Saturday, January 16, 1999 | NYT crossword clues answers - Blogs
The Crossword hints blog is an one of the most popular crossword clue puzzles with answers solver. Here are the clues and answers for today nyt puzzle.
Break down the NYT Crosswords: January 16, 1999
Let's go into the puzzle, starting with the across clues and answers, followed by the down clues and answers.
Across Clues and Answers:
- 1. Auditing technique -
Guess, I give you one clue, Clue is (9 letters) word
- 10. Polar irregularity -
Guess, I give you one clue, Clue is (5 letters) word
- 15. Pretentious -
Guess, I give you one clue, Clue is (9 letters) word
Possible Answer : highfaluting, la-di-da, grandiose, highfalutin, hifalutin, hoity-toity
- 16. Ring -
Guess, I give you one clue, Clue is (5 letters) word
Possible Answer : stadium, bowl, sphere, arena, orbit, domain, scene_of_action, area, sports_stadium, field
- 17. Sway -
Guess, I give you one clue, Clue is (9 letters) word
Possible Answer : work, regulate, charm, mold, act_upon, tempt, influence, determine, shape
- 18. Obscure -
Guess, I give you one clue, Clue is (5 letters) word
- 19. Greek letters -
Guess, I give you one clue, Clue is (3 letters) word
- 20. Grp. emphasizing citizenship -
Guess, I give you one clue, Clue is (3 letters) word
- 21. Trial response? -
Guess, I give you one clue, Clue is (7 letters) word
- 23. Part of a proposal -
Guess, I give you one clue, Clue is (5 letters) word
Possible Answer : specs, spectacles, spec, eyeglasses, glasses, specification
- 25. Speaker on the road -
Guess, I give you one clue, Clue is (4 letters) word
- 26. Diner, for one -
Guess, I give you one clue, Clue is (3 letters) word
Possible Answer : railway_car, auto, railcar, railroad_car, elevator_car, machine, car, gondola, motorcar, automobile, cable_car
- 27. Stop on a line: Abbr. -
Guess, I give you one clue, Clue is (3 letters) word
- 28. Bit -
Guess, I give you one clue, Clue is (5 letters) word
Possible Answer : smidgen, rip_up, tag_end, smidgeon, tag, tear_up, smidge, rag, smidgin, scintilla, tatter, whit, tittle, shred, iota
- 30. Figures -
Guess, I give you one clue, Clue is (4 letters) word
Possible Answer : information, data, data_point, datum
- 31. "Hold on!" -
Guess, I give you one clue, Clue is (6 letters) word
- 33. Wounds -
Guess, I give you one clue, Clue is (5 letters) word
Possible Answer : sore
- 34. Trifling consideration -
Guess, I give you one clue, Clue is (13 letters) word
- 37. Map feature -
Guess, I give you one clue, Clue is (5 letters) word
Possible Answer : graduated_table, scurf, plate, weighing_machine, shell, scale_of_measurement, exfoliation, musical_scale, surmount, descale, ordered_series, scale, scale_leaf
- 38. 1993 A.L. batting champ John -
Guess, I give you one clue, Clue is (6 letters) word
- 39. Old flatboats -
Guess, I give you one clue, Clue is (4 letters) word
Possible Answer : Ark_of_the_Covenant, ark, Ark
- 40. About 1.3 cubic yards -
Guess, I give you one clue, Clue is (5 letters) word
- 41. Mil. transport -
Guess, I give you one clue, Clue is (3 letters) word
- 44. Early -
Guess, I give you one clue, Clue is (3 letters) word
Possible Answer : piddle, wee-wee, pee, itty-bitty, teeny-weeny, puddle, bitty, pass_water, urinate, piss, wee, itsy-bitsy, make_water, teensy-weensy, make, teensy, take_a_leak, teentsy, bittie, weeny, weensy, pee-pee, teeny, spend_a_penny, micturate, relieve_oneself
- 45. "The Highwayman" singer -
Guess, I give you one clue, Clue is (4 letters) word
Possible Answer : Adolph_Simon_Ochs, Ochs
- 46. Nursery rhyme food -
Guess, I give you one clue, Clue is (5 letters) word
- 48. Hit 1976 self-titled R. & B. album -
Guess, I give you one clue, Clue is (7 letters) word
- 50. U.S.C.G. rank -
Guess, I give you one clue, Clue is (3 letters) word
- 52. Had an edge -
Guess, I give you one clue, Clue is (3 letters) word
Possible Answer : conduct, go, extend, take, light-emitting_diode, chair, run, guide, lead, result, top, direct, head, pass, conduce, moderate, leave, contribute, precede, LED
Possible Opposite: follow
- 53. Misses -
Guess, I give you one clue, Clue is (5 letters) word
Possible Answer : leave_off, pretermit, omit, neglect, drop, except, miss, leave_out, overleap, overlook, take_out, exclude
- 54. "Tigrane" composer -
Guess, I give you one clue, Clue is (9 letters) word
- 57. "Une ___ mariée" (1964 Godard film) -
Guess, I give you one clue, Clue is (5 letters) word
- 58. Part of some examinations -
Guess, I give you one clue, Clue is (9 letters) word
- 59. Commercial fluorocarbon -
Guess, I give you one clue, Clue is (5 letters) word
Possible Answer : Freon
- 60. Horse races? -
Guess, I give you one clue, Clue is (9 letters) word
Possible Answer : stampede
Down Clues and Answers:
- 1. Leveling devices -
Guess, I give you one clue, Clue is (5 letters) word
Possible Answer: shim
- 2. Big pictures -
Guess, I give you one clue, Clue is (6 letters) word
- 3. Counterbalance -
Guess, I give you one clue, Clue is (6 letters) word
Possible Answer: beginning, setoff, commencement, get-go, branch, starting_time, set-back, cancel, offset_printing, showtime, runner, stolon, outset, set_off, countervail, offshoot, start, first, offset, kickoff, counterbalance, outgrowth
Possible Opposite: middle
- 4. He defeated Botvinnik in 1960 -
Guess, I give you one clue, Clue is (3 letters) word
- 5. Some meeting places -
Guess, I give you one clue, Clue is (5 letters) word
Possible Answer: society, nightclub, nine, guild, clubhouse, golf-club, cabaret, gild, nightspot, golf_club, night_club, ball_club, bludgeon, lodge, order, club, baseball_club, social_club
- 6. Shades -
Guess, I give you one clue, Clue is (4 letters) word
Possible Answer: imbue, chromaticity, hue
- 7. Valle del Bove locale -
Guess, I give you one clue, Clue is (4 letters) word
Possible Answer: bunsen, Mt_Etna, etna, Etna, bunsen_burner, Mount_Etna
- 8. The Pres., militarily speaking -
Guess, I give you one clue, Clue is (3 letters) word
- 9. Understood one did wrong -
Guess, I give you one clue, Clue is (10 letters) word
- 10. Cavalryman -
Guess, I give you one clue, Clue is (5 letters) word
Possible Answer: cavalry_sword, sabre, saber
- 11. James Whitcomb Riley's "___ Went Mad" -
Guess, I give you one clue, Clue is (4 letters) word
- 12. 1950's political phenomenon -
Guess, I give you one clue, Clue is (8 letters) word
- 13. Breathes life into -
Guess, I give you one clue, Clue is (8 letters) word
Possible Answer: quicken, animize, exalt, liven_up, reanimate, vivify, animate, liven, revive, revivify, invigorate, enliven, renovate, inspire, repair, animise, recreate
Possible Opposite: deaden
- 14. Flash producers -
Guess, I give you one clue, Clue is (7 letters) word
Possible Answer: photographic_camera, television_camera, tv_camera, camera
- 22. Lib. reference -
Guess, I give you one clue, Clue is (3 letters) word
Possible Answer: O.E.D., Oxford_English_Dictionary, OED
- 24. Lock sites -
Guess, I give you one clue, Clue is (6 letters) word
Possible Answer: canalize, duct, channel, canalise, epithelial_duct, canal
- 25. Many Jamaicans -
Guess, I give you one clue, Clue is (7 letters) word
- 28. N.L. team: Abbr. -
Guess, I give you one clue, Clue is (3 letters) word
- 29. Assumptions -
Guess, I give you one clue, Clue is (10 letters) word
Possible Answer: possibility, surmise, speculation, hypothesis, conjecture, supposition, guess, theory, surmisal
- 30. It may result from a long phone conversation -
Guess, I give you one clue, Clue is (6 letters) word
- 32. Encouraging word -
Guess, I give you one clue, Clue is (3 letters) word
- 33. Good name for a hash house employee -
Guess, I give you one clue, Clue is (3 letters) word
- 34. Hard hit, in baseball slang -
Guess, I give you one clue, Clue is (8 letters) word
Possible Answer: roarer, yeller, scorcher, screecher, screamer, shouter, bellower, bawler
- 35. Speed along -
Guess, I give you one clue, Clue is (8 letters) word
- 36. Art, these days -
Guess, I give you one clue, Clue is (3 letters) word
Possible Answer: make_up, are, follow, ar, cost, constitute, represent, be, personify, comprise, live, equal, embody, exist
Possible Opposite: differ
- 37. Shortened -
Guess, I give you one clue, Clue is (7 letters) word
- 40. High school subj. -
Guess, I give you one clue, Clue is (3 letters) word
- 42. Put (away) -
Guess, I give you one clue, Clue is (6 letters) word
Possible Answer: brine-cured, salted, salt, salt-cured
- 43. ___ fly -
Guess, I give you one clue, Clue is (6 letters) word
Possible Answer: tzetze, glossina, tsetse, tzetze_fly, tsetse_fly
- 45. "Hellzapoppin'" star, of the 1940's -
Guess, I give you one clue, Clue is (5 letters) word
- 46. Hydra, e.g. -
Guess, I give you one clue, Clue is (5 letters) word
- 47. Changes a Life sentence -
Guess, I give you one clue, Clue is (5 letters) word
Possible Answer: delete, blue-pencil, edit_out, cut, redact, edit
- 49. Prefix with sphere -
Guess, I give you one clue, Clue is (4 letters) word
- 50. Hernando's hideaway? -
Guess, I give you one clue, Clue is (4 letters) word
- 51. Item on a park walk -
Guess, I give you one clue, Clue is (4 letters) word
Possible Answer: go-cart, carriage, perambulator, baby_buggy, stroller, baby_carriage, pram, pushchair, pusher
- 55. Hrs. on the 90th meridian -
Guess, I give you one clue, Clue is (3 letters) word
Possible Answer: CST, Central_Time, Central_Standard_Time
- 56. Bolted down -
Guess, I give you one clue, Clue is (3 letters) word
Possible Answer: rust, eat_up, run_through, feed, wipe_out, use_up, eat_on, consume, corrode, eat, exhaust, Ate, deplete
