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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 fishing	SPEY
AAcross 19:	Jackson's first Secy. of War
AAcross 20:	Shoot from cover
AAcross 21:	The Hawks fly here	OMNI
AAcross 22:	Autumnal hue
AAcross 23:	Arresting expression for this crossword	THEGAMEISUP
AAcross 25:	Happy
AAcross 26:	Aerie newcomer
AAcross 27:	Austrian state	STYRIA
AAcross 28:	"Vilia" composer
AAcross 30:	Guidonian high note
AAcross 31:	Word on Japanese freighter hulls	MARU
AAcross 32:	Friend in a fray
AAcross 34:	Former head of 79 Down	ASNER
AAcross 36:	Jostled
AAcross 38:	Mil. educational institution	OTS
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 Iberia	SEPHARDIM
AAcross 62:	Series, in Sevilla	SERIE
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 ___ Gabrilowitsch	OSSIP
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 India	RANN
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 VIII	ANNES
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 terrains	ILES
AAcross 117:	"The flowers that bloom ___, tra la": Gilbert	INTHESPRING
AAcross 119:	Kanga's kin
AAcross 120:	Jambalaya base
AAcross 121:	Philippine island	PANAY
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 saint	ELMO
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 puzzle	WORKINGONESWAYUP
DDown 17:	X out
DDown 18:	Like many an attic
DDown 24:	Ancient kingdom in SW Asia
DDown 29:	Eur. country	GER
DDown 33:	A hit tune of 1967	UPUPANDAWAY
DDown 35:	NASA space probe
DDown 37:	Pitcher's plate
DDown 38:	Area in Manhattan
DDown 39:	French legislative body	SENAT
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 ___": Twain	KILLHIM
DDown 49:	A Stooge
DDown 51:	One way to cook eggs
DDown 53:	Doctorow's "___ Lake"
DDown 54:	Late Art Deco illustrator	ERTE
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 island	FYN
DDown 71:	Woody's wonderboy	ARLO
DDown 72:	"___ Irae"
DDown 74:	Fully, to an attorney	PLENE
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 century	NASR
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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