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    New York Times Answers - Sunday, 20th May 1990

    There are 75 across clues and 70 down clues for the New York Times crossword on Sunday, 20th May 1990. View the answers below..
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    Number# Clue Answer
    AAcross 1: Contort
    AAcross 6: Short and sharp
    AAcross 11: "Wonderland" character
    AAcross 15: Scottish river noted for salmon fishingSPEY
    AAcross 19: Jackson's first Secy. of War
    AAcross 20: Shoot from cover
    AAcross 21: The Hawks fly hereOMNI
    AAcross 22: Autumnal hue
    AAcross 23: Arresting expression for this crosswordTHEGAMEISUP
    AAcross 25: Happy
    AAcross 26: Aerie newcomer
    AAcross 27: Austrian stateSTYRIA
    AAcross 28: "Vilia" composer
    AAcross 30: Guidonian high note
    AAcross 31: Word on Japanese freighter hullsMARU
    AAcross 32: Friend in a fray
    AAcross 34: Former head of 79 DownASNER
    AAcross 36: Jostled
    AAcross 38: Mil. educational institutionOTS
    AAcross 41: Pod population
    AAcross 43: Gimlet's cousin
    AAcross 45: Colleen
    AAcross 46: Traumatize
    AAcross 48: Bandleader of "Heartaches" fame
    AAcross 50: Katmandu is here
    AAcross 52: Chemical suffix
    AAcross 55: Poe's "To ___ Paradise"ONEIN
    AAcross 57: Overseas addresses for G.I.'s
    AAcross 58: Some exercises
    AAcross 59: Forget-me-___
    AAcross 60: Jewish group in IberiaSEPHARDIM
    AAcross 62: Series, in SevillaSERIE
    AAcross 63: Where to give a rap
    AAcross 64: Petulant
    AAcross 65: Leave high and dry
    AAcross 66: Every corner or con man has one
    AAcross 67: Group of Muslim scholars
    AAcross 68: Watt power!
    AAcross 69: Ancient Peruvian
    AAcross 71: Russian pianist ___ GabrilowitschOSSIP
    AAcross 73: Item used in Carver experiments
    AAcross 75: Medium
    AAcross 77: Emblem of Wales
    AAcross 78: Took apart
    AAcross 79: He tried to blow up Parliament: 1605
    AAcross 81: "Oysters ___ Season"
    AAcross 82: An echo's performance
    AAcross 84: ___ of Kutch, salt marsh in IndiaRANN
    AAcross 85: Some coll. buildings
    AAcross 86: Fuss
    AAcross 87: Mine entrance
    AAcross 88: Sandarac, e.g.
    AAcross 89: Singing King
    AAcross 90: Straight
    AAcross 92: Snooper
    AAcross 94: Like a runt
    AAcross 97: Ton preceder
    AAcross 98: " . . . fury like a woman ___": Congreve
    AAcross 101: Two wives of Henry VIIIANNES
    AAcross 103: Tennis divisions
    AAcross 105: Stead
    AAcross 106: But, to Cato
    AAcross 108: Vicuña's habitat
    AAcross 110: Library listings
    AAcross 114: Kin of paraments
    AAcross 115: Seine terrainsILES
    AAcross 117: "The flowers that bloom ___, tra la": GilbertINTHESPRING
    AAcross 119: Kanga's kin
    AAcross 120: Jambalaya base
    AAcross 121: Philippine islandPANAY
    AAcross 122: Italy's "City of a Hundred Towers"PAVIA
    AAcross 123: Prefix with chord or meter
    AAcross 124: Popular bag
    AAcross 125: Be clement
    AAcross 126: Cheerful conclusion?
    DDown 1: Proofreader's direction
    DDown 2: Unbend
    DDown 3: Tibetan trailblazer?
    DDown 4: A foe of Sparta
    DDown 5: Flexible
    DDown 6: Reduced estimate?
    DDown 7: Occupation
    DDown 8: Norse gods
    DDown 9: Collossal collisions
    DDown 10: Lake ___, N.H.SUNAPEE
    DDown 11: Jove, to Juvenal
    DDown 12: Sailor's saintELMO
    DDown 13: Dik-dik's big cousin
    DDown 14: Famed Italian architect ___: 16th century
    DDown 15: Actress Suzanne ___SOMERS
    DDown 16: Emulating Hillary or a solver of this puzzleWORKINGONESWAYUP
    DDown 17: X out
    DDown 18: Like many an attic
    DDown 24: Ancient kingdom in SW Asia
    DDown 29: Eur. countryGER
    DDown 33: A hit tune of 1967UPUPANDAWAY
    DDown 35: NASA space probe
    DDown 37: Pitcher's plate
    DDown 38: Area in Manhattan
    DDown 39: French legislative bodySENAT
    DDown 40: To have a hole-in-one—or two?TOBEONONESUPPERS
    DDown 42: Cries out sharply
    DDown 44: Gunpowder ingredient
    DDown 47: "I'll learn him or ___": TwainKILLHIM
    DDown 49: A Stooge
    DDown 51: One way to cook eggs
    DDown 53: Doctorow's "___ Lake"
    DDown 54: Late Art Deco illustratorERTE
    DDown 56: Last movement of Beethoven's Ninth, e.g.
    DDown 58: Biblical weeds
    DDown 61: Trenet's "La ___"MER
    DDown 62: Works for two
    DDown 63: Ranch worker
    DDown 65: Hair dyes
    DDown 66: Capital of Bangladesh, old style
    DDown 68: Naval forces
    DDown 70: Danish islandFYN
    DDown 71: Woody's wonderboyARLO
    DDown 72: "___ Irae"
    DDown 74: Fully, to an attorneyPLENE
    DDown 75: Barracks wall décor
    DDown 75: Barracks wall décor
    DDown 76: Ancient native of S Mexico
    DDown 79: Actors' org.
    DDown 80: Loch without a key?
    DDown 82: Shah ___-ed-Din: 19th centuryNASR
    DDown 83: French working girl
    DDown 84: Go-between for illicit affairs
    DDown 88: Angler's lure
    DDown 91: Convince
    DDown 93: Tropical American bird
    DDown 95: British gun
    DDown 96: Snobbish
    DDown 98: Exams for would-be Ph.D.'s
    DDown 99: Mulligrubs
    DDown 100: Got one's goat
    DDown 102: Poker pots
    DDown 104: Segments
    DDown 107: Made a perfect serve
    DDown 109: Cheers
    DDown 111: Malevolent
    DDown 112: Cubs or Mets
    DDown 113: Hanging ends
    DDown 116: Egyptian god of pleasure
    DDown 118: Hurricane center
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