answer?

    Here is a hint. It is a word with exactly (3 letters)

    The answer: HAN

    Possible Answer: Han_dynasty, Han

  • The clue is 12. Word with style or fashioned. Can you find the Answer?

    Here is a hint. It is a word with exactly (3 letters)

    The answer: OLD

    Possible Answer: previous, old, former, quondam, erstwhile, honest-to-god, one-time, sometime, honest-to-goodness, older, onetime, sure-enough, Old

    Possible Opposite Answer : new, young

  • The clue is 13. Sept. and Oct.. Can you find the Answer?

    Here is a hint. It is a word with exactly (3 letters)

    The answer: MOS

    Possible Answer: Mo, MO, minute, mo, bit, Show_Me_State, second, molybdenum, atomic_number_42, Missouri, moment

  • The clue is 19. Element named after the Greek word for "sun". Can you find the Answer?

    Here is a hint. It is a word with exactly (6 letters)

    The answer: HELIUM

    Possible Answer: He, atomic_number_2, helium

  • The clue is 21. Pitchfork-shaped letters. Can you find the Answer?

    Here is a hint. It is a word with exactly (4 letters)

    The answer: PSIS

    Possible Answer: pounds_per_square_inch, psi

  • The clue is 24. Place to pick daisies. Can you find the Answer?

    Here is a hint. It is a word with exactly (6 letters)

    The answer: MEADOW

    Possible Answer: hayfield, meadow

  • The clue is 25. Mysterious knowledge. Can you find the Answer?

    Here is a hint. It is a word with exactly (6 letters)

    The answer: ARCANA

    Possible Answer: secret, arcanum

  • The clue is 26. Rick of Rickrolling fame. Can you find the Answer?

    Here is a hint. It is a word with exactly (6 letters)

    The answer: ASTLEY

  • The clue is 27. Earl of food storage fame. Can you find the Answer?

    Here is a hint. It is a word with exactly (6 letters)

    The answer: TUPPER

  • The clue is 28. Southwestern gully. Can you find the Answer?

    Here is a hint. It is a word with exactly (6 letters)

    The answer: ARROYO

    Possible Answer: arroyo

  • The clue is 29. Attacked, as by a tiger. Can you find the Answer?

    Here is a hint. It is a word with exactly (6 letters)

    The answer: CLAWED

    Possible Answer: clawed, taloned, claw

  • The clue is 30. Shakespearean dying words. Can you find the Answer?

    Here is a hint. It is a word with exactly (4 letters)

    The answer: ETTU

  • The clue is 32. Party pooper. Can you find the Answer?

    Here is a hint. It is a word with exactly (10 letters)

    The answer: SPOILSPORT

    Possible Answer: spoilsport, killjoy, wet_blanket, party_pooper

  • The clue is 35. Flight board posting: Abbr.. Can you find the Answer?

    Here is a hint. It is a word with exactly (3 letters)

    The answer: ARR

  • The clue is 36. Near. Can you find the Answer?

    Here is a hint. It is a word with exactly (4 letters)

    The answer: NIGH

    Possible Answer: nearly, virtually, close, well-nigh, about, almost, near, most, nigh

    Possible Opposite Answer : far

  • The clue is 38. Personification of darkness, in Greek myth. Can you find the Answer?

    Here is a hint. It is a word with exactly (6 letters)

    The answer: EREBUS

    Possible Answer: Erebus

  • The clue is 42. Cross-country runner's asset. Can you find the Answer?

    Here is a hint. It is a word with exactly (7 letters)

    The answer: STAMINA

    Possible Answer: stamina, staying_power, toughness, stamen

  • The clue is 43. Big ___ (Seton Hall's conference). Can you find the Answer?

    Here is a hint. It is a word with exactly (4 letters)

    The answer: EAST

    Possible Answer: eastern_United_States, East, Orient, E, east, eastward, due_east

    Possible Opposite Answer : west

  • The clue is 47. Portugal's capital, in Portugal. Can you find the Answer?

    Here is a hint. It is a word with exactly (6 letters)

    The answer: LISBOA

    Possible Answer: capital_of_Portugal, Lisbon, Lisboa

  • The clue is 50. Warrior's weapon. Can you find the Answer?

    Here is a hint. It is a word with exactly (5 letters)

    The answer: SPEAR

    Possible Answer: lance, fizgig, spear, gig, fishgig, spear_up, shaft

  • The clue is 51. Assignment often graded with a red pen. Can you find the Answer?

    Here is a hint. It is a word with exactly (5 letters)

    The answer: ESSAY

    Possible Answer: seek, examine, prove, assay, try, attempt, try_out, test, essay

  • The clue is 53. Not quite broken, say. Can you find the Answer?

    Here is a hint. It is a word with exactly (4 letters)

    The answer: BENT

    Possible Answer: stoop, deflect, crouch, crumpled, knack, set, dented, flex, turn_away, twist, turn, bend, hang, bent-grass, deform, out_to, bended, dead_set, bow, bent_on, bent, bent_grass

    Possible Opposite Answer : straighten, unbend

  • The clue is 54. Mountain above Vulcan's forge. Can you find the Answer?

    Here is a hint. It is a word with exactly (4 letters)

    The answer: ETNA

    Possible Answer: bunsen_burner, Mt_Etna, bunsen, Etna, Mount_Etna, etna

  • The clue is 55. Right-leaning type?: Abbr.. Can you find the Answer?

    Here is a hint. It is a word with exactly (4 letters)

    The answer: ITAL

  • The clue is 56. Nut that's a source of caffeine. Can you find the Answer?

    Here is a hint. It is a word with exactly (4 letters)

    The answer: KOLA

    Possible Answer: kola_nut_tree, Daba, Kola, Cola_acuminata, kola, Musgoi, goora_nut, kola_nut

  • The clue is 57. Noneternal flames?. Can you find the Answer?

    Here is a hint. It is a word with exactly (4 letters)

    The answer: EXES

    Possible Answer: x, ex-wife, ex-husband, X, ex

  • The clue is 58. Loops in, in a way. Can you find the Answer?

    Here is a hint. It is a word with exactly (3 letters)

    The answer: CCS

    Possible Answer: millilitre, mil, ml, cubic_centimeter, cubic_centimetre, cc, milliliter

  • The clue is 59. It's not one of the five W's. Can you find the Answer?

    Here is a hint. It is a word with exactly (3 letters)

    The answer: HOW

  • The clue is 60. The "E" of B.C.E.. Can you find the Answer?

    Here is a hint. It is a word with exactly (3 letters)

    The answer: ERA

    Possible Answer: epoch, geological_era, earned_run_average, ERA, era

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